Abstract

The opening film of the Fourteenth Thessaloniki Documentary Festival on March 9, 2012 was Algerian-born French director Tony Gatliff’s Indignados (2012). A formally hybrid film, it combines re-enacted sequences of an African immigrant crossing the Greek shores on her way to greener pastures in Europe with footage from the Occupy movements in Spain, and extensive quotes from Stephane Hessel’s polemical essay Indignez-vous!/Time for Outrage! (2010). The choice of this film to open Greece’s main non-fiction film festival reflected the pulse of the country at the time.