Daphne Heretakis studied at Paris 8 University, where she graduated with a Master’s degree in documentary filmmaking, and at Le Fresnoy national studio for contemporary art. Her films tread a fine line between documentary and fiction, blending intimacy and the collective, and has been presented in many festivals such as IFFR, Hors Piste Pompidou, Visions du Réel, etc. She lives and works between France and Greece.
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02 February 2016
In this shapeshifting essay film by French-Greek filmmaker Daphné Hérétakis, we visit the streets of Athens in July 2015 and the wake of an austerity referendum, finding friends and strangers, pop songs and poetry, fallen monuments and hopes for the future.
27 April 2016
Daphne Hérétakis proposes a protean reflection on cinétract, both activist, humorous and poetic. With her camera, she goes to meet the Athenians and collects their disillusions and their hopes.
17 February 2013
As the song says: "I'm 26 years old but only 4 useful. I don't understand anything". 8 people read aloud private texts (sms, letters, emails) written or received by Daphné Hérétakis in the months leading up to her 26th birthday.
22 January 2015
Athens 2014. Between bereaved desires and lost hopes, a film diary bangs against the walls of the city.
07 December 2017
Niki is a resistance fighter living in a nightmarish dictatorship in Athens, 1972, and Lefteris is her son, who will be forced sooner or later to cut the thread that binds them together.
15 October 2011
This film begun in september 2008, in Exarchia, "the Mecca" of athenian contestation. As the months passed and the political situation of Greece evolved, the film became the canvas on which testimonies finally laid, thus composing the fragmented landscape of a country in crisis.
20 May 2024
Athens. Nothing seems to move. The locals seem as still as statues. While at the same time, somewhere, a caryatid is escaping from a museum and a small group of people demands the destruction of all antiques.
