Harpur Cinema presents ‘Spectres Are Haunting Europe’ – Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari – Greece/France – 2016

The first collaborative work by Kourkouta and Giannari, this documentary is set in a makeshift refugee camp in Idomeni, a small village in Greece on the border with the Republic of Macedonia, where 15,000 people found themselves trapped when the European Commission closed the “Balkan route”. The film uncompromisingly discloses everyday life in the camp with images of the refugees protesting under the overcast skies, of long lines of muddy feet, or with poignant black-and-white shots of refugees silently communicating with the camera. “Spectres Are Haunting Europe is more humanistic than political, but still makes a powerful statement about European society’s most recent failure” (Glasgow Film Festival).

Won: Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Best World Documentary Award – Torino Film Festival, Interfedi Award