April 22, 2024
Open-air Cinema Aello Cinemax
(140 Patission str. Athens)
THURSDAY 30th MAY
20:50
CHINESE GIRLS
Arantxa Echevarria, Spain, 2023, 119’
The tale of two 9-year-old Chinese girls told parallel to one another. The two start school in Madrid: they look alike, but they are very different: Lucia is the daughter of immigrants She feels Spanish, she wants to fit in, but her parents don’t speak Spanish and they work all day long. They don’t even want her to celebrate her birthday at Burger King. Xiang is adopted. She attracts attention wherever she goes with her Spanish parents. She feels neither Chinese nor accepted by the children at school.
Goya Awards: 4 nominations
23:15
THE GIRL FROM URUGUAY
Ana García Blaya, Argentina – Uruguay, 2022, 78’
Based on the novel by Pedro Mairal. A writer pins his hopes on a free-spirited 25-year-old he meets in Montevideo to overcome his midlife crisis. But that day turns out to be the most unexpected and transformative day of his life.
FRIDAY 31st MAY
20:50
UPON ENTRY
Alejandro Rojas – Juan Sebastián Vasquez, Spain, 2022, 72’
Diego, a Venezuelan urbanist, and Elena, a contemporary dancer from Barcelona, move to the United States with their approved visas to start a new life. Their intention is to boost their professional careers and start a family in ‘the land of opportunities’.
But upon entering New York airport’s immigration area, they are taken to the secondary inspection room, where border officers will subject them to an unpleasant inspection process and a psychologically grueling interrogation.
22:30
THE MESSIAH
Javier Ambrossi – Javier Calvo, Spain, 2023, 120’
Two episodes of the exciting Spanish mini-series. The viral video of a Christian pop musical group, made up of several sisters, impacts the life of Enric, a man tormented by a childhood marked by religious fanaticism and the yoke of a mother with messianic delusions.
With Carmen Machi, Lola Dueñas, Cecilia Roth
SATURDAY 1st JUNE
20:50
LOVE & REVOLUTION
Alejandro Marín, Spain, 2023, 107’
Seville, 1977. At a time when homosexuality is a crime, Reme, a traditional mother moved by love for her son, a teenage aspiring artist, will become involved in the Andalusian LGTBI movement, paradoxically created within the Church.
5 nominations at the Goya awards.
With the presence of director Alejandro Marín and screenwriter Carmen Garrido Vacas.
23:00
WILD WOMAN
Alán González, Cuba, 2023, 93’
In a Havana slum, a woman survives a bloody fight between her husband and her lover. In a desperate attempt to spare her son from the scandal, she decides to run away with him, but a video of the incident has already gone viral.
SUNDAY 2nd JUNE
20:50
CASSANDRO
Roger Ross Williams, Mexico – USA, 2023, 107’
Gael García Bernal is Saul Armendariz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to worldwide fame after creating the character of Cassandro, the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre’. In the process, he not only drastically turns the traditionally masculine world of wrestling on its head, but also his own life. By Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams. Based on real events.
World premiere: Sundance 2023
23:00
CHAMPIONEXT
Javier Fesser, Spain, 2023, 124’
Highest grossing Spanish film of 2023. Our team of “champions” abandons basketball to mistakenly enter the fascinating world of athletics with the help of a rookie coach. Between the harsh demands of the new discipline and the coach’s surprising ability to attract all kinds of misfortunes and calamities, everything will end up.
Goya Awards: 2 nominations
MONDAY 3rd JUNE
20:50
THE RESCUE: THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
Daniela Goggi, Argentina, 2023, 95’
After fleeing the brutal military dictatorship, Julio and his family return full of hope from exile to their home country of Argentina in the 1980s. As part of a Jewish industrial dynasty, it’s now up to him to manage the business in Buenos Aires alongside his brother Miguel. But Miguel is kidnapped, and in order to free him, Julio has to negotiate ransom demands with a band of criminals. He soon realises that the newly-formed democratic government still has a long way to go before it can break free from the ties of the former regime.
22:45
CHINESE GIRLS
Arantxa Echevarria, Spain, 2023, 119’
The tale of two 9-year-old Chinese girls told parallel to one another. The two start school in Madrid: they look alike, but they are very different: Lucia is the daughter of immigrants She feels Spanish, she wants to fit in, but her parents don’t speak Spanish and they work all day long. They don’t even want her to celebrate her birthday at Burger King. Xiang is adopted. She attracts attention wherever she goes with her Spanish parents. She feels neither Chinese nor accepted by the children at school.
Goya Awards: 4 nominations
TUESDAY 4th JUNE
20:50
CLOSE YOUR EYES
Víctor Erice, Spain– Argentina, 2023, 170’
The new film by legendary director Victor Erice. Famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, who disappears while filming a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at a cliff by the sea. Many years later, the mystery is brought up once more by a TV program that tries to evoke the actor, offering as a scoop images of the last scenes in which he participated, shot by his close friend, director Miguel Garay.
Goya Awards: 11 nominations
WEDNESDAY 5th JUNE
20:50
THE INITIATED
Juan Felipe Orozco, Colombia, 2023, 110’
Inspired by acclaimed Colombian author Mario Mendoza. In a near future plagued by water shortages Frank Molina a gruff journalist must face his demons to get to the murder.
23:00
ADIÓS BUENOS AIRES
German Kral, Argentina, 2023, 90’
From the director of the movie “The Last Tango.”
Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis. The country‘s economy is stagnating and the peso is plunging deeper and deeper, while the anger and distrust of the Argentinian people towards their corrupt government is growing steadily. In the midst of these troubled times, the Vecinos de Pompeya – a five-piece tango band – are trying to keep their heads above water. Julio the bandoneon player plans to emigrate to Germany together with his daughter Paula and his mother Dorothea. Julio sets about taking care of his last affairs in Buenos Aires – but he can‘t get away from the city so easily.