Athens International Film Festival
aiff

FILM SEARCH

    Archive : 15th AIFF 2009

  • Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

    In 1913 Coco Chanel’s prospects were finally looking up. After finally getting a new store, she set about quietly revolutionizing women’s fashion. At ...
  • The Girlfriend Experience

    Chelsea is a call girl, who, apart from the usual, specializes in offering her clients the experience of a real relationship. Her partner Chris has ...
  • Demain dès l' aube

    Paul is obsessed with historical battles to the extent that he’s lost all touch with reality. With his mother worried sick about him, his older brother ...
  • The Informant!

    In 1995 the US government brought charges against agri-business colossus Archer Daniels Midlands for price fixing. The case was a huge cause cé ...
  • Fame

    ?You’ve got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here’s where you start paying? in sweat.? Un update on the 1980 box-office hit of ...
  • Taking Woodstock

    The year is 1969. Four entrepreneurs looking to start up a new music festival are suddenly left without a venue, when Orange Country, New York revokes ...
  • London River

    On July 7, 2005, 56 people lost their lives after a series of terrorist attacks in London. A few days later, Ousmane, a Muslim living in France, and ...
  • Adventureland

    The year is 1987 and James, recently graduated from College, is getting ready to realize his big dream and leave on a tour of Europe. Unfortunately, ...
  • The White Ribbon

    The year is 1913 and panic spreads over a small Protestant village in North Germany after a series of bizarre accidents, that look more like ritual ...
  • The Time that Remains

    Based on his family’s experiences, as told through his father's diary and his mother’s correspondence with other relatives, Elia Suleiman records the ...
  • Millennium

    In September 1966, 16-year-old Harriet Vanger vanished without a trace. Forty years later, journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by her industrialist ...
  • Julie and Julia

    Disillusioned, overworked and underpaid, New York office worker Julie Powell set herself a challenge: to cook her way through Julia Child's mighty tome ...
  • Evil ? In the Time of Heroes

    Three days ago everything changed. An ancient force turned people into flesh eating zombies. But this wasn't the first time. 2,800 years ago the same ...
  • Fish Tank

    UK inner city, the present. 15-year-old Mia’s life comes apart, when her mum brings in her new boyfriend. Trapped in a world that doesn’t respect her ...
  • Rudo Y Cursi

    Beto and Tato are two brothers working in a banana plantation. Their luck changes when a rather seedy talent hunter spots them playing football and the ...
  • The Damned United

    In 1974 Leeds United was on top of its game. However, the decision to replace the team’s leaving coach Don Revie with Brian Clough from Derby County ...
  • The Informers

    L.A. ,early eighties. Those who have try to add some meaning in their , highly successful professionally but utterly empty otherwise, lives with some ...
  • Strella

    After spending 14 years in prison for a murder he committed in his village, Yorgos is finally released. His first night of freedom will bring him to a ...
  • Sin Nombre

    Sayra is a teenager from the Honduras, who plans to cross the Mexican border to the US. Her path will cross with Casper and Smiley, two kids hardly ...
  • About Elly

    After his divorce in Germany, Ahmad returns to Iran and his old college pals organize a brief vacation at the Caspian. One of his friends brings along ...
  • Plato’s Academy

    Stavros is a xenophobic shop keeper in his 40s, who likes to spend most of his day sitting outside with his macho buddies, passing judgment on anyone ...
  • Welcome

    Only 17, Bilal has left Iran behind to join his girlfriend who has emigrated to the UK. His journey has taken him up to the north of France; now the ...
  • Dogtooth

    It's the most eagerly anticipated greek film of they year and there's no need to wonder why. Seems like the prize in Cannes opened widely a brand new ...