Mankind’s Folly

Mankind’s Folly

​From both ends of the Arctic, Nikita in Siberia and Martha in Alaska send a distress signal as the ground sinks beneath their feet and fossil fuel companies greedily expand into the far north.

Yorgos Avgeropoulos is an acclaimed Greek documentary filmmaker and journalist. A former war correspondent, he founded the long-running Exandas documentary series in 2000. His work focuses on social inequality, human rights, and the economic crisis in Greece, documented in his feature films AGORA – From Democracy to the Market and Chained – AGORA II, both widely praised by European media, with AGORA named Film of the Year in 2015 by Haus des Dokumentarfilm. Avgeropoulos’s work has been broadcast on television and screened in cinemas around the world, and it has been honored with more than 40 international awards, including the Fipa d’Argent (FIPA, France) Rockie Award (Banff World Media Festival, Canada), Gold Hugo (Chicago International Film Festival TV Awards), Orpheus Award (Los Angeles Greek Film Festival) and the Audience Award of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

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SCREENING DAY:

January 31, 2026
SCREENING TIME:
4:30 pm

VENUE:

Broccoli Theater at LMU
  • 2025, Prix Europa, Special Commendation by the Jury

YEAR:

2025

DIRECTOR(S):

Yorgos Avgeropoulos

PRODUCER(S):

Anastasia Skoubri, Yorgos Avgeropoulos

WRITER(S):

Yorgos Avgeropoulos

EDITOR:

Rachel Kalantzopoulou, Alexandra Verykokkou, Vassilis Tsoukalas

CINEMATOGRAPHER:

Yiannis Avgeropoulos, Serafim Fedorov

MUSIC:

Yiannis Paxevanis

RUNTIME:

82 mins

COUNTRY:

Greece

PREMIERE:

International Premiere