e55424aa-213d-43d2-976a-d6467182bd97 Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος

Ιερά Οδός 48 & Μεγ. Αλεξάνδρου 134-136, (ΜΕΤΡΟ Κεραμεικός)

New Year’s Eve 1999, Athens: a desperate fugitive armed with a live grenade takes a family hostage and demands to go on live TV as the world counts down to the new millennium. Broadcast in real time, the situation pulls in a young journalist, media executives and a divided police force, as an entire nation watches events spiral toward a tragic and irreversible outcome.

Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to get her home and her belongings back and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality.

Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of kabuki.

Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life.

The Sacred Way of Athens, once a path of initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries, prompts the director to search for spiritual meaning along the busy motorway it has now become. Following the traces of the ancient route, the diverse landscape and brief encounters with its current inhabitants reveal the different faces of the world’s oldest Sacred Way.