Tribute to the neo-noir South Korean Cinema
From the 27th of June until the 5th of July 2024
Greek Film Archive
K-Craze is coming to the Greek Film Archive: From K-Pop and K-Dramas to K-Crime: nine neo-noir films of the contemporary Korean cinema!
The Greek Film Archive presents the Tribute K-CRIME: nine neo-noir films of the contemporary Korean cinema, co-organized by the Greek Film Archive and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The Tribute will take place in the open-air cinema, Lais, from the 27th of June until the 5th of July 2024, and will not only satisfy the fans of South-Korean crime films but, will also cater to those who want to discover one of the most popular film genres internationally.
A 13-film crash course into New Finnish Cinema!
From 21 until 27 March 2024
Greek Film Archive
Internationally acclaimed directors focus on pressing social issues and introduce us to the current Finnish film scene with a fresh approach, from 21 until 27 March at the Greek Film Archive. A week full of national premieres, discussions and guest artists dedicated to Finland, presented for the first time ever in Greece.
The Finnish Film Week is organised by the Greek Film Archive, the Finnish Film Foundation and the Finnish Institute of Athens, with the support of the Finnish Embassy in Athens.
It includes 10 fiction and 3 documentary films that will be screened with Greek and English subtitles.
➔ 3rd Cinema Made in Italy/Athens
➔ October 20 to 25 2023
➔ Greek Film Archive
The Greek Film Archive, Cinecittà, the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens bring a scent of Italy to our screens and present the 3rd Italian Film Tribute Cinema Made in Italy/Athens, taking place from the 20th till the 25th of October, at the Greek Film Archive, Athens.
From 16 to 20 of February at the Greek Film Archive
The Greek Film Archive in collaboration with Thessaloniki Film Festival present a tribute on India’s most acclaimed film director: Satyajit Ray. The tribute will take place in both Athens and Thessaloniki, from the 16th till the 20th of February. Nine fiction films of Satyajit Ray will be screened, –including his famous Apu Trilogy.
The restored films will be presented with both Greek and English subtitles.
➔2nd Italian Film Tribute Cinema Made in Italy/Athens
➔ From 21st till the 27th of October
➔ Greek Film Archive and online.tainiothiki.gr
The Greek Film Archive, the Cinecittà, the Italian Embassy, the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens bring a scent of Italy to our screens, and present the 2nd Italian Film Tribute Cinema Made in Italy/Athens, to be held from the 21st till the 27th of October, at the Greek Film Archive, Athens.
12 new Italian films, from the greatest international film festivals (Venice, Cannes, Berlin, Locarno) will be screened -while 3 of them will also be available on the Greek Film Archive’s platform online.tainiothiki.gr.
National premieres, discussions and guests on a wonderful journey to the homeland of Fellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Antonioni... The audience will watch first and second feature films by talented new Italian creators (9 fiction, 3 docs), as well as the new films by the 91 years old Paolo Taviani and Marco Bellocchio.
The movies are: The legionnaire (Hleb Papou), Atlantide (Yuri Ancarani), The hole (Michelangelo Frammartino), Like turtles (Monica Dugo), Margins (Niccolò Falsetti), The tale of King Crab (Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis), Small body (Laura Samani), Dry (Paolo Virzi), Marx can wait (Marco Bellocchio), Leonora addio (Paolo Taviani), Princess (Roberto De Paolis) and Californie (Alessandro Cassigoli).
The program includes the legendary film of Michelangelo Antonioni The adventure (1960) as a tribute to unforgettable Monica Vitti. The opening film (Friday 21 October) will be Dry by Paolo Virzi. Actress Sara Serraiocco in attendance.
The program covers all the contemporary trends of New Italian cinema, and it presents a panorama of Italian society. This is a first-rate opportunity for the Greek public, to further acquaint itself with its neighbor, with whom they share cultural, economic, scientific and most importantly, friendly ties.
SUBTITLES
The films are subtitled in greek. All films, with the exception of Leonora addio and The Adventure, will also have english subtitles.
TICKETS
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Online films: 3€. Package of 3: 5€
CATALOGUE | SCREENING SCHEDULE
➔ Premiere (physical screening): Thursday, 9 June 2022 - 21:30 at LAIS open-air cinema with free entrance in order of priority
➔ Online streaming: From Thursday, 9 June at 21:00 and for 24 hours, for free and without any limitation based on geo-location at https://online.tainiothiki.gr
This Thursday, 9 June, the Greek Film Archive honours the great Greek director Roviros Manthoulis, a few weeks after his demise. The GFA will present the premiere of his film Face to face (Prosopo me prosopo, 1966)in a digitally restored in 4K version.
The image and sound restoration have been carried out from the original 35mm negatives, preserved at the Greek Film Archive vaults. The restoration was realised with the support of "A Season of Classic Films", an initiative of ACE –Association des Cinémathèques Européennes, part of European Commission's Creative Europe MEDIA programme and the support of the Operational Programme ROP ATTIKI of NSRF 2014-2020.
26 MAY - 15 JUNE 2022
Screening Schedule
The Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, the Film Archive’s favourite annual event has returned once again, this time in hybrid form. The festival has been organised with the funding of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the NSRF Operational Programme, in collaboration with the Embassy of Portugal and the Instituto Camões, the Embassy of France and the Institut Français, the Embassy of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Culture Institute, the Embassy of Italy and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Atene, the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens and finally, the digital platform of ERT, ERTFLIX.
From 11 until 19 October 2021
17 Films by the great Italian maestro in celebration of his birth’s centenary.
Federico Fellini. The Greek Film Archive, the Ambasciata d’Italia Atene and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Atene, in context of the cultural initiative Tempo Forte and in collaboration with the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, present a comprehensive tribute on the great Italian maestro in celebration of his birth’s centenary.
"Lais" open-air cinema and selected online screenings
From 9 to 23 September 2021
Ticket: 5€
The Greek Film Archive, in collaboration with the French Embassy, the Institut français de Grèce, the Cinémathèque Française and the Ministry of Culture and Sports, with the support of the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image Animée), GFC (Greek Film Centre) and the archives of ERT, celebrate the friendship between Greece and France, by organising an extensive tribute, on the shared cinematic history of these two countries, titled: GREECE-FRANCE: CINEMA DIALOGUES. This ambitious cinematic tribute was designed, in view of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, of 1821.
SUNDAY 27 JUNE, LAIS OPEN-AIR CINEMA and then from
28 June - 7 July, for FREE at online.tainiothiki.gr
On Sunday 27 June, the Greek Film Archive will present a restored copy of the unknown masterpiece Fishermen and Fishing, by Leon Loissios, produced in 1961 (22’), narrated by the acclaimed director Stavros Tornes and edited by RovirosManthoulis. There will be also screened the classic silent film Social Decay (1932, 50’) by Stelios Tatassopoulos with French subtitles. The screening of both films is on the 27th of June, at the LAIS Open-Air Cinema (21:15).
Following this physical screening, from the 28th of June till 7th of July the fil
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