A storm in a teacup or a serious shift in the Greek cinema industry’s institutional landscape? Draft laws, as a rule, tend to attract the interest only of those who are directly affected, a few specific circles.
FILM
New films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold and Francis Ford Coppola, as well as a portrait of 1980s Donald Trump, will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival next month, organizers have announced.
Witness an exclusive screening of the short film “Bearcave,” directed by Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna Papadaki, winners of the 46th Drama Short Film Festival.
The Psaroloco International Festival for Children & Young People, held at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (206 Pireos, mcf.gr), targets younger audiences with a focus on curiosity and discovery.
The Love Unbound: Five Films for Freedom Festival, in its second year, explores LGBTQ experiences through art.
Yorgos Mavropsaridis celebrated his nomination at this year’s Oscars alongside his two daughters, who joined him on his journey to Los Angeles.
A Culture Ministry draft bill that has been put up for public consultation foresees the creation of a new agency bringing together the two bodies responsible for film and television.
Emma Stone hugs film director Yorgos Lanthimos before going on stage to receive the Best Actress Oscar, the second of her career. The two teamed up again creating ‘Poor Things,’ which took home a total of four Academy Awards at this year’s ceremony.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has extended his congratulations to Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos after his film “Poor Things” won four prizes at the 96th Academy Awards.
Emma Stone, left, and Yorgos Lanthimos embrace as Stone wins the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Poor Things” during the Oscars on Sunday, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
“Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed seven Academy Awards including the prestigious best picture trophy on Sunday as Hollywood celebrated a triumphant year in film. Emma Stone was named best actress for playing a woman revived from the dead in the dark and wacky comedy “Poor Things.”
Marking the centenary of the birth of author Truman Capote, the Hellenic American Union Movie Club is screening the classic film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s “They Shot the Piano Player,” an animated documentary-style exploration into the history and legacy of Brazilian bossa nova, will kick off this year’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
There may be nothing connecting Dimitiris Papaionnou to cinema at first glance – it is not, after all, the art his name is associated with – yet the 26th edition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will be paying tribute to the celebrated Greek choreographer.
The 2nd International Independent Film Festival of Athens (IFFA), organized by the KINO Athens Film Society, is set to take place in the first 10 days of March.
From an Aleppo operating theatre under bombardment to the sea off Greece, Brandt Andersen’s refugee drama “The Strangers’ Case” unfolds with the pulse and urgency of a Hollywood thriller.
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