Village East Cinema
Second Ave at 12th St, New York, NY 10003
October 3-6
Barrymore Film Center
153 Main St, Fort Lee, NJ 07024
October 8-9
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Ave at 37th St, Astoria, NY 11106
October 11-13
The New York Greek Film Expo will be hosted by Thanos Tokakis, one of Greece’s most prolific character actors, and the winner of the Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Eftyhia). Two of his 2023 films will be presented at this year’s Expo.
We are proud to honor actress Vangelio Andreadaki with
the Hellenic Film Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
Join us to watch the best films that Greece has to offer and to meet and greet many of the directors and actors who brought these films to life. We welcome them from Greece!
The 11-day event will be hosted by Thanos Tokakis, one of Greece’s most prolific character actors, and the winner of the Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Eftyhia). Two of his 2023 films will be presented at this year’s Expo.
We are proud to honor actress Vangelio Andreadaki with the Hellenic Film Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
Join us to watch the best films that Greece has to offer and to meet and greet many of the directors and actors who brought these films to life. We welcome them from Greece!
The 11-day event will be hosted by Thanos Tokakis, one of Greece’s most prolific character actors, and the winner of the Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Eftyhia). Two of his 2023 films will be presented at this year’s Expo.
We are proud to honor actress Vangelio Andreadaki with the Hellenic Film Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
Join us to watch the best films that Greece has to offer and to meet and greet many of the directors and actors who brought these films to life. We welcome them from Greece!
ANIMAL
Direction, screenplay: Sofia Exarchou
2023 | 116 mins | New York premiere
Cast: Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Flomaria Papadaki, Ahilleas Hariskos
Over the course of her ninth summer as a seasonal performer at a second-rate resort, a modestly talented entertainer realizes that aging will soon bring an end to her career.
Mature audiences only – nudity, adult situations
Seven 2023 Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Dimitra Vlagopoulou), and Best Supporting Actress (Flomaria Papadaki)
2023 Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Golden Alexander Award (Best Picture, International Competition), Best Actress (Dimitra Vlagopoulou)
Co-presented with NYWIFT, New York Women in Film & Television
Followed by audience Q&A with lead producer Maria Drandaki
ATHENS MIDNIGHT RADIO
ΝΥΧΤΕΡΙΝΟΣ ΕΚΦΩΝΗΤΗΣ
Direction, screenplay: Renos Haralambidis
2024 | 75 mins |US Premiere
Cast: Renos Haralambidis, Eleftheria Stamou, Margarita Amarantidi, Maria Zervou
On the evening of his 50th birthday, a former evzone, now a midnight radio announcer, decides to use the airwaves to locate the woman he loved and lost years ago. Always on the cutting edge as a director, Haralambidis has made an enchantingly poetic film, a meditation on aging, an ode to romance and to Athens, the city he loves.
Followed by audience Q&A with director-lead actor Renos Haralambidis.
Prior to the feature film, we presented this short film:
THE ARMCHAIR ON THE PAVEMENT
Direction and screenplay by Mary Kolonia
2023 | 15 mins
Cast: Panteles Papadopoulos, Sofia Seirli
Can one forget love? An old song on the radio triggers memories of youth in an elderly ex-army general suffering from dementia.
FONISSA
Murderess
Direction: Eva Nathena
Screenplay: Katerina Bei
2023 | 97 mins
Based on the classic novel by Alexandros Papadiamantis
Cast: Karyofyllia Karabeti, Maria Protopappa, Penelope Tsilika, Elena Topalidou, Dimitris Imellos, Christos Stergioglou, Giannis Tsortekis
Driven to despair over women’s oppressive living conditions in her island community circa 1900, a midwife finds a violent solution to confront the evils of a male-dominated society. Seeing herself as a savior of sorts, she takes the lives of young girls to spare them from a future of hardship and servitude.
Mature audiences only – themes of domestic violence, feminicide, and infanticide.
Sixteen 2024 Hellenic Film Academy Award nominations, including Best Film, Best Director (Eva Nathena), Best Actress (Karyofyllia Karabeti) and Best Screenplay (Katerina Bei)
Co-presented with NYWIFT, New York Women in Film & Television
Click here to watch a conversation with the creative team behind Fonissa
GUEST STAR
Direction, screenplay: Vasilis Christofilakis
2023 | 88 mins| New York premiere
Cast: Vasilis Christofilakis, Elli Tringou, Natasa Exintaveloni
This satirical dark comedy centers on the hapless son of famous actors who is given a chance to earn his own place in the public eye by hosting a late-night TV talk show. Things get complicated when a fake love affair with an eccentric singer is set up to enhance his public image.
Followed by audience Q&A with director Vasilis Christofilakis
THE LAST TAXI DRIVER
Ο ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟΣ ΤΑΞΙΤΖΗΣ
Direction, screenplay: Stergios Paschos
2023 | 115 mins| New York premiere
Cast: Kostas Koronaios, Kleilia Andriolatou, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Ektor Liatsos
A middle-aged cab driver grappling with his thwarted ambitions suddenly finds his life upended when he witnesses the suicide of one of his customers. Convinced that he needs a way out of his dead-end life, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful young woman.
Mature audiences only – nudity, adult situations.
Five 2024 Hellenic Film Academy Award nominations, including Best Actress (Kleila Andriolatou), Best Actor (Kostas Koronaios), Best Supporting Actress (Marisha Triantafyllidou), and Best Screenplay (Stergios Paschos)
Thessaloniki Film Festival, winner Best Actor in international competition: Kostas Koronaios
Followed by audience Q&A with lead actor Kostas Koronaios
LITTLE THINGS THAT WENT WRONG
ΜΙΚΡΑ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΑ ΠΟΥ ΠΗΓΑΝ ΛΑΘΟΣ
Direction, screenplay: Haris Vafeiadis
Opening Night Screening
Thursday, October 3
2023 | 96 mins| New York premiere
Cast: Thanos Tokakis, Mihalis Siriopoulos, Hristina Heila-Fameli, Maro Papadopoulou
This intense drama juxtaposes the lives of two fathers. One is an increasingly unhinged former TV celebrity who, having hit rock bottom, is anxious to win the affection of his estranged young daughter. The other, smug and seemingly successful, is in total denial of his shaky career prospects and his fraying marriage. Life brings the two men together in a situation that captures the desperation lurking in each man’s psyche.
Mature audiences only – brief nudity, adult situations.
Nominated for five Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director (Haris Vafeiadis), Best Screenplay (Vafeiadis), Best Actor (Thanos Tokakis)
Manhattan screening is followed by audience Q&A with lead actor Thanos Tokakis and director Haris Vafeiadis
Click here to watch a conversation with Thanos Tokakis
| Thursday, October 3, 7 pm Village East Cinema Opening night reception immediately following | |
| Wednesday, October 9, 7:30 pm Barrymore Film Center | |
| Friday, October 11, 7 pm Museum of the Moving Image | |
ΤΗΕ PROMOTION
ΕΞΕΛΙΞΗ
Direction, screenplay: Periklis Choursoglou
2023 | 99 mins| New York premiere
Cast: Alexandros Logothetis, Vasilis Kolovos, Eleni Gerasimidou, Dimitris Naziris, Vangelio Andreadaki
Promoted to a higher rank, a professor invites his father to travel with him from Athens to Thessaloniki to attend the university’s promotion ceremony. The trip provides an opportunity for father and son to sharpen their connection by reliving past experiences and memories. A plot twist toward the end of the film deepens the drama and points to the value of cathartic healing.
2024 Hellenic Film Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor (Vasilis Kolovos)
Manhattan screening is followed by audience Q&A with director Periklis Choursoglou and actress Vangelio Andreadaki
| Sunday, October 6, 3:30 pm Village East Cinema | |
| Tuesday, October 8, 7:30 pm Barrymore Film Center | |
| Sunday, October 13, 3 pm Museum of the Moving Image | |
THE RHAPSODIST
ΡΑΨΩΔΟΣ
Direction: Nikolai Hamel
Screenplay: Prometheus Aleifer, Nikolai Hamel
2023 | 97 mins | New York premiere
Cast: Prometheus Aleifer, Thanos Tokakis, Maria Katsandri, Natalia Swift
In classical Greece, a rhapsodist was a professional performer of epic poetry. Here he is a storyteller in a bar, captivating patrons with increasingly bizarre tales of magic and petty crime. The “anything goes” vibe makes for an actors’ tour de force and a film that is as zany as it is entertaining.
2023 Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Youth Jury Award
Followed by audience Q&A with lead actor Thanos Tokakis and director Nikolai Hamel
Click here to watch a conversation with Thanos Tokakis
YANI SPANOS: BEHIND THE MARQUEE
ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΣΠΑΝΟΣ: ΠΙΣΩ ΑΠ’ ΤΗ ΜΑΡΚΙΖΑ
Direction: Aris Dorizas
2023 | 118 mins| New York premiere
This tune-filled documentary traces the life of Yani Spanos from the Greek village of Kioto to Paris to Athens, and captures the legacy of the prolific composer who died suddenly in 2019 at the age of 85. Low profile and adverse to self-promotion, Spanos felt that his music speaks for him. Many of his memorable songs are performed here by a veritable who’s who in Greek popular music.
Screening is followed by audience Q&A with director Aris Dorizas
Substitution of films and guest speakers may be made without notice.
The New York Greek Film Expo 2024 is sponsored by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Kallinikeion Foundation, Microsoft, ConnectOne Bank, Flushing Town Hall, New York City Council, Queens Borough President, New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), Antenna Satellite and the family of Nikos A. Andriotis.
We look forward to bringing you Greek films that entertain, inform, and inspire.
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