2024 Monthly Greek Film Series
The Hellenic Film Society presents Always on Sunday,
a series of once-monthly Sunday screenings of Greek films
at the prestigious Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY.
Sunday, April 21, 3pm
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria, NY 11106
1968
Directed by Tassos Boulmetis
2018 |93 mins
In Greek with English subtitles
With Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Stelios Mainas, Errikos Litsis, Ieroklis Michailidis, Giorgos Mitsikostas, Vasiliki Troufakou, Themis Panou, Antonis Antoniou.
On April 4, 1968, an epic basketball game between the Greek AEK team and Slavia Prague, against all odds, gave Greece its first European Cup, a Guinness world record for the largest attendance at a basketball game (80,000 in the Panathenaic Stadium), and a victory that is still talked about. More than just a thrilling David and Goliath story, acclaimed director Tassos Boulmetis uses this historic sporting event to create a docudrama that reveals the fascinating personal and political histories that came to play on the court that night against a backdrop of upheaval that rocked the world in 1968.
Nominated for five Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including Best Film
Sunday, May 19, 3pm
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria, NY 11106
DODO
Directed by Panos Koutras
2022 |132 minutes
In Greek and French with English subtitles
Cast: Smaragda Karydi, Akis Sakellariou, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Mariella Savvides, Natasa Exintaveloni, Nikos Gelia, Angelos Papadimitriou
A dodo, a bird extinct for the last 300 years, suddenly appears at the villa of a financially troubled family on the eve of their daughter’s marriage to a wealthy heir. Wedding preparations are disrupted, and the line between sanity and madness collapses as the situation spins out of control. Not recommended for young audiences.
Nominated for 15 Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Smaragda Karydi), Best Actor (Akis Sakellariou)
This project is supported, in part, by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program
with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall.
We look forward to bringing you Greek films that entertain, inform, and inspire.