BOOK PRESENTATION: GENDER NORMS IN PANTELIS VOULGARIS’ FILMS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

18:00

Green Room

Film critic Yannis Grosdanis’s new book (Aigokeros Publications) offers an illuminating exploration of gender and sexuality in New Greek Cinema, viewed through the lens of Pantelis Voulgaris, one of the most significant voices in contemporary Greek filmmaking. Focusing on five of his landmark works (The Matchmaking of Anna, Stone Years, Quiet Days of August, Brides, and Little England) the book examines how cinematic language both mirrors and influences social attitudes toward gender, sexuality, and identity in 20th-century Greece. Blending film analysis with cultural insight, Grosdanis traces the ways Voulgaris’s cinema captures intimate human stories while revealing broader shifts in Greek society.

Speakers: Orestis Andreadakis, artistic director of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Yannis Grosdanis, writer and film critic, Evi Karkiti, journalist and writer, Angeliki Mylonaki, PhD in Film Studies, film historian, and deputy head of the Film Office of Central Macedonia, and Yorgos Tsemberopoulos, director, screenwriter, and producer.

Moderated by publisher Giannis Soldatos.