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. |
A Song Is Not Enough dir. Elissavet Chronopoulou
(Ena Tragoudi De Ftanei)
Friday, May 6 and Wednesday, May 11 at 8:00 pm
2003, 35mm, 118 minutes
Starring:
Gogo Brebou, Fenia Papadodima
Shifting fluidly between the 1990s and the 1970s, this politically charged melodrama centers on a documentary filmmaker whose latest project awakens memories of her long-estranged mother, an activist imprisoned by the military junta. A Song Is Not Enough revisits a difficult and divisive period of recent Greek history, but it is at heart an affecting account of a mother and daughter's journey toward reconciliation.