A “forgotten” Director is once again enjoying the spotlight, bringing once again to the fore the beauties of our country. French publications recently rediscovered director Jean-Daniel Pole, one of the pioneering figures of Nouvelle Vague, who quickly followed his lonely path, away from the dominant currents, always creating films recorded in Cinematic Culture.

1905: the “Weavers”, by the Manakis brothers. The first film to be shot in the Balkans. The first Cinematographers in the Balkans are the brothers Ioannis and Miltiadis Manakia or Manaki, who worked as photographers in Ioannina. They were born in Avdella of Grevena, Vlachochori in Northern Pindos, in 1878 Giannakis and in 1882 Miltos.

Many major international film productions used the Aegean islands as film sets. These films highlighted the Aegean beauty, making Greece the ultimate tourist destination. Summer films bathed in light, waves and colors of Elytis’ poetry, which “hit red” at the Box Office, bringing thousands of tourists to our country.

The Muse of Existentialism Juliette Gréco was a French actress and singer. She became the queen of the Saint Germain Des Prés Music Stage in Paris. It was a symbol of bohemian life and was literally worshipped by the Intellectuals of post-war France. He attended acting classes by Solange Sicard. She made her theatre debut

Hollywood adventures, with agents, espionage, war and loves in the “scenes” of our islands. In Greece, about 100 foreign productions have been filmed, which used the beauties of our country to become more attractive. And at the same time they skyrocketed our tourism.

“100 years of Melina Mercouri” at the Chania Film Festival. An exhibition, a book, a premiere compose the great tribute of the8th Chania Film Festival to the Eternal Greek woman, Melina Mercouri.Forthe 8th consecutive year, the Chania International Film Festival, under difficult conditions, opens its gates to the public. Dedicated this year to Melina Mercouri,

The creator of the oldest Greek film that survives is Sfakianos! Villar, known as Nikolaos Sfakianakis or Sfakianos, came from Sfakia and was an actor of the musical theatre, with great fame, in the first decades of the20th century. In 1920, the producer, writer and film critic Dimitris Vratsanos commissioned him to shoot a comedy

In the films of the early years, there was neither aesthetic nor imagination. Georges Melies was the first to use the theatrical set design in his film, Journey to the Moon in 1902, which was a worldwide success. Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French filmmaker and writer of fictional

Films, international productions, that promoted our country all over the world, creating a peculiar tourist campaign that helped make Greece a “fashion”.

in Fellini’s way of “imagining everything” Federico Fellini was born in Rimini, Italy on January 20, 1920. He was an ingenious Director, who created, through his 27 films, a unique cinematic world of his own, transcending forms and rules. The big screen owes him images of rare beauty, taken from the talent of a charismatic