WAYS OF REBETIKO

Δρόμοι του ρεμπέτικου

This is not a film 'about' the rebetiko, the popular Greek song $par excellence$. Rather, it tries to record and convey its music, rhythms and movements in such a way that the filmic language and form take on the rhythms and poetry of the music itself. It allows the rebetiko to speak for itself. The film returns to the source of the rebetiko and tells its story, revealing a kind of parallel history of the country as well as the persistence of a myth. Essentially, however, the film shows how the rebetiko is sung, played, danced and watched by today's generation. Filmed in small taverns, harbours and prisons, $Ways of Rebetiko$ creates an imaginary map of the rebetiko, a world of memory and desire, a multifaceted and multilayered collage of times and places, where the voices of the greatest $rebetes$ echo in the sound and fury of Modern Greece.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Timon Koulmasis, Iro Siafliaki

Script: Timon Koulmasis, Iro Siafliaki

Cinematography: Boris Breckoff, Dimitris Horianopoulos

Editing: Aurique Delannoy, Bonita Papastathi

Sound: Marinos Athanassopoulos

Production: AIA Films

Co-production: KYMATA Productions, NET, ARTE, ZETA Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Colour

Production Country: Greece

Production Year: 2003

Duration: 64'

Timon Koulmasis

Timon Koulmasis He is Greek. He was born in Germany. He studied history and philosophy in Germany and France. He is currently working as a director and screenwriter in Paris.

Filmography

2003 Ways of Rebetico, documentary, 16mm, 66'
1997 Sinassos, A Survey of Memory, documentary, 16mm, 60'

Iro Siafliaki

Filmography

1997 Sinasos, a Survey of Memory (co-direction)
2003 Ways of Rebetiko (co-direction)
2005 Exiles
2009 Nico Papatakis – A Portrait (short, co-direction)
2013 Geneviève Clancy, Instants of Life
2018 Zones and Passages
2020 Streets in December (short)
2021 Caravan Serai (short, co-direction)
2025 Steps