Angelos Kovotsos

The remarkable story of Yorgos Katsaros, virtuoso of Greek folk guitar and rebetiko, is the story of Greek folk musicians in America from the early 20th century to today. It is the story of rebetiko. It is the story of Greek migrants and their diaspora.

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'Europe, the Dream' is a documentary about three adolescents who are/were living in Patras, Greece: Andreas, a young Greek, Ali Reza, a refugee from Afghanistan and Abdulla, a refugee from Syria; they are each dreaming of a great journey to Europe, and, with all their hopes and fears, they are struggling to make this happen as they see it as the only solution for their lives. They don't consider Greece as Europe! The two refugees have in fact managed to reach their destinations: Ali Reza in Sweden and Abdulla in Austria. Andreas is still in Greece. He wants to study and work but his family has day to day problems which have been heightened by the Greek financial crisis. Will these three young men be able to realize their dreams or these dreams will be thwarted by the difficulties and complexities that exist in today's Europe.

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An orchestra could consist of a guitar, a piano, keyboards and a voice. Right? Wrong. An orchestra could be solo voices as well. StringLESS. Five women, an acapella vocal group from Thessaloniki, trying to survive adversity and the Greek crisis, creating beautiful and alternative music with female identity.

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85-year-old journalist and Washington resident Elias Dimitrakopoulos recounts his adventurous career to director and writer Robiros Manthouli, which brought him into conflict with Constantine Karamanlis, the Greek junta, and the Richard Nixon administration.

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The film follows the Greek folklore band Encardia, whose music strives to save from oblivion the music genre called 'tarantella', a music developed by the Greek populations of South Italy.

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Fragogiannou, an elderly woman born and raised in a male-dominated society, believes that the birth of a girl brings misery to both the child and its family. Starting with her own newborn granddaughter, she commits crimes against young girls.

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'Europe, the Dream' is a documentary about three adolescents who are/were living in Patras, Greece: Andreas, a young Greek, Ali Reza, a refugee from Afghanistan and Abdulla, a refugee from Syria; they are each dreaming of a great journey to Europe, and, with all their hopes and fears, they are struggling to make this happen as they see it as the only solution for their lives. They don't consider Greece as Europe! The two refugees have in fact managed to reach their destinations: Ali Reza in Sweden and Abdulla in Austria. Andreas is still in Greece. He wants to study and work but his family has day to day problems which have been heightened by the Greek financial crisis. Will these three young men be able to realize their dreams or these dreams will be thwarted by the difficulties and complexities that exist in today's Europe.

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An orchestra could consist of a guitar, a piano, keyboards and a voice. Right? Wrong. An orchestra could be solo voices as well. StringLESS. Five women, an acapella vocal group from Thessaloniki, trying to survive adversity and the Greek crisis, creating beautiful and alternative music with female identity.

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The film follows the Greek folklore band Encardia, whose music strives to save from oblivion the music genre called 'tarantella', a music developed by the Greek populations of South Italy.

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