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, 20094 BLACK SUITS (Tessera Mavra Koustoumia)June 12 - 6:30pmDirector: 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 SuitsDirector: 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 - 4:30pmScreening is in the Spielberg TheatreDirector: 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.
MESECINAJune 12 - 4:30pmScreening with Evridiki's CaseDirector: 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 LOSTJune 12 - 4:15pmDirector: 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 - 2:15pmDirector/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 - 12pmDirector: 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 - 12pmScreening with Sugartown: The Day AfterDirector/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.