Yorgos avgeropoulos biography template

Located in Greece’s northernmost region of Macedonia, Thessaloniki used to be a vibrant multicultural city under the Ottoman Empire, with Jews, Muslims and Christians speaking in Greek, Turkish, Slav-Macedonian/Bulgarian, Vlach, Ladino, among other languages. Annexed to Greece in 1912, it became gradually Hellenicised, first with the exchange of populations in the 1920s, and later because of the Holocaust, which all but eradicated the city’s Jewish population. This year, the city’s Jewish history was explored in a double-bill of medium-length documentaries.  Directed by the local filmmaker Stella PapastefanouMemories and Songs focused on Jewish survivors from Thessaloniki who reminisced about their endangered Spanish-based language, Ladino, and its old songs.  Following Shira’s Journey: A Greek Jewish Odyssey, on the other hand, was made by Australian filmmakers Carol Gordon and Natalie Cunningham with more explicitly educational aims and in response to the relative dearth of information on the history of the Greek-Jewish community.

This was my third visit to the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) and, this time, I spent the first three days of my stay with a colleague and friend from the US who had just completed jury-duties at a film festival in Tel Aviv. We watched these two Jewish-history films together, and the next morning we went on a tour of the city’s Jewish and Ottoman monuments led by the excellent tour-guide Konstantinos Sfikas. For, behind its densely built façade, there remain many traces of the city’s multi-layered past. The festival itself takes place in two cinemas in the magnificent Aristotle square – designed by the French architect Ernest Hebrard in 1918 after the great fire of the previous year eradicated most of the city’s dwellings. Named Olympion after the stunning views of Mount Olympus that can be seen on a clear day, the festival’s main building

Almost a year after the global pandemic hit Greece, iMEdD and SmallPlanet, present Yorgos Avgeropoulos' new documentary entitled "Parontes" (Present). The film, unfolds against the backdrop ... Read allAlmost a year after the global pandemic hit Greece, iMEdD and SmallPlanet, present Yorgos Avgeropoulos' new documentary entitled "Parontes" (Present). The film, unfolds against the backdrop of the public healthcare system and follows the prominent figures at the forefront of the ... Read allAlmost a year after the global pandemic hit Greece, iMEdD and SmallPlanet, present Yorgos Avgeropoulos' new documentary entitled "Parontes" (Present). The film, unfolds against the backdrop of the public healthcare system and follows the prominent figures at the forefront of the COVID-19 response, as well as the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Political decisions and b... Read all

After Agora: From Democracy to the Market (2014), which created quite a stir and was internationally awarded, Yorgos Avgeropoulos returns with his second film on the Greek crisis. Having gai... Read allAfter Agora: From Democracy to the Market (2014), which created quite a stir and was internationally awarded, Yorgos Avgeropoulos returns with his second film on the Greek crisis. Having gained an in depth access to the country's political scene and after having closely followed ... Read allAfter Agora: From Democracy to the Market (2014), which created quite a stir and was internationally awarded, Yorgos Avgeropoulos returns with his second film on the Greek crisis. Having gained an in depth access to the country's political scene and after having closely followed the documentary's protagonists, Avgeropoulos composes a political thriller and a profoundl... Read all

The perfect article about a writer gives both a (possibly short) biography and a list of books or other major publications they have written. Also, appropriate categories should be added, especially Category:Greek writers and those listed in Category:Writers by genre.

The booklist should be sorted in the order that it would be best to read their books. This might include splitting them into categories by genre, or series. It should indicate if they are listed in the order they were written or in chronological order, if these are different.