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. |
Kalabush dir. Ant. Florides and Th. Nikolaides
Saturday, May 14 and Wednesday, May 18 at 8:00 pm
2003, 35mm, 90 minutes
Starring:
Marios Ioannou, Semeli Oikonomou
In this award-winning satire of bureaucracy and xenophobia, a Syrian illegal immigrant lands in Cyprus during the carnival season. During six frantic days in which his path crosses those of other outsiders, he discovers that he has become an invisible non-person and that his promised land has run out of promise.