The idea of a museum with personal items, without value, without historical or cultural interest, but with heavy emotional weight. A reason for a journey into an adventurous past. "The Museum" is the third part of a trilogy with the general title "Diaries of Exile." The other two are "The Return" (2013) and "What Remains of Nikos Louvris" (2022).
Nikos Theodosiou was born in Athens in September 1946. He studied cinema in Athens and then, after the 1967 coup d'état, continued his studies in Paris. There, he attended seminars by Jean Rouch on documentary film, Henri Langlois on the history of cinema, and Marc Ferro on "Cinema and Society". He remained in Paris until 1974. Back in Greece, he became involved in film, journalism, photojournalism, radio, literature and historical research. To date, 31 of his books have been published and he has directed over 30 films.
Athens, April of 1967. During the first days of the military dictatorship, little Loukas is suffocating in his family’s apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house’s phone line gets mixed up with that of the Studio cinema… Part comedy-drama, part historical chronicle, La Première Image is a political coming-of-age, a film about the power of the imagination and childhood in times of dictatorship.
Born in Athens in 1992, Olia Verriopoulou lives and works between Athens and Paris, where she studied cinema (Paris VII-Diderot, École des Gobelins). In 2021, she directed Sacralisons, her first short film. In 2025, she completed La Première Image, a short fiction film, and Histoires d'un mensonge, a feature-length documentary that premiered at IDFA. For the past ten years, she has been involved in programming and organizing film festivals.
Filmmaker Éva Stefaíi follows the creation and European tour of Transverse Orientation by renowed greek choregrapher Dimitris Papaioannou. The documentray reflects on art as resistance to life’s transience. Inspired by the Minotaur myth, the piece has toured 31 cities around the world. Éva Stefaní follows choregrapher Dimitris Papaioannou in his creation Transverse Orientation.
A Greek theater company tries to play the greek tragedy, Golfo the shepherd, across the country, but events and history of the entire country will follow them, disrupting their performances.
Théo Angélopoulos is a film director and critic born in 1935 in Greece. He exiles from his country to flee the civil war and begins studies in Paris. He studies anthropology with Claude Lévi-Strauss and trains in cinema by rubbing shoulders with Jean Rouch at the French cinematheque.
Éva Stefaní (1964) is a Greek filmmaker based in Athens who has directed over thirty films ranging from ethnographic to experimental. Her work has been screened at numerous international films festivals, receiving prestigious awards (Oberhausen, Cinéma du Réel, FIPRESCI, etc.). In 2024, L’Europe autour de l’Europe festival had already dedicated a retrospective to her work. Since 2000, she has participated in international visual arts exhibitions, with the most notable examples being documenta14 and the Venice Biennale. In addition to her artistic activity, Éva Stefaní is a professor of film studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and she studied in Greece, France, the UK, and the US. Her latest film, “Bull’s Heart,” is a peculiar portrait of director and choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou.
