The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada) will be in 11 Canadian cities 1-31October2024 presenting films theatrically and, in some cases, on-line. After the 1974 invasion and occupation of Northern Cyprus by Turkey a buffer zone was created between Northern Cyprus and Southern Cyprus and patrolled by United Nations “peacekeepers”. Like the old EastContinue reading “The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Smuggling Hendrix”: Absurdist Expose of a Divided Cyprus”
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The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Kristos the Last Child”
In 1971 I spent 4 months in the Greek islands and then in 1972 another month. I managed to witness Greece as most will never see it. We took a fishing boat to an island I forget the name of, as there was no ferry service. We stopped for the fisherman to haul in hisContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Kristos the Last Child””
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Rest”: Charlie is the Demon More Than the Rum!
In ‘Rest”, a short, Iris has a court appearance for a DUI charge and having alcohol on one’s breath or looking raunchy could have disastrous effects. And she simply can’t get right a few lines she will say before the judge that she hasn’t had a drink in three months. She fumbles with the lineContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Rest”: Charlie is the Demon More Than the Rum!”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Ex-files, Pals and Pocket Dials”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada) runs in 11 Canadian cities 1-31October2024 both in theatre and online. There are two possible reactions you might have when watching “Ex-files, Pals and Pocket Dials”. It is so wrapped up with Gen Y dating protocol and vocabulary it may quickly lose non-Gen Y viewers. OnContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Ex-files, Pals and Pocket Dials””
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Gastarbeiter: Sidero-Chalvia”: Will the Estranged Bird Fly Home?
Antonis (Alexandros Nikolaidis) works as a Gastarbeiter (guest worker) at a metalwerks in the German industrial Ruhr area. The short begins in a bar in 1974 where Antonis is drinking with colleague Rainer (Moritz Zeiske) as the television news addresses the fall of the Greek military dictatorship. Antonis was jailed and beaten in Thessaloniki forContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Gastarbeiter: Sidero-Chalvia”: Will the Estranged Bird Fly Home?”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Journey into Cyprus: East to West”
“Journey into Cyprus: East to West” is a documentary about a 15-day cross Cyprus hike by Yalcin Adal, a Turkish Cypriot, and Stavros Tszortis, a Greek Cypriot both currently living in Melbourne, Australia. As a result of a 1974 invasion of Cyprus by Turkey, possibly a result of Greek political maneuvering and a failed assassinationContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Journey into Cyprus: East to West””
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Armchair on the Pavement”: No Grapes of Wrath Here
A retired Greek army general is coping with dementia. He has trained battalions in warfare but today can’t remember if he has taken his pills. But he does remember a song on the radio that he and Olga his wife danced to at their wedding. And it brings him joy this song so much heContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Armchair on the Pavement”: No Grapes of Wrath Here”
RKS 2024 Film: “Consumed”: Horror with a Dual Personality
The Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores) add to their horror output with “Consumed” a dual personality horror film. What or who is the real beast here? Beth (Courtney Halverson) and her husband Jay (Mark Famiglietti) are hiking and camping the wilds of New Jersey ostensibly to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Beth beingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Consumed”: Horror with a Dual Personality”
The 4th International Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Nothing Holier Than a Dolphin”
Several fishermen, a retired sea captain, a woman and a waitress are in a Greek seaside taverna in the evening. The fishing has not been going well with a mistral making the sea too rough to fish in. A man tells a mythical tale about a fishing village in the Mediterranean experiencing rough winds preventingContinue reading “The 4th International Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Nothing Holier Than a Dolphin””
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Taxi”: Three Times Dead and Ready to be Murdered!
It is the early 1990’s in Cyprus and Soulla drives a taxi. In this short she picks up three passengers on three separate trips and she is eager to tell them the taxi was her late husband’s. He died in a barbeque related accident. Every time she relates how his death occurred it is relatedContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Taxi”: Three Times Dead and Ready to be Murdered!”
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