Angeliki Kourouni

Deathday: 5/6/2024
Fame for: Directing

Biography

Angelique Kourounis had consistently honored the work of journalism, working for a number of years as a correspondent for many French-speaking in high prestige, but above all she left behind an invaluable legacy through two brave and shocking documentaries. The films Golden Dawn: A Personal Case (2016) and Golden Dawn: A Case of All of Us (2021), which were screened at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (with the latter winning three awards at the 23rd ΤIDF), will never stop reminding us that the belief in the value of democracy and resistance to obscurantism and intolerance is the duty and obligation of all of us at all times. Angelique Kourounis, was one of the most courageous and valuable voices of the Greek documentary.