13th Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival

Films | Special Screenings | Side Events

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24 November – 4 December 2022

November 24 – 27  | ASTOR Cinema

December 2 | The Greek Film Archive Foundation

November 28 – December 4 | Online on our website

 

Change The Narrative

The 13th Ethnofest – International Ethnographic Film Festival returns to Athens and online in Greece, showcasing documentaries from around the world that document, highlight and comment on all aspects of human experience. From November 24 to November 27, Ethnofest returns to our beloved ASTOR cinema, while from November 28 to December 4, its online version takes over with selected screenings of the program. Screenings, side events and important guests surround this year’s edition and invite us to remember the reasons why the festival has a stable  and devoted audience that was built throughout the years.

In this year’s event, Ethnofest embraces the number “13” including its cultural connotations. By aknowledging the fact that we are living through ominous times,  the acceptance of the current historical moment is a kind of resistance and simultaneously a desire for essential social changes that are directly linked to the access to information, the acceptance of diversity and the practice of our ability to recognize the multiplicity in the ways of interpreting it reality.

The figure of the black cat, prominent in this year’s poster, a symbol of bad luck, recipient of prejudice and fear-driven actions, can also be viewed as a metaphor for resilience, flexibility and endurance. An animal intertwined with magic and unpleasant omens, it can be used as a  trigger point, to remind us that our place in the world depends on the belief system that surrounds us and is also embedded within us.

Embracing what is foreign & unfamiliar can serve as  essential means of reconciliation with ourselves and opens possibilities towards richer, more inclusive and slightly more equal worlds.

Following this vision, documentary films can become the mirror of human experience  and thus highlighting multiple realities and can be a valuable tool for knowledge production and the practice of understanding & acceptance.

 

See you all at the movie theatre!