CINEMAX

The Athens International Children’s and Youth Film Festival returns for its seventh year with the theme “Get Up!”—a call to face life’s challenges with optimism and courage.

After catching audiences' attention at film festivals last year, an "unassuming tragicomic gem" from Macedonia, as The Hollywood Reporter calls it, had its TV premier on New Year's Eve in 14 European countries, aired at prime time on HBOs popular Cinemax 2 channel.

Steven Soderbergh is showing me a collage he’s been making. Half-finished, it sits on a table in his New York office. Composed entirely of movie stars in character, the work gives pride of place to Robert De Niro as a mohawked Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. He’s flanked by River Phoenix, John Belushi, Sacha Baron Cohen, Dennis Hopper and Catherine Deneuve.