Athens International Film Festival
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Hail Arcadia

3/10/2015, 19:30, Δαναός 1

In his second feature, following the phenomenally successful "Mourning Rock", insightful documentary filmmaker Filippos Koutsaftis travels to Arcadia, leading a mystical exploration through a landscape riddled with myths, past and present.

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Παρουσία των συντελεστών

"Traveller, seek not the myth of carefree life here on the Arcadian mountains. Bare Maenalus resembles an altar of the past. And yet remember. How many times forsaken Nature has disclosed to us That one day through our love Pan will live again." Tegea, Arcadia: A small plain surrounded by mountains on the road to Sparta. Far from the sea, which always lies ahead. This documentary is a mystical journey through Arcadia past and present, a place riddled with myth, existing on a higher plain above and beyond contemporary reality. A landscape with a special place in history and the minds of countless people throughout the centuries that strived for the ideals Arcadia used to stand for. In his second feature, following the phenomenally successful "Mourning Rock", insightful documentary filmmaker Filippos Koutsaftis travels to Arcadia, exploring yet another landscape weighed down by history and emotion.

Filmmakers present

Greek Subtitles on Script


Hail Arcadia / Αρκαδία Χαίρε - trailer from NyxtesPremieras

Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Filippos Koutsaftis
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Filippos Koutsaftis
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Filippos Koutsaftis
Μουσική / Music
Konstantinos B
Μοντάζ / Editor
Ioanna Spiliopoulou
Παραγωγή/ Producer
Filippos Koutsaftis

Ελλάδα / Greece
2013
Εγχρωμο / Color
DCP
89'
Ελληνικά / Greek

 



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