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Μέσα σε ζεστό κλίμα παρέας, παρά το κρύο που επικρατούσε χτες βράδυ, Τετάρτη 4/12, έριξε αυλαία το 32ο Πανόραμα Ευρωπαϊκού Κινηματογράφου, με την τελετή λήξης στον κινηματογράφο Τριανόν και το πάρτυ που ακολούθησε, στο bar Matchpoint.
Στην τελετή, με οικοδεσπότη, όπως πάντα, τον Διευθυντή του Φεστιβάλ, Νίνο Φένεκ Μικελίδη, και παρουσία πολλών ανθρώπων του κινηματογράφου, απονεμήθηκαν τα τιμητικά βραβεία, καθώς και τα βραβεία του Διαγωνιστικού Τμήματος, από τις 4 επιτροπές της φετινής διοργάνωσης, ενώ ακολούθησε η προβολή, σε πανελλαδική πρεμιέρα, της ταινίας της Haifaa Al Mansour “The Perfect Candidate” (Σαουδική Αραβία).
Ο Νίνος Μικελίδης, αφού έκανε μια ανασκόπηση του φετινού φεστιβάλ, αναφερόμενος στα μεγάλα αφιερώματα, τους καλεσμένους και τις πρεμιέρες της διοργάνωσης, ευχαρίστησε θερμά όλους τους φορείς, τους υποστηρικτές και τους χορηγούς επικοινωνίας
της 32ης διοργάνωσης, ενώ στο τέλος της τελετής, ευχήθηκε να εξασφαλιστούν και την επόμενη χρονιά οι πόροι (πράγμα όλο και πιο δύσκολο, όπως ανέφερε χαρακτηριστικά), ώστε το φεστιβάλ να γιορτάσει το 2020 τα 33α γενέθλιά του!
Αναλυτικά τα βραβεία του φεστιβάλ, με τη σειρά που απονεμήθηκαν:
Αναλυτικά τα βραβεία του φεστιβάλ, με τη σειρά που απονεμήθηκαν στην Τελετή Λήξης του 32ου Πανοράματος:
ΤΙΜΗΤΙΚΑ ΒΡΑΒΕΙΑ
Στον σκηνοθέτη ΕΡΡΙΚΟ ΑΝΔΡΕΟΥ
Το βραβείο απένειμε ο Πρόεδρος της Ελληνικής Ακαδημίας Κινηματογράφου,
σκηνοθέτης Γιώργος Τσεμπερόπουλος
Στην ηθοποιό ΜΑΡΙΑ ΚΑΛΛΙΜΑΝΗ
Προβλήθηκε video χαιρετισμός της ηθοποιού, που την ώρα της τελετής έπαιζε σε παράσταση στο θέατρο, και το βραβείο παρέλαβε στο πάρτυ που ακολούθησε.
Στον σκηνοθέτη ΒΑΣΙΛΗ ΜΑΖΩΜΕΝΟ
Το βραβείο απένειμε η ηθοποιός Δήμητρα Χατούπη
Στον σκηνοθέτη ΧΡΙΣΤΟ ΣΙΟΠΑΧΑ
Το βραβείο παρέλαβε η ‘Αντρη Χρυσάνθου,
από το Μορφωτικό Γραφείο της Κυπριακής Πρεσβείας «ΤΟ ΣΠΙΤΙ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ»
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ΒΡΑΒΕΙΑ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΙΚΟΥ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΟΣ
ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ ΚΟΙΝΟΥ
αποτελούμενης από αναγνώστες του περιοδικού ΑΘΗΝΟΡΑΜΑ
(Μέλη: Ιωσηφίνα Κοντέση, Στέλιος Πετρουλάκης & Σπύρος Χειμωνάκης)
Το βραβείο απονεμήθηκε στην ταινία
STITCHES | Σερβία | 105’
Σκηνοθεσία: Miroslav Terzic | Sales: Cercamon
Το σκεπτικό της απόφασης:
Εμείς, ως η κριτική επιτροπή των αναγνωστών του περιοδικού «Αθηνόραμα», επιλέξαμε τη σερβική ταινία “Stitches | Ράμματα” , του Μίροσλαβ Τέρζιτς, η οποία θίγει το ζήτημα της εμπορίας βρεφών, που μάστιζε τη χώρα τη δεκαετία του ’90, αμέσως μετά τον εμφύλιο πόλεμο και το διαμελισμό της πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβίας. Πέρα από το σενάριο και τον σκηνοθετικό χειρισμό, μας εντυπωσίασε η έξοχη ερμηνεία της πρωταγωνίστριας και η φωτογραφία, η οποία προβάλλει με εξαιρετικό τρόπο τα «ράμματα» στις πληγές του μετεμφυλιακού Βελιγραδίου, που δεν έχουν επουλωθεί 20 χρόνια μετά.
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ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ ΠΕΚΚ
Επιτροπή μελών της Πανελλήνιας ‘Ενωσης Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου
(Γεράσιμος Βάκρος, Δημήτρης Κολιοδήμος & Θόδωρος Σούμας)
Το βραβείο απονεμήθηκε στην ταινία
Η ΑΝΑΚΡΙΣΗ / The Interrogation | Ελλάδα | 80’
Σκηνοθεσία: Παναγιώτης Πορτοκαλάκης | Sales: Viewmaster Films
Το σκεπτικό της απόφασης:
Το βραβείο της Πανελλήνιας Ένωσης Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου απονέμεται στην ταινία Η ΑΝΑΚΡΙΣΗ, του Παναγιώτη Πορτοκαλάκη, για την εύστοχη και πειστική αναμόχλευση του κοντινού παρελθόντος της χώρας μας, που αποδίδεται με επαγγελματική επιδεξιότητα, αφηγηματική οικονομία και σκηνοθετική άνεση, μέσω δύο καλά σκιαγραφημένων σημερινών χαρακτήρων – μιας οργισμένης νεαρής αντιεξουσιάστριας και του συμβιβασμένου αριστερού, βασανισμένου από τη χούντα πατέρα της.
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ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ FIPRESCI – ΘΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΑΓΓΕΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ
Επιτροπή μελών της Διεθνούς Ομοσπονδίας Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου (FIPRESCI)
Τάσος Γουδέλης, Vecdi Sayar (Τουρκία), Alena Sycheva (Ρωσία)
Το βραβείο απονεμήθηκε στην ταινία
PASSED BY CENSOR | Τουρκία, Γερμανία, Γαλλία | 96’
Σκηνοθεσία: Serhat Karaaslan | Sales: Bac Films
Το σκεπτικό της απόφασης:
Τα μέλη της επιτροπής της FIPRESCI του 32ου Πανοράματος Ευρωπαϊκού Κινηματογράφου αποφάσισαν να απονείμουν το βραβείο ΘΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΑΓΓΕΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ στην Τουρκο-Γαλλο-Γερμανική συμπαραγωγή με τίτλο "Görülmüştür" (Passed by Censor). Η ταινία αντανακλά, με λεπτό, διακριτικό τρόπο τα κοινωνικά και διανοητικά ζητήματα ενός αξιωματικού των φυλακών, που ελέγχει την αλληλογραφία των κρατουμένων. Ασκώντας κριτική στο σύστημα φυλακών της Τουρκίας, η ταινία παράλληλα εστιάζει στη σχέση μεταξύ μύθου και πραγματικότητας και μεταφέρει πειστικά στο θεατή την αναζήτηση του ήρωα για δικαιοσύνη καθώς και τα ερωτικά του συναισθήματα. Ο σκηνοθέτης Serhat Karaaslan χειρίζεται το στοιχείο της μεταφοράς , συνδέοντας την έννοια της λογοκρισίας με τις μεθόδους δημιουργικής γραφής που διδάχθηκε.
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ΒΡΑΒΕΙΑ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ ΠΑΝΟΡΑΜΑΤΟΣ
Τα μέλη της φετινής επιτροπής του φεστιβάλ ήταν οι
Στάθης Βαλούκος (συγγραφέας – σεναριογράφος), Αντώνης Μποσκοϊτης (κινηματογραφιστής – δημοσιογράφος) & Ελισάβετ Χρονοπούλου (σκηνοθέτης, συγγραφέας, σεναριογράφος), που φέτος αποφάσισαν να απονείμουν 2 βραβεία και 2 εύφημους μνείες, ενώ το Βραβείο Ελληνικής Ταινίας συνοδεύονταν και από 1.000 ευρώ, χρηματικό έπαθλο – χορηγία του Ελληνικού Κέντρου Κινηματογράφου.
ΕΥΦΗΜΟΣ ΜΝΕΙΑ ΣΕ ΞΕΝΗ ΤΑΙΝΙΑ
Δόθηκε στην ταινία STITCHES
Το σκεπτικό της απόφασης:
Η Επιτροπή του 32ου Πανοράματος Ευρωπαϊκού Κινηματογράφου αποφάσισε ομόφωνα να αποδώσει εύφημο μνεία στη σέρβικη ταινία «Stitches» του Μιροζλάβ Τέρζικ. Για την ευαίσθητη και διεισδυτική προσέγγιση σε μία απ' τις πιο τραγικές συνέπειες του εμφυλίου στην πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβία, την εξαπάτηση των γονέων και την αρπαγή των φυσικών παιδιών τους.
ΕΥΦΗΜΟΣ ΜΝΕΙΑ ΣΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΤΑΙΝΙΑ
Δόθηκε στην ταινία
ΕΞΟΡΙΑ / Exile | Ελλάδα | 110’
Σκηνοθεσία: Βασίλης Μαζωμένος | Sales: Horme Pictures
Το σκεπτικό της απόφασης:
Η Επιτροπή του 32ου Πανοράματος Ευρωπαϊκού Κινηματογράφου αποφάσισε ομόφωνα να αποδώσει εύφημο μνεία στην ταινία «Εξορία» του Βασίλη Μαζωμένου. Για την αισθητική της αναζήτηση, που συνδυάζει το χιούμορ με το δράμα των ανέστιων - απάτριδων ανθρώπων, στο νεοελληνικό δυστοπικό τοπίο.
ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΞΕΝΗΣ ΤΑΙΝΙΑΣ
Απονεμήθηκε στην ταινία PASSED BY CENSOR
Το σκεπτικό της απόφασης:
Η Επιτροπή του 32ου Πανοράματος Ευρωπαϊκού Κινηματογράφου αποφάσισε ομόφωνα να δώσει το βραβείο καλύτερης ξένης ταινίας στην συμπαραγωγή Τουρκίας, Γερμανίας και Γαλλίας, “Passed by censor” του Serhat Karaaslan. Για το πώς ο κεντρικός χαρακτήρας αντιλαμβάνεται την υπάρχουσα πραγματικότητα, η οποία επιδέχεται πολλά επίπεδα «ανάγνωσης», άρτια ενορχηστρωμένη από τον σκηνοθέτη. Για μία ιστορία, επίσης, που αναγάγει το προσωπικό δράμα του ήρωα σε συλλογικό, για το καθεστώς λογοκρισίας στις τουρκικές φυλακές και για το πατριαρχικό μοντέλο της τουρκικής οικογένειας.
ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΤΑΙΝΙΑΣ
Απονεμήθηκε στην ταινία Η ΑΝΑΚΡΙΣΗ
Το βραβείο απένειμε ο Διευθυντής Παραγωγής του Ε.Κ.Κ., Πάνος Θωμαϊδης
Το σκεπτικό της απόφασης:
Η Επιτροπή του 32ου Πανοράματος Ευρωπαϊκού Κινηματογράφου αποφάσισε ομόφωνα να απονείμει το βραβείο καλύτερης ελληνικής ταινίας στην «Ανάκριση» του Παναγιώτη Πορτοκαλάκη. Για τη διερεύνηση και την ψυχολογική εμβάθυνση σε μια τραυματική σχέση κόρης – πατέρα, με αφετηρία την εξίσου τραυματική εμπειρία του πατέρα κατά τη διάρκεια της επταετούς δικτατορίας στην Ελλάδα.
PRESALE at VIVA.gr
Presale for Trianon Cinema:
https://www.viva.gr/tickets/cinemas/trianon/32o-panorama-europaikou-kinimatografou/
Presale for Andora Cinema:
https://www.viva.gr/tickets/cinema/andora/32-panorama-evropaikou-kinimatografou/
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SECTION
Starts on Thursday 28/11 at ΤΡΙΑΝΟΝ cinema –The Full Program
The International Competition Section of this year’s Festival starts on Thursday 28/11 at 20.15, at Trianon Cinema with Vassilis Mazomenos’ new film “Exile” in the presence of the director.
This year’s films in competition will be judged and awarded by the 4 juries of the 32nd Panorama of European Cinema.
The awards will be announced on the closing ceremony on Wednesday 4/12 at Trianon Cinema.
AWARDS
FIPRESCI Award - Theodoros Angelopoulos
By The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Jury which consists of:
Alena Sycheva (Russia), Τasos Goudelis (Greece) & Vecdi Sayar (Τurkey)
PEKK Award
By The Greek Film Critics Association Jury which consists of:
Dimitris Koliodimos, Gerasimos Vakros, Theodoros Soumas
Panorama Award
By this year’s Panorama Jury which consist of:
Stathis Valoukos (writer-screenwriter), Antonis Boskoitis (filmmaker –journalist), Elissavet Chronopoulou (director – writer –screenwriter)
ATHINORAMA Award
By the Magazine’s Audience – Readers Jury
The 10 films in the International Competition Section are the following:
(In alphabetical order)
ΑΛΥΤΗ (ENTWINED) (2019) | Greece | 89’
Monday 2/12 at 20.30
Director: Minos Nikolakakis | Sales: Inkas Films & 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.
Η ΑΝΑΚΡΙΣΗ (THE INTERROGATION) (2019) | Greece | 80’
Sunday 1/12 at 19.45
Director: Panayiotis Portokalakis | Sales: Viewmaster Films
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.
ΕΞΟΡΙΑ (EXILE) (2019) | Greece | 110’
Thursday 28/11 at 20.15
Director: Vassilis Mazomenos | Sales: Horme Pictures
Aris, a desperate man, attempts to leave Greece with an almost wrecked boat. After being rescued from certain drowning by some Coast Guard men, he now returns as a foreigner to his own ruined country. There he experiences every kind of «sin» and extreme as an outcast of the system. He steals; he becomes a slave and kills. He tries, willingly, to survive off the beaten track. Is this the story of a modern Ulysses or the nightmare of an ordinary man?
AJVAR (2019) | Serbia,Montenegro | 107’
Sunday 1/12 at 21.30
Director: Ana Maria Rossi | Sales: Biberche productions
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.
LIVING AND KNOWING YOU’RE ALIVE (Être vivant et le savoir) (2019) | France | 98’
Tuesday 3/12 at 19.45
Director: Alain Cavalier | Sales: Pathé Distribution
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.
I WILL CROSS TOMORROW (2019) |
Netherlands, Luxembourg, Greece, France, | 90’
Thursday 28/11 at 22.30
Director: Sepideh Farsi | Sales: Cine-Sud Promotion & Pan Entertainment
Maria is a Greek policewoman, struggling with her money problems, teenage daughter, old mother and the crisis in her country, that affects her professionally. Yussof is a Syrian rebel, on his way out of a war-ridden Syria to go to Europe. Both have killed unwontedly, both feel guilty, but together, they will find some inner peace.
GHOST TROPIC (2019) | Belgium, Netherlands | 85’
Saturday 30/11 at 20.00
Director: Bas Devos | Sales: Rediance Films
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.
MY THOUGHTS ARE SILENT (Moi dumki tikhi) (2019) | Ukraine | 104’
Monday 2/12 at 22.20
Director: Antonio Lukich | Sales: Alief
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.
PASSED BY CENSOR (2019) | Turkey,Germany, France, | 96’
Friday 29/11 at 20.30
Director: Serhat Karaaslan | Sales: Bac Films
An employee of a prison censorship office steals the photo of an inmate’s wife from a letter and becomes obsessed with her.
STITCHES (2019) | Serbia | 105’
Friday 29/11 at 22.15
Director: Miroslav Terzic | Sales: Cercamon
The film tells the story of a woman who, 20 years after she was coldly informed of her newborn’s sudden death, still believes that the infant was stolen from her.
International Competition Section Trailer:
Haifaa Al Mansour’s film “The Perfect Candidate” will be screened on Wednesday, December 4, at 20.30 at Trianon Cinema, at the closing ceremony of this year’s 32nd Panorama of European Cinema.
The film was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival and was also selected as the Saudi Arabian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
On the Closing Ceremony, before the screening of the film, the awards of this year’s festival will be announced.
The Awards are:
FIPRESCI Award - Theodoros Angelopoulos
By The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Jury
PEKK Award
By The Greek Film Critics Association Jury
Panorama Award
By this year’s Panorama Jury
ATHINORAMA Award
By the Magazine’s Audience – Readers Jury
Furthermore, this year’s honorary awards will be given to: Mimis Plessas, Ericos Andreou, Maria Kallimani, Vassilis Mazomenos, Christos Siopahas.
The trailer of the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4WdvsZLDtg
About the film:
Maryam is an ambitious young doctor working in a small town clinic in Saudi Arabia. Despite her qualifications, she has to earn the respect of male colleagues and acceptance from her patients every day. After Maryam is prevented from traveling to Dubai in search of a better job, a bureaucratic mixup leads her to stumble on the application for her local city elections and she decides to run. With her musician father away on tour playing the first public concerts allowed in the Kingdom in decades, Maryam enlists her two younger sisters to begin fundraising and planning campaign events. While they face the restriction of women's traditional roles in the Kingdom at every turn, Maryam's audacious candidacy starts to build momentum and challenges her conservative community. A tight race emerges between Maryam and her male opponent, as Maryam and her family mobilise their determination and creativity to move their traditional society forward.
About the director:
Haifaa al-Mansour is one of the country's best-known and most controversial directors, and the first female Saudi filmmaker. With her father's encouragement, she studied comparative literature at The American University in Cairo. She later completed a master's degree in Film Studies from University of Sydney, Australia. Her feature debut, Wadjda, which she wrote as well as directed, made its world premiere at the 2012 Venice Film Festival; it is the first full-length feature to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia. Wadjda was selected as the Saudi Arabian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, which is the first time Saudi Arabia has submitted a film for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Filmography:
2019: The Perfect Candidate
2017: Nappily Ever After
2016: Mary Shelley
2012: Wadjda
2005: Women Without Shadows (short)
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”.
14 days – 2 Cinemas – 60 Films - 13 Premieres –
5 Tributes – Special Screenings
We are pleased to announce the program for this year's 32nd Panorama of European Cinema which is held at TRIANON Cinema (21/11-4/12, Kodrigktonos 21) and ANDORA Cinema (28/11-4/12, Sevastoupoleos 117).
OPENING CEREMONY
Thursday 21/11, start time: 20.30, at TRIANON cinema
IT MUST BE HEAVEN – Elia Suleiman (97’)
(Athenian film premiere in the presence of the Director)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SECTION
Starts on Thursday 28/11 @ ΤΡΙΑΝΟΝ
The following films will be screened:
ENTWINED-Minos Nikolakakis(89') | THE INTERROGATION – Panayiotis Portokalakis (80’)
ΕXILE – Vassilis Μazomenos (110’) | AJVAR – Ana Maria Rossi (107’)
ÊTRE VIVANT ET LE SAVOIR– Alain Cavalier (98’) | I WILL CROSS TOMORROW – Sebideh Farsi (90’)
GHOST TROPIC – Bas Devos (85’) | MY THOUGHTS ARE SILENT – Antonio Lukich (104’)
PASSED BY SENSOR – Serhat Karaaslan (96’) | STITCHES – Miroslav Terzic (105’)
20 YEARS WITHOUT KUBRICK TRIBUTE
(in collaboration with Greek Film Critics Association-PEKK)
The following films will be screened:
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE | BARRY LYNDON | DR. STRANGELOVE | FEAR AND DESIRE
KILLER’S KISS | LOLITA | PATHS OF GLORY | THE KILLING
The films of this Tribute will be screened with a preface by directors Costas Ferris and Dimitris Panayiotatos and film critics-members of PEKK: Tasos Goudelis, Konstantinos Kaimakis, Ifigenia Kalantzi, Ninos fenek Mikelidis, Christos Skyllakos.
EUROPEAN COMEDIANS TRIBUTE
The following films will be screened:
THANASIS, GET YOUR GUN, starring Thanasis Vengos (93’)
MODERN TIMES, starring Charlie Chaplin (87’)
I SOLITI IGNOTI, starring Vittorio Gasman & Marcello Mastroianni (111’)
LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR HULOT – Jacques Tati (89’)
THE MEANING OF LIFE - Monty Python (109’)
YOYO by Pierre Etaix (95’)
+ STAN LAUREL & OLIVER HARDY tribute
A selection of short silent films from
the great comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy filmography
FILM NOIR IN TH GREEK CINEMA TRIBUTE
The following films will be screened:
Murder Backstage - Dinos Katsouridis (1960)
Nightmare - Erricos Andreou (1961)
The Confrontation / Dangerous Game - Giorgos Karypidis (1982)
Night with Silena - Dimitris Panayiotatos (1986)
Misunderstanding - Dimitris Stavrakas (1983)
U- Turn - Nikos Grammatikos (1991)
Knifer- Yannis Economides (2010)
Big Hit - Karolos Zonaras (2012)
The Hot Month of August - Sokrates Kapsaskis (1966)
Panic - Stavros Tsiolis (1969)
WOODSTOCK AND THE YEAR THAT CHANGED HOLLYWOOD TRIBUTE
The following films will be screened:
ALICE’S RESTAURANT - Arthur Penn
BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID - George Roy Hill
MIDNIGHT COWBOY - John Schlesinger
TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE - Abraham Polonsky
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY? - Sydney Pollack
WILD BUNCH - Sam Peckinpah
WOODSTOCK - Michael Wadleigh
ZABRISKIE POINT - Michelangelo Antonioni
ANTOUANETTA ANGELIDI – ALINDA DIMITRIOU TRIBUTE
The following films will be screened:
Antouanetta Angelidi
Thief or Reality (80') | The Hours - A Square Film (85')
Alinda Dimitriou
Birds in the Mire (107’) | Among the Rocks (98’)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene (1920 – 71’)
A screening with a live orchestra attended by three special musicians Νίcος Platanos, Tilemahos Mousas, Nikos Yusef
The Descent of the Nine- Christos Siopahas (125')
CLOSING CEREMONY
Wednesday, 4/12 at 21.00
The title of the film will be announced shortly!
INFO
TRIANON Cinema (21/11-4/12, Kodrigktonos 21) & ANDORA Cinema (28/11-4/12, Sevastoupoleos 117)
PRESALE
VIVA.GR and at the cinemas
Another Tribute of this year's 32nd Panorama of European Cinema is dedicated to
Woodstock and the year 1969.
The Festival is held from Thursday, November 21 to Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at TRIANON Cinema (21/11-4/12, Kodrigktonos 21) and ANDORA Cinema (28/11-4/12, Sevastoupoleos 117).
About this Tribute the Festival Director Ninos Mikelidis wrote:
“In the United States at the beginning of 1969, while the Vietnam War is still at its peak, Lyndon Johnson leaves the nation's presidency and Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the new President of the United States. At Memphis Studios Elvis Presley writes his version of the song “Long Black Limousine” from the famous album "From Elvis in Memphis". The strikes at Harvard and Berkeley University begin, with National Guard helicopters dispensing airborne tear gas to the students. The beginning of the modern gay rights movement begins at New York City. The whole world watches Neil Armstrong taking the very first step onto the moon's surface. The brutality of the My Lai killings and the official cover-up fueled anti-war sentiment in the United States over the Vietnam War. Manson's followers murder Sharon Tate. Black Panthers members are gunned down by police officers as they lie sleeping in Chicago, while the Woodstock Music & Art Festival is held in August and brings together famous singers and their bands, a three days festival celebration that was captured by Michael Wadleigh's camera.
In the same year, the so called "New Hollywood" movement introduces new subject matter, putting aside the glamour and false sentimentality of its conventional narrative, influenced by the national and international events of the time. A series of films encapsulate this mood - “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “Midnight Cowboy” considered the leading representatives- films that are infused with issues such as the Vietnam War, the fight for human and civil rights, student protests, political assassinations, the feminist movement, free love and abortion, and at the same time pose questions about the role of power, state violence and the role of the State.
The films we have chosen for this Tribute are centered on these particular themes.”
The following films will be screened during this Tribute:
(in alphabetical order):
ALICE’S RESTAURANT
Dir. Arthur Penn
BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID
Dir. George Roy Hill
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Dir. John Schlesinger
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY?
Dir. Sydney Pollack
WILD BUNCH
Dir. Sam Peckinpah
WOODSTOCK
Dir. Michael Wadleigh
ZABRISKIE POINT
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
The full festival program, screening schedule and other parallel events which consist of world cinema premieres, international competition section, tributes, masterclasses etc., will be announced gradually in the following days.
The opening film of this year’s 32nd Panorama of European Cinema is the film “It Must Be Heaven” directed by Elia Suleiman. The film received the Jury Special Mention Αward at the Cannes Film Festival last May as well as the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in Competition.
On Thursday the 21st of November at TRIANON cinema (Kodrigktonos 21), the Palestinian director, a permanent dweller of Paris and friend of the Festival, will be visiting our city in order to attend the Athenian film premier (start time: 20.30) in collaboration with SEVEN FILMS and have a Q&A session with the audience right after the screening.
About the film/Plot Summary
ES escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. From award-winning director Elia Suleiman, a comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the fundamental question: where is the place we can truly call home?
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNKU9X_rawI
“Filmmaker and actor Elia Suleiman uses his own face and body to express the soul of Palestine in his films, and nowhere more so than in his droll new comedy, It Must Be Heaven.”
The Hollywood Reporter
“Suleiman’s comic method is sly subversive. His keenly observed episodes can seem like unrelated black comic incidents, until the whole fabric of his theme begins to appear.”
The New York Times
“Suleiman’s always a reliable charmer, with a penchant for funneling the language of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton into moving-image editorials about his troubled homeland.”
Indiewire
The next day, on Friday the 22nd of November at 12.00 p.m., Elia Suleiman will be giving a masterclass at IANOS bookstore (Stadiou 24, Athens). More information will be announced shortly.
About Elia Suleiman
Elia Suleiman was born in 1960 in Nazareth and lived in New York from 1981 to 1993. During his stay there, he directed his first two short films “Introduction to the End of an Argument” and “Homage by Assassination” that both won numerous awards. In 1994 Suleiman moved to Jerusalem and was entrusted with the task of developing a Film and Media Department at Birzeit University with funding support from the European Commission. His essays and articles have been published in English, Arabian, and French.
His first feature film "Chronicle of a Disappearance" won the Best First Film Prize at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. His second feature "Divine Intervention" won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and the International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI).
His next film “The Time That Remains” competed in the Cannes Film Festival while his last feature film “It Must Be Heaven” received the Jury Special Mention Αward at the Cannes Film Festival (2019) as well as the FIPRESCI Prize.
The 32nd Panorama of European Cinema is held from Thursday, November 21 to Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at TRIANON Cinema (21/11-4/12, Kodrigktonos 21) and ANDORA Cinema (28/11-4/12, Sevastoupoleos 117).
The full festival program, screening schedule and other parallel events which consist of world cinema premieres, international competition section, tributes, masterclasses etc., will be gradually announced within the following days.
The 32nd Panorama of European Cinema is held from Thursday, November 21 to Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at TRIANON Cinema (21/11-4/12, Kodrigktonos 21) and ANDORA Cinema (28/11-4/12, Sevastoupoleos 117).
The full festival program, screening schedule and other parallel events which consist of world cinema premieres, international competition section, tributes, masterclasses etc., will be announced gradually in the following days.
Today we give a sneak preview of our first Tribute entitled “Film Noir in the Greek Cinema”
About this Tribute the Festival Director Ninos Mikelidis wrote:
“Thanks to crime novels and Yannis Maris’ screenplays ("The Man on the Train", "Murder Backstage", "Crime in Kolonaki" and “Doubts") and thanks to Greek filmmakers’ love and persistence for this particular genre that emerged and flourished in Hollywood during the decades of 1940 and 1950, the film noir genre made its first striking appearance in Greece in the early 1960s.
A genre that stood out due to its dark atmosphere -all films were shot in black and white film which highlighted the ideal dark atmosphere borrowing many of its elements from German Expressionism)- due to its characters’ typology -femme fatale, flawed heroes- and finally due to its plot: violent crimes, underworld, betrayal and brutal violence.
Starting with Greek filmmakers such as Dinos Katsouridis, Erricos Andreou, Dinos Dimopoulos, Sokrates Kapsaskis followed by Giorgos Karypidis, Dimitris Stavrakas, Dimitris Panayiotatos, Nikos Grammatikos, Yannis Economides and Karolos Zonaras, Greek Cinema features an extensive list of films with noir elements that did not lose their beauty, atmosphere and dynamic through time.”
“Film Noir in the Greek Cinema” Tribute will present a selection of Award-winning films that will be screened (in alphabetical order):
Murder Backstage
Dinos Katsouridis, 1960
Nightmare
Erricos Andreou, 1961
The Confrontation/ Dangerous Game
Giorgos Karypidis, 1982
Night with Silena
Dimitris Panayiotatos, 1986
Misunderstanding
Dimitris Stavrakas, 1983
U-Turn
Nikos Grammatikos, 1991
Κnifer
Yannis Economides, 2010
Big Hit
Karolos Zonaras, 2012
The Hot Month of August
Sokrates Kapsaskis, 1966
The Panorama of European Cinema gave a sneak preview of this year’s programme at the 8th of October with the opening of the art exhibition ‘’Artistic Trilogy – A discourse between Painting and Cinema - A tribute to Stanley Kubrick” curated by Jannis Psychopedis, at Ethniki Hellenic General Insurance Company’s art space "StoArt" art gallery.
The event attracted the attention of many cinematographers, actors and visual artists who gathered at "StoArt", Korai Arcade from very early in the evening. Among them some prominent filmmakers and actors/actresses such as: Tonis Lykouresis, Vera Krouska, Takis Papagiannidis, Vasilis Vafeas, Dimitris Athanitis, Vasilis Mazomenos.
Young artists Virginia Axioti, Andriana Kotsi and Katerina Christopoulou, all graduates of Athens School of Fine Arts and students of Jannis Psychopedis, exhibited their work inspired by three films of this great director; in particular “A Clockwork Orange” inspired Virginia Axioti, “2001: A Space Odyssey” inspired Andriana Kotsi and “The Shining” inspired Katerina Christopoulou.
The 32nd Panorama of European Cinema is held from Thursday, November 21 to Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at TRIANON Cinema (Kodrigktonos 21) and ANDORA Cinema (Sevastoupoleos 117).
The full festival programme, screening schedule and other parallel events which consist of world cinema premieres, international competition section, tributes, masterclasses etc., will be announced shortly.
The exhibition runs until October 24.
(Here are some snapshots from the exhibition’s opening night)
(photo credits: Ilias Spyrakis | Ace Photography & Videography):
(From left to right: Director of Panorama Ninos Fenek Mikelidis, the painters Andriana Kotsi,
Virginia Axioti and Katerina Christopoulou and visual artist Jannis Psychopedis)
(a full house at StoArt in Korai Arcade)
(artist Virginia Axioti)
(artist Andriana Kotsi)
(artist Katerina Christopoulou)
The 32nd PANORAMA OF EUROPEAN CINEMA is held from Thursday, November 21 to Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at TRIANON Cinema (Kodrigktonos 21) and ANDORA Cinema (Sevastoupoleos 117). In collaboration with The Greek Film Critics Association (PEKK) this year’s Panorama showcases a tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s filmography. As a part of this tribute an art exhibition takes place at the Art Gallery "StoArt" (Korai Arcade). Three young painters (all graduates of Athens School of Fine Arts) exhibit their work, inspired by the filmography of this great director. The exhibition is curated by Jannis Psychopedis.
The full festival programme, screening schedule and other parallel events which consist of: world cinema premieres, international competition section, tributes, masterclasses etc., will be announced shortly.
See you in the big screen!
Concerning this year’s art exhibition Jannis Psychopedis stated:
‘’This year the Panorama of European Cinema celebrates its 32nd birthday. Nowadays Panorama is established as a cinematic institution that, apart from its durability over time, has every reason to proudly boast about the quality of its films displayed, its tributes as well as its artistic tendency and tradition. Furthermore Panorama is also proud of its audience: vigorous, restless and really committed to Panorama, its great audience supports and contributes significantly with its constant and overwhelming presence, to this enduring, long lasting and constantly renewed artistic effort.
In the past years along with the Panorama Screenings, an art exhibition has also been held as a parallel event related to the festival, seeking to express and find exactly where do film and visual arts really meet. […]
Stanley Kubrick was a cinematic giant in story-telling and hence a significant part of this year’s Panorama is dedicated to his work. Likewise, the art exhibition ‘’Artistic Trilogy – A discourse between Painting and Cinema’’ is also dedicated to this great director. […]’’
Brief CVs and samples of the painters’ work participating in the exhibition as follows:
VIRGINIA AXIOTI
Virginia Axioti was born in Athens in 1978.
She studied painting in ASFA (Athens School of Fine Arts) in Jannis Psychopedis’ workshop (Z’), and she also studied Interior Design in the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (TEI).
Having earned a scholarship she studied at Facultad de Bellas Artes at the University of Salamanca in Spain and later on at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseilles in France. She has participated in many group exhibitions.
She is the co-administrator of the art space ‘’Art Tutu’’ since 2012.
She paints the posters for the cinema Athinaion since 2015, while she is involved in music, singing and composing.
Singing “La Gazza Ladra-Overture” in the rain
(Oil on canvas, 120x100cm)
ANDRIANA KOTSI
She was born in Athens in 1976.
She studied painting in ASFA (Athens School of Fine Arts) from 1996 to 2000. She was Jannis Psychopedis’ student. From 2000 to 2003, she studied engraving at Yannis Papadakis' workshop.
Her work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad and many of her works are hosted in domestic as well as European art collections.
"Aλατιέρα ΙΙ, full of stars!":
(Μικτή τεχνική, 100x60 cm)
KATERINA CHRISTOPOULOU
Katerina Christopoulou was born in Athens in 1977.
She studied painting in ASFA (Athens School of Fine Arts) in Jannis Psychopedis’ workshop, and Design, specialized in Internal Design, at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (TEI).
She's trained in Art Therapy. She has worked as an instructor and teacher for many years. Since 2012, in collaboration with some other artists, she runs an art space at the area of Acropolis called ‘’Art Tutu’’
She counts several personal and group exhibitions.
Twins
(Mικτή τεχνική σε ξύλο, 120x175)
Το Πανόραμα Ευρωπαϊκού Κινηματογράφου επιστρέφει για την 32η διοργάνωσή του, από τις 21 Νοεμβρίου έως και τις 4 Δεκεμβρίου, στους κινηματογράφους Τριανόν και Ανδόρα. Μείνετε συντονισμένοι για το πρόγραμμα και τις παράλληλες εκδηλώσεις του μακροβιότερου κινηματογραφικού φεστιβάλ της πόλης.
