Welcome to the third annual Greek Film Festival. Greek Cinema Now 2005 offers a gateway to the rich, complex culture of contemporary Greece through its lively and passionate cinema.
The Chicago Greek Film Festival thanks Barbara Scharres and Martin Rubin, The Gene Siskel Film Center; Voula Georgakakou and Efi Polydorou, the Greek Film Centre; and our sponsor, the Council of Hellenes Abroad, North and South America Region (SAE), for helping us make this event possible.
Enjoy the festival.
Harry Karahalios, Director
Gene Siskel Film Center The Interparking SELF-PARK, at 20 East Randolph, located between Wabash and State, offers Film Center patrons a discounted parking rate of $14. Patrons are required to show their ticket stub to receive the discount. |
Atlas (All The Weight Of The World)
dir. Thanos Anastopoulos
(Olo To Varos Tou Kosmou)
Saturday, May 21 and Wednesday, May 25 at 8:00 pm
2003, 35mm, 123 minutes
Starring:
Nikos Georgakis, Maria Zorba
Following in the footsteps of Nashville and Magnolia, this adventurous first feature interweaves the lives of eleven Athenians, including a gay coroner, a car-crash survivor, an aging scientist, a gregarious truck-driver, a reclusive philosopher, an executive unable to satisfy his wife, a Polish housekeeper with a missing husband, and a weightlifter competing for the world championship.