Istanbulโs Pera Museum is organizing a new event that is putting Greek cinema under the spotlight in partnership with EMEIS Culture Collective from Greece and Turkey's istos film and istos broadcast. The Greek Film Days, which will be held for the first time, starts Tuesday and run until June 12.
The Greek Film Days features a film program that emphasizes auteur cinematography and has been selected from a time period of Greek cinema from the early 60s to the end of the 80s. The event is presented to the cinephiles of Istanbul free of charge with the special support and financial contributions of the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Greek Film Center, the Suna and Inan Kฤฑraรง Foundation, the Greek Consulate General in Istanbul and the Greek Film Academy.
Opening film from Angelopoulos
The Greek Film Days, in which 17 films from 18 directors will be screened, is launching with the 1970 film “Anaparastasiโ (โReconstructionโ). The production is the first feature film of Theo Angelopoulos, one of the auteur directors of Greek cinema. The film, based on the news of a crime of passion in a village, which Angelopoulos visited accompanied by witnesses to the crime, draws a socioeconomic portrait of the country where labor migration to Germany was experienced in the 60s and 70s. Imprinted on one's memories with cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitisโ impressive black and white images, “Anaparastasiโ is also described as the birth of the new Greek cinema by cinema historians.
One of the exciting films of the Greek Film Days program is director Costa-Gavrasโ โZโ (1969), which became an international sensation in…