Filmhouse/New Kalamata Cinema-All Beauty and Bloodshed

Documentary filmmaker with a solid political orientation, Laura Poitras, with her new film "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed", dares to use a courageous biographical approach to photographer Nan Goldin, who has a highly politically active personality. Nan Goldin is a living legend of photography, since the 70s she has been capturing with her lens everyday, personal moments of herself, her partners, her friends and other artists, from the collectives and subcultures in which she was nurtured and they became her own family. Photographs overflowing with raw tenderness and wild beauty, dedicated to those who have lived and still live on the fringes, capturing the seemingly banal and turning it into something disarmingly and catalytically human.

The film describes the photographer's fight against the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty that was primarily responsible for the incredible number of deaths from opioid abuse.

Poitras builds methodically and inventively, with honesty but also humour, something more than a simple documentary film. It deepens and analyses Goldin's work with all its time's cultural and political context, underlining her personal and experiential artistic creation. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary.
The Photography and Cinematography section of March screenings takes place with the cooperation of the Kalamata Photographic Group.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 20
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
Documentary, Drama | K-16 | 2022 | USA | 122'
directed by: Laura Poitras
starring: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler
21:00 | Thod. Aggelopoulos Amphitheatre, Kalamata Labour Centre

General admission is 5 euros. Admission is 3 euros for the unemployed, those with many children and students, and free admission for young people under 18.