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The Thessaloniki Film Festival starts today

From today until 13 November, when the Festival ends, they will be shown as a whole 151 movies from 53 Countries. Alexander Payne's new film “The Descendants / The Descendants" starring George Clooney, in the context of the 52nd Thessaloniki Festival which starts tonight. "The festival will continue even with 1/5 of the budget that my predecessors had, and it will be even better, even more interesting, even more cinematic" said artistic director Dimitris Epidis while presenting the festival program. The budget of this year's event is just two million euros – amount secured by NSRF, the Ministry of Culture, and sponsorships. They participate in the official Competition program 15 first or second fiction films by directors from around the world, which will claim the Gold, the Silver and the Bronze Alexander (correspond to a cash prize 20.000, 10.000 and 5.000 euro . This year's event also pays tribute to the work of filmmaker Konstantinos Giannaris, to the Turkish director Erden Kiral, to American Sarah Driver (partner and partner of Jim Jarmusch), the Danish Ole Christian Madsen, Austrian documentarian Urlich Seidl and Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (in Thessaloniki will be the premiere of the recent - and first English-language- his film "This must be the place" starring Sean Penn as a former rock star. – The premiere will be given next Friday night 11 November on 11 pm at the "Olympion" cinema). The parallel organization of "Open Horizons" is also awaited with interest (with films from the independent film scene) with screenings of films such as that of the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne "The Kid on the Bicycle" but also the Golden Lion-winning film at the recent Venice Film Festival by the multi-awarded Russian director Alexander Sokurov "Faust". They are included in the Special Screenings, the new films by Mathieu Kasowitz "Order and Morality" and Andrey Zviadzhinchev "Elena" as well as the prize winner at the last Cannes Film Festival, film "Goodbye" by Iranian Mohammad Rasulov, who has been sentenced by the Iranian regime to 5 years in prison and a 20-year ban on making new films.
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Ten Ten and his company return to the Big Screen

The Adventures of Ten Ten: The Secret of the Unicorn – The Adventures of TinTin
The hero of our childhood Ten Ten returns to the big screen in 3D . Based on the Belgian comic book Herge, the hero finds life again in the hands of director Steven Spielberg. Ten Ten , Milo's dog and Captain Haddock's trusted friend will embark on an impressive treasure hunt that will excite little friends and more! Amazing direction by fantasy expert and produced by Peter Jackson, who was the producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In the halls from 3 November.

Uncategorized, Theater

PREMIERE : "My Convict"

source: http://www.zougla.gr

The new sharp comedy of : Eleni Radou, Saras Ganoti, Nikos Stavrakoudis, premieres today Thursday 3 November.

MY KATADIKOS... is the ambiguous title of the new play co-written by Eleni Radou, Sara Ganoti and Nikos Stavrakoudis.
Eleni Radou's new theatrical work will be presented at the DIANA theater from Thursday 3 November, with Eleni Radou, Pygmaliona Dadakaridis and Orfea Augustidis in the main roles. The direction is signed by Giorgos Paloumbis.
What common fate binds a foreign burglar, a philology of the Greek language in mourning, an elderly Greek history professor with Alzheimer's and a fresh-faced Balkan warrior who wants to enjoy his freedom;
All of the above confused in a colorful merry-go-round of interdependencies and fears, they try to love and love back, to lean and trust…. against the background of today's Greece.
A modern one, sharp comedy with strong beats and twists, which scorches the,what makes us afraid, The,what makes us strangers to ourselves...

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EPIDAURUS : A statue from Roman times was found


source :http://www.protothema.gr

It was discovered in the surroundings of the Little Theater of Epidaurus, during the work being carried out, the statue of a naked man, which dates back to the imperial Roman times and possibly to the 2nd AD. century. Archaeologists cite the 2nd as a possible date, as at that time the Emperor Hadrian visited the city and created favorable conditions. The statue is essentially a marble torso, the size of which is slightly larger than a physical body and represents a naked man, who is naked and standing with a robe thrown over the left shoulder and wrapped around the arm, which was found in very good condition. The statue has a soft body build, with exaggeration in the clean structure and swelling in the muscles. The statue is inspired by the great sculptor Polykleitos and there is a possibility that it is a representation of the god Hermes. Archaeologists do not know if it is really a representation of the god or as has happened many times with other copies of the same type, by adjusting the head and face, which was the portrait of an important official of the time. The area where the statue was found, presumably included the purchase of the ancient city. More specifically, it was found embedded in a makeshift building, which dates earlier than the 4th AD. century, near older buildings, which are assumed by archaeologists to be part of the wider ancient market of Epidaurus. The works are carried out under the auspices of the Epidaurus Monuments Conservation Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. For the purpose of cleaning and maintaining the statue, it was transferred to the Museum of Asclepius Epidaurus.
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Seminar on the European Language Folder for people with partial or total vision loss

source :http://www.minedu.gov.gr

The Center for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind (KEAT-Thessalonica Branch) and the Greek Language Center (KEG) of the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs are co-organizing a seminar dedicated to the program entitled "Tell Me How!- Dissemination of the European Language Folder for People with Partial or Total Sight Loss",which is implemented in the framework of the "Lifelong Learning" program, of the European Commission. The seminar will take place at the Central Municipal Library (of National Defense 27, Thessalonica) on Thursday 3 November 2011, (09.30 -14.00.) and is addressed to teachers of foreign languages ​​as well as Greek as a foreign/second language in relation to the audience of students with visual impairments in order to present and promote the use of the special European Language Learning Folder ELPBVI. For more information you can contact Mrs. Katerina Athanasiadou at 2310844888 (KEAT) and Anna Kokkinidou in 2310459101 (KEG) as well as at the e-mail addresses athkaterina@hotmail.com and annouka@law.auth.gr .

Uncategorized, Poetry

Celebrations for the centenary of the birth of Elytis


source:http://www.tovima.gr

They are peaking these days, with events at the Athens Concert Hall, the celebrations for the centenary of the birth of the Nobel laureate poet Odysseus Elytis at 2 November of 1911. Themed symposium "The twentieth century in the poetry of Elytis – The poetry of Elytis in the twenty-first century» will be held on Tuesday 1 November and Wednesday 2 November with distinguished speakers from the field of philology, of literature and the arts. They talk (Tuesday 1 November, 5.00 p.m. etc.): Mikis Theodorakis: «Odysseus Elytis – The Greek Revolutionist", Dimitris Maronitis: "New Greek lyricism before and after Elytis", Marina Lambrakis Plaka: «The visual Elytis and the exercise of the senses", David Connolly: «The magic of Elytis», Michalis Kopidakis: ""Sun of Justice..." Another reading", George Babiniotis: "The meta-linguistic solver", Kostas Georgousopoulos: "Three Keys to Reading "Marina of the Rocks"", Aris Berlis: "Elytis today", Michael Livadiotis: "The crazy time, the small-minded weather and the lifetime moment", Paola Maria Minucci: "Greece beyond Greece in the poetry of Elytis" and (Wednesday 2 November, 5.00 p.m. etc.): Mario Vitti: "Elytis and the Greek public. Communication and Consent", Jeffrey Carson: "Elytis cannot be translated: The Elytis must be translated”, Ingemar Rhedin:"The voice beyond language – the inexpressible, the poetic intelligence and the metaphysical element in the work of Odysseus Elytis", Wrong Stétié: “Elytis the Sun Cultist”. At 7.30 p.m. will be followed by a themed round table "Poetry and Reality". The physicist will talk, academic Dimitris Nanopoulos, the psychiatrist-psychoanalyst Thanasis Tzavaras, the poet, academic Kiki Dimoulas, the composerGeorge Kouroupos and the visual artist Chronis Botsoglou. The poet presidesIoulita Iliopoulou. The events will be completed with the musical evening "The small world is the Great of Elytis", on Thursday 3 November, at 8.30 p.m. in which you will hear poems set to music from the entire poetry of Odysseus Elytis to original music byGeorge Kouroupou. Lyrics of Elytis will be recited by Ioulita Iliopoulou, while the actor will read prose texts Aris Lebesopoulos. Viewing film documentaries, visual and photographic material from various moments of Elytis' life will accompany the readings.