TRIANON Cinema - Program from 28/11 to 4/12
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28
6.15 μ.μ. | Yoyo | 97’
Director: Pierre Étaix
8.15 μ.μ. | Exile | 110’
Director: Vassilis Mazomenos
10.30 μ.μ. | I WILL CROSS TOMORROW | 90’
Director: Sepideh Farsi
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29
6.15 μ.μ. | Misunderstanding | 115’
Director: Dimitris Stavrakas
8.30 μ.μ. | PASSED BY CENSOR | 96’
Director: Serhat Karaaslan
10.15 μ.μ. | STITCHES | 105’
Director: Miroslav Terzic
SATURDAY, ΝOVEMBER 30
6.00 μ.μ.
Emily in Iceland
2019 | Greece | 12’
Director: Olga Papamichali
Emily is a 17year-old figure skater, who feels entrapped by the pressure of competition. On the other hand, mysterious events take place. Strange dreams are haunting her and a dark male figure is following her. Τhe shocking truth is revealed at the very last moment of the film.
Η ΝΥΧΤΑ ΜΕ ΤΗ ΣΙΛΕΝΑ/Night with Silena
1986 | Greece | 80’
Director: Dimitris Panayiotatos
Christos is secretly in love with a girl that lives in a house just across the street. They have never spoken to each other. Christos spies on her with his binoculars. Years later, he meets outside a bar a mysterious woman, Silena, who looks amazingly like his young love. Christos invites Silena to spend a night with him, a night that will change his life forever.
Ministry of Culture State Quality Awards - Thessaloniki Film Festival (1987) Best Debuting Director.
8.00 μ.μ. | ΣΤΟΝ ΤΡΟΠΙΚΟ ΤΩΝ ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑΤΩΝ / Ghost Tropic
2019 | Βelgium, Netherlands | 85’
Director: Bas Devos
After a long day at work, a woman falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot. On her nocturnal journey she will meet some other inhabitants of the night.
The film screened in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
10.00 μ.μ. | ΑΓΡΙΑ ΣΥΜΜΟΡΙΑ / The Wild Bunch
1969 | USA | 143’
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Aging outlaw, Pike Bishop prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, Bishop discovers that the heist is a setup orchestrated by a former partner, Deke Thornton. As the remaining gang takes refuge in Mexican territory, Thornton trails them-resulting in fierce gunfights with plenty of casualties.
The film was nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score and won other awards, honors and nominations in many film festivals around the world
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1
5.30 μ.μ. | Ο ΚΛΕΨΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΛΕΨΑΝΤΟΣ / I soliti ignoti
1958 | Ιtaly | 111’
Director: Mario Monicelli
A gang of petty thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop. However, this Italian job is doomed from the start.
Silver Seashell for Mario Monicelli at San Sebastián International Film Festival.
7.45 μ.μ. | Η ΑΝΑΚΡΙΣΗ / The interrogation
2019 | Greece | 80’
Director: Panayiotis Portokalakis
When an aggressive young girl realizes that the relationship with her father is poisoning her behavior, discouraging anyone who is trying to love her, she decides to search out the past of her tortured by the military junta father.
Official selection at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
9.30 μ.μ. | AJVAR
2019 | Serbia, Montenegro | 107’
Director: Ana Maria Rossi
Vida and Bane, a married couple, have been living in Scandinavia for a long time. They both have successful careers, enough money to live a decent life, but they do not have children. Now that they are 40, the couple’s reality is nostalgia and the lack of communication.
Ana Maria Rossi’s debut full-length feature
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2
6.30 μ.μ. | Η ΑΝΑΜΕΤΡΗΣΗ / Επικίνδυνο Παιχνίδι /
The Confrontation/ Dangerous Game
1982 | Greece | 90’
Director: Giorgos Karypidis
During his summer vacation on the island of Mytilene, a young and lonely employee, Kostas, becomes infatuated with a femme fatale, Anna, a thirty-five-year-old German who is married to a rich local businessman. However, one morning, after a night of sleeping together, Anna is found dead in the sea.Athens.
Film Critics Association Award for Best Film 1982.
8.30 μ.μ. | ΑΛΥΤΗ / Entwined
2019 | Greece | 89’
Director: Minos Nikolakakis
Panos is a young doctor who leaves city life behind him in order to offer his services in a remote village. There, he falls in love with a peasant girl, Danae, who lives in complete isolation, as she suffers from a rare condition that causes her skin to resemble tree bark. Determined to cure her Panos will soon discover that things are not quite what they seem.
The film is the director’s debut full-length feature. Nikolakakis, who co-penned the script with John de Holland, started the development of the project at Talents Sarajevo where he won the Pack and Pitch Award, at MIDPOINT, in Balkan Film Connection in Belgrade and in the Istanbul Film Festival’s Meetings on the Bridge.
10.20 μ.μ. | MY THOUGHTS ARE SILENT / Moi dumki tikhi
2019 | Ukraine | 104’
Director: Antonio Lukich
Vadim is twenty-two and he’s a sound engineer. He’s moving permanently to Canada in three months. Before his departure he’s assigned to record the voice of a very rare bird, which dwells only in the Transcarpathian mountains of Ukraine.
The debut full-length feature of director Antonio Lukich.The film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize in the East of the West competition
ΤUESDAY, DECEMBER 3
6.10 μ.μ. | ΚΛΕΙΣΤΗ ΣΤΡΟΦΗ/ U-Turn
1991 | Greece | 85’
Director: Nikos Grammatikos
Andreas is a car thief. He is a loner with no friends except for a prostitute, his only friend who occasionally assists him with his thefts. One day, he meets Ismini, a mysterious and charming woman who becomes the love of his life but will lure him into a dangerous adventure.
The film won 2 awards at Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1991: Best Debuting Director and Best Actor as well as Best Quality Film Award at The Ministry of Culture State Quality Awards.
7.45 μ.μ. | LIVING AND KNOWING YOU’RE ALIVE /
Être vivant et le savoir
2019 | France | 98’
Director: Alain Cavalier
Alain Cavalier and Emmanuèle Bernheim start preparing a film based on the novelist’s autobiography which touches on her relationship with her father following a cardiovascular accident.
9.40 μ.μ. | ZABRISKIE POINT
1970 | USA | 113’
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
At Zabriskie Point, in Death Valley, two perfect strangers meet and start off an unrestrained romance. He is a young activist who’s wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot and she is an anthropology student who’s helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert and has just quitted her job.
Zabriskie Point is the only film that the great auteur shot in the USA. | The leading roles were played by Daria Halpirn and Mark Frechette who were both non-professional actors.
The soundtrack to Zabriskie Point included music from Pink Floyd, The Youngbloods, Kaleidoscope, Jerry Garcia, Patti Page, Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, John Fahey, Roy Orbison
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4
5.30 μ.μ. | AJVAR
2019 | Serbia, Montenegro | 107’
Director: Ana Maria Rossi
Vida and Bane, a married couple, have been living in Scandinavia for a long time. They both have successful careers, enough money to live a decent life, but they do not have children. Now that they are 40, the couple’s reality is nostalgia and the lack of communication.
Ana Maria Rossi’s debut full-length feature.
8.30 μ.μ. | CLOSING CEREMONY
The Perfect Candidate
2019 | Saudi Arabia, Germany |101’
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
A determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town's first female candidate.
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ANDORA Cinema - Program from 28/11 to 4/12
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28
6.30 μ.μ. | OI ΔΙΑΚΟΠΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΙΛΟ / Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
1953 | France| 114’
Director: Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot, a clumsy but sympathetic middle aged single man, arrives at a beachside hotel to spend his summer vacation. There he accidentally (but good-naturedly) causes havoc.
This marks the first film appearance of Jacques Tati’s iconic character, Monsieur Hulot and is considered to be one of the greatest comedies in the history of cinema.
8.15 μ.μ. | ΜΠΑΡΙ ΛΙΝΤΟΝ /Barry Lyndon
1975 | USA | 185’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
The rise and fall of the adult life of Redmond Barry. Α young, roguish Irishman who’s traveling the battlefields and parlors of eighteenth century Europe determined to make for himself the life of a nobleman through seduction, gambling, and duelling until he wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband’s aristocratic position.
Many of the shots were composed and filmed in order to evoke certain eighteenth-century paintings, especially those by Thomas Gainsborough.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29
6.00 μ.μ. | ΠΟΥΛΙΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΒΑΛΤΟ/ Birds in the Mire
2008 | Greece | 104’
Director: Αlinda Dimitriou
The documentary depicts the role of women during extreme historical events. More specifically, the film refers to the participation and contribution of women to the Greek Resistance during the German Occupation as well as to the tortures they suffered. The film is based on the oral testimonies of those women that survived.
“Birds in the Mire” is the first part of a trilogy followed by “Among the Rocks” and “The Girls of the Rain” that highlights the feistiness and strength of the female soul via personal accounts and evidence.
8.00 μ.μ. | FEAR AND DESIRE
1953 | USA | 62’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
During a ficticious war in an unidentified country four soldiers survive the crash-landing of their plane to find themselves in a forest six miles behind enemy lines. The group’s plan is to make their way to a nearby river, build a raft, and then, under cover of night, float back to friendly territory.
Stanley Kubrick ‘s father borrowed $20.000 from his life insurance policy and his uncle, a pharmacist, also put up $15.000 to finance the film.
9.30 μ.μ. | ΛΟΛΙΤΑ / Lolita
1962 | USA | 153’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Α divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town in America for a teaching position. There he allows himself to be swept into a relationship with his widowed and sexually famished landlady. He eventually marries her in order to pursue her 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love.
Sue Lyon went horseback riding everyday after filming. Stanley Kubrick told her: “If you get thrown, roll over. Don’t hurt your face”.
The film is prefaced by Costas Ferris.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30
6.30 μ.μ. | ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑ ΣΤΑ ΠΑΡΑΣΚΗΝΙΑ/ Murder Backstage
1960 | Greece | 90’
Director: Dinos Katsouridis
Rosa Delli is an actress notorious for her erotic scandals. When she is found stabbed to death in her dressing room inspector Bekas undertakes the challenge to solve this case and is asked to answer the following questions: Who killed Rosa Delli and how the murder was carried out since the door was locked from the inside?
The film won 2 awards at Thessaloniki Film Festival 1960: Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography.
8.15 μ.μ. | ΤΟ ΧΡΗΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΓΗΣ / The Killing
1956 | USA | 84’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
After spending 5 years in Alcatraz, Johnny Clay decides that if he’s going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment. He then proceeds to mastermind a brilliant criminal scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a local racetrack in which “no one will get hurt”. The only flaw in his plan is that he does not consider one of his co-horts’ greedy, shrewish wife and her ruthless boyfriend.
Kirk Douglas was so impressed with this film that he sought out the director for his next project, Paths Of Glory (1957).
10.00 μ.μ. | ΤΟ ΚΟΥΡΔΙΣΤΟ ΠΟΡΤΟΚΑΛΙ / A Clockwork Orange
1971 | USA | 137’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
In the future, the violent and psychopath delinquent Alex, leader of a gang of ultra-violent criminal teenagers who kill, steal and rape, falls into the hands of the police. Arrested, Alex turns guinea pig for experiments intended to curb the destructive impulses of men and solve the society’s crime problems, but ends up becoming powerless to deal with the violence that surrounds him.
Before the rape scene was filmed, Adrienne Corri (a blonde in the film) walked up to Malcolm McDowell and said: “Well, Malcolm, today you’re going to find out I’m a real redhead”.
The film is prefaced by Christos Skyllakos.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1
6.30 μ.μ. | HORME PICTURES AND NEW YORK COLLEGE SHORT FILMS
2019 | Greece | 82’
New York College: INTERVIEWEE: IN THE HOMEMADE WRAP (10’) της Αθηνάς Καλούλη/ Athena Kalouli | A CHANCE TO SAVE THE PAST (6,7’) του Κωνσταντίνου Χατζημιχαήλ/ Konstantinos Chatzimichael | ΠΡΟΪΟΝΤΑ (17’) του Αλέξη Μαγιάρ Αγγελόπουλου/Alexis Mayiar Angelopoulos | Horme Pictures: SMILE (5,44’) του Νίκου Μαθιού/Nikos Mathios | ΓΙΟΣ/Son (10’) του Κώστα Τατάρογλου/Kostas Tataroglou | ΠΑΓΙΔΑ/Set-up (10’) του Βασίλη Γουδέλη/Vasilis Goudelis | ΤΟ ΦΩΣ ΠΟΥ ΜΠΑΙΝΕΙ/Entering Light (8’) του Βασίλη Ντάνη/Vasilis Ntanis
8.00 μ.μ. | S.O.S ΠΕΝΤAΓΩΝΟ ΚΑΛEI ΜOΣΧΑ / Dr Strangelove (Or How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)
1964 | USA | 95’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the US President.Peter.
Sellers was the first actor to be nominated for a single Academy award (best actor) for a film in which he portrayed three different characters in the same film.
10.00 μ.μ. | ΜΠΙΓΚ ΧΙΤ/ Big Hit
2012 | Greece | 95’
Director: Karolos Zonaras
While investigating the murder of a fellow colleague, Lieutenant Aristeidis Kormas uncovers a dirty conspiracy where organized crime and law enforcement are two sides of the same coin.
The story of the film is based on Fritz Lang’s film-noir “The Big Heat” (1953).
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2
6.15 μ.μ. | Laurel & Hardy – Program |80’
Laurel and Hardy were a comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of Englishman Stan Laurel and American Oliver Hardy. They became well known during the late 1920s to the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous bully Hardy. They appeared as a team in 107 films, starring in 32 short silent films, 40 short sound films, and 23 full-length feature films.
For this Tribute the following films will be screened: Big business, You’re Darn Tootin,The Bettle of the Century, The finishing Touch, Two Tars, The Second Hundred Years,Liberty Lucky Dog, Early to Bed and Duck Soup.
8.15 μ.μ. | ΤΟ ΦΙΛΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΟΥ / Killer’s Kiss
1955 | USA | 67’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the two together and they get involved with each other, which displeases Raphello. He sends men out to kill Davy, but they instead kill his friend. Gloria is soon kidnapped by Raphello and his men, and it is up to Davy to save her.
Working with practically no budget and largely without on-location filming permits, Stanley Kubrick had to remain unnoticed while shooting in downtown New York.
The film is prefaced by Dimitris Panayiotatos.
9.45 μ.μ. | ΣΤΑΥΡΟΙ ΣΤΟ ΜΕΤΩΠΟ / Paths Of Glory
1957 | USA| 88’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
The futility and irony of war in the trenches of WWI. A unit commander in the French army must deal with a glory-seeking general who’s accusing his soldiers of cowardice after their refusal to attack an enemy position. At the same time, as their commanding officer, he has to defend his men for their righteous mutiny.
Winston Churchill said that the film was a highly accurate depiction of trench warfare and the sometimes misguided workings of the military mind.
The film is prefaced by Ninos Mikelides.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3
6.15 μ.μ. | Laurel & Hardy – Program |80’
Laurel and Hardy were a comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of Englishman Stan Laurel and American Oliver Hardy. They became well known during the late 1920s to the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous bully Hardy. They appeared as a team in 107 films, starring in 32 short silent films, 40 short sound films, and 23 full-length feature films.
For this Tribute the following films will be screened: Big business, You’re Darn Tootin,The Bettle of the Century, The finishing Touch, Two Tars, The Second Hundred Years,Liberty Lucky Dog, Early to Bed and Duck Soup.
8.00 μ.μ. | ΤΟ ΧΡΗΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΓΗΣ / The Killing
1956 | USA | 84’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
After spending 5 years in Alcatraz, Johnny Clay decides that if he’s going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment. He then proceeds to mastermind a brilliant criminal scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a local racetrack in which “no one will get hurt”. The only flaw in his plan is that he does not consider one of his co-horts’ greedy, shrewish wife and her ruthless boyfriend.
Kirk Douglas was so impressed with this film that he sought out the director for his next project, Paths Of Glory (1957).
9.45 μ.μ. | S.O.S ΠΕΝΤAΓΩΝΟ ΚΑΛEI ΜOΣΧΑ / Dr Strangelove (Or How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)
1964 | USA | 95’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the US President.
Peter Sellers was the first actor to be nominated for a single Academy award (best actor) for a film in which he portrayed three different characters in the same film.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4
6.15 μ.μ. | Η ΖΩΗ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΒΡΑΧΟΥΣ /Among the Rocks
2009 | Greece | 98’
Director: Alinda Dimitriou
Alinda Dimitriou’s documentary ‘’Among the Rocks’’ refers to women who fought in the Civil War. After the signing of the Treaty of Varkiza, 33 women witness how they managed to escape to the mountains while others were arrested and condemned to life imprisonment, executed or sent into exile. “Among the Rocks” is the second part of a trilogy that highlights the feistiness and strength of the female soul via personal accounts and evidence. It follows “Birds in the Mire” (2008) and is followed by “The Girls of the Rain” (2012
8.15 μ.μ. | ΠΑΝΙΚΟΣ/ Panic
1969 | Ελλάδα | 89’
Director: Stavros Tsiolis
Returning from a business trip, Markos learns that his sick son has been abducted. He accepts to pay for the ransom demanded by the kidnappers and police officer Makridis makes sure to give them marked bills in order to trace them. The kidnappers will be trapped and will have to confront the police.
At Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1969, the film won the Greek Competition Award for Best Music.
10.00 μ.μ. | ΤΟ ΚΟΥΡΔΙΣΤΟ ΠΟΡΤΟΚΑΛΙ / A Clockwork Orange
1971 | USA | 137’
Director: Stanley Kubrick
In the future, the violent and psychopath delinquent Alex, leader of a gang of ultra-violent criminal teenagers who kill, steal and rape, falls into the hands of the police. Arrested, Alex turns guinea pig for experiments intended to curb the destructive impulses of men and solve the society’s crime problems, but ends up becoming powerless to deal with the violence that surrounds him.
Before the rape scene was filmed, Adrienne Corri (a blonde in the film) walked up to Malcolm McDowell and said: “Well, Malcolm, today you’re going to find out I’m a real redhead”.
