The Greek Film Archive is honored to present a big retrospective tribute to Elia Kazan titled "Report to Elia Kazan," from October 9 to 19. The tribute comprises of almost all of the master filmmaker’s films. The doors will open with the screening of the film Viva Zapata (1952), on October 9; overall 15 films of Kazan will be screened, ten (10) of which will be screened in restored format. Many of the films will be introduced by Kazan’s filmmakers, film critics, writers, analysts, including Tasos Goudelis, Epaminondas Theodoridis, Freedom Dimitromanolaki, Venia Vergou and many more.

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The exhibition "Alkis Pierrakos. The Naval Battle of Lepanto," organised by the State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki and The J. F. Costopoulos Foundation, will run from October 10 until January 10, 2015, at the SMCA venue in Moni Lazariston. Alkis Pierrakos returns to Thessaloniki, his birthplace, with a series of new ink paintings on paper, that illustrate the historically critical for the development of European civilization Battle of Lepanto (October 1571), which established the European history and fate after the collision of forces of the Christian Western world and Islam.

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Following the triumphant reception given to "Dogtooth," "Alps" and "The Lobster," Efthimis Filippou the writer of the scripts has written his first play, "Blood." The play will be performed by the VASISTAS company, directed by Argyro Chioti, at the Onassis Cultural Centre form October 8 to 19. Mirroring the epistolary masterpieces of Rousseau, Laclo and Goethe, and laced with the bizarre and the humorous, with politician's paranoid speeches and the daydreams of ordinary folk, the play is transformed by Argyro Chiotis into a punk oratorio awash with surrealism and quick-witted comedy.

The play the Greek Vampire, performed by the theatrical group Boulouki, will be held at the Benaki Museum, until November 4. Directed by Constantinos Ntellas, who also made the adaptation of texts, the theatrical play, based on medieval and contemporary literature passages, makes an attempt to bring us close to the vampires, those mysterious entities that one can encounter in the works of well known Greek writers, poets, folk writers, European travelers, as well as through accounts of ordinary people.