Saturday 17 December 2022 17:30
The SNFCC Members’ Film Club, in collaboration with Cinobo, is wrapping up its meetings for 2022, this time featuring not only the usual discussion, but also the screening of a classic film with a festive undertone.
December Film: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg [The Umbrellas of Cherbourg] (1964)
Summary: A young woman lives with her widowed mother, owner of an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. The young woman is in love with a 20-year-old auto mechanic and the two are secretly planning to get married. When she tells her mother, the latter forbids it. When the young man decides to join the army and leaves for Algeria, the girl discovers that she is pregnant. At the exhortation of her mother, she is forced to accept a proposal to marry a gemstone trader.
Palme d’Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, for an unprecedented moment in film history, a technicolor musical featuring the wonderful melodies of Michel Legrand, magical like cinema itself, bittersweet like life itself.
Screenplay/Direction: Jacques DemyMusic: Michel LegrandStarring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mireille PerreyDuration: 91 minutes
Watch the trailer here.
Moderators:
Saturday 17/12 | NLG BOOK CASTLE
17.30- 19.15 | Film screening
19.30- 21.30 | Discussion with Cinobo team
Up to 50 participants – For Members and their guestFree permission with online pre-registration
About the Film Club Coordinators:
Eftychia Terzi
Eftychia Terzi is Programming Assistant at Cinobo. She studied Cultural Management at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University, while making sure to always be as close to cinema and film as possible, initially contributing amateur pieces to cultural websites, but also volunteering at film festivals such as the Athens International Film Festival (AIFF). Before joining the first Greek streaming platform Cinobo, she worked as programming assistant in the Greek section of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Tasos Melemenidis
He studied Computer Science at the Aristotle University, but cinema crossed his way, and he timidly began writing about it in 2006. For several years he wrote reviews, tributes, and film related articles for Exostis, Lifo and Cinemagazine. He collaborated with the Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights as editor-in-chief for the festival’s website, while he helped with the special editions of the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Today he oversees the program for the Greek streaming platform Cinobo.
Thodoris Dimitropoulos
Μovie and TV expert with background in festival planning. He worked as a programmer and as a special consultant in 4 editions of the Athens International Film Festival - Premiere Nights. He was a founding member of the website OneMan.gr and later of the PopCode.gr, as well as a curation consultant for the Cinobo streaming platform. His reviews, interviews, tributes, and festival coverage (from Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Thessaloniki, Drama, Toronto, and other festivals) have appeared in Cinema and Esquire magazines and later in OneMan.gr and News247.gr. His articles have appeared in Nitro, FREE, Pop + Rock magazines, and the Efimerida ton Sydakton, too. He is a member of the jury at the Drama Festival 2021, a TV expert for Flix.gr since 2012, and Movie expert for the Ethnos (2017-2018) newspaper and the news website News247.gr (from 2019 until today).
Tasos Chatziefremidis
He has issued articles about cinema, music, and theater news for Jumping Fish, from 2009 to 2018. He has collaborated, as a movie expert, with Flix.gr since 2016 and has covered both domestic and international festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Karlovy Vary). Recently, he has joined the creative team of Cinobo, as a curator, while this year he participated in the advisory committee of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.