The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Listen” (Akouse me)

“Akouse me” is a voyage into cruelty, turmoil, tragedy, suffering, bullying and a small measure of redemption. Valmira (Efthalia Papacosta) is a 16-year-old girl attending a progressive school for the deaf in Athens. As the term ends she returns to a small village Katarrakis on the island of Chios in the Eastern Aegean to theContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Listen” (Akouse me)”

“The Tree and the Swing”: The Importance of Home

This 2013 Greek film is about the gravitation of Greek cardiologist Eleni (Myrto Alikaki), working in London, to her place of birth and her father in Greece. Life is simply perfect for Eleni as she has just been given a seat at a prestigious London hospital. Then basically out of nowhere the bank her husbandContinue reading ““The Tree and the Swing”: The Importance of Home”