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GREEK FILM FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

For more details  about the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival and exact screning times for documentary films:
www.lagreekfilmfestival.org or call 818.728.0720

BATHERS (Louomenoi)
Greece, 2008, 47 min, Digibeta, US Premiere
Director: Eva Stefani

In the Greek spa towns of Edipsos and Kaiafas, elderly "regulars" enjoy beneficial hot springs, mud baths, and the mild sea-waters. Even more therapeutic, however, prove to be the daily heated political debates, eruptions into song and dance, and outbursts of a latent but undimmed sensuality.

*FIPRESCI Award, 2009 Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival

CHAMELEON BEACH (Kamaeleonernes Strand)
Denmark, 2008, 52 min, Beta SP, US Premiere
Director: Adam Schmedes

On a beautiful Greek beach, a small population of African chameleons is fighting to survive, in fierce competition with a growing tourist industry that threatens to destroy the fragile environment and drive the species to extinction.

NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY: LASZLO & VILMOS
USA, 2008, 97 min, 35mm
Director: James Chressanthis

An intimate portrait following the friendship of renowned Hungarian cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, across a 50 year-old journey of image-making that helped define a new American film aesthetic.

*Official Selection, 2008 Cannes Film Festival

ON THE EDGE (Kami Hito E-On the Edge)
Japan, 2009, 22 min, US Premiere
Director: Basile Doganis

A young rapper moves to Tokyo with dreams of making it big. Disheartened by the harshness of the megalopolis, he is about to give up, when he meets Ky-chi who takes him under his wing.

T FOR TROUBLE AND THE SELF ADMIRATION SOCIETY
Greece, 2009, 108 min, Digibeta, US Premiere
Director: Dimitris Athiridis

An in-depth portrait of Terry Papadinas, a Greek-American musician who rose to stardom in the 60's Greek rock scene. Today, living on the fringe of society, he dares to look back at his own misgivings and failures.

THEMIS
Greece, 2009, 85 min, Digibeta, US Premiere
Director: Marco Gastine

For the very first time, a camera is allowed inside the Athens Court, within
which small dramas of everyday life unfold, revealing a microcosmos of modern Greek society.

*Official Selection, ACID, 2009 Cannes Film Festival

THE NIGHT FERNANDO PESSOA MET CONSTANTINE CAVAFY
Greece, 2007, 90 min, Digibeta, US Premiere
Director: Stelios Charalambopoulos

On 21 October 1929, the ocean liner "Saturnia" sails from Trieste on its voyage to America, picking up immigrants from the ports of the Mediterranean, along with their dreams of the New World. There, an equally dreamlike encounter will take place, between two of the greatest poets of the 20th century, Fernando Pessoa and Constantine Cavafy.

*Best Documentary, Greek State Quality Awards 2008
2009 LOS ANGELES GREEK FILM FESTIVAL LOCATION AND PARKING INFORMATION

EGYPTIAN THEATRE
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
Note: All LAGFF Events Located at the Egyptian EXCEPT Panel Discussion (on 6/27).

PARKING
Free street parking on Selma (South of Hollywood Blvd.)
Metered street parking
Parking lot behind theater ($8 & up)
Validated parking at Hollywood & Highland Parking Complex ($2 for 4 hours)
You must take stamped validation & ticket stub to the Customer Service Center.
If you stay longer than 4 hours you pay $1.00 every 20 min. or a $10 flat rate.

THE LINWOOD DUNN THEATRE AT THE PICKFORD CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1313 North Vine Street (at Fountain)
Hollywood, CA 90028
(Parking Lot Located Behind Theater)