Greek Film Festival, Ankara 12-16/4

The Embassy of Greece in Ankara, in collaboration with Cankaya  Municipality are organizing a five days Greek film  festival between April 12 and April 16.  Five films by contemporary Greek directors will be shown in this framework, at Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi.

Τhe opening film (12/4) wıll be Tassos Boulmetis’ “A Touch of Spice”, a story about a young Greek boy (Fanis) growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor.

Filippos Tsitos’ “Unfair World”, which was selected as the Greek entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, will be on screen on April 13.  In the film Sotiris is a police interrogator, who one day decides to pardon every poor person to whom life has been cruel.

Giorgos Tsemberopoulos’ “The Enemy Within”, to be screened on April 14, follows a man who sees his life collapse after masked hoodlums break into his house, gag him and his family and rape his daughter.

On April 15, Babis Makridis’ “L”, which centers around a man who lives in his car and who has to meet his wife and two children in car parking lots, will be screened.

The event will end on April 16 with Pantelis Voulgaris’ “Brides”. It is a story of a mail order bride, one of 700 aboard the S.S. King Alexander, who falls in love with an American photographer.

All movies are subtitled in Turkish. Screenings will start at 19:00 every day and the entrance is free.

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