So, it's that time of the year again! September has arrived, La Biennale in Venice has just ended and now it is once again Athens' turn to host a festival with films from all around the world.
The Athens International Film Festival or Premiere Nights as it is most widely known, has reached its 22nd year and this September it features almost 180 movies. The festival takes place in various cinemas around the city and it lasts for 12 days. As usual, part of the festival is the competition. A "Golden Athena" is awarded to the Best Film and the Best Documentary. Also, awards for Best Directing, Best Screenplay, Best Breakthrough Directing, Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actor and an Actress are given.
This year the competing feature films are 9. Closet Monster by Stephen Gunn which won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film in the Toronto International Film Festival, Lucile Hatzihalilovic' Evolution, Inhebek Hedi, winner of this year's Berlin International Film Festival, James Shamus's directorial debut with the film Indignation which is an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel and it stars Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)), the dialogue-less La Tortue Rouge, the chilling Iranian horror film Under the Shadow, the winner of this year's Cannes Festival Gun Foundation Support for Distribution One Week and a Day, Matt Johnson's mockumentary Operation Avalanche which covers the conspiracy theory according to which NASA never went to the moon as well as Omer Fast's adaptation of the Tom K. McCarthy novel Remainder.
However, there are many more films during this year's AIFF for all tastes and preferences. Pedro Almodóvar 's newest film Julieta is the opening film of the festival and Paul Verhoeven's Elle is this year's closing feature. Also Yimou Zhang (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)'s Coming Home, Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)'s The Neon Demon starring Elle Fanning, the feel-good movie Morris from America, the adaptation of Jane Austen's short story Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale (Underworld), Oliver Stone's new film Snowden with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer) and The Carer with Brian Cox are some of the movies that are included in the schedule. The festival will also pay tribute to french director Louis Malle as well as to the italian cinema with films such as Le Confessioni by Roberto Andó, L'attesa with Juliette Binoche (Chocolat, The English Patient) and La Pazza Gioia by the director of the great Il Capitale Umano. Also films about music such as Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - Touring Years and Hired Gun, a documentary about the session and touring musicians who are hired by well-established artists will be shown. Well received documentaries such as Life, Animated and Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America are also part of the AIFF.
As for Greek cinema (because this is a Greek festival after all), there are many new and old representatives in the AIFF such as Konstantinos Frangopoulos's Nocturne starring Game of Thrones's Owen Teale, Karolos Zonaras' Pedro Noula and Thanos Anastopoulos and Davide Del Degan's collaboration L'Ultima Spiaggia which was part of the Official Selection 2016's Festival de Cannes.
The festival starts today and ends on the 2nd of October. You can find the schedule here.
The Athens International Film Festival or Premiere Nights as it is most widely known, has reached its 22nd year and this September it features almost 180 movies. The festival takes place in various cinemas around the city and it lasts for 12 days. As usual, part of the festival is the competition. A "Golden Athena" is awarded to the Best Film and the Best Documentary. Also, awards for Best Directing, Best Screenplay, Best Breakthrough Directing, Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actor and an Actress are given.
This year the competing feature films are 9. Closet Monster by Stephen Gunn which won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film in the Toronto International Film Festival, Lucile Hatzihalilovic' Evolution, Inhebek Hedi, winner of this year's Berlin International Film Festival, James Shamus's directorial debut with the film Indignation which is an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel and it stars Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)), the dialogue-less La Tortue Rouge, the chilling Iranian horror film Under the Shadow, the winner of this year's Cannes Festival Gun Foundation Support for Distribution One Week and a Day, Matt Johnson's mockumentary Operation Avalanche which covers the conspiracy theory according to which NASA never went to the moon as well as Omer Fast's adaptation of the Tom K. McCarthy novel Remainder.
However, there are many more films during this year's AIFF for all tastes and preferences. Pedro Almodóvar 's newest film Julieta is the opening film of the festival and Paul Verhoeven's Elle is this year's closing feature. Also Yimou Zhang (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)'s Coming Home, Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)'s The Neon Demon starring Elle Fanning, the feel-good movie Morris from America, the adaptation of Jane Austen's short story Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale (Underworld), Oliver Stone's new film Snowden with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer) and The Carer with Brian Cox are some of the movies that are included in the schedule. The festival will also pay tribute to french director Louis Malle as well as to the italian cinema with films such as Le Confessioni by Roberto Andó, L'attesa with Juliette Binoche (Chocolat, The English Patient) and La Pazza Gioia by the director of the great Il Capitale Umano. Also films about music such as Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - Touring Years and Hired Gun, a documentary about the session and touring musicians who are hired by well-established artists will be shown. Well received documentaries such as Life, Animated and Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America are also part of the AIFF.
As for Greek cinema (because this is a Greek festival after all), there are many new and old representatives in the AIFF such as Konstantinos Frangopoulos's Nocturne starring Game of Thrones's Owen Teale, Karolos Zonaras' Pedro Noula and Thanos Anastopoulos and Davide Del Degan's collaboration L'Ultima Spiaggia which was part of the Official Selection 2016's Festival de Cannes.
The festival starts today and ends on the 2nd of October. You can find the schedule here.
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