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The Fixer

28/9/2016, 18:00, Greek Film Archive

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ian Olds steps into the world of fiction for the first time, with this portrait of a man lost amongst continents. A former Afghan fixer for Western journalists, who left his embattled country behind to seek asylum in the U.S., dreams of becoming a journalist himself. A mysterious disappearance, though, overshadows this new beginning and fuels the local community’s prejudices against him. Free entrance

With an intro by Maria Efthimiou, University of Athens history professor

Director: Ian Olds
Screenwriters: Paul Felten, Ian Olds
DoP: Adam Newport-Berra
Music: Jim McHugh
Editors: Scott Cummings, Joe Murphy, Ian Olds
Principal Cast: Dominic Rains, James Franco, Melissa Leo, Rachel Brosnahan, Thomas Jay Ryan

USA | 2016 | Color | DCP | 103' | English



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