This year marks 9 years since the departure of director Theo Angelopoulos. The Chania Film Festival remembers the great Greek FilmMaker and travels with his works… Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most important Directors of World Cinema, with eclectic affinities, Bergman, Antonioni and Tarkovsky. He is the Poet of Icons and his subjects concern

when in Greece Culture made headlines Melina Mercouri is a personality that rose above her time, expressing over time with her attitude of life and her battles for Greece, the free spirit, the great mind, the love without limits for our country, the militant resourceful man. A star who charmed people and was much loved.

The Anarchist of Cinema Visual Artist, Director, Set Designer, Screenwriter, Writer, Nikos Koundouros was a special, emblematic personality in the world of Cinema. “It’s a great thing to have been born a Cretan,” he said. A scion of a bourgeois family, son of Joseph Koundouros, a prominent lawyer, who left his mark on the political

Greek film activist and President of Cinémathèque Française, the director Kostas Gavras, defined the boundaries of French Cinema and redefined the crime political thriller, starting in the 1960s. “Cinema plays a key role in society. I think it’s a way to get to know the world. Artists, when they appeal to thousands, sometimes millions, of

MANOS HADJIDAKIS (23/10/1925 – 15/6/1994) Manos in his own words… On June 15, 1994, Manos Hadjidakis passed away, a few months after the death of Melina Mercouri. I do not know why I always connect in my mind, these two glamorous Greeks, but I think that whoever of you has seen them in the video

MICHALIS KAKOGIANNIS (1921 – 2011). The Eclectic Director 100 years since the birth of the Great Greek Cypriot Creator The Creator of “Stella”, “Zorba”, “Electra”. The man who made Greece famous internationally. Michael Cacoyannis, son of Angeliki and Panagiotis Cacoyannis, was born in Limassol, Cyprus, on June 11, 1921. He studied Law, Dramatic Arts and

“The Song of Separation” is the first contemporary talking film, which was edited in Greek workshops. The only film signed as Director by the great Greek producer, Philopoimin Finos, as well as the film in which Lambros Konstantaras makes his first appearance (Athens 13 March 1913 – Athens 28 June 1985) the important Greek actor

The Duality of Cinema Comic actor Buster Keaton became popular from his groundbreaking films in the 1920s. Joseph Frank Keaton was born in Kansas on October 4, 1895. He was the child of vaudeville actors. He acquired the nickname Buster when he was six months old. Falling from a ladder, he recovered without suffering anything.

Luis Buñuel in 1929 joined the Surreal group of Paris. He will write about this move: “The moral and artistic intransigence of this group, the new space of its sociopolitical action, perfectly matched my temperament”. The funding for the experimental film, “Andalusian Dog” (1929) will be made by his mother, giving him 25,000 pesetas. With

“So who is the man in our time who could live without a fairy tale, without a small dream?” said Georges Melier. The magic of cinema is presented at the French Film Archive in Paris, through a unique Museum Exhibition, a tribute to the pioneering Creator Melier. In the spaces of the Film Archive, which

With this film, Greek cinema passed from Prehistory to History, Vassilis Rafailidis had written analyzing the Dragon. In 1956, at the Venice Film Festival, Greece was represented by the film The Dragon, directed by Nikos Koundouros. Koundouros’ masterpiece had provoked the most contradictory comments in its first screening that took place in the cinema Attikon.