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Zeta, Floretta, Niki

A film tribute presented on the Onassis Stegi Upper Stage

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5 — 16 €

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Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 9 FEB 2022, 17:00
General presale: from 11 FEB 2022, 17:00

Full price: 7 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 6 €
Groups 10+ people, Unemployed, People with disabilities, Companions: 5 €
2 Screenings' combo (in the same day): 12 €
3 Screenings' combo (in the same day): 16 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org

Patriarchy, Matriarchy, #ΜeΤoo, 50/50, Cancel Culture, and Greek Cinema. This five-day tribute program presented on the Onassis Stegi Upper Stage sparks debate on how an entire era was captured on film. A collaboration between the Hellenic Film Academy and Onassis Stegi as part of the “Open Cinema” initiative.

How did Greek Cinema capture times past – and are they really past? How did it foretell a time of change – and are things really changing? How have Greek filmmakers negotiated the concepts and terms that are precipitating dynamic change in the public sphere, and redefining long-entrenched attitudes? “Open Cinema” – a series of events jointly organized by the Hellenic Film Academy and Onassis Stegi – is back for a second year, this time presenting the five-day tribute program “Zeta, Floretta, Niki”.

The tribute takes its title from the first names of three actors who starred in the “Amok” – Zeta Apostolou, Floretta Zanna, and Niki Triantafillidi. Three women who, at the time of the film’s release and for many decades afterwards, faced what today is considered reprehensible criticism and defamation for appearing in the feature. This gesture – of naming the tribute after them – is an act of love and the least that can be done as a form of public redress, marking a clean break from slut shaming in all its forms, many decades on.

The tribute features screenings of 14 landmark, popular, and hard-to-find films drawn from Greek cinema’s rich back-catalog of works dating up until 2009

Films that enter into discourse with gender issues, and capture instances of a violence that has been condemned and brought firmly out of the shadows by the #MeToo movement; films that encounter various forms of Patriarchy, but also Matriarchy; films that are strange and painful, fierce and, in some cases, funny; films that not only enquire into Cancel Culture but also shed light on the 50/50 gender parity pledge – that is, the underrepresentation of women in cinema. These screenings connect what once was with what now is, sparking discussion about vital and pressing issues of our times.

The multiple personalities of a woman a little before her death appear in Antoinetta Angelidi’s “Topos” (1985). Average, everyday men and women are trapped in Pavlos Tasios’ “Request for a Song” (1980). An individual is subjected to the violence of money, family, and social class in Tonia Marketaki’s “The Price of Love” (1984). Love, death, and dark humor reign supreme in “Singapore Sling” (1990), Nikos Nikolaidis’ ultimate film scandal. Dimitris Stavrakas’ “Betty” (1979) gives us the portrait of a trans woman some 40 years before the legal recognition of gender identity. A family flounders, cheerful and absurd, overturning prevailing stereotypical and moralizing attitudes, then validating them, then overturning them once more in Dinos Dimopoulos’ “A Crazy… Crazy Family” (1965). Love comes as a reaction to a world grown intractable in Alexis Damianos’ “Evdokia” (1971). A father who sees himself as master of his children sets them deadly traps in Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos’ “Caution, Danger!” (1983). A lower-middle class Greek family is set to burst into flames in Yannis Economides’ “Matchbox” (2003). Giorgos Katakouzinos’ “Absences” (1987) depicts gender and the roles within a bourgeois family with an uncommonly high level of tension. Two sisters face up to their passions and loneliness in “Love Wanders in the Night” (1981) by Frieda Liappa, one of the most important directors of the 80s, who would see her entire career devastated by savage and sensationalist tabloid television journalism. An agent flouts the rules in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “The Slow Business of Going” (2000). Theo Angelopoulos’ “The Beekeeper” (1986) offers us a relationship open to multiple interpretations, and a chronicle of the 1980s that enters into powerful discourse with the present day. Last but not least, terror, sexual violence, and fierce leads – both male and female – are examined under the hot sun in Dinos Dimopoulos’ “Amok” (1963).

The films are to be introduced by their creators, and by filmmakers, film critics, and journalists. In addition to these screenings, audiences will also have the chance to enjoy excerpts from films honored at the Hellenic Iris Awards since 2009, on screens set inside the Onassis Stegi foyer: shots, scenes, and fragments of dialogue and imagery created by contemporary exponents of Greek cinema that mirror, supplement, or upend the films and themes of the tribute program to be presented on the Onassis Stegi Upper Stage, entering into lively discourse with the featured works or else directly inspired by them.

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Program

Wednesday 23 February

18:30 | “Topos” by Antoinetta Angelidi | 1985 | 85΄ | DCP | In Greek without subtitles

Introduced by Antoinetta Angelidi

21:00 | “The Slow Business of Going” by Athina Rachel Tsangari | 2000 | 101´ | 35MM | In English with Greek subtitles

Introduced by Thelyia Petraki

Thursday 24 February

18:30 | “The Beekeeper” by Theo Angelopoulos | 1986 | 120´ | DCP | In Greek & French with Greek subtitles

Introduced by Syllas Tzoumerkas

21:30 | “Absences” by Giorgos Katakouzinos | 1987 | 118´ | 35MM | In Greek with French subtitles

Introduced by Themis Bazaka

Friday 25 February

17:30 | “Love Wanders in The Night” by Frieda Liappa | 1981 | 90´ | 35MM | In Greek & French with English subtitles

Introduced by Leda Galanou and Poly Lykourgou

20:00 | “Amok” by Dinos Dimopoulos | 1963 | 84´ | DCP | In Greek without subtitles

Introduced by Syllas Tzoumerkas
The film “Amok” is being screened with the support of Finos Films

22:30 | “Singapore Sling” by Nikos Nikolaidis | 1990 | 111´ | DCP | In Greek, English, French with Greek subtitles

Introduced by Michele Valley and Panos Thanassoulis

Saturday 26 February

17:00 | “The Price of Love” by Tonia Marketaki | 1984 | 110´ | 35MM

20:00 | “Evdokia” by Alexis Damianos | 1971 | 105´ | DCP | In Greek with English subtitles

23.00 | “Order” by Pavlos Tasios | 1980 | 90´ | 35MM | In Greek without subtitles

Introduced by Alexandros Papageorgiou and Maria Louka

Sunday 27 February

16:00 | “A Crazy Crazy Family” by Dinos Dimopoulos | 1965 | 101´ | DCP | In Greek without subtitles

Introduced by Christos Politis (“Christos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”)
The film “A Crazy Crazy Family” is being screened with the support of Finos Films

18:50 | “Betty” by Dimitris Stavrakas | 1979 | 33´ | DCP | In Greek with English subtitles

Introduced by Dimitris Stavrakas and Betty Vakalidou

19:30 | “Matchbox” by Yannis Economides | 2003 | 80´ | 35MM | In Greek with English subtitles

Introduced by Yannis Economides and members of the film’s cast

21:50 | “Caution, Danger!” by Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos | 1983 | 108´ | 35MM | In Greek without subtitles

Introduced by Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos and Yannis Economides

Open Cinema

Hellenic Film Academy X Onassis Stegi

Onassis Stegi and the Hellenic Film Academy are joining forces once more this year for a kind of “Open Cinema”. Open to various cinematic forms, to shorts, featurettes and features – be they fictional, documentary, or animated, or works that cannot be categorized at all. Open to established directors who blazed a path for Greek cinema and continue to inspire, but also to bold new voices taking their first steps. Open to different peoples and languages, topics and viewpoints. The “Open Cinema” initiative was launched in 2021 with a series of Greek film screenings on the Onassis Channel on YouTube that drew a total of 41,558 views from across the world, everywhere from mainland Europe and the UK to Canada and the USA.

Credits

  • Project Curators (HFA)

    Syllas Tzoumerkas, Yorgos Tsourgiannis, Elina Psykou

  • Project Manager

    Ioanna Rampaouni

  • Editing (Trailer & Excerpts)

    Stamos Dimitropoulos

  • Production Assistant

    Vaios Galanis

  • Trailer Music

    “Tani Ra” by Stamatis Spanoudakis (taken from the soundtrack to the film “Absences,” directed by Giorgos Katakouzinos)

  • Sung by

    Eleftheria Arvanitaki

Onassis Stegi Team

  • Curatorial Supervisor

    Afroditi Panagiotakou

  • Project Manager

    Dimitris Theodoropoulos

  • Onassis Cinema Consultant

    Amanda Livanou

  • Group Communication & Content Manager

    Demetres Drivas

  • Content Leader

    Alexandros Roukoutakis

  • Head of Creative

    Christos Sarris

  • Campaign Manager

    Daniel Vergiadis

  • Copywriter

    Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou

  • Graphic Design

    Theodoros Koveos

  • Social Media Manager

    Vassilis Bibas

  • Onassis Media Office

    Vasso Vassilatou, Katerina Tamvaki, Nefeli Tsartaklea Kasselaki

  • Website Editor

    Yiota Loura

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