Greece

Kostas Voutsas, one of the best actors of his generation and an icon for Greek cinema and television, dies early on Wednesday. He was 88. Voutsas was rushed to the Attikon hospital on Friday, February 7, and admitted to the...

An historic Greek film from 1930, thought for many decades to have been lost but which was recently found in France, has now been restored. A screening of the early "talkie" will premiere at the Stavros Niarchos Hall of...

Greek film director and screenwriter Stavros Tsiolis died early on Tuesday in Athens, according to a post his family shared on Facebook. He was 82 years of age. Tsiolis, best known in Greece for his film "Women Can Wait," was a...

Greek filmmaker Vasilis Kekatos won on Saturday at the 72nd Cannes Festival the Palme d’Or with the short film “The Distance Between Heaven and Us.” He is the first Greek director to ever win a Palme d’Or in this category. The...

The Documentary Melan*cholia, written and directed by Ariadne Koutsaftis, has been officially added to the Greek Film Archive Foundation and can be viewed for the first time publicly today, April 6. The film was made to raise awareness about...

The Delphi region -- home to some of Greece's most outstanding archeological sites -- will play host to a new movie about the country's 19th-century independence struggle. Director Vasilis Tsikaras' new movie Siege is to begin shooting in Amfissa in April...

Emblematic Greek film actress Zoe Laskari passed away on Friday at the age of 73 at her beach house in Porto Rafti; the causes of her death are unknown yet. She was one of the last remaining stars of the...

"Chevalier" and "Suntan" are two Greek films on the list of the 50 movies recommended this year by the European Film Academy for the European Film Awards 2016. According to the European academy, over 3,000 members are expected to vote...

There are some Greek films that are classics and should be viewed by everyone. They are the stories of a country that over the decades has seen political turmoil, a coup resulting in a military junta, survived wars and still...

It is no secret in Greece that the country has missed out on millions of euros from potential film productions in the country. Even the evening news commented on the recent story, when just last year plans to shoot the latest Bourne...

Greek cinema has a long and rich history, even now with financial crisis that is plaguing the country, the film industry in Greece is dominating the domestic market, and has experienced international success on several occasions. In spite of...

A new thriller that tells the story of an investigative journalist trying to uncover his friend's death -but finds himself a victim of a very powerful secret society that governs Greece - opened last weekend in Greece. The film directed...

The film "Lobster" by Yorgos Lanthimos will make its official premiere in Athens, on October 22nd. The first English-language film by Lanthimos, starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz, won the Jury Prize at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. It...

Film director Panos Koutras was the big winner on Monday’s Greek Film Academy Awards. However, Koutras did not accept any of his awards, in protest of the Greek law that doesn't grant Greek citizenship to children of migrants in Greece. After the announcement that his...

The Turkish Film Week at the Greek Film Museum opened today, October 23, and 14 films from Turkey will be presented as samples of the Turkish production. The event is supported by the General Directorate of the Turkey's Film Culture and Tourism Ministry,...