The History Projecte exhibition programme in collaboration with the Goethe Institut returns on Wednesday 18 September 2024 at 8pm with free admission for the public (Omirou 14 – 16, Athens).
Projections of History
In a series of film screenings spanning the entire year of 2024, short and feature films from Greece and Germany combine, discuss and bring together different ways of approaching the common historical past: Micronarratives and eccentric, low-voice testimonies that unfold in the plural, exercises with mythology and the masks of national identity, puzzle games with archival pieces, gestures and audible and invisible presumptions push aside the sources and types of presumptions and encourage unexpected readings on both sides of the border. Until they bring history into the present to project it into the future, making it – with the help of cinematic language – a sensation, an instinct and a collective experience.
03/27/2024 Episode 1: History and Myth
15.05.2024 Episode 2: History and Archive
18.09.2024 Episode 3: Summer Stories
10/9/2024 Episode 4: Building the story
20.11.2024 Episode 5: Women Respond
Episode 3: Summer Stories
18.09.2024
20:00
Bathykofto, Ioanna Kryonas, 2021, 21′
(in Greek with English subtitles)
In the presence of the director
&
20:30
Sonnenallee, Leander Haußmann, 1999, 101΄
(in German with English and Greek subtitles)
Movie summaries
Deep cut
Anna and Eleni are forced to spend the summer in Berlin. One Saturday in August, he finds them wandering around with an empty suitcase. They start singing.
They will soon be faced with the dire and unpredictable consequences of the wrong lyrics to a song.
Sunshine Valley
A bold throwback to the GDR of the 1970s, this anything but nostalgic and overtly emotional portrayal tells the exquisitely timeless story of youth, forbidden music and the kind of love that changes everything. Seventeen-year-old Mikael lives in Sonnenallee, an area of Berlin that stretches from the eastern to the western border of the divided city, and dreams of becoming a famous pop star.
He is not interested in politics – he is neither for nor against the GDR system – but wants to shake up all systems “from within”. There is also Michael’s existential friend Mario, Bueschel’s friend who is in danger because of a Rolling Stones record, a Western uncle who smuggles nylon and a neighbour who is a spy for the Stasi – or is he?
The only thing Michael knows for sure is that he is in love with the lovely and unattainable Miriam. He would do anything for her, willing to cross any boundaries.
Director Biographies
Ioanna Kryona studied Film Theory and Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2015 she completed her first short film Postheimat, which premiered at the Drama Short Film Festival and participated in “Premiere Nights” among others. Her third short film, Vathykofto, received funding from ERT microfilm and the Greek Cypriot Society. Her first feature film project, Vasaltis, participated in the MFI’s SCRIPT 2 FILM WORKSHOPS 2020 and received funding from the YKK development program. She worked as a programmer and was a program director at Hellas Filmbox Berlin. In 2019 she was selected to participate in the NEXT WAVE program of the Berlin Film Academy and in 2022 by the Munich HFF Film Academy with her first series of projects for participation in directing seminars. In June 2023 she was selected as an Oxbelly Episodic Fellow to write a series presented by Faliro House.
Leander Haußmann is a German theatre and film director. The son of actor Ezard Haußmann and costume designer Doris Haußmann, he was born in Quedlinburg and studied at the Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin. Haußmann was director of the Bochum Municipal Theatre (Schauspielhaus Bochum). He wrote and acted in several plays (1995–2000), and also had a role in Detlev Buck’s film Jailbirds (1996). He had his first film success with the film Sonnenallee in 1999. His second feature film, entitled Herr Lehmann, was released in 2003.
