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A boy browses through the pages of a dictionary at Eleonas refugee camp in Athens, Monday. Switzerland's ambassador to Greece Hans-Rudolf Hodel and Greek Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas distributed the mini lexicons aimed at giving some basic communication information from various languages to migrants in Greece. [Yorgos Karahalis/AP]

Yorgos Lanthimos's dystopian drama "The Lobster" was nominated on Tuesday in the Best Original Screenplay category of the 89th Oscars, making it the second time the 43-year-old filmmaker looks forward to bringing home one of the coveted gold statuettes.

As part of the "Idiopolis" exhibition at the State of Concept gallery, which ended on January 14, the Frontviews association presents video art created by some of the participants in the group show, at the Goethe Institute on Thursday, January 19, starting at 8 p.m.

"The Lobster" has nabbed Best Screenplay for Greek writers Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2016 awards.

Starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz, "The Lobster" is also directed by Lanthimos ("Dogtooth," "Alps"), hailed as a leading proponent of the so-called Weird Wave of cinema.

Esquire, the renowned Men’s fashion magazine released its top 25 movies for 2016, with the editors’ top pick being Greek director Yorgos Lanthimo’s “The Lobster”, starring Collin Farrell. It is quite an honour for a Greek film to beat out some of the biggest names in the film industry. Another notable Greek entry into its list at 10th spot is Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Chevaler”.

Friends and family of great Greek actor Minas Hatzisavvas gathered at the 1st Cemetery of Athens to pay their last respects to a talented man. He expressed the wish for a state funeral, followed by a cremation to take place in Bulgaria due the fact that there are no cremation facilities in Greece.

Great Greek actor Minas Hatzisavvas will receive a state funeral at the first cemetery of Athens at noon on Wednesday. His family have expressed the desire for money to be gathered for refugees instead of wreaths.

Actor Yorgos Kotanidis, a friend and colleague, of the actor that passed away on Monday posted on Facebook:

The film “Lobster” by Yorgos Lanthimos has been nominated in four categories in the European Film Awards which will take place in Berlin on December 12.

It is the first English-language film by Lanthimos which was filmed in Ireland and stars Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.

This is what The Lobster, the new film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, asks on the occasion of its premier at British cinemas.

The film shows people taken to a hotel where they have to find their mate in 45 days. If they fail to do it, they will be taken to a room where they will be turned into an animal and released into the woods.

The new archaeological museum of Delos will be “built” through voices of both Greek and foreign artists, during the grand performance of July 2nd in the Kallimarmaro stadium.