New York City Greek Film Festival
dal 19/10/2011 al 22/10/2011
Segnalato da
19/10/2011
New York City Greek Film Festival
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
Museum of the Moving Image will host the opening week of the fifth annual festival that, showcasing eight new feature films from Greece, offers New Yorkers the opportunity to discover some important emerging filmmakers.
October 20–23, 2011 at Moving Image, continuing at SVA Theatre in Manhattan (October 27–30)
Despite an economic crisis that makes the financing of motion pictures particularly difficult, the Greek film industry is experiencing an exciting renaissance. Last year’s startling and provocative family drama Dogtooth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. From October 20 through 23, 2011, Museum of the Moving Image will host the opening week of the fifth annual New York City Greek Film Festival. The festival, showcasing eight new feature films from Greece, offers New Yorkers the opportunity to discover some important emerging filmmakers.
Among the screenings at Moving Image are the North American premiere of Tungsten, Giorgios Georgopoulos’s feature debut, which tells three stories of Athenians living close to the edge (director Georgopoulos and star Vangelis Mourikis will appear in person at the October 21 screening); Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg, Greece’s Academy Award entry this year; and Yannis Economides’s gritty film noir Knifer, which won seven Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Other films include My Sweet Canary, a documentary about Sephardic Jewish Greek rebetika singer Roza Eskenazi; the family drama Gold Dust (Chrysoskoni); the gentle comedy Charisma (Harisma); Strella: A Woman’s Way, a hit from last year’s festival; and Nobody, a Romeo and Juliet tale set in the migrant community in contemporary Athens.
"This is a very vibrant time for Greek films, and the New York City Greek Film Festival is the premiere showcase for new Greek cinema," said David Schwartz, Chief Curator at the Museum of the Moving Image. "There has been a resurgence in the Greek film industry over the past few years, and many excellent independent films are coming out of Greece. We are happy for the opportunity to introduce a sampling of these films not only to the Greeks in our community but to all New Yorkers."
The New York City Greek Film Festival continues in Manhattan from October 27 through 30 at the SVA Theatre. For more information, visit nycgreekfilmfestival.com. The Festival is programmed by James Demetro and is supported by the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce, the Hellenic-American Cultural Foundation, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
SCHEDULE FOR ‘NEW YORK CITY GREEK FILM FESTIVAL,’
OPENING WEEK: OCTOBER 20–23, 2011
Gold Dust
Thursday, October 20, 7:00 p.m.
Dir. Margarita Manda. 2009, 85 mins. With Mania Papadimitriou, Anna Mascha, Argyris Xafis. The story of three siblings facing the prospect of selling their family home in Athens becomes a personal portrait of a city that is being transformed daily, eradicating all traces of its past.
Tickets: $12 public/$8 Museum members/Free for Silver Screen members and above.
Charisma (To Harisma)
Friday, October 21, 7:00 p.m.
Dir. Christina Ioakeimidi. 2010, 83 mins. With Vasso Kavalieratou, Efthymis Papadimitriou. A young teacher involved in a damaging affair is pursued by an unsophisticated, aggressive, yet passionate bus driver. This comedy takes on the time-honored theme of opposites attracting while trying to understand the elusive nature of charisma.
Tickets: $12 public/$8 Museum members/Free for Silver Screen members and above.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE:
Tungsten
Friday, October 21, 9:15 p.m.
Sunday, October 23, 8:00 p.m.
Giorgos Georgopoulos and Vangelis Mourikis in person (October 21)
Dir. Giorgos Georgopoulos. 2010, 100 mins. With Vangelis Mourikis, Tasos Nousias, Omiros Poulakis, Promitheas Aliferopoulos. Tungsten is the metal with the highest melting point. This film tells three stories of Athenians living close to the edge; a tram conductor struggling to support his family; a job recruiter with anger control issues; and two idle teenagers with a gun. Played against a menacing urban landscape, the stories come together in a totally unexpected way in this impressive feature debut.
Tickets: $12 public/$8 Museum members/Free for Silver Screen members and above.
Nobody
Saturday, October 22, 5:00 p.m.
Dir. Christos Nikoleris. 2011, 97 mins. With Georgina Liossi, Antinoos Albanis, Giorgos Papageorgiou. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is updated to a contemporary Athenian migrant setting, picking up shades of Homer along the way. Goran, a young Russian, falls in love with Julia, the daughter of Muslim immigrants from Albania. Trapped in a cycle of ethnic violence and racial tensions, the two young people struggle to find a way for their love to triumph.
Tickets: $12 public/$8 Museum members/Free for Silver Screen members and above.
Strella: A Woman’s Way
Saturday, October 22, 7:00 p.m.
Dir. Panos Koutras. 2010, 111 mins. With Mina Orfanou. While the audacity of its plot and its bold colors will remind viewers of Almodovar, this is an entirely original film that has become a favorite on the festival circuit. Relentless in its realistic depiction of the gay world in today's Athens, Strella is also a heartbreaking story about the accommodations people make in the name of love. (Part of the New York City Greek Film Festival)
Tickets: $12 public/$8 Museum members/Free for Silver Screen members and above.
Attenberg
Saturday, October 22, 9:15 p.m.
Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari. 2010, 95 mins. With Ariane Labed, Giorgos Lanthimos, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou. A young woman attempts to come to terms with her sexuality as she also faces the imminent death of her father. This unconventional, anarchic film interweaves life and death in a totally original fashion. The film is Greece’s Academy Award entry this year. Tickets: $12 public/$8 Museum members/Free for Silver Screen members and above.
My Sweet Canary
Sunday, October 23, 4:00 p.m.
Dir. Roy Sher. 2011, 89 mins. Three young musicians—an Israeli, a Turk, and a British-born Greek Cypriot—embark on a mission to tell the story and explore the music of legendary and much-loved Sephardic Jewish Greek singer Rosa Eskenazi, who rose to fame in the late 1920s and became the most recorded singer of rebetika.
Tickets: $12 public/$8 Museum members/Free for Silver Screen members and above.
Knifer
Sunday, October 23, 6:00 p.m.
Dir. Yannis Economides. 2010, 108 mins. Following the death of his father, Nikos leaves the provinces to go to Athens and work at guarding his brutish uncle's purebred dogs. Stuck in the bleak outskirts of the city, Nikos finds the dynamic of his relationship with his uncle changing when his uncle's wife draws closer to him. This relentlessly gritty film noir won seven Hellenic Film Academy awards this year, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography.
Tickets: $12 public/$8 Museum members/Free for Silver Screen members and above.
Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue (at 37 Street) - Astoria.
Screeninig hours from 4 pm
Admission: $12 per film / $8 Museum members / Free for Silver Screen members and above.
Advance tickets may be purchased online at movingimage.us or by calling 718 777 6800.