All articles by Alexis Grivas – Page 9
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Four Nights With Anna is best film at European Cinema Festival
Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski's Polish-French co-production Four Nights With Anna, has won the best film award and $8,000 (Euros 6,000) at the 21st Panorama of European Cinema Festival in Athens.The purse, intended to back the local release of the film, was offered by festival organizer Athens daily, Eleftherotypia.Skolimowski's film received ...
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Thessaloniki selects 15 projects for festival's co-production forum
Fifteen projects from 11 countries have been chosen for the 3rd Crossroads Co-Production Forum at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) from Nov 14-23.Crossroads caters to projects from countries in the Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean regions, introducing them to a network of financiers, producers and leading industry specialists from across ...
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Thanos Anastopoulos' Diorthosi is Greek Oscar entry in policy switch
Thanos Anastopoulos' second featureDiorthosi (Correction) is the Greek official submission for the foreign-language Academy Award.The decision reached by the Cinema Department of the Culture Ministry marks a change from the current film law which stipulates that the filmsubmitted should have won the best film trophy at the State Cinema Awards ...
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Takeshi Kitano to be honoured atThessaloniki
Takeshi Kitano will receive a life time achievement award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.The acclaimed Japanese director and actorwill make his first trip to Greece to receive the festival's Honorary Golden Alexander and to present his last film Achilles And The Tortoise (Achilles To Kame). Click here to see ...
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Entre Les Murs opens Athens International Film Festival
The 14th Athens International Film Festival will open with a gala presentation of Laurent Cantet's Cannes 2008 Golden Palm winner Entre les Murs. Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky is the closing film. The festival line up boasts 153 titles in ten different sections and four tributes.The 13 pictures strong international ...
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Balkan Script Development Fund announces project selection.
Twelve projects from nine countries have been earmarked for the 6th Balkan Fund, Thessaloniki International Film Festival's Script Development Fund. The 49th edition of the festival will take place from Nov. 14-23. The fund provides seed money for script development and caters to feature film projects coming from the region. ...
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Thessaloniki International Film Festival to honour Youssef Chahine
An homage to a legendary figure of Arab cinema, Youssef Chahine, will be the centerpiece of a tribute to the cinema of Middle East organised by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November.The festival will screen the Egyptian master's classic film Alexandria Why' (Iskanderija ... lih') along with other ...
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Theo Angelopoulos pulls Dust of Time from Venice
Just one day before theVenice Film Festival announces its line-up (Tuesday), one of the most eagerly-awaited world premieres, Theo Angelopoulos' Dust of Time has been pulled from the selection.The decision by the Greek auteur and his producers came after screenings slots could not be found that would have allowed leading ...
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Dardennes, Salles plan trips to November Thessaloniki festival
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Terence Davies, Walter Salles, Gustavo Santaolalla, Lita Stantic are among the top names set to be present at the upcoming Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 14-23).The principal tribute of the 49th edition of the Greekfestival, headed by Despina Mouzaki, will be dedicated to two-time Cannes Golden ...
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Greece - In search of Eden
It was the subject matter of Eden Is West that lured Costa Gavras back to Greece. A drama about the impact of illegal immigration on Western Europe, the film is a road movie of sorts, starring Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio."Shooting in Greece seemed appropriate," says Gavras from his set in ...
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Trust takes on Zapas' Minor Freedoms from Greece
Trust Film Sales has taken on world sales for Minor Freedoms, by up-and-coming Greek director and writer Costas Zapas.Minor Freedoms is an unorthodox, cutting edge tale on family relations dominated by violence and sexual exploitation where, according to the director, 'the abolishment of any moral law leads to tragedy'.Produced by ...
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Greek box-office admissions down 1m in pivotal winter season
As the European football championships are drawing to a close and the Olympic Games (August 8-24) are around the corner, Greek distributors and exhibitors fear that sporting events could further dampen this year's box office performance. So far this year, Makis Diamantopoulos, generalmanager of the Odeon Cineplex exhibition chain describes ...
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Greece's Odeon sues newspaper over 'defamation' in film review
The divide between critics and the film industry took an unprecedented turn in Greece this week as Manos Krezias, the head of the local production/distribution/exhibition powerhouse Odeon, filed a lawsuit against Giannis Zoumboulakis, film critic of the Athens daily newspaper To Vima as well as against Christos Memis, editorial director ...
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Greek box office up 5% thanks to local hits including El Greco
The Greek box office registered a 5% rise during 2007 - up to 13.3m admissions from 12.9m in 2006, according to local experts. US blockbusters continued to perform well, as expected, but the boost was helped by strong performance by local productions.Zack Snyder's 300, although a US production, was a ...
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Local box-office hit El Greco sweeps Greek State Cinema Awards
Just a day after the wrap of the 48th Thessaloniki Film Festival - where, for the first time, Greek talent garnered the bulk of awards - more Greek films were honored during the Greek State Cinema Awards organized by the Culture Ministry in Thessaloniki. This year's local box office hit, ...
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Israel's The Policeman wins $15,000 co-production award
Israelifilm The Policeman was the winner of the Crossroads co-production forum prizeat the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The award worth $15,000 (Euros 10,000) was offered by the Festival sponsor Nokia N series. The project, selected from a shortlist of 14, was presented to scriptwriter/director Nadav Lapid. The film is produced ...
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Balkan Fund selects four projects for $59,000 funding
The Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has handed out its latest grants to four new projects. The projects that received $14,789 (Euros 10,000) each are: Mother from writer/director Juraj Lertic and producer Dana Budisavljevic (Croatia) Rio from writers Nicolas ...
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Angelopoulos dusts off first English film with Willem Dafoe
Theo Angelopoulos starts shooting today in the northern Russian city of Nizni Novgorod his new film, The Dust of Time, the second part of the trilogy undertaken three years ago with The Weeping Meadow. The impressive international cast includes Irene Jacob taking the role as Eleni, played in The Weeping ...
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Costa Gavras returns to Greece for 2008 shoot of Eden Is West
Forty years after the Oscar-winning Z, the poignant account of the political turmoil in Greece during the 1960s, Costa Gavras is set to return to his native country to direct his next film structured as a French-Greek co-production. The project was announced today at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where ...
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Greece - History in the making
Two unprecedented things recently took place at the ancient Acropolis of Athens. One was the transfer of the marble friezes of the Parthenon to the new museum at the foot of the Acropolis hill. The other was the shooting of the US production My Life In Ruins inside the historic ...