Director: Marina Danezi.
When you are caught, unsuspected, to The Trap, it is almost certain that the end has come.
“The Trap” is a documentary film about the restitution of disabled / handicapped people. A glance at psychiatric institutions (operating as storages of human beings) and endangered guest houses. All that during Christmas time in Athens of 2009.
Our hero, Dionysis, is 34 years old and lives with his mother. He is quadriplegic and suffers from a slight mental retardation. He loves Sunday “strolls”, singing, talking on the phone and secretly drinking coca cola.
His future is uncertain. In his own words: “Today’s society is a very tough place to live. Ok, our parents will eventually go but what is there left to see for us children?”
Director: Bill Kalamakis.
An old, isolated woman, has an unexpected caller during a storm. After many years of isolation, she opens the door to the stranger. Finally they share their loneliness, and much more..
Director: Ocusonic.
A Diamond Forms Under Pressure, is an anomaly existing somewhere between experimental film and music video, computer animation/ programming, science and art.
An improvised electronic soundtrack drives proprietary software, which analyses the frequency content of the audio and generates a cogent synchronous image in real-time. Frequencies push and pull against each other stabilising or agitating the central image.
The 13th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) will present the best of Latino filmmaking from October 11-16 at the Mann Chinese 6 Cinemas in Hollywood.Opening with Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces, LALIFF's cinematic journey will continue with award-winning and sure to please films from emerging and established filmmakers from around the world including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Spain, United States, México, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Japan and ...
THE August screening in Bangkok of Stefan Haupt's "A Song for Argyris" is still on my mind, even though a month has gone by and I have seen more than 20 movies since.
Haupt is of Swiss-German extraction which makes this documentary all the more extraordinary, because it tells the true story of terrible atrocities committed by the Nazis during their occupation of Greece in WWII.
Haupt lives in Zurich and wasn't in Bangkok for the screening, but he is on record as ack...
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The ERA New Horizons International Film Festival is shining the spotlight on contemporary Swedish cinema in the program Kino Szwecji: Cinema of Sweden, which is introducing Polish audiences to a new generation of film talents.
“Darling” is a survey of the empty consumerist lives of a group of young women in contemporary Stockholm, that won the Nordic Film Prize at the Goteborg Film Festival for its writer/director/cinem...
The ERA New Horizons International Film Festival is shining the spotlight on contemporary Swedish cinema in the program Kino Szwecji: Cinema of Sweden, which is introducing Polish audiences to a new generation of film talents. “Darling” is a survey of the empty consumerist lives of a group of young women in contemporary Stockholm, that won the Nordic Film Prize at the Goteborg Film Festival for its writer/director/cinematographer Johan King. In “Fishy”, director Maria Blom, one such St...
Un Certain Regard opens its doors to a Greek film today, Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos. This second feature, following debut film Kinetta in 2005, portrays a deranged, dysfunctional family cut off from the outside world. Living a recluse existence, the three children have no choice but to abide by the rules their father has imposed. The only person allowed to visit is Christina, an employee at the father’s business, to satisfy the sexual urges of the son…
Yorgos Lanthim...
PLATFORMA VIDEO9 is an independent international film festival based in Athens, Greece. It addresses film-makers from around the world, predominantly choosing video and the new media as their means of cinematographic expression. The festival hosts a vast range of films from around the world of diverse genres (fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental) and all lengths, awarding a Grand Prize and an Audience Prize.
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The director Theo Angelopoulos, born in Athens in 1935, will be awarded the ‘Luis Buñuel’ Award 2009 within the framework of the 37th Huesca Film Festival, which will be held from June 4th to 13th 2009. Theo Angelopoulos, who is one of the most influential directors in contemporary cinema, has received awards at the most important films festivals of the world in recognition of his entire career.Some of the themes of Angelopoulos’s cinema are the weight of history, a clinical examination o...
Sunday, March 8-----On the weekend of March 13, filmmaking teams from around the world will gather for the 8th Annual Filmapalooza, which will take place at the Miami International Film Festival. The guest filmmakers are winners of the 48 Hour Film Project (48FHP), timed filmmaking competitions in their cities and are in competition to be named the Best Film of the 2008 48 Hour Film Project. The honor comes with a $5,000 cash prize.
The winning films, selected from more than 2,50...
The Athens International Film Festival OPENING NIGHTS focuses on the best of independent cinema from around the world highlighting lesser-known aspects/genres of independent cinema and introducing some of the best productions of the year
The 4th Annual Dixie Film Festival lands in Athens, GA this October 12-13, 2007. The (two day) film festival will showcase the top films in their competition division and conclude with over a dozen awards in various categories.
Science Fiction & Fantasy is where imagination doesn`t just play the game -it makes the rules. Join us.
Micropolis is an International Web Contest of Digitalized Film and Video that aims to mobilize all those who work with the moving image in its digital form, giving them the opportunity to show their work to a virtual exhibition in cyberspace
Market & Competition Grand Prix DR1,000,000
International competition for cinema and media works of homoerotic and social tolerance themes.
Festival focusing exclusively on issues of disability. Aims at promoting further awareness, acceptance and integration of disabled people and encouraging film-makers, disabled or not, to take an active interest and address the widest possible public.
CRASHFEST is an International Festival of Students’ Short Films and is organised for the Film Department, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Students in a public or private school in Greece and abroad can participate in it.
Athens Video Art Festival is the official video-art festival of Greece
A competitive festival,hosted in the island of Rodos, inviting fiction,documentaries,shorts with environmental/ecology themes,encouraging conservation issues and issues related with the natural, the human and the built enviroment we live in.
A celebration of international and independent motion picture arts, dedicated to artistic innovation and personal involvement with the medium.
5TH ECOCINEMA Festival An international competition festival, invites shorts and features on environmental issues related with the natural, human and built environment.
4th Annual Dixie lands in Athens, GA. this October 12-13, 2007
check website for details including rules, competitions, and guest stars.
Gomorrah by Matteo Garrone
Directed by: Matteo Garrone
Written by: Roberto Saviano (book)
Produced by: Domenico Procacci, Laura Paolucci
Cast: Toni Servillo, Salvatore Abruzzese, Simone Sacchettino, Salvatore Ruocco, Gianfranco Imparato
Synopsis:
Power, money and blood: these are the values that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the “System,” the Camorra. O...