February 2019
AGORA’s first international TV broadcasts
Just before entering the 4th week of its theatrical release in Greece, AGORΑ, the documentary film-arc of the Greek crisis by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, will shortly reach wider audiences abroad. The first TV broadcasts of the film have been programmed by the film’s co-producers in the Arab world and in Germany whereas a national broadcast will follow in Finland.
AGORΑ will be broadcast by AL JAZEERA ARABIC in two parts of 48 minutes each (watch the trailer here). The first part will be broadcast on Wednesday 4 February at 17:05 and the second part on Wednesday 11 February at 17:05.
On Thursday 5 February at 23:15 the 90-minute version of the film will be broadcast by public German television WDR (detailed information here).
On Monday 9 February at 21:30, AGORΑ will be broadcast by public Finnish television YLE (detailed information here).
AGORA’s theatrical release spreads throughout Greece
After its French premiere at the International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes FIPA 2015 in Biarritz (23 January 2015) and just before entering the third week of its national theatrical release, AGORΑ, the film-arc of the Greek crisis by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, receives an overwhelming response by audiences throughout Greece. The film will continue screening at AAVORA, ALKYONIS and STUDIO theaters in Athens as well as at PAVLOS ZANNAS and TAKIS KANELLOPOULOS theaters in Thessaloniki. It also screens at VITSENTZOS KORNAROS theater in Heraklion, Crete while on January 29th it will start screening at CINE PALLAS in Arta, on February 5th at ATTIKON in Chania, Crete and on February 12th at CINELAND PANTELIS in Rethymno, Crete.
An impressive mosaic that elucidates the last four years of the Greek crisis, AGORΑ is a cinematic antidote to oblivion, a film that urges us to reflect on Europe’s present and future. The film presents a recapped chronicle of the fall, investigating the political and economic high-risk experiments in Europe as well as its tragic consequences on the lives of ordinary Greek citizens.
On Friday January 30th at 8 pm, film director Yorgos Avgeropoulos will introduce the screening of AGORΑ at the STUDIO theater in Athens. The screening will be followed by Q&A and discussion with the audience.
From February 2015 and on, the theatrical distribution of AGORΑ will gradually expand to other Greek cities whereas it will start broadcasting by TV networks in Europe and Asia.
AGORA’s national theatrical release continues and grows
After a rather successful first week of its national theatrical release, AGORΑ, the film-arc of the Greek crisis by Yorgos Avgeropoulos will continue screening at the AAVORA, ALKYONIS and STUDIO theaters in Athens as well as the PAVLOS ZANNAS and TAKIS KANELLOPOULOS theaters in Thessaloniki. The film will also start screening at the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS theater in Heraklion, Crete.
On Friday January 23, at 8 pm, the director Yorgos Avgeropoulos will introduce the screening of AGORΑ at AAVORA theater (Ippokratous 180, Athens). The screening will be followed by Q&A with the director.
On Friday January 23, at 8 pm, AGORΑ will have its French premiere at the International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes FIPA 2015 in Biarritz. In 2014, the film was awarded as the Best Pitched Project at FIPA Industry.
From February 2015 and on, the theatrical distribution of AGORΑ will gradually expand to other Greek cities whereas it will start broadcasting by TV networks in Europe and Asia.
Theatrical release in Greece (15 January 2015)
After its world premiere at CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, AGORΑ will have its national premiere and theatrical release in cinemas on January 15th 2015, during a pre-election period that finds Greek citizens amidst a social and economic crisis without a visible end.
The film will screen at the historical cinema theaters Aavora, Alkyonis and Studio in downtown Athens as well as the Olympion theater in Thessaloniki. The distribution will gradually expand to other Greek cities.
In four years of production and research, AGORΑ encloses the longtime observation of people from different social classes combined with key political events with severe consequences on the lives of Greeks. The film critically presents the viewpoints of important personalities of Greece’s political leadership and analysts from the international political and economic scene. An impressive mosaic that elucidates the last four years of the Greek crisis, AGORΑ is a cinematic antidote to oblivion, a film which urges us to reflect on Europe’s present and future.
AGORΑ is an international co-production between Small Planet (Greece), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Germany) and Al Jazeera Arabic (Qatar). The Greek theatrical release will be followed by a French festival premiere at FIPA (20-25 January 2015) and the film will start broadcasting by TV networks in Europe and Asia on February 2015.
World premiere in CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (9 November 2014)
After four years of research and production, AGORA, the long-awaited documentary film by Yorgos Avgeropoulos has just been completed. The film-ark of the Greek Crisis will have its world premiere on November 9 at the upcoming CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (November 6-16, 2014).
AGORA proposes a recapped chronicle of the social tragedy that has been plaguing Greece during the last five years whereas it investigates the global systemic crisis in progress and the recent European governance that has been conducting high-risk economic experiments without reckoning the cost of human lives.
The 90-minute version of the film will premier in CPH:DOX new programme MEGATRENDS, a cross-disciplinary programme about participation and democracy focusing on current trends in the social, political and technological fields. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Yorgos Avgeropoulos.
FIPA INDUSTRY: And The Best Project is… AGORÁ (January 2013)
The documentary on the Greek financial crisis, which Yorgos Avgeropoulos has been preparing for the last 4 years, was presented in France and awarded by the commisioning editors at FIPA INDUSTRY!
At FIPA, the International Festival of Audiovisual Programs that is hosted every year in Biarritz, France, Yorgos Avgeropoulos presented his latest, ongoing documentary titled AGORÁ. AGORÁ is a four-year-long project, a feature film – documentary, which has been being filmed since the beginning of the crisis.
The director and producer Yorgos Avgeropoulos talked about AGORÁ before the commissioning editors from Europe’s and North America’s major television networks on Thursday, January 23rd, at the packed theater of FIPA Industry, where 17 fiction and documentary projects from France, Spain, the U.K., Belgium, Germany, Canada and Hungary were presented. Those were the ones selected out of 126 submitted proposals. Agora’s presentation lasted 7 minutes, during which the Greek director presented a 3-minute-long teaser.
On the following day the representatives of the television networks honored Agora at a special ceremony as the best project presented during the pitching. The delegate of FIPA for Greece, cinematographer Mr. Alexis Grivas received the 2,000€ prize on behalf of Yorgos Avgeropoulos, who was returning to Greece.
It was the third award Yorgos received from FIPA. In 2007 he won the prestigius FIPA D’ ARGENT (Silver FIPA) in the current affairs competition category for his documentary Delta, Oil’s Dirty Business and in 2009 the Young Europeans Jury Prize for the film The Blood of Kouan Kouan.
Michael Ash
As a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (1999 – today), Michael Ash worked with his graduate student Thomas Herndon on revealing the fatal errors of the Reinhart-Rogoff paper, which supported the austerity policies in Europe and North America.
George Papaconstantinou
Giorgos Papaconstantinou is a Greek economist, former Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Greece (2011-2012) and former Minister for Finance (2009-2011) with PASOK. As Finance Minister, in 2009 he presented a national deficit that was much larger than what was reported by the previous government, which led to Greece being shut out of international markets. During his tenure, Greece concluded its first loan agreement with the Troika (European Commission, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund). He carried out the negotiations between the Greek government and its partners and undertook the implementation of severe austerity measures in Greece.
Colin Crouch
An English sociologist and political scientist, Colin Crouch is currently professor of governance and public management at the business school of Warwick University, UK. He has coined the post-democracy concept in 2000 in his book “Coping with Post-Democracy”. He further elaborated the concept in his book “Post-Democracy”. In 2013 he authored “Making Capitalism Fit For Society”.
