(Belgia)
deceased Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos' visions and work related
to the refugee crisis in Greece.
One of
Greece's top director Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos died in January 2012, on
the set of the film he never managed to complete. The fiction film The Other Sea should be
a story about the smuggling of migrants and their arrival in the Greek
the port city of Piraeus, shortly before this fictional scenario became a reality in
Greece.
I Letters à Theo, which had its world premiere at last year's DOK Leipzig, seeks out French director Élodie Lélu Angelopoulos' unfinished film in memory of their project and collaboration, which in several ways was prophetic of today's situation in Greece.
A movie diary
Lélu's film is like a diary. Every day she turns to the late Theo and ponders his visions and efforts as "the filmmaker of migration". Lélu deals with Angelopoulos' work throughout the documentary. She deftly weaves together the excerpts from his films. . .
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