01.01.2012.
We arrived to Pyrgos late because we were waiting one of our group members. So we just left our luggages in the hotel and we went to the opening ceremony. Of course we were late but we managed to see the trailers they were showing. It was very fun and we already agreed which ones we absolutely want to see.
Later on, after the ceremony, we continued to the diner with everyone from the festival. We were in the big restaurant where we ate and talked with other participants. There were also the Greek music played by the bend and some of older people danced. So it was fun watching it.
02.12.2012.
Hello! Today was Sunday and we got up around 12, so we came fastly to the Municipal building to meet the other participants. Dmitra gave us the fruits: grenade and oranges from her backyard. Thank you Dmitra! After, we took the program book and Ksenija marked the movies that we were going to watch.
We went to have a lunch around 4 p.m. and we went to the projection of movies at 6.15 p.m. We liked the movie “Foster boy” a lot. It really touched me. Actually this movie is about foster kids in Switzerland between 1860 and 1930s. The minors without parents were transferred to the families on a country side where they had to work very hard and didn’t have love nor good conditions of life. And of course no one didn’t care about them so they suffered. This movie talks about a teenage boy, a very good player of cordeon. When he goes to the new family he confronts the cruelty of the B family. But he isn’t the only foster kid in that house, there is also one girl whom they took to help around the house. Both of them are working all the time and have to do everything the mother or the father of the family buy flagyl online canada command. They have a son also who expresses the violence during the whole movie. The accordion boy is very cold in the beginning but as the story goes on we see him changing and growing up. These two kids are forced together to go through the awful life situations and the audience sees not only their life story but we can also understand why other characters are the way they are. In fact this movie talks principally about the kids who are dreaming about the better life and if they are strong and capable enough they’ll manage to realize their dreams. But it presents also the other characters that had and have a hard life and we can understand why they act the way they do. The injustice is omnipresent in this cinematographic work and I had a hard time watching it without letting a tear. It really touches deeply our thoughts and our soul. It shows the sorrow and sadness but also the kids’ unspoken suffers, injustice and dreams. It couldn’t certainly leave the audience indifferent.
We liked the movie ‘’ice dragon” also but the others said it was ‘’for children’’. It’s a movie that is done with lot of imagination, I think, it awakes the creativity in people. It’s about a young boy who lives with his older brother and his father who is a rocker and he drinks all the time. The social workers come and take him to his aunt where he finds new people who are all very nice to him but he misses his brother a lot. This movie is funny and sad in some segments. It shows how the kids play and can fight for their rights if they are united. After that movie the producer came on the stage and audience asked him questions.
