The Delphi Bank Greek Film Festival has announced a huge program for its 21st year, kicking off this October.
The festival will feature more than 20 films including cinematic shots of the Mediterranean sea in At Home, Bollywood song and dance routines in Block 12, andconversations centred around online dating and infidelity in Common Denominator.
Opening the festival is Little England, telling the story of two Greek sisters who both fall for the same sea captain, landing them in a consequential love triangle on the island of Andros during World War II. Promakhos will close the festival, when two Athenian attorneys (Pantelis Kodogiannis and Kassandra Voyagis) pursue litigation against the British Museum to returnthe Parthenon Marbles from the Acropolis to their rightful home.
Other films include Brides, which tracks the story of a mail order bride who finds herself on a ship en route to the United States to marry a man she has never seen, until along the way she falls in love with an American photographer who is returning home from a failed career and marriage, Xenia, premiered at Cannes Film Festival, delves deeply into patriarchy, homosexuality and immigrant rights, Greek crime noir Stratos and Miss Violence, a gruesomely disturbing tale of domestic and sexual abuse that swept this year’s Hellenic Film Academy Awards and won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival.
The Delphi Bank 21st Greek Film Festival will take place at Palace Norton St from Sunday October 14 until Sunday November 2. The full program is available online.
