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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival: People in the trash

Photo exhibition highlights the enormous problem of slums

Five characteristic slums of the world, in Dhaka, in Karachi, in Johannesburg, in Port-au-Prince and Nairobi, form the backdrop of a major photography exhibition signed by an equal number of award-winning photographers from the Noor agency.

This time the exhibition is being held in Thessaloniki as part of the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

THE Stanley Green, or Alexandra Fagina, The Francesco Zizzola, The Jon Lowenstein and the Pep Bonnet they are the protagonists of the photos behind the lens, while the faces of hundreds of anonymous destitute and homeless "decorate" the content of the exhibition entitled "Urban Survivors – Surviving in the slums of the world» and is housed in the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki in Warehouse B1, in the Port of the city.

Nowadays, more than one in ten people on the planet lives in a slum. With the aim of raising awareness and informing the public about the specific issue, the exhibition reveals the harsh daily life of these populations, who are either evicted or forced to move from their homes.
Not by chance, the idea for the exhibition (as well as its title) arose out of MSF's 'Urban Survivors' project and was produced in collaboration with Noor Photography and Darjeeling Productions.

"The exhibition ”Urban Survivors – Surviving in the slums of the world” brings to the surface a problem that is now outside our door" said the curator of the exhibition Mr. Thanos Stavropoulos, while on her part, Mrs. Melina Spathari of the organization Doctors Without Borders stated among other things that "through this specific exhibition we communicate to the people who support us the phenomenon of urbanization, which we are no longer allowed to treat as the ”invisible elephant in the room”. Next to Dhaka, Port-au-Prince and Karachi, we added Athens to our scope of action. THE,what happens in Haiti has an impact here too, the phenomenon is the same: people who are faced with the insecurity of shelter and their very livelihood. If until yesterday these situations were similar to us ”exotic”, today we cannot say that they are unknown to us".

Duration: 11 -18 Of March 2012, operating hours: daily from 12:00 until 20:00

Source : tovima.gr

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14the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival: The first images

Important documentaries by directors such as Werner Herzog, Jafar Panahi and Patricio Guzmán will be screened from the 9 until 18 Of March.
With a nomination for the upcoming Oscars in the Best Documentary category, revealing testimonies and a topic that still dominates the current affairs of the American media, the documentary "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory»ofJoe BerlingerandBruce Sinofsky, completes the trilogy that began the 1996 with the "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hill» and it continued 2000 with the "Paradise Lost: Revelations».

The film sheds light on the gruesome murders of three children in West Memphis, Arkansas in a case, which became known as the "West Memphis Three" and took on huge proportions in the media, mainly because of the first documentary of the creators: result was the reconsideration of the matter, with new data (based on DNA). Almost 16 years later, the obsession for revealing the truth and the activist mood of the directors, recorded in "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory» with an unexpected (for the data of the judicial system) finale: The three young men who had been accused of the murders were released from prison at the end of it 2011 due to lack of evidence and live free.

The "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory» is not the only documentary about the American justice system as another murder case that shocked the USA, lies at the heart of "Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life»directed by the distinguished German directorWerner Herzog. His lens follows the story of the 28-year-old Michael Perrywho was sentenced to death and his accompliceJason Burkettwho is serving a life sentence. In this case though, Herzog does not dispute the defendants' guilt. It focuses on the impact of the case on the relatives of both the murdered, as well as those convicted.
Driven by his personal interest in astronomy, the Chilean directorPatricio Guzman with the "Nostalgia for the light»signed an unusual political commentary on the oppressed under the Pinochet regime, Chile. Astronomers, archaeologists, but also relatives of the "disappeared" victims of the dictatorship, they explore the past, each from their own point of view and with the background of the Atacama desert,
Four opposites of Earth (Argentina – China, Chile – Russia, USA – Africa, Spain - New Zealand) captivate the viewer with all their "resounding" contrasts and similarities in "Long live the Antipodes!»of the award-winning creatorViktor Kosakovsky and finally an internal manifesto against the totalitarian Iranian regime, as he experiences it for a 24-hour period of his daily lifeJafar Panahi, the film proclaimsThis is not a film: pending the verdict on his appeal, trapped in cat’ house arrest, Panahi becomes a protagonist in front of his colleague's camera Mohtaba Mirtahmasbbut also co-director, through his iPhone, in a courageous act of protest, dedicated to Iranian filmmakers.
It should be noted that the films are financed by the European Union – European Regional Development Fund, within the framework of the PEP of Central Macedonia 2007-2013.

Source : tovima.gr