For those who wonder what Yorgos Lanthimos -the acclaimed Greek director of 2009’s Dogtooth- did before making that film, Tate Modern brings fresh news. On September 21, the Gallery will screen Lanthimos’s first film, Kinetta, produced in 2005. In this film, Lanthimos studies the cryptic activities of a policeman, a photographer and a hotel maid who pass the time by staging re-enactments of murders, in Kinetta, a Greek resort town.

Red Rose is a 2014 French-Greek-Iranian drama film shot in Athens and directed by the Paris based Iranian director Sepideh Farsi. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 13.


The story is about a politically complacent middle-aged man who has a debate with a 22-year old pro-democracy female activist about the future of Iran, while hiding from the police. Athens based Iran-Greek actor Vassilis Koukalani, who stars in Red Rose says that 2009 was the first time he returned to Iran after 28 years, and that the movie "became a chance for me to make peace with Iran and a part of me."