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The 21st Athens International Film Festival is back, from September 23rd to October 4th, featuring 239 hand-picked films! The lineup includes 12 entries in the Official Competition section, all vying for the Golden Athena, the Music & Films Section with 15 outstanding music documentaries (in and out of competition), the Documentary Section (richer than ever before), the Greek Shorts Competition Section, the Midnight Movies, the Special Screenings, this year's Tributes and Retrospectives, as well as the "Moving Future" feature and 20 Avant-Premieres, including some of most eagerly awaited films of the year!

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    Publication date: 2015-10-19 16:03:33

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    50 years of "GODFATHER PART II": the Athens International Film Festival celebrates this great anniversary with a 4K print edited by Coppola himself

    Awarded with Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Adapted Screenplay, Music and Art Direction, Francis Ford Coppola's monumental epic film turns 50 this year. The Athens International Film Festival celebrates this milestone anniversary with a digitally restored print edited by the director himself, in a one-of-a-kind screening- not to be missed.

    «The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover»: The Athens International Film Festival screens Peter Greenaway's shock masterpiece uncut

    «The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover»: The Athens International Film Festival screens Peter Greenaway's shock masterpiece uncut

    It was considered immoral, scandalous, shocking. In several countries it met with censorship problems and in America it was shown under the label "Strictly Inappropriate". Thirty-five years after its turbulent release, the ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is screening Peter Greenaway's masterful film in its complete and uncut version for a one-time only screening on Saturday, March 30th , at CINOBO OPERA 1 cinema.

    The Athens International Film Festival presents the brand new, 30th Anniversary Restoration of «Interview with the Vampire» in an exclusive screening

    The Athens International Film Festival presents the brand new, 30th Anniversary Restoration of «Interview with the Vampire» in an exclusive screening

    Simultaneously with its re-release in movie theatres abroad, the Athens International Film Festival invites you to watch an exclusive screening of Neil Jordan's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, for the first time in our country in a brand new digital print made to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its first release. On Saturday, February 24th, at Cinobo OPERA 1.

    Athens International Film Festival is screening the legendary «The Thing» by John Carpenter in 4K digital restoration

    Athens International Film Festival is screening the legendary «The Thing» by John Carpenter in 4K digital restoration

    The Athens International Film Festival presents one of the best sci-fi films of all time as you have never watched it before: for the first time in Greece in recent 4K digital print edited by the director himself, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary from its first release, 'The Thing' by John Carpenter is screened at midnight on Saturday February 10th , at the Cinobo OPERA cinema.

    Athens International Film Festival invites you to solve the crime in «Gosford Park»

    Athens International Film Festival invites you to solve the crime in «Gosford Park»

    The Athens International Film Festival continues its Saturday film dates at Cinobo OPERA with one of the best films of the great Robert Altman and the entire 00s decade: Oscar-winning for Original Screenplay, and nominated for six more gold statuettes, Gosford Park is hosted for a one-time only screening with a digitally restored print, this coming Saturday, February 3rd.

    The Athens International Film Festival at the Oscars!

    The Athens International Film Festival at the Oscars!

    And the Oscar goes to... the Athens International Film Festival! Nine films screened at the recent Athens International Film Festival are nominated for 27 Oscars at the 96th Academy Awards.