Open Daily 4:00 pm –8:00 pm
Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS invites you to Minoa Cinema, Sitia, on Sunday, April 27 2025, to watch the Stelios Kouloglou documentary “142 Years”. Stelios Kouloglou will attend the screening, and there will be a discussion with the audience. Admission is free.
“142 Years” has already won the “Edward Snowden” Award and the Jury Prize at international festivals in Paris and Berlin. Recently, it received another honorary distinction at the Festival Internazionale Segni della Notte in Urbino, Italy. It is a powerful chronicle of the struggles of the refugees arriving in Greece and a scrutiny of the concept of justice.
Thousands of refugees are imprisoned in Greek jails as traffickers. Rescuer Jason Apostolopoulos is fighting to save three innocent people, one of whom has been sentenced to 142 years in prison, while the other two received 50 years each. In a judicial thriller lasting over a year, will their fight for freedom be vindicated?
Mohammed, a Somali refugee, is imprisoned at the island of Chios, sentenced to “142 years”. His crime? He took the helm of the boat after the real trafficker abandoned them in the open sea – striving to save himself and his 31 fellow passengers. In his extremely brief trial, his solicitor didn’t even have the chance to speak after the sentence was announced. Also imprisoned are Akif and Amir, two Afghan refugees, each sentenced to 50 years; they all stated their apprehension as to the reasons for their conviction and the severity of their sentences.
Stelios Kouloglou was born in Athens. He is a graduate of the University of Athens and studied journalism in Paris, Tokyo, and India. He worked as a journalist covering politics in Greece and as a correspondent in Paris and Moscow, covering developments in the Soviet Union and other former socialist countries. From 1992 to 1995, he served as a special envoy covering the war in former Yugoslavia. His television program “Reporters Without Borders” and his documentaries have repeatedly won awards in Greece and abroad. He is the author of eleven literature and history books. In 2002, he was awarded the Author of the Year prize for his best-selling novel Never Go Alone to the Post Office.
