After several sold out sessions throughout Greek Film Festival, additional sessions have been added due to popular demand, to allow audiences to catch the festival’s most anticipated films.

“These encore screenings are an excellent last chance for Sydneysiders to catch some of the most talked-about titles at this year’s festival,” said festival Chair, Nia Karteris.

“Audiences will be treated to additional screenings of the award winning films Smyrna, Eftihia and Echoes of the Past.”

Eftihia – The award-winning Greek director Angelos Frantzis presents the biggest Greek film production of 2019. A film inspired by the life of Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou, a lyricist who created a massive volume of timeless popular songs, set to music by Tsitsanis, Kaldaras, Ηiotis, and Hadjidakis, among others. She travelled from Smyrna to Greece, with only one little pillow clutched between her arms. On board the ship that took her away from her home for ever, she decided she would never let life pass her by. She vowed to live on her own terms. Her name means Happiness but destiny made sure she knew very little of it.

Smyrna – Filio Williams, an elderly Greek American woman, goes to the island of Lesvos to help the refugees. Almost a century earlier, her family had lived on the island when they themselves were refugees, fleeing Smyrna after the destruction of the city. Filio’s grandmother’s diary records the family’s turbulent history, shaped by tragic international developments. Filio is accompanied to Lesvos by her reluctant granddaughter, and different generations of women in the same family come together in space and time, as past and present become one.

Echoes of the Past – A fictional drama inspired by a true event, the massacre committed by invading German troops at Kalavryta, Greece, in December 1943. When the Greek government launches a claim for war reparations, Caroline Martin, ahigh-flying lawyer, visits Kalavryta to investigate. An unexpected encounter with the last survivor of the tragedy, Nikolaos Andreou, leads them both down a dark chapter of history. As the traumatic past comes to light, its painful echoes grow stronger than ever.

Encore sessions @ Palace Norton

Friday, 28 October – Eftihia – 6.30pm

Saturday, 29 October – Smyrna – 7.00pm and 7.15pm

Sunday, 30 October – Echoes of the Past – 6.30pm

Info & tickets: www.greekfilmfestival.com.au