Documentaries – Aegean Film Festival

FUTURA

Documentary • 110’ • Italy • 2021

Director: Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher
Language : Italian
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated

A film about the future, through the eyes of Italy’s youth who, while not knowing what is yet to come, perhaps already feel it.

Enthralling and intimate, director Daniel Roher’s NAVALNY unfolds with the pace of a thriller as itfollows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in his quest to identify the men who poisoned him inAugust 2020. Shot in Germany as the story unfolded and offering extraordinary access to theinvestigation, NAVALNY is a fly-on-the-wall documentary that is also a study of Navalny the man – aportrait of a leader intent on reform who will not be cowed by anything, including his own poisoning.

SPETSES • FRIDAY, 8 JULY • 21.00 • CINE TITANIA

NOTHING COMPARES

Documentary • 97’ • UK, Ireland • 2022

Director: Kathryn Ferguson
Language : English
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated

The story of Sinéad O’Connor’s rise to worldwide fame, and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in her exile from the mainstream pop scene.

SPETSES • SATURDAY, 9 JULY • 21.00 • PITYOUSA OPEN AIR CINEMA

A THOUSAND FIRES

Documentary • 90’ • France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Palestine • 2021

Director: Saeed Taji Farouky
Language : Burmese
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated

In the Magway region of Myanmar, a country home to one of the oldest petroleum industries in the world, live husband and wife Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin. Running an unregulated oil field, they wish above all else to see their youngest son succeed, breaking the cycle of poverty.

SPETSES • SUNDAY, 10 JULY • 21.00 • CINE TITANIA

THE TERRITORY

Documentary • 83’ • Brazil, Denmark, United States • 2022

Director: Alex Pritz
Language : Portuguese, Tupi
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated

An immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by illegal settlers and an association of nonnative farmers in the Brazilian Amazon.

SPETSES • SUNDAY, 10 JULY • 21.00 • PITYOUSA OPEN AIR CINEMA

THE VELVET QUEEN

Documentary • 92’ • France • 2021

Director: Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier
Language : French
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated

Two men explore the high-altitude wilderness of Tibet with many cameras, filming wildlife from a respectful distance and searching for the rare snow leopard.

SPETSES • MONDAY, 11 JULY • 21.00 • PITYOUSA OPEN AIR CINEMA

NAVALNY

Documentary • 98’ • USA • 2022

Director: Daniel Roher
Language : Russian, English, German
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated

Enthralling and intimate, Navanly unfolds with the pace of a thriller as it follows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in his quest to identify the men who poisoned him in August 2020.

SPETSES • MONDAY, 11 JULY • 21.30 • ANARGYRIOS & KORGIALENIOS SCHOOL

ARM WRESTLER

Documentary • 77’ • Greece • 2022

Director: Yorgos Gousis
Language : Greek
Subtitles: English
Rating: Not Rated

Panagiotis moves to Athens from the countryside after he gets upset with the mentality of the small society. His return will soon reveal new problems as he will have to “wrestle” himself

SPETSES • TUESDAY, 12 JULY • 21.00 • CINE TITANIA

MY GARDEN OF A THOUSAND BEES

Documentary • 53’ • UK • 2021

Director: David Allen
Language : English
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated

A wildlife cameraman spends his time during the
coronavirus pandemic lockdown filming the bees
in his urban garden and discovers the many diverse
species and personalities that exist in this insect
family

SPETSES • TUESDAY, 12 JULY • 21.00 • ANARGYRIOS & KORGIALENIOS SCHOOL

PERPETUAL PLANET: HEROES OF THE OCEANS

Documentary • 52’ • UK • 2021

Presented by:

Director: Naomi Austin
Language : English
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated

Legendary oceanographer Sylvia Earle and a cast of pioneering marine scientists tell the story of the incredible work being undertaken across the planet to protect the fragile ecosystem of our oceans.

SPETSES • TUESDAY, 13 JULY • 23.30 • ANARGYRIOS & KORGIALENIOS SCHOOL

FASHION BABYLON

Documentary • 87’ • France • 2022

Presented by:

Director: Gianluca Matarrese
Language : English
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated

Who are the rulers of the fashion world? Who drives its dream machine? The designers and models, the media, and the garments themselves, of course. But what if we look beyond them for once, and focus on the front row of the fashion shows?

SPETSES • THURSDAY, 14 JULY • 21.00 • CINE TITANIA

RE-SCREENING OF AWARDED DOCUMENTARY

Documentary

Director: TBC
Language : TBC
Subtitles: TBC
Rating: Not Rated

The final day of the Festival will end with a re-screening of the audience award winning feature documentary. In case you haven’t had the chance to watch it, here’s your second chance.

SPETSES • THURSDAY, 16 JULY • 23.00 • CINE TITANIA