Among the highlights of this year’s event is the long-awaited documentary by Brett Morgen about David Bowie, entitled “Moonage Daydream”
The Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights returns from 28 September to 9 October 2022 for its 28th edition, more optimistic and action-packed than ever. This year, the international institution highlights new voices of world cinema, presents to the public some of the best and most anticipated films of the season and organizes tributes, special screenings, masterclasses and parallel events, justifying the fanatical love of the viewers all these years.
After the safe and successful conduct of the Festival, in a hybrid form during the years of the pandemic, this year’s event is returning to normality and will take place exclusively in closed cinemas, specifically in the cinemas ‘Astor, ‘Asty, Danaos 1 & 2, Ideal, Trianon, Village Cinemas @ The Mall, but also in the theaters of Megaros Musikis and Pallas.
In particular, the 28th edition of the Festival hosts 142 films, 3 competition divisions and 4 major tributes. Among the long-awaited premieres, we find the documentary by Laura Poitras “All Beauty and Bloodshed” which won the Golden Lion at the recent Venice Film Festival, paving the way for the film to the upcoming Oscars. From Venice comes the award-winning Screenplay and Best Actor Award (Colin Farrell) “Spirits of Inisherin” by Martin McDonough, while audiences will also have the opportunity to watch the highly daring, much-discussed Golden Leopard from the Locarno Festival: the “Rule 34” by Julia Murat.
Also, the 28th Premiere Nights will feature the official oscar suggestions Denmark (“Holy Spider” by Ali Abbasi), Ireland (“The Quiet Girl” by Colum Bereid), Cambodia (“Return to Seoul” by Davy Chu), Serbia (“In the Dark” by Dusan Milic) , of France (“Two Sides of the Razor” by Claire Denney) and Poland (“EO” by Jerzy Skolimowski), alongside of course this year’s favorites for the Oscar for Best International Film that were chosen as the opening and closing films of the Festival: “Decision Escape” by Park Chan-wook (Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival) and “Close” by Lucas Dodd (Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival Committee).
In addition to cinephile thrills, the festival also hosts new works by beloved international stars. Among them we’ll see Penelope Cruz in Emanuele Criallese’s Endless Love, Anthony Hopkins in James Gray’s Armageddon Time, and Ralph Fiennes serving dangerous cuisine to Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult in The Menu Mark Mylond.
Among the highlights of this year’s event are: the long-awaited documentary by Brett Morgen for David Bowie, entitled ‘Moonage Daydream’, an audio-visual immersion into the music of the influential artist, which will be presented in a special screening at Village Cinemas’ state-of-the-art VMAX Sphera at The Mall Athens. The festival is also preparing an anniversary screening for the centenary of the birth of “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” at the Trianon, in order to honor this expressionist silent masterpiece by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, considered one of the greatest creations in the history of cinema .
Among the guests who will attend this year’s Premiere Nights are the recent Cannes Film Festival award-winning director Jerzy Skolimowski, who will present his much-discussed new film “EO”, the Golden Bear winner and Oscar nominee for her film “Soul and Body”, Ildiko Enyendi, with her new film, “My Wife’s Story”, as well as Marco Morricone, son of the legendary composer, Ennio Morricone.
TRIBUTES
Two years after the loss of Ennio Morricone, the Premiere Nights pay tribute to the work and personality of the legendary Italian composer, through a multifaceted tribute that will be “heard” beyond the big screen. The tribute includes the pan-Hellenic premiere of the documentary “Ennio” (directed by Oscar winner Giuseppe Tornatore) at the Athens Concert Hall, the presentation of the biography “Ennio Morricone – Looking for that sound”, in the presence of the author Alessandro De Rosa and the art exhibition entitled “Ennio Formes” in Olympia, Municipal Music Theater “Maria Callas”.
The next tribute of the organization concerns the self-made creator Jean Estas, the sharp and uncompromising director who remains unclassified in the canon of French cinema. On the occasion of their re-release in theaters abroad, Premiere Nights presents the two fiction films that Estas managed to shoot, “Mama and the Whore” (1973) and “My Little Darlings” (1974), both restored in 4K.
Fifty years after the first UK Pride parade, Premiere Nights highlights landmark films for emancipation and the assertion of human rights through a historical retrospective of British cinema. Among the titles included in the tribute “Queer Britannia: When English Cinema Came Out of the Closet” are Derek Jarman’s “Sebastiane”, John Schlesinger’s “Cursed Sunday” which was nominated for an Oscar for best film, the autobiographical “Trilogy” by Terence Davies, but also Bill Condon’s Oscar-winning screenplay Gods and Demons.
Finally, the festival hosts a tribute to “New Hollywood and the American cinema of the seventies”, where we will have the opportunity to remember, in restored copies, emblematic films, such as “The Godfather” by Francis Ford Coppola, “Taxi Driver” by Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville’ and Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘The Last Show’. The reason for this great tribute is the worldwide celebration of 50 years since the first release of “The Godfather” in theaters.
More information about the 28th DFK of Athens Premiere Nights on the aiff.gr and cinemamagazine.gr sites.
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