Welcome to the fourth annual Greek Film Festival. Greek Cinema Now 2006 offers a gateway to the rich, complex culture of contemporary Greece through its lively and passionate cinema.
Once again the festival's seven-film lineup showcases the range and robustness of recent Greek cinema, with a wide variety of subjects including frantic farce (Woman is a... Tough Person), offbeat cityscape (A Dog's Dream), cross-cultural romance (Alexandria, Liubi), gripping hostage drama (Hostage), and sexually provocative comedy (Honey and the Pig). In addition, the series presents Buzz, a fascinating documentary portrait of Greek American screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides.
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. |
Hostage dir. Constantine Giannaris
(Omiros)
Friday, May 19 and Tuesday, May 23 at 8:00 pm
2005, Greece, 35mm, 102 minutes, In Greek with English subtitles
Starring:
Stathis Papadopoulos, Theodora Tzimou
Writer-director Giannaris brings both excitement and depth to this gripping story based on real events that took place in northern Greece in 1999. A young Albanian man, one of thousands who flooded into Greece after the fall of the communism, hijacks a bus, demanding money, safe passage to Albania, and restitution for the wrongs he claims he suffered in Greece. Flashbacks unfold his story and those of several passengers, as the bus leads a bizarre convoy of police, reporters, and anxious relatives toward the border.