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Toronto International Film Fest Announces Athens For Its City To City Program

Today, the Toronto International Film Festival announced that Athens, Greece will be the focus of its City to City program at the 38th annual film fest which is set to run September 5th-15th.

Cameron Baily, the Artistic Director for the festival stated “City to City looks for cinematic hot spots around the world. We want to introduce our audience to new generations of filmmakers unafraid to rewrite the rules. When we started thinking about the startlingly original films emerging recently from this ancient and contemporary city, the perfect choice for us this year was Athens.”

“After a long period of hibernation, Greek cinema has finally found its way back to the forefront. A number of young filmmakers — most of them fresh out of film school or, at best, with a couple of shorts to their name — turned things around. Where others saw devastation, they saw inspiration,” said Eipides. “Working with minimal means, often exchanging services on each other’s productions, they churned out films which gained attention around the world. Hopefully this new wave of international exposure will give Greek cinema the confidence to communicate its message from a position where national boundaries will no longer matter.”

For more info, be sure to check out the Tiff site at Tiff.net.

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