12.06.2018

"DECEMBER RIOTS": A FILM ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY AND THE MURDER IN COLD BLOOD OF A 15 YEAR-OLD STUDENT


"DECEMBER RIOTS" AUTOPSY CLIP. MUSIC BY MOBY. from Dimitri Vorris on Vimeo.


"December Riots is important, timely, and hits it's mark. Acclaimed Greek-born filmmaker Dimitri Vorris has beautifully interwoven fact and fiction, to create a dramatic tale, that is both horrifying and thought-provoking".
Christopher Martini, Director-Producer "The Stone Child", "Trooper" 

“Dimitri Vorris's DECEMBER RIOTS arrives like a storm that signals the times are a-changing again and that as a world we're on the cusp between despair and hope."
Amos Poe, Filmmaker, Leading figure of the No Wave Cinema Movement, "UNMADE BEDS", "THE FOREIGNER", "SUBWAY RIDERS", "EMPIRE II", "THE GUITARS", "ROCKET GIBRALTAR"


“... Independent, handmade, and made possible with countless fights on the side of its creator, December Riots,
comes to remind us the life we never lived, the fight we never fought and the reasons we got here, with bowed heads and humiliated lives ... "
Chrisostomakis Laktaridis, DOCTV.GR



TIME magazine readers voted protesters—from Occupy Wall Street to the violent streets of Athens—as Person Of The Year and “DECEMBER RIOTS,” written, produced and directed by Dimitri Vorris, depicts exactly that.

The film's epicenter is the cold-blooded execution of 15 year-old student Alexander Gregoropoulos by two policemen in a downtown Athens café on December 6, 2008. "December Riots," is a film about the Gregoropoulos killing, an incident that sparked riots in over seventy cities and twenty-two countries worldwide including the US. The filmmaker acquired exclusive access to never-before-seen court documents and evidence from the trial that followed Gregoropoulos’s killing. The independently financed, claustrophobic thriller, focuses on a group of Europeans and Americans trapped in an art-house movie theater in downtown Athens during the 2008 riots.
The film is featuring four tracks courtesy of electronica superstar Moby.