Docville: Anapafseos St., Athens

Anapafseos Street, Athens is an episode of Docville, a cinema-verite documentary series about urban life in Greece today, in a time of crisis: Anapafsis in Greek means resting, and it is usually the name given to streets leading to cemeteries. Two women who cannot accept their children’s deaths have turned the cemetery into their second home and try to support each other during this traumatic experience. The “drama” takes place in the district of the dead. The neighbors are the pallbearers, the necro-cosmetologists, the morticians, the marble grave makers, the people selling flowers, the cake makers, the gravediggers, police officers and amateur storytellers. The land of the dead as a part of the land of the living.

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Script: Angelos Kovotsos, Natassa Xydi

Cinematography: Damianos Voganatsis

Editing: Takis Gorgorinis

Sound: Damianos Voganatsis

Music: Word ofMouth (/Vassilis Papoulias, Apostolis Pantoulas)

Production: Minimal Films, ΕΡΤ ΑΕ/ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp

Producers: Marco Gastine

Format: DigiBeta Color

Production Country: Greece

Production Year: 2011

Duration: 45

Contact: ΕΡΤ ΑΕ/ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. Φωτεινή Γιαννουλάτου T. +30 210 6075 711 F. +30 210 6075 714 salesdpt@ert.gr www.ert.gr Minimal Films Μάρκος Γκαστίν T.-F.+30 210 3606 730 fminimal@otenet.gr

Αngelos Kovotsos

Filmography

2002 The houses of the Sun
2002 Lebanon
2002 My own mytilene
2003 The history of my Time – michael Cacoyannis 1956
2005 Kleon Krantonellis (Portraits of Greek Architects)
2006 Sun Come Up! Sun Go Down!
2009 SoS Animals in Danger
2011 Docville: Resting St., Athens (co-direction: Natassa Xydi)
2011 Encardia, the Dancing Stone

Natassa Xydi

Filmography

Selected Filmography
2009 Kypseli (short, co-direction: City of Athens Cultural Organization Documentary Group 2009)
2009 Αφετηρία/Τέρμα (short co-direction: City of Athens Cultural Organization Documentary Group 2009)
2011 Docville: Anapafseos St., Athens (co-direction: Angelos Kovotsos)