Europe

Greek cinema has made a splash on the red carpet of the 75h annual Cannes Film Festival, as a total of five films that were either filmed in Greece or made by Greeks were entered into the festival. This is...

The Mediterranean Film Festival, held in Montpellier, France between October 25 and November 4, will include the screening of several Greek films in the competition sector, as well as several tributes to Greek cinema. The Greek films presented at Montpellier include features, shorts, fiction...

A tribute to the Greek cinema will be held in Brussels in the next four months to honor the Greek Presidency. The event is an initiative of the Royal Belgian Film Archive (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique - CINEMATEK) and the...

Two documentaries about the Golden era of Greek cinema entitled “Work Like Crazy” by Aggeliki Milonaki and “From the Courtyards to the Living Rooms” by Dionysia Arvanitou and Panayiotis Koundouras were presented during the weekend, February 15 and 16...

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...

The Greek Art Club of Nuremberg in cooperation with Nuremberg Municipality’s Cultural Service Kunst Kultur Quartier Nurnberg and the Greek Film Centre are organizing The Days of Greek Cinema which will be held from Nov. 28-Dec. 3.  In the...

Alexis Grivas will be representing the Greek Film Center (GFC) in “Eurimages” of the Council of Europe. The Board of Managers of  GFC chose a man with great cinema experience, who has served the Seventh Art from various posts,...

Russian capital city Moscow will host a Greek Cinema Week until April 1, organised by local municipal authorities (“Moscow Cino”) and the city’s Hellenic Cultural Centre. The Greek Cinema Week events are hosted within the framework of the “Cinema of...

Greece’s legendary monastic complex Meteora – which means ‘suspended rocks’ or ‘in the heavens above’ – is the setting for the new German-Greek co-production also titled Meteora. It is about a young monk and nun who find their growing illicit...

Co-edited by Dr. Lydia Papadimitriou (Film Studies, Liverpool John Moores University) and Dr. Yannis Tzioumakis (Communications and Media, University of Liverpool), the first collection of essays on Greek cinema to be published in English entitled "Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories,...

The Press Office of Greece in Hamburg is hosting a Greek Cinema Days festival from May 4 through 30. The festival opens with the screening of the "The Brides" a film by the internationally acclaimed director Pantelis Voulgaris on...

It is hard to image a world where actors are not considered the privileged and admired members of a society. However, in Turkey this is more often than not the case as actors from Greek, Armenian Kurdish and Jewish...

According to the British Guardian, two Greek  cinemas, "Cine Paris" in Plaka, Athens, Greece and "Cine Kamari" on the island of Santorini are in the top ten open-air cinemas of Europe. "A rooftop cinema in the heart of the historic...

France has seized a villa in one of the most prestigious parts of the French Riviera that once belonged to Greek tycoons Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos. The Château de la Croë at the Cap d'Antibes is estimated to be...

Greek Member of the European Parliament Alexis Georgoulis has secured the passing of a resolution in the Culture Committee of the European Parliament which seeks to defend working conditions for all artists in the EU. The popular Greek actor turned...