Perah Istar (2012)

Perah Istar is a 60 minutes documentary about the complicated relationship between people and pigeons in modern cities.
In ancient times, it was considered the bird of fertility and love (perah Istar, the Semitic word for dove, means the bird of Aphrodite). The three main monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – venerate it. In the Middle Ages it became the symbol of peace…

So how on earth did they end up being considered a ‘rat with wings’ or a city parasite? What happened to this small domestic bird, highly esteemed for its virtues and long admired for its beauty? Why so many people hate pigeons or are terrified of them, although others love them and are even obsessed with them?

The indisputable fact is that urban residents are forced to co-exist with pigeons. “Perah Istar’ chronicles this interesting cohabitation.

Our Language (2011)

In Eastern Peloponnese, in a remote region in the shadow of Mt Parnon, live the Tsakonians, a stubborn group of native Greeks.
For 3,000 years now, they have been speaking an ancient dialect, the only surviving representative of the Doric language. They never abandoned it, not even when the Attic-based Koine (from which Modern Greek derives) became the first common dialect of all Greeks and the lingua franca of the entire Mediterranean.

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On The Summit (2010)

Is it possible to sum up the peculiar, passionate, unconventional and often contradictory nature of Cretan people? Only if you look in the right place… We tried the one-acre rocky land on the top of the island’s highest mountain, the ‘mythical’ Psiloritis, also know as mount Ida, home to Zeus and a pilgrimage site since antiquity.

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