➔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.