Can we share the joy of communal football watching without glossing over the toxic, discriminatory effects of its commodification?
The film is about Skoros, a Greek anti-consumerist collective, solidarity/ies, and the joys of doing things differently.
Logics of financial capital are all the more powerful blended with cultural logics. From now on, do Greeks need to keep their “orientalist radar” active wherever they go?
Personally it took me a while to feel more hopeful about this referendum and to overcome my own anxieties and fear.
The key protagonist in channelling bottom-up solidarity proved to be – not for the first time in Greece’s history - the institution of the extended family.