Nova, a member of the United Group of the leading telecommunications and media provider in Southeast Europe, is the major sponsor of the Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights (October 2-14) which this year celebrates 30 years of cinematic magic and warm support of domestic creation.
The international institution will have its official opening on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, at the MEGARO MUSIKIS ATHENS, with the pan-Hellenic premiere of ANORA, Sean Baker’s new film which started its journey victoriously at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Palme d’Or. and is expected to continue triumphantly until the upcoming Oscars.
It is an emotionally fitting start to the anniversary edition of the Athens International Film Festival, as the Premiere Nights were the first Festival in the world to organize a full tribute to the charismatic creator of American independent cinema, Sean Baker, in 2015 and hosting a pan-Hellenic premiere of all his later creations. ANORA is also a film that fully and most ideally sums up the spirit and philosophy of Premiere Nights, a festival which for thirty consecutive years has given voice to some of the most exciting new voices in world cinema, enthusiastically introducing them to Greek audience.
ANORA (USA, 139′)
Starring: Mikey Madison, Mark Idelstein, Yura Borisov, Vase Tovmashian
As the Artistic Director of the Festival Loukas Katsikas wrote, “with ANORA, Sean Baker opens his arms wide to yet another outcast of the American dream: a snotty and brash sex worker who ends up the protagonist (and victim) of her own fairy tale when she meets the prince.” of her dreams in the person of a spoiled 20-year-old rich kid, the son of a Russian oligarch, who is in the United States for a short stay and wants to party freely with daddy’s money.
The young man meets Anora at the club where he works as a stripper and in a frenzy of alcohol, teenage hormones and sheer immaturity makes her his wife in a hasty wedding in Las Vegas. Anora quits her job in order to devote herself to the “savior” who has volunteered to relieve her of her misery. But when the parents learn of their irresponsible yoka’s antics, they arrange a lightning trip to the United States in order to break up a marriage they know was clearly born out of naivety and impulse.
ANORA is a tongue-in-cheek combination of the fairy tale of “Cinderella” and “Pretty Woman”, without the idealized romance of the former and without the Hollywood gloss of the latter. It has its own unruly character, gets along with the popular language of the fringes, becomes an adult comedy of social inequalities and broken dreams and at the same time a love story of misfortune that gradually turns into an experience of self-awareness and a life lesson for a woman who wanted so much to believe in something better.”
The Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights, with major sponsor Nova, will take place from October 2 to 14. The halls that will host this year’s event are: DANAOS I & II, CINOBO OPERA I & II., ASTOR, ASTY, MEGARO MUSIKIS ATHENS and PALLAS.
As part of Nova’s support at Premiere Nights, the film “How to Have Sex” by Molly Manning Walker, which won the Golden Athena Award for Best Film at last year’s festival, will premiere at Novacinema1 on Sunday 6/10 at 10.00 p.m. and will also be available on EON platform.
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