Films & Showtimes

Athens International Film Festival

Athens Film Festival

Films & Showtimes

Feature films and presentations are listed alphabetically, followed by competition screenings listed chronologically by festival showtime.

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5 Broken Cameras

“5 Broken Cameras” is an intense personal account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Thursday, April 18, 9:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Sunday, April 14, 3:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Tuesday, April 16, 7:15 PM, Athena Cinema

A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet

Showcased at Sundance, Sheffield and The Environmental Film Festival, “A Fierce Green Fire” documents ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Monday, April 15, 5:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Friday, April 12, 5:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Thursday, April 18, 5:00 PM, Athena Cinema

A Question of Sunlight

Special Event: Director Holly Fisher in person This new feature work by Holly Fisher is framed within ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Sunday, April 14, 7:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Alps

Director of the fascinating and cerebral “Dogtooth” (2009) returns with picture equally as absurd and ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Saturday, April 13, 9:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Thursday, April 18, 9:45 PM, Athena Cinema

Friday, April 12, 9:30 PM, Athena Cinema

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

Special event: director Terence Nance in person You've just arrived home after a bad day. You're broke ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Monday, April 15, 7:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Caesar Must Die

Inmates perform Shakespeare's “Julius Caesar” in Rome's Rebibbia Prison. Documentary, narrative, and ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Thursday, April 18, 5:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Tuesday, April 16, 7:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Tuesday, April 16, 9:45 PM, Athena Cinema

Chasing Ice

Special event: Science on Screen with Linda Lilienfeld, director of “Let’s Talk About Water,” and Dr. ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Tuesday, April 16, 5:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Monday, April 15, 9:45 PM, Athena Cinema

Saturday, April 13, 3:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Deafening Silence

Special event: director Holly Fisher in person DEAFENING SILENCE is a fusion of beauty and terror, ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Saturday, April 13, 7:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Ecoacoustics/Sound/Image Explorations A performance by Matthew Burtner and the Nobrow Music Collective

Glidden Recital Hall, Free admission The nobrow.music.collective and Arts for Ohio present an afternoon ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Sunday, April 14, 4:00 PM,

Far From Afghanistan

Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film “Far from Vietnam,” five of the ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Thursday, April 18, 7:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Gut Renovation

Special event: director Su Friedrich in person Welcome to Williamsburg, New York’s new bohemia. Or ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Friday, April 12, 7:15 PM, Athena Cinema

La Demora

Bearing the hallmarks of the best humanist dramas—sensitivity, compassion and a gritty social realism—Rodrigo ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Thursday, April 18, 7:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Friday, April 12, 9:15 PM, Athena Cinema

La Pirogue

Cannes nominee for the 2012 Un Certain Regard Award, “La Pirogue” tells the harrowing journey of a courageous ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Saturday, April 13, 5:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Wednesday, April 17, 7:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Leviathan

This stunning documentary filmed in the North Atlantic depicts the commercial fishing industry. Taking ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Saturday, April 13, 9:45 PM, Athena Cinema

Sunday, April 14, 7:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Monday, April 15, 7:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Thursday, April 18, 5:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Nairobi Half Life

Mwas (Joseph Wairimu) is a young man from a rural Kenyan village who aspires to become a successful ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Wednesday, April 17, 7:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Sister

An Alpine ski resort provides a unique backdrop for this delicate drama about class and family. Twelve-year-old ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Friday, April 12, 7:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Monday, April 15, 9:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Wednesday, April 17, 5:15 PM, Athena Cinema

The Night Across the Street

The late Raoul Ruiz’s final film is an enchanting and elegiac drama centered on, Celso, an office worker ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Wednesday, April 17, 9:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Friday, April 12, 7:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Monday, April 15, 7:15 PM, Athena Cinema

The Painting (La Tableau)

A painter’s subjects come to life in this allegorical and imaginative animated feature. Within this ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Saturday, April 13, 1:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Friday, April 12, 5:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Wednesday, April 17, 5:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Three Avant-Garde Masters: Nelson, O’Neill and Tscherkassky

My Name Is Oona Director: Gunvor Nelson 10 min. 1969 MY NAME IS OONA captures in haunting, intensely ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Monday, April 15, 9:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Vegetarian Cannibal

Danko, a gynaecologist, doesn't eat meat. But as he claws his way to the top of his profession, he ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Sunday, April 14, 7:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On: The PD/MS Narrative Project

Jenny's Radar 6 min., USA Jenny explains what compelled her to start The PD/MS Narrative Project, including ... (see more)

Showtimes:

Wednesday, April 17, 7:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Competition showings for: Friday, April 12

Girls We Love: Seven Shorts

Showtime:

Friday, April 12, 5:15 PM, Athena Cinema

A Short Film About Safekeeping

Brown Blue

Chicken & Zoe

Little Kyota Neon Hood

Adult Animations: Ten Shorts

Showtime:

Friday, April 12, 9:45 PM, Athena Cinema

Marcel, King of Tervuren

Sleight of Hand

Uncle Wormsley’s Christmas

Competition showings for: Saturday, April 13

Movies for Kids: Six Shorts

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 11:00 AM, Athena Cinema

New/Old Technologies: Seven Shorts

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 1:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Tales of a Digital Immigrant

The Popcorn Kid

The Strange World of Max X: The New Camera

Across & Down/The Institute

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 1:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Across & Down

The Institute

Stopping for Death

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 3:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Stopping For Death: The Nurses of Wells House Hospice

Everyday Heroes: Five Shorts

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 3:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Chronicle of a Death Postponed

16 Acres preceded by A Tribal ‘L’ Community

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 5:15 PM, Athena Cinema

16 Acres

A Tribal “L” Community

An Artist's Imagination: Four Films

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 5:30 PM, Athena Cinema

2 Sons of Catalonia: Joseph Liuis Sert & Joan Miro

Beatrice Coron’s Daily Battles

Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty

Thinking About

Duets: Five Shorts

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 7:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Curiouser and Curiouser

Kiss on the Bosphorus

Giggles & Laughs: Ten Shorts

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 7:30 PM, Athena Cinema

My Nature Documentary

Slide Rail Superman

We Could Be Your Parents

The American Experience: Six Shorts

Showtime:

Saturday, April 13, 9:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Competition showings for: Sunday, April 14

Hassled Heroines: Six Shorts

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 1:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Baby Blues

Beautiful Eyes

Brightwood

Jack's Not Sick Anymore

That's How It Goes

The Best of Betty

Sanctity of Sanctuary preceded by Born to Die

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 1:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Born to Die

Sanctity of Sanctuary: Paul Strauss and the Equinox Farm

Over Home and 1913 Massacre

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 1:30 PM, Athena Cinema

1913 Massacre

Over Home: Love Songs From Madison County

Dancers and the Dance: Seven Shorts

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 3:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Garifuna in Peril preceded by Faodail

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 3:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Faodail

Garifuna in Peril

Families in Crisis: Seven Shorts

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 5:00 PM, Athena Cinema

There Are No Goodbyes preceded by Shiner

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 5:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Shiner

There Are No Goodbyes

Unfit: Ward vs. Ward preceded by Legal Stranger

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 5:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Legal Stranger

UNFIT: Ward vs. Ward

Forever in Hiatus and Hasta Nunca

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 9:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Forever in Hiatus

Hasta Nunca

Gender Stories: Nine Shorts

Showtime:

Sunday, April 14, 9:45 PM, Athena Cinema

Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship

Some Girl Who Tells Stories

The Smile

Women Who Yell

Competition showings for: Monday, April 15

Glorious Deserter preceded by Bevor das Gras Waechst

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 11:00 AM, Athena Cinema

Bevor das Gras Waechst

Glorious Deserter

Move preceded by Nancy Cartwright: The Voice of Success

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 11:15 AM, Athena Cinema

Move

Nancy Cartwright: The Voice of Success

Modern Rural Life: Six Shorts

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 1:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Les Adieux de la Grise

Not Clear Cut

Nonfiction Stories: Three Films

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 1:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Baby Games

I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard

The Children Next Door

We Women Warriors preceded by Near the Mountain

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 1:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Near the Mountain

We Women Warriors

Boys We Love: Seven Shorts

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 3:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Beyond All Boundaries preceded by Angel

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 3:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Angel

Beyond All Boundaries

Journey to Hope

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 3:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Journey to Hope

Winged and From the Black You Make Color

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 5:15 PM, Athena Cinema

From the Black You Make Color

Winged

Experimental Landscapes #1 Six Shorts

Showtime:

Monday, April 15, 5:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Still Life in the City

Competition showings for: Tuesday, April 16

Home Places: Five Films

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 11:00 AM, Athena Cinema

Burrow-Cams

Harvest

Nest-Cams

The Shepherd's Story / Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010

Unfinished Journeys

Our Nixon preceded by Hazzard and Galvanized

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 11:15 AM, Athena Cinema

Tales from African Women: Three Shorts

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 1:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Hospitals

Mama C: Urban Warrior in the African Bush

Motorbike Midwife

Experimental Landscapes #2 Eight Shorts

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 1:15 PM, Athena Cinema

175 Roman Churches

Bad Weather

Between Sleep and Wake

Infrastructure

SP #6

Streaming... Conscious

The Sight

Years in Bardo

The Sum Total of Our Memories and Toni and Rosi

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 1:30 PM, Athena Cinema

The Sum Total of Our Memory

Toni and Rosi

Outsider Artists: Four Films

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 3:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Art is Dead

Full-Time Ministry

Magical Universe

Vivian Maier Photographer

Art Practice: Nine Shorts

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 3:15 PM, Athena Cinema

1848

A Film Portrait on Reconstructing 12 Possibilities That Preceded the Disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum

Movies Made from Home #15

Music for Teacups

Still Life With Oyster and Lemon

Post-Modern Urbanities: 4 Films

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 3:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Delirio

I Have Always Been A Dreamer

Londoners

We Are Alive: The Fight to Save Braddock Hospital

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 5:00 PM, Athena Cinema

We Are Alive! The Fight to Save Braddock Hospital

Fathers: Shorts

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 5:15 PM, Athena Cinema

A Knock On My Door

Hasat

Mont Blanc

The Companion (El Acompanante)

The Undocumented Day

Dancing Light: Eight Shorts

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 7:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty

The 108 Movements

Azooma preceded by Every Death Has a Story and The Sight Is Not Blocked Anymore

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 9:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Azooma (Gong Jeong Sa Hoe)

Every Death Has a Story

The Sight is Not Blocked Anymore

Aesthetic Excess: Eight Shorts

Showtime:

Tuesday, April 16, 9:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Antarctic... Huh?

Bird of Flames

Epistolary Fusillades

Lullaby For Lucious and Sumat

Meltdown

Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver

Competition showings for: Wednesday, April 17

Produce and Consume: Seven Shorts

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 11:00 AM, Athena Cinema

The Song of the Apprentice

Experimental Documentaries: Four Films

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 11:15 AM, Athena Cinema

Around Crab Orchard

Nile Perch

Ten Minutes is Two Hours

The Road Led Here

Myths, Gods and Goddesses: Seven Shorts

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 1:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Ekki Mukk

Liquid Tara

The Pyramidical Silence (Den Pyramidale Taushet)

The Root of All Evil

The Search for Inspiration Gone

The Sleepy Man

The White Seagull

Squid Man preceded by Malaria

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 1:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Malaria

Squid Man

Lost Landscapes: Four Films

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 3:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Missing Home

The Chinese Gardens

The Sea [Is Still] Around Us

Wenn der Osten plötzlich im Western liegt

Horror Stories: Five Shorts

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 3:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Coyotes

Laika

Something’s Wrong With Mr. Henry

The Dark

The Swimmer

Low Tide

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 3:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Low Tide

Urbank and Olenick: Four Films

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 5:00 PM, Athena Cinema

All the Memory in the World

LGBT Issues: Eight Films

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 7:00 PM, Athena Cinema

1981

20MALEGAYNYC

Au Revoir, Mon Amant

I Like My Boyfriend Drunk

Stigma

The White Coat Phenomenon

Try Out

Welcome Home

The LOVE Show: Eight Films

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 9:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Coulrophobia

Head Over Heels

Khaana

La Chanson du Silence

Process and Reality: Three Films

Showtime:

Wednesday, April 17, 9:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Lessons in Process

The Veil

Where Do They All Go?

Competition showings for: Thursday, April 18

The End of the World: Four Films

Showtime:

Thursday, April 18, 11:00 AM, Athena Cinema

Everything After is Measured By Now

Fearless Encounters

Nar Morket Senker Seg

World's End

Harlem U.S.A. and Displaced But Not Defeated

Showtime:

Thursday, April 18, 11:15 AM, Athena Cinema

Displaced But Not Defeated

Harlem USA

Saying Goodbye: Six Shorts

Showtime:

Thursday, April 18, 1:00 PM, Athena Cinema

The Whistle (El Fischietto)

Papilio Buddha

Showtime:

Thursday, April 18, 1:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Papilio Buddha

Welcome to Jarbo State preceded by Sunnipaev and Made in Donegal

Showtime:

Thursday, April 18, 1:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Made in Donegal

Sunnipaev

Welcome to Järbo State

The Modern State: Four Films

Showtime:

Thursday, April 18, 3:00 PM, Athena Cinema

Losing LeBron preceded by Vision

Showtime:

Thursday, April 18, 3:15 PM, Athena Cinema

Losing LeBron

Vision

Coming to Ground preceded by The Farmer and Fatal Vittles

Showtime:

Thursday, April 18, 3:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Old Radicals and Flying Paper

Showtime:

Thursday, April 18, 7:30 PM, Athena Cinema

Flying Paper

Old Radicals

Feature Films

Competition Shows

Girls We Love: Seven Shorts

Adult Animations: Ten Shorts

Movies for Kids: Six Shorts

New/Old Technologies: Seven Shorts

Across & Down/The Institute

Stopping for Death

Everyday Heroes: Five Shorts

16 Acres preceded by A Tribal ‘L’ Community

An Artist's Imagination: Four Films

Duets: Five Shorts

Giggles & Laughs: Ten Shorts

The American Experience: Six Shorts

Hassled Heroines: Six Shorts

Sanctity of Sanctuary preceded by Born to Die

Over Home and 1913 Massacre

Dancers and the Dance: Seven Shorts

Garifuna in Peril preceded by Faodail

Families in Crisis: Seven Shorts

There Are No Goodbyes preceded by Shiner

Unfit: Ward vs. Ward preceded by Legal Stranger

Forever in Hiatus and Hasta Nunca

Gender Stories: Nine Shorts

Glorious Deserter preceded by Bevor das Gras Waechst

Move preceded by Nancy Cartwright: The Voice of Success

Modern Rural Life: Six Shorts

Nonfiction Stories: Three Films

We Women Warriors preceded by Near the Mountain

Boys We Love: Seven Shorts

Beyond All Boundaries preceded by Angel

Journey to Hope

Winged and From the Black You Make Color

Experimental Landscapes #1 Six Shorts

Home Places: Five Films

Our Nixon preceded by Hazzard and Galvanized

Tales from African Women: Three Shorts

Experimental Landscapes #2 Eight Shorts

The Sum Total of Our Memories and Toni and Rosi

Outsider Artists: Four Films

Art Practice: Nine Shorts

Post-Modern Urbanities: 4 Films

We Are Alive: The Fight to Save Braddock Hospital

Fathers: Shorts

Dancing Light: Eight Shorts

Azooma preceded by Every Death Has a Story and The Sight Is Not Blocked Anymore

Aesthetic Excess: Eight Shorts

Produce and Consume: Seven Shorts

Experimental Documentaries: Four Films

Myths, Gods and Goddesses: Seven Shorts

Squid Man preceded by Malaria

Lost Landscapes: Four Films

Horror Stories: Five Shorts

Low Tide

Urbank and Olenick: Four Films

LGBT Issues: Eight Films

The LOVE Show: Eight Films

Process and Reality: Three Films

The End of the World: Four Films

Harlem U.S.A. and Displaced But Not Defeated

Saying Goodbye: Six Shorts

Papilio Buddha

Welcome to Jarbo State preceded by Sunnipaev and Made in Donegal

The Modern State: Four Films

Losing LeBron preceded by Vision

Coming to Ground preceded by The Farmer and Fatal Vittles

Old Radicals and Flying Paper

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