BCK Pop Up Film Festival 2022 starts and will last from April 2022 to September 2023 and will present, in and out of Athens, short and feature films, of contemporary, Greek and international production, of all genres, from Balkan Can Kino’s open call, in collaboration with cultural spaces and organizations / groups. All screenings are admission free. Films are screened in their original language with English subtitles.
PROGRAMME
SESSION #10
THE GREEK EXPERIENCE | 101’ x REFUGEE WEEK GREECE 2023
Since 2015, Greece has been at the forefront of the refugee crisis. The media, EU institutions and politicians, all talk about a ‘crisis’ without offering much insight into the everyday experience of people on the ground. Instead of enabling change, the label of the ‘crisis’ has often led to a state of paralysis and ‘waiting’ for it to pass rather than of action and change. Compass Films collaboration with Balkan Can Kino offers 4 short films that depict four experiences of events and individuals on the Greek experience of working in the refugee field.
SESSION #11
WELCOME TO THE TWILIGHT ZONE | 95’
Just after the greek elections, Balkan Can Kino takes a summer dive into the “Twilight Zone” showcasing five fiction films, from Mexico, Europe and India. Films where their protagonists seem to be stuck in weird and unnatural situations in which they have to survive, face and in some cases win, or maybe not? What is real, dream or nightmare? Is your mind playing tricks? If you are feeling trapped into the Twilight Zone, well you are not alone!
SESSION #8
IN ART WE TRUST
Is art an escape route, a dream, a life purpose and a way of accepting diversity? Three femininities express themselves through their art and invite us into their universe.
SESSION #9
EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL PINK
Pink encounters strange friends, finds suitcases with long forgotten toys, blooms, and swirls around space. Pink embraces all colors and morphs into a transgalactic entity; nothing can stop its fight for the right to live and love life.
SESSION #7
Greek Contemporary Guerilla Cinema x Retalia Festival
Five short handmade and DIY films of Greek Contemporary Cinema.
Session #3
Memories of War and Occupation
In the midst of another war, Balkan Can Kino organises a screening dedicated to the survivors of war. Age, place and time, do not seem to matter as the wounds left behind by a war remain forever open.
SESSION #4
DIGITAL CITY
First open air screening this year with six short films presenting alternative realities.
SESSION #1
DREAMSCAPES: EXPLORATION, WATER & DUST
12 short + 1 feature experimental films of contemporary production, from around the world, are inviting us to an exploration in the subconscious, where dreams recreate the world we live in.
SESSION #2
WAR AND PROPAGANDA
Balkan Can Kino, presents at TV Control Center, four documentaries, of international and contemporary production, with stories that want to be “forgotten” and some that have been “deleted” from human memory and history: genocides, wars, oppression and propaganda. Should we forget or should we remember and investigate the dark aspects of human history?