ntil November 5th, Montrealers will have the unique opportunity to get a close look at contemporary Greek cinema.
Athens based film festival programmer Avra Georgiou and Montreal based film distribution company FILMS TRANSIT are very happy to announce a first time week of contemporary Greek cinema to be held in Montreal at the Cinema du Parc [...]

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Notis Sfakianakis (born November 2, 1956 in Chania, Crete, Greece) and is a successful Greek singer, mainly active in the “Laiko” Greek music genre. Notis began opening for national acts like Poly Panou. He was discovered by Bourmas, the general manager of Sony in Greece. Bourmas signed Sfakianakis to the label, and Notis recorded his [...]

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MUSIC BY MIKIS THEODORAKIS
TRANSLATION BY MICHALIS KAKOYIANNIS
DIRECTOR: LEONIDAS LOIZIDES
“Trojan Women” one of the best anti-war plays, by Euripides promotes all the human values that usually are destroyed during wartime. Watching “Trojan Women” you cannot but feel emotional and touched by the stories of the characters. The journey of the “Trojan Women” directed by Leonidas Loizides [...]

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Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Surrey, BC
Our Community’s Fall Dance is taking place on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at Roma Hall, in New Westminster.
Tickets are $45.00 for adults and $30.00 for children under 12.
Performances by  Community Dance Groups, Fasolakia and Diaspora!
For tickets and info please call Toula Panos at 604-507-8159.
Our Philoptochos is [...]

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Greek born French director Costa-Gavras will be coming to the 15th Cinemania festival, organizers announced Thursday.
He will be conducting a master class, attending a screening of a new 35 mm print of his 1969 classic, Z, and unveiling a brand new film, Eden à l’ouest.
“It is a very great honour to welcome this legendary figure [...]

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ean Anouilh wrote Antigone in code. His version of the Sophoclean tragedy about the princess who defied temporal authority in the name of an ancestral morality was premiered in 1944 in occupied France. It could hardly not be seen as a parable of resistance to the Nazis. To protect himself, and probably in accordance with [...]

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