Synopsis wrote:
A journalist (Grigoris Patrikareas) is conducting an investigation regarding the refugees in Northern Greece and the immigrants who are detained at the border. He meets a man (Marcello Mastroianni) who resembles a politician who has gone missing. His wife (Jeanne Moreau) is summoned to identify him, but when she sees him she states that he is not her husband. The man’s identity remains unknown in a world where natural borders are not just a place of transition, but also an end, a no-man’s land, the end of a century.Read More »
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Theodoros Angelopoulos – To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou AKA The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
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Alexander Voulgaris – Winona (2019)
2011-2020Alexander VoulgarisDramaGreeceQuote:
Seems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another’s company. None of them is “Winona”.Read More » -
Jacqueline Lentzou – To telos tou ponou (Mia protasi) AKA The End of Suffering (A Proposal) (2020)
2011-2020ExperimentalGreeceJacqueline LentzouSci-FiQuote:
Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.Screenings include:
— International Competition Pardi di Domani section, Locarno Film Festival
— Currents section, New York Film Festival
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Yorgos Tzavellas – Mia zoi tin ehoume AKA We Only Live Once (1958)
Yorgos Tzavellas1951-1960ComedyDramaGreeceA bank teller discovers an accounting error and becomes rich.Read More »
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Theodoros Angelopoulos – Taxidi sta Kythira aka A Voyage to Cythera (censored version) (1984)
1981-1990DramaGreeceTheodoros AngelopoulosFrom Strictly Film School:
A pensive, middle-aged filmmaker named Alexander (Giulio Brogi, but whose voice was dubbed in Greek by Theo Angelopoulos) on a shooting break from the filming of a semi-autobiographical feature that explores the plight of returning political refugees during the general amnesty of the 1970s, encounters a gaunt, yet ennobled old man selling lavender at a kafeneon (a village cafeteria and lounge). Captivated by the humble vendor who perhaps bears a resemblance to his own absent father, Alexander follows the old man into the mist. Does Alexander, the abandoned son, believe this man to be his father, or does he, the director, envision this frail elder to be the ideal embodiment of the aging partisan (a part that he has been unable to cast) for his film? Reality becomes obscured in the metaphor of the enveloping fog. Read More » -
Theodoros Angelopoulos – Oi Kynigoi AKA The Hunters [143 min version] (1977)
Theodoros Angelopoulos1971-1980ArthouseDramaGreeceQuote:
[…]The Hunters (1977), a thematic epilogue to the historical trilogy that centers on a group of middle-aged hunters who discover the perfectly preserved, 30 year-old frozen remains of a partisan (bearing an uncoincidental resemblance to the Byzantine image of Jesus Christ) and, compelled to deliberate on its ‘proper’ disposition, spend a haunted, restless evening confronting their past. Set in post-junta era Greece, the film is a contemporary allegory on the nation’s deliberate suppression of painful and unflattering history and collective deflection of personal accountability.Read More » -
Araceli Lemos – Holy Emy (2021)
2021-2030Araceli LemosArthouseGreeceHorrorAfter their mother returns to the Philippines, sisters Emy and Teresa live within their tight-knit Filipino Catholic community in the port city of Athens. But when Teresa gets pregnant, Emy is increasingly drawn to other, more mysterious forces that live within her.
A nice mix of mystery, horror and arthouse drama.
Selected for the Locarno Film Festival’s Cineasti del Presente competition.Read More »
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Georgis Grigorakis – Digger (2020)
2011-2020DramaGeorgis GrigorakisGreeceA father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.Read More »
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Stelios Moraitidis – Dakar (2020)
2011-2020GreeceShort FilmStelios Moraitidis1978, on his birthday, Stavros was set to get engaged to Matula. Instead, he was forced to embark on his first big journey. 2020, on his birthday, Stavros wanders around the city alone. It is the day that he doesn’t like to talk. It is the day that he reflects on his past considering how things would have been if he had made other decisions.Read More »