Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Favourite,” an absurdist period comedy about two cousins courting the favor of Queen Anne in the 18th century England, has received 10 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best director and Best supporting actress.
Discover Greece have released their latest video promoting the country as a tourism destination.
World-renowned professor of economics Jeffrey Sachs is in Cyprus to deliver the 2019 Hubert Curien Memorial Lecture at the Cyprus Institute. The lecture starts at 6.30 p.m. and live streaming will be available on the Cyprus Institute’s YouTube channel. The title of the lecture is “Eudaimonia in the 21st Century: Looking to Aristotle for New Solutions.”
In a press conference Monday, organizers of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival unveiled the full lineup of the 10-day cinematic event which returns for a 21st year on March 1 with its customary mix of art and grit.
BBC radio has come up with English translations of the Greek words “philotimo” and “philoxenia,” traditionally considered as the hardest concepts to render in foreign languages.
Greek-Canadian singer and songwriter Katerine Duska will represent Greece in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, state broadcaster ERT announced late on Thursday.
Archaeologists have discovered a fresco in an ancient Pompeii residence that portrays the mythological hunter Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection.
More than 80 Greek movies, including 31 shorts and 50 feature films, will be screened at this year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which runs from March 1 to 10, organizers announced on Tuesday.
Founded in 1837, the Archaeological Society of Athens was not only one of the first institutions to be set up in the newly established Greek state, but also among its most productive.
Yorgos Lanthimos's tragicomic royal drama "The Favourite" and Mexican family memoir "Roma" split the honors with multiple wins each at Sunday's British Academy Film Awards – victories that suggest a wind of change may be blowing through the movie industry.
Nick Broomfield’s “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love,” a film exploring the relationship between Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen, will open this year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
The moon rises over the Parthenon on the ancient Acropolis Hill in Athens, Greece, Tuesday. Tuesday’s full moon, or supermoon, appears brighter and bigger than other full moons because it is close to its perigee, which is the closest point in its orbit to Earth. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]