Set the record straight - My Big Fat Greek Wedding sucks. Come along tonight to enjoy Greece's rich culture. We will be screening two fascinating documentaries, a feature film and a band will be playing live Greek underground music.

6pm - DOCUMENTARIES: "In Search of the Exotic Gyspy" and "Bahtalo", two films about Roma people in Greece

7.30pm - FILM

9.30pm - MUSIC: Olympias Farm

6pm - Two Documentaries by Director Electra Bada 

In search of the Exotic Gypsy

UK/Greece, 2004, 42 mins

The film is an exploration of urban Greek Gypsy culture and identity. It follows the filmmaker’s journey to various Gypsy settlements in Athens , at the eve of the Olympic Games 2004. From poor settlements to more wealthy Romany Gypsy households, the film depicts the everyday life of various Gypsy clans. Maryo, Eleftheria, Nikos and Yiota share their aspirations and anxieties about the future.

Bahtalo (translated to “Fortune”)

Greece, 2006, 11min

A story about coffee and fortune: Eleftheria is famous in her neighborhood as a professional coffee fortune-teller, but she has run out of the Greek coffee needed to read the fortune of the filmmaker. The two women set out to find coffee for fortune telling.

 Both films were shown at many festivals in Greece and Europe. Electra Bada is a young promising Greek filmmakers who studied Ethnographic Film in Edinburgh.

 7.30pm - A surprise/much loved film. This is a touching, unusual, sad, romantic, and in a way educational drama about the underlying conflicts between the Greeks and the Turks.

 

9.30pm - MUSIC: Olympias Farm

Made of Greek musicians, Olympias Farm plays Greek popular music, known as “rebetiko”. It comprises four instruments and 2 vox. Bouzouki, Guitar, Tubeleki (Percussion), and 2nd guitar.

Cooked with love and spices by the Star and Shadow Cinema, this will be a special night to give you Greek dreams and smiles...do not miss it!

Whole night: £5/4

Asylum seekers: free