Identity Roma (2021)

A documentary film by Eleni Vlassi

 

Audiovisual material with research interviews on the Roma minority of Aspropyrgos, an investigative journalism by Eleni Vlassi, Regular Member of the Union of Journalists of Daily Newspapers of Athens.

 

The harsh daily life, the social exclusion and the cultural identity of the Roma of Aspropyrgos of Attica.

 

Members of the Roma community of Aspropyrgos of Attica, confess to the researcher-journalist and director Eleni Vlassi the problems they face daily, their difficult access to state healthcare, the unemployment and poverty plaguing their families, their stigmatization and marginalization by Greek society, as well as their cultural and historical roots in India, the predominant position of music in their culture, and their boundless love for Greece and Greek culture.