Philip Lioret’s sensational WELCOME – at the first screening in Crete – on Thursday, December 5, 2019 by the Chania Film Festival Club

Thursday 5 December 2019, 22:00, ATTIKON

Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgei9fu2pbM&feature=emb_logo

Welcome

Direction: Philip Lioret
Country of Production/Country: France / France
Duration: 115′
Year of Production/Year: 2009
Language/Language: French/ French
Subtitles/Subtitles: Greek / English
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Derya Ayverdi
Drama

In seventeen-year-old Kurdish Bilal’s film crosses the Middle East and Europe and tries to get to England to meet his girlfriend, who has just migrated there. His journey is interrupted when the local authorities identify illegal immigrants in Calais and place them in confinement. But Bilal is determined to be on the other shore even if need to learn to swim. He meets Simone, a coach, who is in divorce proceedings and decides to take Bilal under the protect him and teach him to swim, with the ultimate desire to move the his wife and not to abandon him.

«… When the end credits of Welcome fall, you feel that this work came to verify after a long time the reputation of French cinema, which knows how to narrate burning social situations, such as that of illegal immigration, without becoming melodrama. It is no coincidence that Welcome was one of the biggest hits of last spring and recorded in the French Box Office receipts of more than 10,000,000 $…”

You can read more about the FILM at the following links:
https://www.athinorama.gr/cinema/movie/welcome-1009037.html

http://www.cinemanews.gr/v5/movies.php?n=6750

https://m.myfilm.gr/5278

Watch the trailer of Movie

See the full program of the Club until Christmas:
Cine Club Screenings

GENERAL ENTRANCE 5€

Make your application for the Friends Card online at the link below and collect it before the time of the screening or get it at the entrance of cine Attikon at the special stand, every Thursday before 10pm.

Get the Card of the Friends of the Chania Film Festival!
• Supported the Festival and its activities

• Take advantage of the privileges of the card AND the club’s screenings

Friends card

For any question you can contact us:

By e-mail to [email protected]

On the mobile phone of the Secretariat of the Festival 6970651153

And on this trip we are sure that you will be with us!