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The Untold Greek Film Festival returns for a second year to the historic Trianon Cinema (21 Kodrigktonos). The festival aims to showcase Greek films and documentaries from the past five years that have not been widely screened outside the festival circuit, shining a spotlight on talented new Greek filmmakers and artists.

NOTRADITIONAL AMKE in collaboration with the TRIANON Cinema organizes for the second consecutive year the Untold Film Festival « Untold Stories », the only festival in Athens with purely contemporary Greek films.

With renewed energy and a fresh look, this year’s 2nd Untold presents an eclectic program of Greek films that test against cinematic genres, experiment with form and dare to face reality head-on. The programme balances between fiction and documentary, including titles such as Vanya Turner’s award-winning Tack, Aristotle Marangos’ experimental Timekeepers of Eternity and Nicolai Hummel’s modern noir The Rhapsodist. At the same time, the festival brings to the fore the work of the exceptional musician and filmmaker Nikos Antonopoulos, known for his work through the band Usurum, who presents his short film « Turtle » and the musical performance « Blue Thread » at Trianon.

Idea

Over the last decade, an average of 30 Greek-produced films have been released in cinemas per season. Many times more are those that never meet the audience, completing a course that begins and ends at domestic or international festivals. At a time when audiences seem to be trusting Greek-language films again, a fact that is particularly important as the pandemic is still in the background, we are trying something new with the Untold Greek Film Festival.

We have put together a programme with the recent production of Greek cinema as its main source, specifically that of the last five years and regardless of genre, with a focus on titles that have not yet found distribution or have sought temporary alternative ways of screening. The main concern of the festival is not only to highlight the talent of domestic directors, but also to highlight proposals with a distinctive aesthetic and a potentially radical cinematic vision. We hope that in the future the fan of Untold will expand even further, in our effort to bring the near and not so near past of Greek cinema to the present.

For the festival aims to become an ideal occasion to re-engage with Greek cinema, to become a hub through which filmmakers who may have fallen off the market radar can pass, but meet again with audiences in the warmth of the darkened hall.