Giannis Boutaris

The work of the Citizens' Movement of Thessaloniki and their struggle to prevent the government's decision to detach and dismember the antiquities that were excavated at the Venizelos station, during the metro works. It covers the 15 months from the birth of the Movement to Christmas 2020.

Yiannis Boutaris – one of Greece’s leading winemakers and a former alcoholic, a prominent member of civil society and an honored environmental activist – is, at 68, the unconventional independent mayoral candidate for Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, in the 2010 municipal elections. With the country caught in the spiral of the financial crisis, Boutaris struggles against visible and invisible opponents. One Step Ahead is a 10-week-long documentary-odyssey that tries to explore, among things, what love’s got to do with it.