Greek movies, new movies, and statuettes are on the slate today.
The San Francisco Greek Film Festival launches its 23rd annual edition — eight days of movies by Greek and Cypriot filmmakers — Saturday. Screenings take place at the Delancey Screening Room, in San Francisco, and online. Created to celebrate and increase appreciation of Greek culture and history. the festival is showing eight narrative features, each paired with a short film, and 16 documentaries. Saturday’s main attraction is “Broken Vein,” director Yannis Economides’ drama about a loanshark-pursued businessman who takes desperate action to save his home. The film has been described as a contemporary Greek tragedy. On Sunday, look for Nicholas Dimitropoulos’ “Don’t Laugh, They’ll See You,” an enjoyable dramedy about an unexpectedly pregnant 40ish woman who accepts her choices and is able to laugh regardless of what others think. Additional selections include “The Great Massacre of Alimos,” a drama about an LGBTQ+ crew making a documentary about an explosion that killed 70 retirement-home seniors; “Rooster,” a satire about a janitor who enrolls his 6-year-old in an elite private school to give the boy the life he himself was denied; “7 Summits,” a documentary about two mountaineers attempting to become the first Greek women to conquer Everest; and “True to Our Inner Daemon,” a doc about ecstatic rituals of Greek paganism. Proceeds from the festival benefit the locally based Modern Greek Studies Foundation. Visit grfilm.com for tickets and more information.