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SUNDAY JUNE 29
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WEDNESDAY JULY 3
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Mighty Afrin: In the Time of Floods
The documentary "Mighty Afrin: In the Time of Floods" (92΄), directed by Angelos Rallis (2023), will be screened at 9pm on Sunday June 29, 2025, at the Neochori Cultural Center in collaboration with the documentary festival CineDoc Volos. The event has been co-organized by the Region of Thessaly - PE Magnesia and Sporades. Summary: Navigating the endangered islands of dangerously inflated Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh, the documentary highlights the brave struggle of 12-year-old Afrin to survive. When her house is finally submerged by the by flooding, Afrin is displaced on her raft to the teeming metropolis of Dhaka, where she will search for her father among the countless displaced by climate crisis. Afrin embarks on her coming-of-age journey as she confronts the mysteries of a sinking world. |
Foragers
The documentary "Foragers" (64'), directed by Jumana Manna (64', English subtitles), will be screened on Wednesday July 2, 2025, at the Neochori Cultural Center at 9pm. Agata Lisiak, Professor of Migration Studies at Bard Berlin, will introduce the film. Summary: Foragers is a poetic and polemical film exploring the politics of Palestinian foraging under Israeli law, challenging colonial definitions of land, legality, and belonging. While the Israeli Nature Protection Authority prohibits the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme), with restrictions resulting in trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants, Palestinian foragers activel and creatively contest these laws as a 'scientific' ruse to further alienate them from their land. |
