Cloudy Sunday – GIFFT Mississauga

*Refund Policy: Tickets are non-refundable

Cloudy Sunday – GIFFT Mississauga

Against the backdrop of a German-occupied Thessaloniki during the tumultuous 1943, the forbidden love between two hopeless dreamers, Yorgos, a rebellious Christian carpenter, and Estrea, a strong-willed Jewish girl, finds refuge in a small but busy tavern: the town’s historic “Ouzeri Tsitsanis”.

There, under the Nazis’ heavy thumb, the monumental and prolific composer, Vassilis Tsitsanis, is inspired to write some of his most memorable songs, including the haunting and heartbreaking “Cloudy Sunday”. In the end, as the star-crossed lovers struggle to surmount prejudice and fear, the brutalities against the nearly thousand-year-old persecuted Jewish community of Thessaloniki escalate, leading to an inescapable and horrible fate.

Director: Tribute to Manousos Manousakis

Duration: 1:30′

This Screening includes the Short Film:

Zange

A family of four, isolated to guard a salt marsh next to a lighthouse, enjoys the Pros and cons of life in a wetland. The children play alone with whatever
nature itself can provide as a game, ignorant of what fear is: they chase on the shore, search for crabs and use the iridescence from the light of the nearby lighthouse. As they discover the workings of the surrounding nature, their psychic habitat struggles to process the unfamiliar concepts of impending death (father) and impending life (mother), seemingly squeezed by a pair of pliers (the German word ‘zange’ of the title, which also applies to the crab’s claw) that tightens and tightens to take away their innocence. Death and life in close succession lead the young siblings to early adolescence, which in turn will bring about early adulthood. Childhood dreams can easily become horrible nightmares, dealt with only by the comfort of another.

Director: Iris Baglanea

Duration: 00:16′

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