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Xanthoula and Slim – an Anzac love story
“A small vivacious girl who, in 1942 when only 15, helped to hide an Australian soldier from the enemy in Greece, arrived yesterday in the migrant ship, to marry him.”
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The cultural pioneer
The life of Stathis Raftopoulos was celebrated at the launch of Kyriakos Amanatides’ book Stathis Raftopoulos MBE – Poet. A contemporary Ulysses in the Antipodes
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The Polytechnic uprising
Tomorrow sees the 40th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic student uprising, against the military dictatorship imposed in Greece from 1967.
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Rebel with a cause
Audiences have been polarised but at the same time intoxicated by the films of Australian born Greek director Constantine Giannaris
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Bingara Dreaming
With a date set for the opening of the Roxy Museum, the inspirational story of the Greeks who changed regional Australia forever is about to turn Bingara into a place of pilgrimage
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Eagles of Crete
An untold story of the Civil War in Crete, from the pen of Englishman Colin Janes
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Penny’s pick of the flicks
With nearly 30 films to be screened at the festival, Penny Kyprianou, director of the Greek Film Festival, gives her ‘hot picks’ of this year’s festival.
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Moving pictures
Eleni Bertes – one of the founders of the Greek Film Festival – shares her memories of the early days and reflects on the festival’s flourishing success
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Is social self-love benign?
With the social media epidemic of self-portraiting and sexualisation being debated, schoolgirl Olympia Nelson provides her insight into this modern age phenomenon
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Best of Greek Film Festival
To celebrate 20 years of the Greek Film Festival in Australia, a Best of Program has been selected featuring these films