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Hard Goodbyes: My Father
(Diskoli apocheretismi: O babas mou)

Screening on Film
Directed by Penny Panayotopoulou.
With Giorgos Karayannis, Stelios Mainas, Ioanna Tsirigouli.
Greece, 2002, 35mm, color, 113 min.
Greek with English subtitles.

Ten-year-old Elias, a boy living in Athens, makes a pact with his father to watch on television man's first landing on the moon. The two regale each other with stories of Jules Verne and flights of the imagination. They are adventurers and explorers. But chocolate bars left by a father gone on too many business trips are counted, while the countdown to the moonlanding has already begun. The year is 1969. A spaceship takes off, and man soon takes leave of planet earth. And so does Elias' father. It is the imagination and their shared love of storytelling that allow Elias to transcend the unimaginable. (Film description courtesy of Sipapu Films)

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