Greek Film Festival Celebrates 22nd Anniversary with Opening Party

The annual San Francisco Greek Film (SFGFF) Festival launched on March 15 with screenings and a reception at the Delancey Street Foundation on Embarcadero. This year’s festival opened with a double screening: a short film titled The Cardinal and a full length comic fantasy called Greek Mothers Never Die, in which the heroine works to free herself from the ghost of her overbearing mother.  

Guests were welcomed to the Delancey Street Screening Room by SFGFF Executive Director Kleon Skourtis and San Francisco’s Consul General of Greece, Grigorios Tassiopoulos. Other VIPs in attendance included Rachel Suissa, the director, writer and producer of Greek Mothers Never Die, who introduced the film for an appreciative audience. The screenings were followed by a cocktail reception to kick off this year’s festival. The San Francisco Greek Film Festival is dedicated to supporting and promoting the best film work by Greek and Cypriot filmmakers from around the world.

The entire lineup of films will be available online, in addition to 13 documentaries which are only available online, through April 5. For details please go to www.grfilm.com.