“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””
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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!”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Meetings”: The Madness of Conspiracy Theories?
We often hear about strange conspiracy theories the most prominent these days being the Trumpian fantasy of a rigged election that stole his presidency. Is a conspiracy theory madness or is it those that propound them that are mad? In “Meetings” we meet the over-the-top intense Aggelos (Elias Valasis) on the telephone trying to convinceContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Meetings”: The Madness of Conspiracy Theories?”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Dynamo”: Not Trapped at The Border
Yianni Kioussis wrestles under the name “Asperger Dynamo”. He is not wrestling before crowds at large venues, at least not now but that he is wrestling at all is quite an achievement. Epileptic seizures started at 6 months and by 1 there were 150-200 seizures a day. His first doctor said he would most likelyContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Dynamo”: Not Trapped at The Border”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Fantasia”: A Movie That Sings with Its Heart and Soul
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada) screens in 11 Canadian cities 1-31October2024. “Fantasia” will be one of the films presented and it sings to you with its heart and soul. Like much of the traditional Greek music that is full of suffering and personal agony heard in the film many of theContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Fantasia”: A Movie That Sings with Its Heart and Soul”
The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “At All Costs”: Pay Attention!
The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada) will be showing in 11 Canadian cities with some selections being available online. It runs from 1-31 October2024. “At All Costs” is a stylish and dense Nouveau Film Noir short from writer and director Christos Prantzalos. It has taken me two watches to somewhat understand it andContinue reading “The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “At All Costs”: Pay Attention!”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “The Coordinates”: The Murder of a Daughter and the Clash of Legal Ethics and Morality
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada) will be in 11 Canadian cities both in theatre and in some cases on-line running from1-31 October2024. In the American short “The Coordinates” husband (Lukas Hassel) and wife (Despina Moraitou) legal team successfully defend the accused murderer of a woman so he walks away with anContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “The Coordinates”: The Murder of a Daughter and the Clash of Legal Ethics and Morality”
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