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More than 11,000 Fans Attended Greek Film Festival in Australia

This year’s Greek Film Festival welcomed over 11,000 film fans nationwide, celebrating the latest and greatest Greek films.

The festival saw an increase in attendance compared to other years, with organiser Penny Kyprianou saying it was one of the “stronger years” for the festival.

“People were certainly taking quite a few risks on the [Melbourne] program, out of the whole festival we only had one comedy and yet we were still able to sell out many sessions,” Kyprianou told Neos Kosmos.

She said people were “very open” to the program and the main feedback had been about adding more cinema venues or extending the festival.

To mark the end of another successful film festival, audiences were treated to an encore screening of Manousos Manousakis’s Cloudy Sunday which shares the story of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community during World War II, and the tumultuous relationship between a Christian man and a Jewish woman.

Neos Kosmos reports that this year’s Greek Student Film Competition focused on interpreting the theme ‘only the children know what they are looking for’ – a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.

Fifteen entries were received from schools across Victoria as well as New South Wales, with the first prize for the Primary category going to Clemton Park for their film Η Αναζήτηση (The Search).

First prize for the Secondary category was from the Greek Community of Melbourne’s Language and Culture School’s Alphington Campus for Κάνε μία ευχή (Make a Wish).

Source: Neos Kosmos

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