Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Γαλλία/France, 1930, 75 ́, DCP, α/μ /b&w,

Χωρίς ήχο/Silent

In this second collaboration with Salvador Dali, after the Un Chien Andalou, Buñuel provoked an even bigger scandal than the previous time. Jesus Christ and ancient Rome, bishops, governors, ministers and the bourgeoisie, the same time they are corrupted they impede an amor fou. Even though it is not based so much of filmic experimentations, and in some ways it is in dialogue with Cecil De Mill’s historical dramas, the film, even today, defies every genre and convention, every civil and moral law. Under the influence of De Sade, Buñuel passed down to us a subversive surrealist film on the instincts of sex and death.

Luis Buñuel // The Spanish director Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) is considered the father of surrealist cinema. However he directed experimental film, documentary, melodrama, satire, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume drama, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western. Despite the fact that the surrealist element is always there, all of his films stand out for their distinct Bunuelian style.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction Luis Buñuel
Σενάριο/Screenplay Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí
Φωτογραφία/Cinematography Albert Duverger
Μοντάζ/Editing Luis Buñuel
Ηθοποιοί/Cast Lya Lys, Gaston Modot, Max Ernst, Caridad de Laberdesque
Μουσική/Music Georges Van Parys
Παραγωγή/Production Charles de Noailles, Marie-Laure de Noailles
Αποκατάσταση/Restoration Restored in 2019 in 4K by Cinémathèque française, Centre Pompidou and MNAM-CCI/Service du cinéma expérimental with funding provided by Pathé and Maison de Champagne Piper-Heidsieck at Hiventy (image) and L.E. Diapason (sound) laboratories
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source Cinémathèque française

Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Γαλλία, Μεξικό, Ελβετία/France, Mexico, Switzerland, 2018, 100 ́, DCP, Έγχρωμο/Color, Με ήχο/Sound

Paris, summer 1979. Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside-down.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Yann Gonzalez
Σενάριο/Screenplay Yann Gonzalez, Cristiano Mangione
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Simon Beaufils
Μοντάζ/Editing: Raphaël Lefèvre
Μουσική/Music: M83
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet, Khaled Alouach
Παραγωγή/Production: CG Cinéma, Piano, Garidi Films, ARTE France Cinéma, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Le Fresnoy
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Kinology

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Ελληνική Πρεμιέρα/Greek Premiere
Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Πορτογαλία/Portugal, 1963, 21 ́ 35mm, α/μ/b&w, Πορτογαλικά/Portuguese

This allegorical short was inspired by a news item about the rescue operation of two boys, who were part of a hunting party and ended up in a marshland. The rescuers, in the film, quarrel with each other and forget why they are there. It’s a sarcastic parable on Portuguese fascism. Indeed, the film was censored as too pessimistic and was allowed to be released with an optimistic ending. After the fall of the junta, prints of the film include both versions of the ending.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Manoel de Oliveira
Σενάριο/Screenplay Manoel de Oliveira
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Manoel de Oliveira
Μοντάζ/Editing: Manoel de Oliveira
Ήχος/Sound: Manoel de Oliveira
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: António Rodrigues Sousa, João Rocha Almeida
Παραγωγός/Producer: Manoel de Oliveira
Προέλευση ταινίας/Film Source: Πορτογαλική Ταινιοθήκη- Μουσείο Κινηματογράφου/ Portuguese Cinematheque-Museum of Cinema

*Screening along with the film “Porto da minha infacia”

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Αθηναϊκή Πρεμιέρα/Athenian Premiere
Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Πορτογαλία, Γαλλία/Portugal, France, 2001, 61 ́, 35mm, Έγχρ./Color, Πορτογαλικά/Portuguese

When, in 2001, Oliveira was asked, to make a film about his birthplace, Porto, he seized the opportunity, but encountered the problem of the city being renovated. Converting the limitation to his advantage, he resorted to his childhood memories. In his words: “I regard the film as a documentary, but to avoid it getting bogged down in a kind of photo album, I sometimes had to reconstruct things. What remains are memories of a kind of life and of images of a time long gone, that eventually do not form an autobiography, even though they do involve me”.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Manoel de Oliveira
Σενάριο/Screenplay Manoel de Oliveira
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Emmanuel Machuel
Μοντάζ/Editing: Valérie Loiseleux
Ήχος/Sound: Jean-François Auger
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Jorge Trêpa, Ricardo Trêpa, Maria de Medeiros, Leonor Silveira
Παραγωγός/Producer: Paulo Branco
Προέλευση ταινίας/Film Source: Πορτογαλική Ταινιοθήκη- Μουσείο Κινηματογράφου Portuguese Cinematheque-Museum of Cinema

* Screening along with the film “The hunt”

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Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ελλάδα/Greece, 1958, 112 ́ 35mm, α/μ/b&w, Mε ήχο/Sound

A dark Acropolis in the opening credits; we then enter the troubled insides of a bourgeois home. Fifty years before Strella, Chloe (Ellie Lambeti),equally Lives her myth in Greece. Everything here (class, gender, kinship,desire, dignity) is introduced as a matter of performance. The family, meanwhile, becomes the context in which to show an old world that is dying, while the new is still only experienced as suffocation.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης
Σενάριο/Screenplay: Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Walter Lassally
Μοντάζ/Editing: Γιώργος Τσαούλης
Μουσική/Music: Μάνος Χατζιδάκις
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Έλλη Λαμπέτη, Γιώργος Παππάς, Μιχάλης Νικολινάκος, Ελένη Ζαφειρίου, Δημήτρης Παπαμιχαήλ, Μηνάς Χρηστίδης, Ζώρζ Σαρρή, Δέσπω Διαμαντίδου, Μαίρη Χρονοπούλου, Αθηνά Μιχαηλίδου, Νίκος Φέρμας, Νίκος Κούρκουλος, Βασίλης Καϊλας
Παραγωγή/Production: Φίνος Φιλμ και Δαμασκηνός – Μιχαηλίδης
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Ίδρυμα Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης

The fim accompanies a discussion with professor Dimitris Papanikolaou, curator of the tribute.

Ελληνική Πρεμιέρα / Greek Premiere

Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Αλγερία, Γαλλία, Κατάρ/Algeria, France, Qatar, 2019, 100 ́, DCP, Έγχρ./Color, Αλγερινά, Αραβικά, Γαλλικά, Αγγλικά/Algerian, Arabic, French, English

Malika is the owner of a small one-table road-cafe, which serves only tea, eggs and water, and lies somewhere along the national route, in the desert, some 10 hours drive south of Algiers. Α passer-by describes Malika as a “gatekeeper of the void”. However, the hybrid film of Hassen Ferhani, due to the elements of observational documentary it contains, shows that this seemingly desolate place is actually teeming with life. Truckers, tourists on motorcycles, and regulars, who bring her news from the close-by city of El Menia, are served in Malika’s doorstep, while she remains always there.

Hassen Ferhani //  Hassen Ferhani was born in Algiers in 1986. His film Tarzan, Don Quichotte et nous (2013), which was presented at the festivals of Marseille and Locarno, already reflected his interest in documentary bordering on fiction. Roundabout in My Head (2015), shot in slaughterhouses in Algiers, was his first feature.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction Hassen Ferhani,
Σενάριο/Screenplay Hassen Ferhani,
Φωτογραφία/Cinematography Hassen Ferhani
Μοντάζ/Editing Stéphanie Sicard, Nadia Ben Rachid, Nina Khada, Hassen Ferhani
Ήχος/Sound Antoine Morin
Παραγωγή/Production Narimane Mari, Olivier Boischot, Allers Retours Films, Centrale Électrique
Ηθοποιοί/Cast Malika, Chawki Amari, Samir Elhakim
Προέλευση ταινίας/Film Source Centrale Électrique, Pascale Ramonda

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Αθηναϊκή Πρεμιέρα/Athenian Premiere

Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Βραζιλία, Γαλλία, Γερμανία/Brazil, France, Germany, 2019, 98 ́, DCP, Έγχρ./Color, Πορτογαλικά/Portuguese

Justino, a 45-year-old Indian native, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor, an industrial city surrounded by the Amazon rainforest. Since his wife’s death, he lives in a modest house on the outskirts with his daughter. When his daughter leaves to study medicine, Justino is taken over by a bad fever, and a mysterious creature follows in his footsteps. Between the oppression of the city and the distance from his forest village, for which he is nostalgic, Justino can no longer stand a placeless existence..

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Maya Da-Rin
Σενάριο/Screenplay Maya Da-Rin, Miguel Seabra Lopes, Pedro Cesarino
Φωτογραφία/Cinematography: Barbara Alvarez
Μοντάζ/Editing: Karen Akerman
Ήχος/Sound:Felippe Schultz Mussel, Breno Furtado, Romain Ozanne, Emmanuel Croset
Παραγωγός/Producer: Maya Da-Rin, Leonardo Mecchi, Juliette Lepoutre
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Regis Myrupu, Rosa Peixoto, Sussara Brito
Προέλευση ταινίας/Film Source: Still Moving

Presentation from the scriptwriter Miguel Seabra Lopez

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Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ιταλία Γαλλία/Italy, France, 1982, 93 ́, 35mm, Έγχρ./Color, Με ήχο/sound

Giovanni, a famous actor, returns to his small-town family home after the suicide of his brother. His mother remains a religious fanatic and his older brother has a cold relationship with his children and his wife. When Giovanni goes to berate his dead brother’s companion for not even coming to his funeral, an intensive and haunted relationship develops between them.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Marco Bellocchio
Σενάριο/Screenplay Marco Bellocchio
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Giuseppe Lanci
Μοντάζ/Editing: Sergio Nutii
Μουσική/Music: Nicolas Piovani
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Lou Castel, Angela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva, Michel Piccoli, Antonio Piovanelli
Παραγωγή/Production: Odyssia, Gaumont, Paris in collaboration with RAI 2
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Viggo/Cinecittà

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Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Γερμανία/Germany, 2019, 80 ́ Σενάριο-Σκηνοθεσία/Screenplay-Direction: Sophia Schiller

The portrait of a relationship, betwen Adrian and the theater-actress Florina, which seems not to be compatible with daily life. Attraction and rejection, desire and contempt lie close together.

*Screening along with “Northern malady”

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Πειραματικό/experimental, Γερμανία/Germany, 2019, 28 ́Σενάριο-Σκηνοθεσία/Screenplay-Direction: Gerrit Kuge

The narrator recalls his last vacation as a couple. Trapped both in a remote place the tension between the two rises and they fall into a helpless silence.

*Screening along with “Adrian ist nicht Achill”

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