Cloudy Sunday – GIFFT Vancouver

*Tickets are non-refundable

Cloudy Sunday – GIFFT Vancouver

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.

This screening includes the short film:

My First Wedding

Summer of ’92 in a typical Greek village. Armed with only imaginations and rocks, pre-pubescent wallflower Pericles, 8, is on the front lines of a “rock war” with the village’s other children between eternal
enemies – boys vs girls. Unfortunately, his fight ended with a well-placed rock to the noggin. He comes to only to find Phaedra, 12, towering above him like an Amazonian warrior princess. It’s love at first concussion for young Pericles. Now he’s just got to win her over, and if he’s lucky, we’ll get a first kiss neither will forget.