With the underline “Film will never die”, Tainiorama 2014, from 15 of May till July the 9th is bringing to the Greek audience a 56-days marathon of 168 films on 35mm. Showing 3 films per day with a low ticket price and a total cost of 40 Euros for the whole festival, Tainiorama, for more than 20 years is still a point of reference for the Greek audience. For another year the festival will be hosted at the legendary basement of Asty Theater, which is going to pay its respects to great directors and famous films. 

Tainiorama 2014 will present tributes to Modern Canadian Cinema, Balkan Cinema, Italian Satire, American Indie Cinema, British Cinema, the ex-Yugoslavian Cinema, French Culture, and the Middle-East, screening films of their most acclaimed representatives, such as Luis Bunuel, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Dario Argento, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Federico Fellini, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Emir Kusturica, Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, Pedro Almodovar, Park Chan-Wook and others.

Among the masterpieces that will be screened we find the following from the Balkans:

Phaedra by Jules Dassin, Greece, 1962

Never on Sunday by Jules Dassin, Greece, 1960

The Trap by Srdan Golubovic, Serbia, 2013

Honey by Semih Kaplanoglu, Turkey, 2010

Before the Rain by Milcho Manchevski, F.Y.R.O.M., 1994

No Man’s Land by Danis Tanovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2001

The Perfect Circle by Ademir Kenovic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1997

The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner by Stephan Komandarev, Bulgaria, 2008

Zift by Javor Gardev, Bulgaria, 2008

When Father Was Away on Business by Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia, 1985

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu, Romania, 2005

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, 2011

Climates by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, 2006

Tainiorama is an initiative of the distribution company Ama Films which, against the harsh times, insists on presenting the world’s cinema classics to young generations and preserving film memory.