Screening of "Broken Vein" & Discussion with Yiannis Economides and Sofia Kounia

Description :

Heterotopia Project opens its space for an evening of cinema and reflection that promises not just viewing, but interpretation, critique, and dialogue.

On Saturday, 2 May, the film Broken Vein by Giannis Oikonomidis will be screened — a work that continues to carve out its own relentless cinematic language: raw, claustrophobic, and deeply political through the everyday. Oikonomidis’ world is not merely representation; it is revelation. A revelation of the violence that runs through relationships in contemporary Greece, the erosion of the social fabric, and the tension between the individual and society.

After the screening, there will be a discussion with the director and actress Sofia Kounia (Katy), in a conversation that will move beyond cinema as art and approach it as an aesthetic-political act. The discussion will open up around Oikonomidis’ language — the aesthetics of tension, conflict, and “uncomfortable” truth — and its relationship to Greece’s current socio-political condition.

At a time when power increasingly operates through the management of emotions, insecurity, and everyday life, Oikonomidis’ cinema comes to rupture normality. To make visible what is usually left unspoken. To turn tension into a question.

The discussion will be moderated by Konstantinos Stathopoulos (director-videographer).

Admission by free contribution.
Starts at 20:00.