ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑΤΑ ΠΛΑΝΙΟΥΝΤΑΙ ΠΑΝΩ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΥΡΩΠΗ (SPECTRES ARE HAUNTING EUROPE)
Color HD video and 16mm b&w film, 1h39min, 2016, Greece/France
by Maria Kourkouta & Niki Giannari
Cinematography & editing: Maria Kourkouta • Voice-over: Lena Platonos • Words: Niki Giannari • Sound design & mixing: André Fèvre • Production: Survivance & Maria Kourkouta, France/Greece, 2016
Festival prizes :
• Best world documentary 2016 - 20th Jihlava International Film Festival - Czech Republic
Jury statement (Claire Atherton): «People walking, people waiting, standing or sitting, people in groups or people in lines… In this film full of respect and tenderness, images of present cross history, evoke the past and question the future. Spectres are haunting Europe creates a time and a space of interaction between us and the world we are living in.»
• Best feature documentary 2017, Dziga Vertov Award - Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival – USA
• Special mention of the Interfedi Jury - 34th Torino Film Festival – Italy
• Secondo premio - IsReal Festival di Cinema del Reale – Nuoro – Italy
Official festival selections :
• Les Rencontres documentaires - Nancy - 2018
• Les Inattendus - Lyon - 2018
• Miradas Doc - Tenerife - 2018
• Festival des 3 Continents - Nantes - 2017
• Filmer à tout prix - Brussels - 2017
• 20th RIDM Montréal IDFF - 2017
• DocLisboa - Lisboa - 2017
• 36th Jean Rouch FF - Paris - France - 2017
• IsReal Festival di Cinema del Reale - Nuoro - Italy - 2017
• Chicago Arthouse IFF - USA - 2017
• Inconvenient Human Rights FF - Vilnius - Lithuania - 2017
• Open City FF - London - United Kingdom - 2017
• Alcances DFF - Cadiz - Spain - 2017
• DocuFest IDFF - Prizren - Kosovo - 2017
• Etats généraux du film documentaire - Lussas - France - 2017
• Festival du cinéma de Douarnenez - Douarnenez - France - 2017
• Nancy IFF - Nancy - France - 2017
• FIDBA Buenos Aires IDFF - Argentina - 2017
• Lima Independent IFF - Peru - 2017
• 7th Sicilia Queer New Visions IFF - Italy - 2017
• 19th Ismailia IFF - Egypt - 2017
• Visions du réel IDFF - Nyon - Switzerland - 2017
• 19th Thessaloniki DFF - Greece - 2017
• CPH:DOX Copenhagen IDFF - Copenhagen - Denmark - 2017
• 15th Filmmor Women’s FF - Istanbul - Turkey
• DC Independent FF - Washington, USA - 2017
• Glasgow FF - Scotland - 2017
• 34th Torino FF - Italy - 2016
• 20th Jihlava IDFF - Czech Republic - 2016
• 38e Festival international du cinéma méditerranéen - France - 2016
Other screenings :
• Cinémathèque de Corse - France - 2018
• Berliner Festspiele - Berlin - Germany - 2018
• La Fraternelle - Maison du peuple - Saint-Claude - France - 2018
• Cinemateca Brazileira - Sao Paolo - Brazil - 2017
• Czech Center - New York - USA - 2017
• Les écrans documentaires - Arcueil - France - 2017
• Lieu Unique - Nantes - France - 2017
• Documenta 14 - Kassel - Germany - 2017
• Grand Voisin - Paris - France - 2017
• Spoutnik Cinema - Geneva - Switzerland - 2017
• Cinema Le Champo - Paris - France - 2017
• Museo Reina Sofia - Madrid - Spain - 2017
• Cinema Nova - Bruxelles - Belgium - 2017
• Forum des Images - Paris - France - 2017
• Parole Errante - Paris - France - 2016
• Rote Fabrik - Zurich - Switzerland - 2016
