On Friday, October 2, Cinema Rediscovered. 2026, in collaboration with ΕΜΣΤ, presents a screening dedicated to the work of Eva Stefani. The screening is part of the wider programme of the Hellenic Film Academy, which invites audiences to see Greek cinema again through a series of screenings featuring more than 50 fiction films and documentaries, from the 1950s to the present day. Six figures from different areas of cinema, each with their own perspective and point of departure, curate a thematic section.
Afroditi Nikolaidou, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, includes four short documentaries by Eva Stefani in the thematic section “Athens 1990s and 2000s: The City in Between?”. How fitting, since Stefani is a filmmaker who turns a discreet, observant eye, turns to people and worlds that usually remain on the margins, seeking the paradoxical, the existential and the poetic in everyday life; a filmmaker who does not treat documentary as a recording of reality, but as a way of seeing it again.
PASCHALIS, 1993
Duration 17’
The film will be screened with English subtitles.
Paschalis is a tailor in Psyrri, before urban redevelopment projects change the face of the neighborhood forever.
Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Film editing, Producer: Eva Stefani
ATHINAI, 1995
Duration 40’
The film will be screened with English subtitles.
Life at Larissis Railway Station, a spring evening in 1995. Filmed over the course of four weeks, yet adopting the chronological structure of a single evening, the film unfolds as a gallery of people who frequent the station: homeless individuals, soldiers and migrants, all defining a space where different worlds meet and coexist.
Director, Screenplay, Cinematography: Eva Stefani
Film editing: Gideon Boulting
Producer: Ildikó Kemény
ACROPOLIS, 2001
Duration 25’
The film will be screened with English subtitles.
A fresh and unconventional look at the ultimate symbol of Athens and Greek identity. Drawing on a diverse range of materials (archival Super 8 footage, newsreels, vintage pornographic films), “Acropolis” is an experimental exploration that parallels the “sacred rock” with the female body. While attempting this association, the film comments on the long-standing ideological exploitation of the monument while raising questions about the relationship between History and pornography. Narrated by Katia Gerou and Constantine Markoulakis.
Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Producer: Eva Stefani
Film editing: Nikos Bistinas
WHAT TIME IS IT?, 2007
Duration 26’
The film will be screened with English subtitles.
Two friends share an apartment in the Metaxourgeio district. A mode of urban living based on companionship and its paradoxes.
Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Producer: Eva Stefani
Film editing: Alexandros Sampsonidis
BIOGRAPHY
Eva Stefani was born in the United States and lives in Athens. She has directed more than 30 films, moving between ethnographic and experimental cinema.
Her work has been screened at numerous festivals around the world and has received international recognition (Oberhausen, Cinéma du Réel, FIPRESCI at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, among others). Film festivals such as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and L’Europe autour de l’Europe have also organised retrospectives of her work. Since 2000, she has participated in international visual arts exhibitions, most notably documenta 14 and the Venice Biennale. Her most recent visual art project, “The Luminous Cave”, is an installation commissioned by EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, as part of the exhibition series “What if women ruled the world?”.
Alongside her artistic work, Eva Stefani is a Professor of Film at the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and heads the film series at Patakis Publishers. She has written two books on documentary filmmaking (“10 Texts on Documentary” and “Documentary: The Game of Observation”, Patakis), as well as a book of poetic prose, “Fin’s Hair” (Polis).
She studied Political Science at the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and subsequently pursued postgraduate studies in film theory and anthropology at New York University (NYU), and in filmmaking, with a focus on documentary, at Ateliers Varan in Paris and the National Film and Television School in the UK. Her doctoral thesis focuses on representations of Greece in ethnographic cinema, 1960–1980 (Panteion University, 1997).
Her latest film, “The Ancestors”, was produced by the Athens Epidaurus Festival and screened as part of the Festival at Piraeus 260 in July 2026.
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After September 24, CineFIX screenings will take place in the Screening Room, on the Mezzanine Floor of the Museum.
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