Honouring Frida Liapa: "The Roads of Love Are Nocturnal"
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The Kalamata Creative Documentary Centre, in collaboration with the Filmhouse-New Kalamata Cinema Club, which implements the programme "The Woman Behind the Camera," will screen Frida Liapa's film "The Roads of Love Are Nocturnalt," honouring her memory on the occasion of the completion of 30 years since her death.
Her partner, director Kyriakos Aggelakos, will also attend the screening.
Frida Liappa was an excellent director and poet.
In 1981, she shot her first feature film, "The Roads of Love Are Nocturnal". The film is awarded at the Thessaloniki Festival with the awards for first-time director, female performance, photography, and editing, as well as the PEKK award. She participated in the Berlin (Panorama), London, Montreal, Amsterdam, Valencia, Saint-Etienne, Munich, Istanbul, International Women's Film Festivals and the Greek Film Weeks in Annecy, Bastia, Bologna, Geneva and Locarno.
She said about how she treated the stories in her films: "I am interested in the truth of a situation and not its authenticity, the fate of a person and not its beautification, the conflict of forces operating within a case and not their performance. In two words, I am interested in the stories that our people have been telling for years - but I am also interested in the "story" hidden within the way a person holds his glass..."
She was imprisoned for democracy during the dictatorship (sentenced to six years with a five-year suspension), and she studied what he loved: literature and cinema. Here and in England. She supported the artistic renaissance of Greek cinema alongside the "Contemporary Cinema" group in every way. She thought, wrote, and published poetry and prose. She delivered TV gems on "Backstage" and was much loved by the best and most important artists in every field.
