'Greek Cinema Days' returns to Istanbul with classics from 1990s in December
Greek Cinema Days will return to Istanbul from Dec. 2 to 7 with a program centered on landmark films of 1990s Greek cinema.
The fourth edition of the event will take place at the Pera Museum and will feature screenings, talks, and a new short film competition.
Organizers said the opening film will be "It’s a Long Road," Pantelis Voulgaris’s 1998 work known as the emotional finale of a trilogy.
The festival will close with Theo Angelopoulos’s "The Suspended Step of the Stork," one of the director’s most influential films.
Masterclasses bring Turkish and Greek filmmakers together
A series of masterclasses will run alongside the screenings.
After the Dec. 7 showing of Waiting for the Clouds, director Yesim Ustaoglu will hold a session together with one of the film’s screenwriters, Petros Markaris.
Another session will take place on Dec. 6, when Dimitris Indares, one of the key figures of contemporary Greek filmmaking, will speak under the title "Cinema Insisting on Narrative—Preserving the Coherence of the World."
Vasileios Terzopoulos, the programmer of the Drama International Short Film Festival, will share his experience in a talk scheduled for Dec. 5.
Short film competition introduced for first time
This year marks the introduction of the festival’s first short film competition.
Seventy-five Greek short films will compete, evaluated by producer Asli Filiz, director Huseyin Karabey, and festival programmer Vasileios Terzopoulos.
Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Dec. 7.
Screenings of 13 feature films from contemporary Greek cinema
The festival will screen 13 feature films that shaped contemporary Greek cinema.
The lineup includes:
It’s a Long Road (1998)
End of an Era (1994)
Valkanizater (1997)
The Years of the Big Heat (1991)
Jaguar (1994)
Nights, Gambled Away (1997)
Desire (1995)
A Drop in the Ocean (1996)
Fanouropitta (1991)
Radio Moscow (1995)
Like a Prairie Cock in Wyoming (1995)
Truants (1996)
All screenings and events will take place at the Pera Museum between Dec. 2 and 7.
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