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Greek and Cypriot movies in the European Union Film Festival in India

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The award-winning drama “Invisible” (2015) by Dimitris Athanitis will be screened on Monday, June 12, 2017 at 16:30 hrs in New Delhi (Siriform Auditorium Complex, Audi 2, August Kranti Marg, Khel Gaon). The screening takes place in the framework of the European Union Film Festival organized by the European Union Delegation in New Delhi from 10 to 14 June 2017  and afterwards in other major cities of India (CHENNAI: 22 April – 4 May 2017, COIMBATORE: coming soon…, DELHI: 9 – 14 June 2017, GOA: 1 – 8 July 2017, KOLKATA: coming soon…, MUMBAI: coming soon…, PUDUCHERRY: 15 July – 3 August 2017, PUNE:  11 – 17 July 2017, RANCHI: coming soon…).

In a career-defining performance, Yiannis Stankoglou plays Aris – a 38-year-old factory worker who was fired without warning. He is shocked and his attempts to be re-hired fail. In this misery, he decides to take justice into his own hands, but even these plans are failing when his ex-wife leaves to him the custody of his six-year-old son.

Scenario: Dimitris Athanitis & Yorgos Makris
Production: Dimitris Athanitis & Panos Papadopoulos
Starring: Yannis Stankoglou, Christos Benetsis, Menelaos Hazarakis, Kora Karvouni.

EUFF  Information

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family memberThe award-winning Cypriot film “Family member” (2015) by Marinos Kartikis will be screened on Saturday, June 10 at 18:45 hrs at Siriform Auditorium Complex, Audi 2, (August Kranti Marg, Khel Gaon).

The film is about two adults, Υiorgos and Sophia, who are trying hard to cope with their financial problems and the needs of their two children. Also, their grandfather helps them out with his pension since the family business, a small grocery store, does not provide them with enough income. When suddenly the grandfather dies in his sleep, they decide to keep it a secret for as long as they can so as to continue collecting the money from his pension. But things become more complicated when officers from the social security department start looking for the grandfather.

EUFF  Information

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