Greek film festival in Sydney

SYDNEY — As part of the 15th Greek Festival of Sydney, a festival of Greek films will be held at the Academy Twin Cinemas in Darlinghurst, Tuesday-Thursday, March 25-27.

The program includes five feature films and six prize-winning shorts.

The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha, directed by Stavros Tsiolis, is the story of 11 prison escapees in the Peloponnese and a map purporting to show the location of a lost treasure.

Time Sleeps in the Orient is a documentary by Nikos Anagnostopoulos shot in Turkmenistan, attempting to recapture the meeting of Greek civilisation with the east.

Pantelis Voulgaris' Acropole is set in 1950s and '60s Athens theatre, which was dominated by the spectacular shows of the Acropole musical theatre. When the female star of the show is sacked, she is replaced by a male one-time former child prodigy who specialises in comic female roles.

Dream II, by Freddy Vianellis, is about father-son relationships. Nicholas takes his son sailing to inspire in him a love of the sea, but the overbearing father is confronted by the son's indifference.

Nikos' Panayotopoulos' I Dream of My Friends covers the period 1965-90 and is something of a political road movie about the current generation of 50-year-olds in Greece.

All films are subtitled in English. Admission, restricted to 18 years and over, is $10 for one session, $14 for two sessions. Sessions start at 9.30pm Tuesday, 7.30 and 9.30pm Wednesday and Thursday. For further information, ring the Greek Festival office, (02) 9750 0440.

From GLW issue 268