Village Potemkin

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Village Potemkin

VILLAGE POTEMKIN

1 hour 25 minutes – 2016 – Documentary

Dominikos, a former drug user, wandering in the collapsing city of Athens with a bike and a “go-pro” camera and meets friends who are doing the same thing. They stay “clean” of substances and they live their lives full of consciousness. The joy of using, the collapse, the acceptance of the problem, the recovery. Already “cleansed,” they talk about their way to self-awareness, the redefinition of their values, and their view on life.

CREDITS

DIRECTOR: Dominikos Ignatiadis
SCREENPLAY: Dominikos Ignatiadis
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nikos Thomas, Yannis Xanthakis, Electra Spinthiropoulou, Stavros Symeonidis
EDITING: Evgenia Papageorgiou
MUSIC: Dinos Tselis
SOUND: Pandelis Koukias, Stavros Symeonidis

AWARDS

THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Film Critics Award

REVIEWS

DOMINIKOS IGNATIADIS

Dominikos Ignatiadis was born in Germany and holds a dual German and Greek citizenship. He is member of the Greek Documentary Association and has attended film and documentary courses in Kapodistriako University of Athens. In 2015 he releases his short film Curriculum Vitae, and in 2017 he made his documentary debut with “Village Potemkin” which was awarded the Greek association of Films Critics at the 19^TH Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. His second documentary “Gabriella – The German with the Bicycle” (2021) which was projected in multiple festivals nationally and internationally, and was nominated for the awards of the Greek Academy of Cinema as well as the Golden Alexander of the 25th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and was awarded at the Moscow Film Festival. He directed, and co-produced with the Greek Film Centre (GFC) his third documentary Prison Blues (2023) which participated in the 25th Thessaloniki documentary festival in the Open section Horizons. He is soon finishing his new film “Rinoula 2024” with the central issue of nomadic animal husbandry in our country, an institution-ritual that is going to disappear.

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