The Greek Film Center also offered a measure of financial relief to keep the industry running during the first lockdown last spring, launching a €2.8 million fund with the Ministry of Culture to support small-scale productions, even as most of the Greek economy had ground to a halt.
The changes come at a time of great optimism for the Greek biz, which has weathered years of austerity measures and economic crisis to produce a new generation of rising talent. A decade after the Greek Weird Wave introduced international audiences to directors like Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari , Christos Nikou opened the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons sidebar with his feature debut, “Apples,” while Georgis Grigorakis’s “Digger” premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama strand.
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