Past Events
Past Events
2025 Monthly Greek Film Series
The Hellenic Film Society presents Always on Sunday, a series of monthly screenings of Greek films at the prestigious Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY, to sell-out crowds.
ANIMAL
Directed and written by Sofia Exarchou
2023 | 116 mins
In Greek with English subtitles
Cast: Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Flomaria Papadaki, Ahilleas Hariskos, Chronis Barbarian
An entertainer returning for a ninth summer to a Greek island resort comes to the life-changing realization that she is aging out of her career.
Mature audiences only (nudity, adult situations)
Co-presented with New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT)
Winner of seven Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Vlagopoulou) and Best Supporting Actress (Papadaki)
Nominated for the Lux Audience Award of the European Parliament
2023 Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Winner of the Golden Alexander Award for Best Picture
Screened March 8-9, 2025
ATHENS MIDNIGHT RADIO
ΝΥΧΤΕΡΙΝΟΣ ΕΚΦΩΝΗΤΗΣ
Direction, screenplay: Renos Haralambidis
2024 | 75 mins
Cast: Renos Haralambidis, Eleftheria Stamou, Margarita Amarantidi, Maria Zervou
On the evening of his 50th birthday, a former evzone, now a midnight radio announcer, decides to use the airwaves to locate the woman he loved and lost years ago. Always on the cutting edge as a director, Haralambidis has made an enchantingly poetic film, a meditation on aging, an ode to romance and to Athens, the city he loves.
Screenings will be followed by a conversation with writer/director/star Renos Haralambidis, who will appear from Athens via Zoom, for an interview and questions from the audience.
Screened February 16, 2025
DOURGOUTI TOWN
Direction: Dimitris Bavellas
2024 | 88 mins
With Haris Alexiou
This documentary traces the gentrification and virtual obliteration of Dourgouti, a residential district just south of the Acropolis. Rich in history, the area housed World War I refugees in the 1920s and served as the Armenian ghetto of Athens. During World War II, the neighborhood was the center of resistance against occupying Nazi forces. The construction of “progressive public housing” in the 1960s helped usher in the present day gentrification. “We have to accept change,” says the director who has roots in Dourgouti. “But we must work to prevent the mass exploitation of whole districts that have overwhelming consequences for the locals.”
Winner of the 2024 Grand Festival Award for Foreign Documenary, Berkeley Video & Film Festival
In Greek with English subtitles
Screened January 12, 2025
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