The question of minorities has always been part of society and has been debated in fictional narratives in cinema and literature quite often. In our talk, we will address the coalescence of three topics: cinema, ethics and education.

Here, we focus on one particular film of the New Greek Wave called The miracle of Sargasso Sea (2019) by Syllas Tzoumerkas. The thriller re-negotiates the topics of minorities and ethics against the background of a crime scene.

Action! In the provincial town Mesolongi the fate of two women whose lives intertwine when it comes to a homicide challenge the border of empathy and morality. Rita (Youla Boudali), the sister of the murdered victim Manolis (Christos Passalis) and the police officer Elisabeth (Angeliki Papoulia) have one burning desire in common: to escape from the torture and constriction of their small town livings.

Reminded of the Greek drama Antigone written by Sophokles, the crash of governmental and natural law will be discussed in terms of the wicked narrations in human culture. Film-analytical approaches, the concept of the "precarious" as an analytical category (Pewny, 2011) in film and arts becoming operative for the question of cultural education. Finally, the interplay of film as the most immediate technique and social injustice evocating strong affections, gives the opportunity to pinpoint the value of the reception of precarious aesthetics in film for further education.

Syllas Tzoumerkas. Gr/Neth/Ger/Swe. 2019. 121mins.

Pewny, K. (2011). Das Drama des Prekären: über die Wiederkehr der Ethik in Theater und Performance. Bielefeld: transcript-Verl.