Film Club: Dogtooth (2009) by Yorgos Lanthimos - Εικόνα

Watch the film and join us for a group discussion together with the moderators of Cinobo!

A film of historical significance to Greek cinema, it turned the world’s attention to Yiorgos Lanthimos, went all the way to the Oscars, became the emblem of the so-called Greek “weird wave” and endures as a pitch black, sardonic, post-modern riddle.

Synopsis

A family consists of two daughters and a son between the ages of 20 and 30, as well as their two parents. The "children" live in captivity in their isolated family home and have no contact with the outside world. They are educated through taped lessons and are constantly told they should never come out of the house, because they had a brother who left home and was devoured by a cat. According to their father, a child is only ready to leave home if their dogteeth fall out.

Festival Gem: Un Certain Regard Award, Cannes Film Festival and Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Film, Academy Award Winner 2011

 

Moderators:

Tasos Melemenidis (Curation and Acquisitions Manager, Cinobo), Thodoris Dimitropoulos (Curation Consultant, Cinobo), Tasos Chatziefremidis (Curator, Cinobo), Eftychia Terzi (Programming Assistant, Cinobo)

 

Tuesday 30/05 | 19.00 – 21.00

NLG Maker Space

Pre-registration opens on 01/05 at 12.00.

Up to 25 participants – For Members and their guest

Free admission; online preregistration required

The prerequisite for participating in the SNFCC Members Film Club x Cinobo is to have seen the films of the month. The films will not be screened during the meetings.

 

Film Club Meetings Three-Month Program:

  • April (In the Mood for Love): Tuesday, April 25, 19.00–21.00 | Maker Space, NLG
  • May (Dogtooth): Tuesday, May 30, 19.00–21.00 | Maker Space, NLG
  • June (The City and the City): Thursday, June 29, 19.00–21.00 | Southern Walks
 

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.

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