Welcome to the 2005 Greek Film Festival of Canberra.

Canberra’s third annual Greek Film Festival opens at Electric Shadows Cinemas on Thursday 15 September with a bittersweet love story set against the tribulations of a 1922 Atlantic crossing of 700 mail order brides to America.

Directed by Pantelis Voulgaris and with executive producer Martin Scorsese, Brides is one of Greece’s biggest box office successes, receiving ten awards at the 2004 Thessaloniki International Film Festival and critical acclaim across the global community.

Brides is one of seven celebrated films being screened in this year’s Greek Film Festival of Canberra, which makes up part of the National 2005 Greek Film Festival being held in major cities around the country through September and October.

The Greek Film Festival Association of Canberra is proud to present the 2005 program, which again promises another season of the best of contemporary Greek cinema, as well as some classics to celebrate Greece’s endeavors in cinematic history.

The program includes a mosaic of multi-award-winning films, from accomplished as well as emerging young directors, such as renowned Hostage, Dust and Like Chef Like God, as well as the visually poetic Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow by Theo Angelopoulos’ who’s last feature film , Eternity and A Day, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1998.

The program also features two classics: Elis Kazan’s Academy Award winning America America (1963), based on his family’s immigration to the United States from Constantinople in the early 1900s; and the classic 1950’s comedy The Counterfeit Coin – celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of Greece’s most significant films.

The 2005 Greek Film Festival of Canberra will commence 15-21 September.

We would like to thank our partners, Electric Shadows and The Greek Film Centre, and all our sponsors and supporters for their generous support, with particular mention to the Festival’s principal sponsor, The Hellenic Club of Canberra.

The Greek Film Festival Association of Canberra invites you to enjoy the richness, diversity and depth of issues in Greek culture as expressed through the cinematic arts.

All Festival films are restricted to persons 18 years of age and over unless specified. This relates not necessarily to the content of the films, but to the legal requirements of holding the Festival, as set by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC). As such, no exceptions will be made.

Note: Brides is classified is PG
Stone Years is classified MA 15+

****Please note that screenings are subject to change.

An initiative of the Greek Film Festival Association of Canberra.