Athens International Film Festival
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Fantasia

A milestone in animation, the peak of Walt Diensey’s career, a film with the power to forever bewitch an audience of all ages. A special screening for the children of the whole world in collaboration with Metadrasi. Free entry.

 


USA | 1940 | COLOR | DCP | 126' | ENGLISH

A celebration for children and cool adults, an intricate experiment, a glorious, unique moment for the American cinema! ‘Fantasia’ is the film that Walt Disney envisioned as a stories fantasy wrapped in classical music, a film legend, a proper phantasmagoria of tone colors and ageless childlike enthusiasm.

But above all, for those who grew up with it, this film is the splendid moment when the children’s soul and gaze are trained to beauty. You hope and beg that such a lucky training, especially in these times, will not end in today’s generations, you consider the honour of its screening, you feel the importance of the 79 years that make it such a great part of film history and our lives. I.D.

DIRECTORS: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
SCREENWRITERS: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer
DoP: James Wong Howe
MUSIC: Irwin Kostal, Shawn Murphy, Stephen Csillag, Edward H. Plumb
EDITORS: George Cave, Bill Wilner



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        The Breath

        The Breath

        19/09/19, 19:45, ASTOR

        Cinema of Compassion

        Cinema of Compassion

        22/09/19, 16:30, DANAOS 2

        Dead Birds

        Dead Birds

        22/09/19, 17:00, ASTOR

        Love

        Love

        22/09/19, 17:15, DANAOS 1

        Nimic

        Nimic

        23/09/19, 22:00, IDEAL

        Moonlighting

        Moonlighting

        25/09/19, 19:15, IDEAL

        The Cordillera of Dreams

        The Cordillera of Dreams

        26/09/19, 20:15, DANAOS 1

        Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

        Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

        28/09/19, 18:15, IDEAL

        Diaries form the Field: Nicholas Papachrysostomou

        Diaries form the Field: Nicholas Papachrysostomou

        29/09/19, 16:00, DANAOS 1

        Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

        Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

        29/09/19, 21:00, IDEAL