Alps

Alexandra Tsoukaneli, a 33-year-old physiotherapist from Ioannina, northern Greece, was the first Greek woman to finish the 170-kilometer Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB), one of the most popular sporting events in the world. "It is a physical and mental test,"...

After a four-year absence, the Panorama of Contemporary Greek Cinema returns to Paris at the Balzac Cinema from March 20 to 25, with a selection of the Greek cinema's best moments during the past two years. The 7th edition of...

New Greek filmmakers are getting better reviews abroad than in Greece.Greek films are included in the best international film festivals (for instance, Boy Eating the Bird's Food by Ektoras Lygizos in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and Out of...

Yorgos Lanthimos' "Alps," a story about the afterlife, has been receiving critical acclaim and accolades in its year-long festival run, winning awards at the Venice, Sofia International and Sydney Film Festivals. It can now add "One of the 10...

Praised Greek filmmaker and theatre director Yiorgos Lanthimos is currently running up and down the streets of London searching for the right scipt that will inspire him for his next movie to come. London has all that is required...

The new generation of Greeks is trying to show everyone that Greece can still hold its own and that their ideas are able of winning accolades. Filmmakers and athletes are both doing their best to send the message that...

The debut of the film "Dead Europe," directed by Tony Krawitz, will be made at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival. The movie is an adaptation of Greek writer Christos Tsiolkas' awarded book. The main character of Tsiolkas' story is a Greek young man of...