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Greek director wins Best Documentary award at Roma Fiction Fest |
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14/07/08-13:04
Rome (ANA-MPA/Th. Andreadis-Syggelakis) -- Greek director Anneta
Papathanassiou won the Best Documentary Award at the 2008 Roma Fiction
Fest on Saturday night in Rome, in the competitive section, for her
documentary "Qadir, Enas Afghanos Odysseas" (Qadir, an Afghani
Odysseus/Ulysses).
The awarded documentary is a co-production with the
Greek Radio/Television Foundation (ERT), the foreign ministry and the
production company Orizontas, with the support of the Hellenic Cinema
Center and Al-Jazeera. Papathanassiou's entry in the second edition of
the Roma Fiction Fest presents the story of an immigrant from
Afghanistan, Qadir, who after nine years in Greece manages to get his
"green card" (residency/working permit) and decides to temporarily
return to his homeland to search for his parents.
Papathanassiou also
revealed that her next documentary will focus on a tribe in Pakistan,
the Kalash, who are considered descendents of Alexander the Great. The
2nd Roma Fiction Fest hosted a total of 194 documentaries, series' and
films producted with the participation of television stations in
different countries. Papathanassiou's "Qadir" took top place among 33
other competing documentaries.
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