Over 7000 patrons attend 2025 Greek Film Festival as encore sessions are announced

Over 7000 patrons attended a league of the 2025 Greek Film Festival, the 30th festival celebrating Greek cinema and film.

The festival came to a adjacent connected Sunday nighttime with the satellite premiere of Alkinos Tsilimidos newest work, the David Field directed The Kink. At a sparkling lawsuit successful St Kilda’s Astor Theatre, the formed and unit of the movie alongside festival patrons, sponsors and Greek assemblage leaders celebrated the movie and 2 weeks of Greek cinema played connected screens crossed Melbourne.

Over 100 sessions were screened to an mean assemblage of 70 patrons per league with the starring films by income being the Kazantzakis inspired Kapetan Mihalis, Rachel Suissa’s Greek Mother’s Never Die and the undoubted smash deed of 2025, Yiorgos Tsemberopoulos’ Stelios.

Other highlights of the festival included Reno Haralambidis sojourn to Melbourne to contiguous and clasp a Q+A aft the screening of his cinematic ode Athens Midnight Radio.

The festival has recovered its feet close crossed Melbourne suburbs with beardown income show astatine some the Palace Pentridge and Balwyn locations alongside the accepted Palace Cinema Como program.

The last time of the festival besides saw the screening of the entries to the 13^th Greek Student Film Festival which saw entries from schoolhouse programs close crossed Melbourne with St John’s College Preston, Oakleigh Grammar and the Greek Community schools each achieving a triumph successful their respective categories.

Whilst the festival ended connected Sunday night, encore screenings of Kapetan Mihalis, Athens Midnight Radio and Greek Mothers Never Die person been announced for this coming weekend.

For much accusation sojourn Melbourne – Greek Film Festival 2025.

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