The first annual Syros International Film Festival

The first Syros International Film Festival will be held from August 6-9 2013, drawing on recent Greek and international films that deal with travel. This theme encompasses issues that are central both to the history and the contemporary situation of Syros and Greece and brings into focus such events as diaspora, immigration, and cultural co-habitation.

Festival Schedule

August 6

Tarsanas

21:30 – Screening: Travel Songs

22:00 – Screening: Slow Business of Going

Archive Space
19:30 – Screening: Los 33 y Alla

Ano Syros Schoolyard

21:00 – Opening remarks: Angeliki Brisnovali and Mr. Zouloufos

21:30 – Screening: Retrospective Film

August 7

Ano Syros Schoolyard

20:30 – Introduction: Jacob Moe and Cassandra Celestin

21:00 – Screening: The Foreigner
21:30 – Screening: Away
22:00 – Screening: Little Land

Mana Amphitheatre

18:30 – Screening: Dublin’s Trap

19:30 – Screening: Exit K1

Asteria Bar

21:30 – Screening: A Bright Shining Sun

22:00 – Q&A: With Director Vassilis Loules
22:30 – Screening: Aqui y Alla

August 8

Ano Syros Schoolyard

21:30 – Screening: Casus Belli + Agonas Dromou

22:00 – Director’s talk: Mr. Karantinakis and Dimitra Nikolopoulou
22:30 – Screening: L

Mana Amphitheatre

18:00 - Screening: No Man’s Zone

Asteria Bar

18:00 - Screening: No Man’s Zone

21:00 – Screening: Nuvole, Mani

21:30 – Screening: The Nose
22:00 – Screening: Tchoupitoulas

August 9

Archive Space

18:30 – Performance: With Nails and Teeth by Eleni Tzirztilaki and Christina Thomopoulou

Pallas Theatre

22:00 – Closing remarks: Constanine Yiannaris (introduced by Karen Van Dyck)

22:30 – Screening: One Day in August

Asteria Bar

20:30 – Screening: Helio Oitcia