SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Partenonas
119 mins
In Russian, English, Arabic, Turkish, and Ukranian with EN subtitles
LIT/UKR/FRA | 2019 | dir. Mantas Kvedaravicius, with Mahdi Mohammed, Hanna Bilobrova, Garip Ozdem
Mantas Kvedaravicius’ first incursion into fiction narrative, albeit mixed with documentary techniques — premiered in the Venice Critics’ Week section. Parthenon is on three years of anthropological research among marginal communities in Odessa, Istanbul, and Athens.
This screening pays tribute to Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was killed while filming in Ukraine in April 2022.