Nikos Theodosiou

By a remarkable coincidence, the invention of cinema coincides with the first major wave of Greek immigration to America. Inspired by this event, the film unravels the thread of immigration from that time to the great crisis of the 21st century, through its cinematic recordings with unknown or rare documents.

“Koursal” was the name of the only cinema in the world that ever operated on a sailing ship on the beach at Thessaloniki during the inter-war years. The search for specific data surrounding the mythic cinema becomes an anguished quest as it disappears into a misty landscape through which, over the space of approximately one hundred years, other facets of the city emerge – facets which official history defiantly ignores…