Roommates

Roommates / Συγκάτοικοι

(Documentary, Greece, 1998, C, 33’, Fr ST)

by Eva Stefani

Roommates

Synopsis

An old rebetiko-singer, Sotiris, and his best friend, Napoleon, who has devoted his life to the church, live in a makeshift house somewhere near Drosia. The much younger Petros and Thodoris also live with them. The days pass by peacefully on the grounds. A film about love and idleness.

Credits

Eva Stefani

Director

Film Author :

Eva Stefani
Eva Stefani

Eva Stefani is a Greek video artist and director. She studied Political Science in Athens, and then documentary filmmaking at the Ateliers Varan (Paris), at the Tisch School of the Arts (MA, New York University), and at the Film and Television School (London). She also obtained a doctorate in Ethnographic Cinema at Panteion University in Athens. She filmed a considerable number of short and experimental documentaries,  some of which won awards at Cinéma du Réel, the Thessaloniki Film Festival, and SEE Docs in Dubrovnik. She teaches theory and the history of cinema at the University of Athens and is a guest professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Days and Nights of Demetra K. is her first feature-length film.

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