Get ready for a weekend filled with Greek food and wine, live music and compelling cinema as the 22nd Greek Film Festival comes to Canberra.
Presented by Molonglo Group, Hotel Hotel and Hellenic Club of Canberra, the festival will be held at Palace Electric in the NewActon precinct.
The Canberra leg of the film festival will feature a curated list of five screenings as well as accompanying events. Screenings will also be preceded by complimentary Greek mezé and wine at the Palace Electric Prosecco Bar.
A Launch Party will be held in the Nishi Grand Stair featuring food from Monster Kitchen and Bar, Greek wine, and live music.
Maybe also a quick plug that tickets are only $12 for screenings?
The Films:
Alex & Eve
This year’s Opening Night film will have your hearts dancing in an up-swell of romance and comedy. A feelgood Australian story about dating in a multicultural landscape, Alex & Eve brings us a little closer to home – Sydney’s inner west – where a relationship blooms of an unwanted nature.
Tickets: $40 Adult | $35 Concession (includes special opening screening and launch party)
Friday 16 October 2015
6:30pm arrival drinks for 7.00pm screening
Wednesday 4:45
Take a dive into the Athenian underworld and organised crime machinations with Wednesday 04:45, a distinctly mesmeric noir nail-biter. Stelios’ (Stelios Mainas) dream of running a jazz club is crumbling as Greece’s economic slowdown takes its toll. Owing a fortune to a local standover man – the hulking ‘The Romanian’ (Mimi Branescu) who is also feeling the financial pinch – Stelios is on the brink of financial ruin.
Tickets: $12
Norway
The production team behind Dogtooth (GFF ‘09) is responsible for this devilishly fun, not-your-average vampire flick, where a footloose creature of the night boogies his way through a psychedelic Athens of the 1980s.
Tickets: $12
Riverbanks
A gripping tale of love and survival that will have you on tenterhooks until its final, suspenseful moments.
Tickets: $12
Zorba The Greek
Anthony Quinn gives the performance of a lifetime as Zorba, a gruff and gregarious musician who befriends an uptight Anglo-Greek writer (Alan Bates) travelling through Crete to claim a small inheritance and cure his writer’s block. With Zorba tagging along for the ride, the young Englishman’s eyes are opened to the earthy pleasures of Greece in a way that is life changing.
Closing Night Screening
Tickets: $12
Sunday 18 October 2015
5:30pm arrival drinks for 6:00pm screening
Click here to purchase tickets and to see the entire weekend’s schedule.
