From October 20th through the 23rd, the Museum of the Moving Image will host the opening week of the fifth annual city Greek Film Festival.
The festival offers New Yorkers the opportunity to fall in love with important emerging filmmakers. Among the screenings at MMI are the North American premiere of Tungsten, Giorgios Georgopoulos’ feature debut, which tells three stories of Athenians living close to the edge (director Georgopoulos and star Vangelis Mourikis will appear in person at the October 21 screening), Athina Rachel Tsangari’s ‘Attenberg’, Greece’s Academy Award entry this year and Yannis Economides’ gritty film ‘Noir Knifer’, which won seven Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Other films include My Sweet Canary, a documentary, the family drama Gold Dust (Chrysoskoni); the comedy Charisma (Harisma); Strella, a hit from last year’s festival and Nobody, a Romeo and Juliet tale set in the migrant community in contemporary Athens.
Tickets cost $12 per film/$8 for members. MMI is located at 36-01 35th Ave. in Astoria. For more information, visit movingimage.us.
The New York City Greek Film Festival continues in Manhattan from October 27 through 30 at the SVA Theatre. For more information, visit nycgreekfilmfestival.com.
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