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- Greece is experiencing conditions in post-war history that no European thought would face again. Homeless people, soup kitchens, unemployment, poverty, violent conflicts and the rise of the extreme-right. The dream of prosperity has turned into a nightmare and the political scene of the last four decades is crumbling. Yorgos Avgeropoulos urgently turns his camera towards his homeland. He records the development of the crisis from its early stage, while tracing its impact on the lives of people. He witnesses popular protests in the streets, the development of solidarity movements as well as the rise of fascism, while at the same time he seeks answers from Greece's most significant political personalities, insiders, analysts and key decision makers from the international political scene.
- The journey of the founders of the Free Gaza Movement and the 2008 breach of the Israeli siege on Gaza waters documented from conception in Greece to journey's end in Palestine.
- Throughout the world, the privatization of water has failed and many cities, particularly in France and Germany, have preferred to re-appropriate its management. Yet, in a Southern Europe in crisis, public operators are threatened with its withdrawal. Why are Brussels' elites pushing these countries to privatize their water distribution and recycling services? Between austerity policies and lobbying of the EU, water circuits in Europe seem to be in harmony with those of capital. Investigation at the heart of a secret war waged by large corporations.
- Almost a year after the global pandemic hit Greece, iMEdD and SmallPlanet, present Yorgos Avgeropoulos' new documentary entitled "Parontes" (Present). The film, unfolds against the backdrop of the public healthcare system and follows the prominent figures at the forefront of the COVID-19 response, as well as the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Political decisions and backroom maneuvers come under the microscope and are juxtaposed with the struggles of those who bear the brunt of the new crisis on a daily basis. Through the Greek experience, Avgeropoulos manages to capture a universal reality and poses critical questions about the post-Covid era the world is entering.
- After Agora: From Democracy to the Market (2014), which created quite a stir and was internationally awarded, Yorgos Avgeropoulos returns with his second film on the Greek crisis. Having gained an in depth access to the country's political scene and after having closely followed the documentary's protagonists, Avgeropoulos composes a political thriller and a profoundly human film that unfolds his home country's tumultuous situation over the last five years, raising crucial questions concerning the future not only of Greece but Europe as well.
- The infamous 18 are El Salvador's biggest gang. They battle with the rival MS13 for control of the drugs market. They charge 'renta' to local businesses and kill those who don't pay. They are teenagers, the orphans of civil war, born in the heat of battle and unfazed by death. As we enter the desperate, death-defying world of the 18, we begin to see the political ingredients of one of the fastest developing gangs in the world.
- A handful of multinational companies have managed to control the "heart" of the food: The very seed and, therefore, global agricultural production. Brokers in the developed world gamble with food, raising and lowering prices, playing with the fundamental right of millions of people to access food. Meanwhile, almost a billion people on this planet are undernourished.
- The picture of "development" that came with multinational petroleum companies at the Delta of Niger River in Nigeria.