Dimitris Gaziadis

The Greek Film Archive has dug up some of its most precious treasures and is offering them online for a fee of just 3 euros from December 24 through January 10.

The Greek Festival and the Greek Film Archive present two silent films that helped change the course of cinema in this country in a double bill at the open-air Herod Atticus Theater. Orestis Laskos's "Daphnis & Chloe" from 1931, based on the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek writer Longus, is hailed as the first European film with a nude scene.

Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos’ Chair in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney.