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Dir. Paola Revenioti (The Oleanders) + Kostas Dimolitsas (Jesus Was Born in Rosiclaire)
Year. 2021 + 2020
Country: Greece
Combined Run-time: 91 mins
Rating: 15
Doors: 4.30pm Film: 5pm
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“I’m in _” is a series of film screenings that explore the relationship between film, identity and the politics of space. For this first edition of the season, Deptford Cinema will be screening two documentaries: Paola Revenioti’s The Oleanders and Kostas Dimolitsas’ Jesus was born in Rosiclaire.
Directed by a pioneer of the Greek LGBT community, Paola’s The Oleanders follows three trans women doing a night stroll in Athens while talking about their lives. Paola, Betty and Eva are three trans women in their 60s, who have known each other for more than 40 years. All three of them started making their living early in their youth as sex workers in Athens, Greece. In The Oleanders, Betty Vakalidou, Eva Koumarianou and Paola Revenioti revisit all different places in the city, where they used to work, socialize, get harassed or arrested by the cops, fight for their rights, have fun and find love. The unapologetic, humorous and empowering discussion of Eva, Betty and Paola is a history of Athens, as well as a history of sexualities in the Mediterranean region and beyond.
The film will be preceded by Jesus was born in Rosiclaire, a short documentary delving into the history of Rosiclaire, a notorious Athens cinema that used to be, among other things, a popular cruising spot for queer people before it closed its doors in 1968. One of the people that were interviewed for the documentary is Betty Vakalidou, one of the three women featured in The Oleanders.
By focusing on the LGBTQIA+ history of Athens, this first edition of ' ‘I’m in _” hopes to explore the relationship between identity and politics of space, by juxtaposing past and present in ways that allow us a place to reflect on the different ways minorities can reclaim space - and history -.
