LAGFF 2010

June 11, 2010
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In This Issue:
1. Saturday's Program
2. Individual Tickets
3. LAGFF 2010 Auction
Saturday's program


DOGTOOTH (Kynodontas)
June 12 - 9pm
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
LA Premiere

Intense and unyielding, this darkly comic fable spins around issues of control and power. Three siblings are confined to a sprawling estate where their parents have created a world with its own twisted rules and vocabulary. But when the eldest daughter questions the absolute authority of her father, she sets into motion a series of events that could rend their fragile world.

Winner, Un Certain Regard, Festival de Cannes, 2009

4 BLACK SUITS (Tessera Mavra Koustoumia)
June 12 - 6:30pm
Director: Renos Haralambidis

Two down and out undertakers, an actor, and a convict get together in a desperate - and hilarious - attempt to change their trajectory of failure. The scheme: fulfill a rich dead man's last wish to be transferred from Athens to his village in his coffin... on foot. But when the promised reward begins to appear as elusive as their final destination, things get complicated.

N' ME FOR MYSELF (Ke Ego Gia Mena)
June 12 - 6:30pm
Screening with 4 Black Suits
Director: Georgis Grigorakis

This energetically charged story reminds us that true love comes in all shapes and forms.



EVRIDIKI'S CASE (I Periptosi Evridiki)
June 12 - 4:30pm
Screening is in the Spielberg Theatre
Director: Freddy Vianellis

Working through four cinematic themes at once, this engaging and unconventional film charts the life of Evridiki, who, after years of drug addiction and suffering, is now fighting to control her life.
MESECINA
June 12 - 4:30pm
Screening with Evridiki's Case
Director: Sofia Exarchou

A very ill boy escapes his gloomy life at the hospital into the bustling streets of Athens, and gets a sweet taste of love.


ARCADIA LOST
June 12 - 4:15pm
Director: Phedon Papamichael
LA Premiere

With a coming of age theme of metaphysical undertones, the film follows the spiritual journey of two teenagers in the aftermath of a devastating car accident in the hidden terrain of Greece. Papamichael picks unseen before images of Greece that reveal the youths' gradual psychological awakening.

THE BUILDING MANAGER (O Diaheiristis)
June 12 - 2:15pm
Director/Producer: Periklis Hoursoglou

Pavlos is a master at helping other people; his wife and children, his mother, and now the tenants of the residential block he has inherited. He tends to everyone's needs except one: himself. All that changes when he meets Gianna, a beautiful woman half his age, and for a brief time Pavlos feels something he hasn't felt in years: satisfied.

SUGARTOWN: THE DAY AFTER (Sugartown, I Epomeni Mera)
June 12 - 12pm
Director: Kimon Tsakiris

The Mayor of Zacharo or Sugartown is a man on a mission. A self-proclaimed hero, he is set on developing the town after devastating wildfires burned his constituency to the ground in 2007. Will his plans to maximize the burned land's profitability and his indifference to the rule of law destroy what is left - a delicate ecosystem and a population bereft of homes and possessions?

THE CHARMER OF GRAMMOS (O Planeftis tou Grammou)
June 12 - 12pm
Screening with Sugartown: The Day After
Director/Producer: Vangelis Efthymiou

Follow the aging hunter-philosopher Charmer as he searches for honey, one bee at a time, and explore the impact humans have on some of the most important players in our environment - the honeybees.

Individual Tickets


Tickets to individual events are now available. 

Individual screenings [$9 online / $12 at the door]

Closing Night which includes red carpet premier of PLATO'S ACADEMY, star-studded Orpheus Awards, and dinner reception
[$70 online / $80 at the door]

LAGFF 2010 Auction

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LAGFF 2010 SPONSORS
LAGFF is greatly supported by the Consul General of Greece
 Elisabeth Fotiadou, and Press Counselor Helen Vrynioti.


Additional support comes from:
Aris Anagnos
Development Group (Michael Galanakis)
European Travel (Eddie Pipilides)
Hellenic university Club of Southern California
Nevada Film Office (Charlie Geocaris)
Wonderful Ethnic
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