Events Details
Christos Doulkeridis
Lecture at Municipality Theatre, 8/5/06, 20:00
Of Greek Ancestry (from Rhodes), he was born in Brussels in 1968. Passionate with politics and their parliamentary aspect since 12 years old, he was interested in communication, social structures, journalism and cinema. He, a child of immigrant workers of Belgium, his father was a miner before turning to free-lance, he has wandered between economic-political sciences and law, without ever receiving a degree on any. Self-taught in politics, - he started as a secretary to the office of a parliament member of the Greens - he is at the top of the Ecological Movement and at the age of 31 he becomes a parliament member. Vice-president of the Parliament of Francophones at 1999, President of it since 2000 and leader of the Ecologists at Belgium's Parliament.
Australian Atomic Confessions, Australia, 2005
Running Time: 50' - Directors: Creg Young & Kathy Aigner
A gripping documentary on the 12 British atomic bomb tests in Australia, the resulting fallout, nuclear waste and nuclear reactor. Revealing eye-witness accounts of those who experienced the bomb; atomic ex-veterans, nomadic Aboriginal survivors also the Premier of South Australia and experts. Government cover-ups, the conflict of cultures and the ongoing legacy to land and people... An interesting aspect is revealed by Arubunna Aboriginal Elders who say "that uranium belongs to us, it's part of the land, part of the Dreamtime..." and how the feel personally responsible for what happens with it.
Pripyat, Austria, 1999
Running Time: 100' - Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
After the catastrophe in 1986, a 30-km restricted zone was erected around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and 116,000 persons were evacuated from this area. "Pripyat" is a portrait of the people who still live and work there, and of those who have moved back. What is life like for these people, a life with the invisible and incomprehensible danger of radioactivity? How do they deal with the after effects of an accident which is claimed to be statistically improbable? Four protagonists tell their stories and provide a look at everyday life in "their" zone.
LJUDMILA & ANATOLIJ, Sweden - Ukraine, 2005
Running Time: 86' - Director: Gunnar Bergdahl
A film about love, sorrow and surviving in the shadow of the disaster of Chernobyl. A mother and her son - and the everlasting struggle between memories and hopes, between the past and the present.
25 years of our Rock
A completely different program fron the popular songwriters Lavrentis Mahairitsas, Antonis Mitzelos, Vasilis Kazoulis, Nikos Ziogalas and the band "Kitrina Podilata" who invite us to an never-ending jam with songs from the last decades and final destination their recent hits.
After years of musical journeys in Greece, with personal success and top cooperations, they join once again on the scene in a program with old and new songs we all love.
