Films

Joker by American director Todd Phillips won the Golden Lion award on Sept. 7 at the 76th Venice Film Festival.

Three suspects were arrested in the campus of Athens University in possession of 2,457 packets of contraband cigarettes, police said.
The suspects, all foreign nationals, face charges of violating Greek customs law.

Turkey may acquire a third drillship, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been quoted as saying amid lingering tension in the Eastern Mediterranean over natural gas resources off ethnically-divided Cyprus.

Turkish director Ferzan Özpetek, who has been living in Italy, received the Special Soundtrack Stars Award at the Venice Film Festival.

The Thessaloniki Film Festival will be holding a special screening of Giuseppe Tornatore's well-loved 1988 Italian drama "Cinema Paradiso," at Aristotelous Square on Wednesday, September 4. Hailed as a favorite for film buffs, "Cinema Paradiso" is a nostalgic account of a filmmaker's first love for cinema, growing up as a child in Sicily in the aftermath of World War II.

The film "La Gomera," directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania's submission for the US Academy award for best international feature film 2020, will have its North-American debut at the "Masters" section of the 44th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, which will take place September 5-15.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's Park Your Cinema program continues at the Great Lawn with a screening of "Chinatown," a 1974 neo-noir mystery thriller directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston and Perry Lopez, "Chinatown" is among the US Library of Congress' best films of all time. The SNFCC screening is free of charge and starts at 9 p.m.

"Brazil," a dystopian science-fiction drama about a low-level bureaucrat's attempt to correct an administrative error directed in 1985 by Terry Gilliam, rounds off this year's Athens Open Air Film Festival, though the original August 28 screening at the Dourgouti Park Theater has been postponed until September 2 due to strong winds. Starring Jonathan Pryce and nominated for two Academy Awards (

Turkish music was introduced on Aug. 27 to an audience at an international festival in Moscow.

"Brazil," a dystopian science-fiction drama about a low-level bureaucrat's attempt to correct an administrative error directed in 1985 by Terry Gilliam, rounds out this year's Athens Open Air Film Festival. Starring Jonathan Pryce and nominated for two Academy Awards (Original Screenplay and Art Direction), the cult classic inspired a host of futuristic films that followed.