“Modern areas of hospitality” – lecture by Andrzej Marzec, Ph.D.
The series revolves around the issues relating to human rights and focuses on the problems which people encounter in modern-day reality. The series will start with Andrzej Marzec’s lecture and the Greek film Xenia which is a story about homelessness, looking for one’s own place and community.
Xenia dir. Panos H. Koutras, 128 min. (Greece, 2014)
George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with George. With Strella on his side he will have to find a new way out.