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Greek Director’s Award-Winning Film ‘Medium’ Makes US Premiere

The award-winning film 'Medium' by Greek director Christina Ioakeimidi made its US Premiere earlier in the week at the 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Medium is an Ekso Production and made its World Premiere at the 2023 Sarajevo Film...

Greek-American Director Tackles Oppression and Race in Award-Winning Movie

The short film "Butterfly" by Greek-American director Lazarus Lazarides will be shown at the Maryland Film Festival on Friday.

Greek Director Yorgos Lanthimos Returns With New Movie

Following the ten Academy Awards nominations (and one win) for his movie “The Favourite”, Greek Director Yorgos Lanthimos is returning to cinemas with a short film called "Nimic". The new, twelve-minute-long film is a thriller, which Lanthimos co-wrote with Greek screenwriter...

‘3,000’ Reasons to Love the New Greek Short Film

The Greek short film “3000” was shown during a private screening for the media held at DDP & Deluxe International Studios production company. It is a special short film written and directed by acclaimed Greek-Australian director Antonis Tsonis, starring...

First Ever Greek Film Festival in Berlin, Sponsored by Marketing Greece

"Little England" will be the opening film at Hellas Filmbox Berlin, the first Greek film festival to take place in Berlin, Germany. The festival will welcome its cinephile audience at Babylon cinema from January 21 to 24, 2016, promising...

Greek Director Yorgos Lanthimos Wins Screenwriting Award

The Lobster by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos was nominated for four European Film Awards in which Lanthimos picked up the Screenwriting award for the drama film starring Colin Farrel and Rachel Weisz. The film was also nominated in the Best...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film ‘The Lobster’ Presented at Cannes Festival

The new film of Oscar-nominated Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, "The Lobster", was screened at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in May 15. The movie is the director's first English language movie to compete in the festival’s main competition section for the...

International Animation Festival in Athens

The 10th annual Athens International Animation Festival (ANIMFEST) has been scheduled to take place between March 26 and April 1, 2015, in the Greek capital. Since 2006, the seven-day festival has entertained and educated people interested in animation films. The...

Egypt: Tribute to Greek Actor Giorgos Iordanides

The Greek Cultural Center in Cairo and the Greek Community in Cairo, will honor the 10th anniversary since the death of Greek-Egyptian actor Giorgos Iordanidis (1921-2005). A tribute event has been organized to take place on March 22, in...

Greek Director Diagoras Chronopoulos Passes Away at 76

Famous Greek film and theater director Diagoras Chronopoulos passed away at the age of 76 after a long battle with cancer. He was the Art Theater director from 2004 to September 2014 and until yesterday was the Greek Art...