What could connect a Kurd immigrant, a poet and two 80 year old sisters dispensing funeral offerings? What is the association between the woman dancing in the dry cleaners, Michael Cacoyiannis rehearsing Lysistrata and the man watching life go by behind a window?..Twelve, socially, culturally and ethnically different people share a small street in an underprivileged inner city area of Athens. They meet, share and hide from each other daily, as the boundaries between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’ remain hazy. The documentary explores the changing nature of neighborhoods in big cities, through a puzzle of everyday incidents and personal confessions. Despite the major socioeconomic changes that this area undergoes, this street offers a rare example where a sense of neighborhood, with all its humane manifestations still exists and where different people find ways to accept each other.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:00:02 +0000