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Master of the Shadows (Lefteris Xanthopoulos) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Quiet Days in August (Pantelis Voulgaris) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theo Angelopoulos) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Byron, Ballad for a Daemon (Nikos Koundouros) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Crystal Nights (Tonic Marketaki) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Please Ladies, Don’t Cry (Stavros Tsiolis) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Up, Down and Sideways (Michael Cacoyannis) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 31/3 - | American director Jules Dassin dies in a hospital in Athens, Greece at the age of 96 after a short illness. Dassin began his career behind the camera as an assistant to Alfred Hitchcock in 1940, and went on to direct the Oscar-winning Never On Sunday in 1960. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 2009 | ||||
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A group of disenchanted filmmakers consider launching a new film festival after voting to boycott the country’s film awards and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. [MORE} |
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140 filmmakers threaten to boycott the Thessaloniki Film Festival in November unless the newly-elected government takes steps to improve industry funding. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 17/11 - |
The Greek State Film Awards are cancelled as a result of over 200 filmmakers withdrawing their films from the Thessaloniki Film Festival in protest over film financing laws. The Award’s winners are selected from films shown at the festival. [MORE] |
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| 2010 | ||||
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ film Dogtooth wins five awards, including Best Film and Best Director, at the 1st Hellenic Film Academy Awards ceremony held at the Megaron in Athens. [MORE] |
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| 25/7 - | Cyprus-born director Michael Cacoyannis dies of complications following a heart attack in an Athens hospital at the age of 89. [ADD] | |||
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| 24/1 - | Acclaimed director Theo Angelopoulos dies from head injuries received after he is run over by a motorcycle while working on a movie set at Piraeus, near Athens. He was 76 years old. [ADD] | |||