Land, Legacy and Loss: Greek Cinema and the Environment

RMIT’s The Best Films You’ve Never Seen series presents Land, Legacy and Loss: Contemporary Greek Cinema and Environmental Crisis, exploring Greek cinema’s engagement with the environmental crisis, the tensions between tradition and progress, and the pressures exerted by resource extraction, gentrification and tourism.

Georgis Grigorakis' neo-Western Digger (2020) goes deep into the forests of northern Greece, where a solitary farmer is fighting an industrial mining corporation causing environmental destruction as it encroaches on his property.

Also screening is Lia Tsalta's 2018 short The Forest, which invites viewers to experience a dystopian future where nature no longer exists.