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  • The Secret School
    To Krifo Scholio

  • Marina Gioti

Country: Greece
Year: 2009
Runtime: 10 minutes
Format: Black and White/HDCAM 1080/25p
Rating: PG

This film plays in the Wavelengths 5: Une Catastrophe Programme with the following films:

 Une Catastrophe - Jean-Luc Godard
Le Streghe, femmes entre elles - Jean-Marie Straub
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: Abbreviation for Dead Winter (Diminished by 1,794) - David Gatten
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Sunday September 1306:30PM JACKMAN HALL - AGO Add Film to MyTIFF Filmlist Buy Now

Description

With The Secret School (Greece), Marina Gioti delves into one of the most contentious nationalist debates in Greece: the existence of illegal “secret schools” allegedly operating under the auspices of the Greek Orthodox Church during the Turkish Ottoman rule.

Cadillac People's Choice Award