London GIFFT Day Package

London GIFFT Day Package – Day Program

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

• The Promotion  (Feature Film)

It is 2012. Nikos lives in Athens. He is a film director who teaches film direction at the University of Thessaloniki. Today, he will ask his father, Mr. Andrikos, to accompany him to the swearing-in ceremony for his promotion at the University. A father-son train journey ensues, with time running backwards.

• Jasteece (Short Film)

In a world where news of the rotten Justice system rages, a woman faces the cruel consequences of a past decision she’d never wanted to make.

4:45 pm – 7:00pm

• Listen  (Feature Film)

Financial upheaval forces a teenage deaf girl, Valmira 16, to leave her progressive Athens school and return to her father’s struggling island where she is confronted by the danger of prejudice and intolerance, most shockingly — her own.

• The Heiress (Short Film)

A lovelorn shipping heiress must negotiate the largest international deal ever and also find a date for New Year’s Eve, all from her New York boardroom. Inspired by the larger-than-life true heiress, Christina Onassis.

• The Rise of the Caryatids  (Short Film)

7:15pm – 9:30pm

• Fantasia  (Feature Film)

Set in the world of Greece’s urban-folk music scene of the 90s, the film depicts the fatal relationship between a young singer and an elder songwriter and her mentor.

• Taxi (Short Film)

Navigating the scenic roads of Cyprus, a taxi driver recounts gruesome details of her husband’s death to her captivated passengers, keeping them on the edge of their seats. But at the journey’s end, she faces the weight of reality she cannot elude.

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