Invisible | Αόρατος by Dimitris Athanitis

On Tuesday 16 May at 19:00 and on Wednesday 17 May at 21:00 the film Invisible (Greece, 2015, colour, 84 min) by Dimitris Athanitis will be screened in cinema Utopia in the original Greek version with English subtitles. The film is not suitable for children. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the director.

NOTE: Tickets for Greek films can no longer be bought at Utopia's box office. They will be sold at a separate desk by the cinema's entrance. Reservations and card payments will not be possible. The ticket costs 9 euros (5 euros for members). It would be very helpful you had the exact amount with you. Thank you!

Synopsis

Aris, a 38 year-old worker in a factory gets fired without any warning. He is shocked. As his attempts to be re-hired fail, he gradually becomes obsessed with the idea to take justice in his own hands. He buys a gun with the last of his money. He is ready to fulfil his goal when his ex-wife dumps their 6 year-old son on him.

Cast: Yannis Stankoglou, Kora Karvouni, Kostas Xikominos, Eva Stylander, Menelaos Hazarakis, Nikolitsa Drizi, Virginia Tamparopoulou, Christos Benetsis

About the director
Awarded Greek film director, born in Athens, with cinema and architecture studies. His debut film Addio Berlin gained Jury's Prize and Critics Mention at Thessaloniki FF for its innovating style, while No Sympathy for the Devil was nominated for Golden Alexander and gained the Best Actress Award in TIFF. 2000+1 Shots was selected by B. Mousoulis among the 10 best films for 2001 in Senses of Cinema. Three Days Happiness had 4 major nominations at Greek Film Academy Awards, showing in a number of festivals.

Rebetiko Tribute by Greek Cinema Club of Luxembourg

In the framework of the festival "Au cœur des faubourgs-Kardiá" organised by Neimënster, the Greek Cinema Club will screen, in collaboration with and in the premises of Cinématèque (17, place de Théâtre) three films on rebetiko, a kind of Greek popular songs and music, in the original Greek version with English subtitles.

MY SWEET CANARY by Roy Sher (documentary, Greece/France/Israel, 2011, 90 min), on Monday 27 June at 20:30 

I LIKE HEARTS LIKE MINE (documentary, Greece, 2000, 65 min), in the presence of the director, George Zervas on Wednesday 29 June at 18:30 in the presence of the director, who will take answers from the audience after the screening, and

REBETIKO (drama, Greece, 1983, 106 min) on Wednesday 29 June at 20:30

More info on the films to be found at the Cinematheque section of the Ville de Luxembourg website here.

Please check our Facebook Page for more info and YouTube videos that put on focus Rebetiko music genre.

Greek Version

Στο πλαίσιο του φεστιβάλ "Au cœur des faubourgs-Kardiá" που διοργανώνεται από το Neimënster, η Ελληνική Κινηματογραφική Λέσχη Λουξεμβούργου θα προβάλει σε συνεργασία με και στην αίθουσα της Cinématèque (17, place de Théâtre) τρεις ταινίες με θέμα το ρεμπέτικο τραγούδι, με αγγλικούς υποτίτλους:

ΚΑΝΑΡΙΝΙ ΜΟΥ ΓΛΥΚΟ του Ρόι Σερ (ντοκιμαντέρ, Ελλάδα/Γαλλία/Ισραήλ, 2011, 90’) τη Δευτέρα 27 Ιουνίουστις 20:30

Τρεις νέοι μουσικοί, ένας Ισραηλινός, μια Τουρκάλα και μια Ελληνίδα, ακολουθούν τα μουσικά ίχνη της Ρόζας Εσκενάζυ, κορυφαίας ερμηνεύτριας του σμυρναίικου και ρεμπέτικου τραγουδιού. Ιστορικά και μουσικά τεκμηριωμένο ντοκουμέντο, το οποίο αποτυπώνει με απλότητα, με στερεά λόγια, καθαρές εικόνες κι εξαιρετικές νέες εκτελέσεις λαϊκών αριστουργημάτων τη διαχρονική αξία των θλιμμένων και γλεντζέδικων μελωδιών του ρεμπέτικου. Και ταυτόχρονα την ατμόσφαιρα μιας ολόκληρης εποχής και τη δύναμη της μουσικής να καταργεί γλώσσες και σύνορα.

The Godmother | H Νονά (2014) by Stelios Kouloglou

On Tuesday 8 December at 19:00 and on Wednesday 9 December at 21:00 the documentary The Godmother (Greece, 2014, colour, 105 min) by Stelios Kouloglou will be screened in cinema Utopia in the original Greek version with English subtitles. The director will be present for the screening of Tuesday. Not suitable for children under 16 years.

Synopsis 

Α few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Angela Merkel, an insignificant physicist from East Germany who was not interested in politics, is the most powerful woman in the world. Her teacher from the small town where she grew up, believes that she is the smartest student he ever had. Those who have worked with her, support that “Merkiavelli” exercises power without moral barriers, just as Machiavelli taught. A journalist, who knows her well, supports that she uses the methods of a Mafia godmother. In 2008, the German Chancellor was asked to cope with the international financial crisis. The countries of the South were in the test tube. “If I was writing a book for the shock doctrine now”, says Naomi Klein, “it would be for Greece”. How did Merkel manage to impose the German hegemony in Europe? 

About the director 

Studies in Paris and Tokyo. Correspondent for the Greek Radio and TV in Paris (1983-84), in Moscow during perestroika (1989-93) and during the war in Yugoslavia (92-95). Regular collaborator for ARTE’s news program «7 heures et demi». Editor-in-chief and producer of “Reportage Without Frontiers” (1996-2012), a weekly current affairs and documentaries program awarded 4 times as the best informative program of the Greek television. Best Greek documentary award for his series of programs on the Greek civil war (2000), Eurocomenius award for the film “The Death Match” (2002). Producer and director of numerous grand reportages and documentaries for ARTE, ERT, including «Whistleblowers» (2004), "Welcome to Europe"(2011), “Oligarchy”(2012) and the internationally awarded (Seoul 2009, Zaragoza 2010) «Apology of an Economic Hit Man» (2008).

AGOR'Α (2014) by Yorgos Avgeropoulos

On Tuesday 21 April at 19:00 and on Wednesday 22 April at 21:00 we will screen at cinema Utopia the documentary Agorá (Greece, 2014, colour, 117 min) directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos. The film is in the original Greek version with English subtitles.

Please note that the screening of April 21st will be followed by a Q & A session with the director at Culturando. Feel free to come with your questions.

Director's Note

"For the last 13 years I am travelling the world, filming and bringing to the audience images of an unjust world, dark, tortured, and very often dangerous. I have confronted human despair, hunger, misery, war and death of any kind. I have exposed the greed of governments and multinational companies, promising "development" while bringing poverty and mayhem. However, I have always found resilience, hope and strength.

Now, I am filming in my own country: What I have witnessed in Africa, Asia or Latin America is now happening in my backyard. Agorá is my personal response to the crisis, a stand I want to make towards injustice. My intention is to give voice to people that cannot be heard.

Since the start of the crisis in 2010, my team of seven people and me have started filming every significant event related to the current crisis, focusing on people's lives, approaching characters from different social classes, witnessing how their lives are changing as time passes by and how the crisis affects them or not. At the same time, we are following the dramatic timeline of the crisis itself, seeking answers from key decision makers, politicians or insiders, in Greece and the rest of the world, recording the parallel rise of fascism and solidarity movements.

The film becomes a quest for the initial meaning of Agorá. In Ancient Athens, it was the womb of Democracy. Today, in Modern Greek, the word Agorá has come to simply denote a market place."

Yorgos Avgeropoulos

For more info, check Agora's Official Website.

Amnesia Diaries | Ημερολόγια Αμνησίας (2012) by Stella Theodorakis

On Tuesday 14 October at 19:00 and on Wednesday 15 October at 21:00 the Greek Cinema Club of Luxembourg will screen the film Amnesia Diaries (Greece, colour, 2012, 103 min) directed by Stella Theodorakis.  The film is in the original Greek version with English subtitles. 

N.B. First screening (14th October) will be in the presence of director and a Q & A session will follow. Don't miss the Meet & Greet session after the end of the screening, where a selection of Greek wine and tapas will be offered.

Katerina Gogou, Reinstating the Dark Side - Κατερίνα Γώγου, για την αποκατάσταση του Μαύρου

On Tuesday 23 April at 19:30 and on Wednesday 24 April at 21:30 we will screen in cinema Utopia the film Katerina Gogou, Reinstating the Dark Side (Greece, 2012, colour and B&W, 67 min) by Antonis Boskoitis. The film is in the Greek original version with Εnglish subtitles. Suitable for children over 16 years old.

The director Antonis Boskoitis will be present both days to discuss with the audience. After Tuesday's screening a drink will be offered.

Film Summary

Katerina Gοgou lived her life like a flickering candle, wrote her radical poems and shared in other people's pain before she took a rock 'n roll dive into death at the beginning of the 90s. 

Gogou is remembered by people whose paths crossed her own, including actors, poets, political activists, directors, singers and songwriters. Her film portrait in black and white is complemented by previously unreleased audiovisual material and dramatised sequences, featuring actress Loukia Michalopoulou. Katerina Gοgou - Reinstating The Dark Side is the last part of a non-fiction trilogy, which started out in 2002 with a portrait of Fleury Dadonaki and continued in 2008 with the history of Greek rock. A series of marginal personalities who lived and died in the city of Athens provides the connective tissue among these three documentaries, shedding light on an idiosyncratic urban landscape that's forever gone.

Man at Sea

Η Ελληνική Κινηματογραφική Λέσχη Λουξεμβούργου θα προβάλει την Τρίτη 13 Νοεμβρίου στις 19.30 και την Τετάρτη 14 Νοεμβρίου στις 21.30 στον κινηματογράφο Utopia, την ταινία MAN AT SEA του Kωνσταντίνου Γιάνναρη (Ελλάδα, 2011, έγχρωμη, 93). Η ταινία θα προβληθεί στα ελληνικά με αγγλικούς υποτίτλους και είναι κατάλληλη για παιδιά από 12 ετών. Ο σκηνοθέτης θα είναι παρών στην προβολή για συζήτηση με το κοινό. Στο τέλος της προβολής καλείστε να πιείτε μαζί μας ένα ποτήρι κρασί.

ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ ΤΑΙΝΙΑΣ

Μετά από τον μακροχρόνιο χωρισμό που ακολούθησε τον θάνατο του γιου τους, ο Άλεξ και η Κέιτ συναντιούνται ξανά στο δεξαμενόπλοιο Sea Voyager. Την ίδια μέρα, ο Άλεξ σώζει τριάντα έφηβους μετανάστες που έχουν ναυαγήσει μεσοπέλαγα.

Ο διοικητής της σχεδόν χρεοκοπημένης πλοιοκτήτριας εταιρείας πιέζει τον Άλεξ να λύσει το θέμα άμεσα, αλλά κάθε προσπάθειά του οδηγεί σε αδιέξοδο. Κι ενώ κάποια μέλη του πληρώματος δημιουργούν στοργικούς δεσμούς με τα παιδιά,ανάμεσά τους και η Κέιτ που δίνει μια δεύτερη ευκαιρία στη μητρότητα, οι περισσότεροι θεωρούν ότι οι «επισκέπτες» τους έχουν κάνει κατάχρηση της φιλοξενίας τους. Αδύναμος να χειριστεί την αυξανόμενη ένταση και επηρεασμένος από τον χαμό του γιου του, ο Άλεξ προχωρά σε μια σειρά από λάθος ενέργειες, ώσπου τελικά βρίσκει το θάρρος να ξεπεράσει τον εαυτό του.