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. |
Delivery dir. Nikos Panayotopoulos
Saturday, May 7 and Thursday, May 12 at 8:00 pm
2004, 35mm, 100 minutes
Starring:
Thanos Samaras, Alexia Kaltsiki
Co-scripted by noted author Michel Fais, Delivery follows a nameless and nearly wordless (but otherwise well-endowed) young stranger who is cast adrift in Athens until he finds a job as a pizza delivery boy. This gritty film gives an unusually unvarnished view of "the Athens nobody sees," as its roving protagonist explores the city's seamy underside and develops a fatal attraction to a street-trash hooker run by a Chinese gangster.