THE weekend-long Greek Film Festival is now in full swing at Palace Cinemas, with three more days of its “best and uplifting films” to come.

This year’s program organisers say, the festival is filled with love, laughs, politics and tragedy, finishing up on Sunday with Costa-Gavras’ “Z”.

“Z” screened last year at Cannes as part of their showcase of film classics which had its time as one of the most disturbing political films ever seen.

Today’s line-up comprises “One Breath Synopsis”, a drama that follows a Greek immigrant working as a nanny in Frankfurt. Today, 6.30pm Friday, November 18.

Then at 9pm there is “This Is A Coup”, directed by Theopi Skarlatos. It’s a documentary look into the rise of radical left party Syriza, how it won the Greek elections in 2015, how it clashed with the global financial system and how it all ultimately ended.

Tomorrow, Saturday, November 19 at 4:30pm there will be Aron Lehmann’s culture-clash comedy “Highway To Hellas”, in which a German banker gets sent to the island of Paladiki to check on an old loan, followed at 6:30pm by Christopher Papakaliatis’ 2000 and film 2012 film “What If…”, Billed as a “sliding doors” love story telling two tales, one of a confirmed bachelor and the other of a couple.

At 5pm on Sunday, November 20, there is “Z”.  It’s as relevant today as it was in 1969. A government scurries to cover up its involvement in the “accidental” death of a prominent left-wing politician.

The Greek Film Festival in Canberra, at Palace Cinemas, new Acton, until Sunday, November 20, bookings to PalaceCinemas.com.au

 

 

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