{"id":11717,"date":"2022-08-24T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=11717"},"modified":"2022-10-03T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:15:13","slug":"athena","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/athena\/","title":{"rendered":"ATHENA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ATHENA<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664817255314{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Thursday, October 13<\/b> – Renoir Theatre \u2013 5:00 pm
\n(Screening ends at 7:00 pm)
\n+ Short Film Presentation<\/a>: THE SEINE\u2019S TEARS
\nFollowed by a conversation with
\nwriter\/director Romain Gavras and actor Dali Benssalah\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

FICTION \/ DRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663820580870{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in Association with:
\n<\/span>Netflix France<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/63268bc0d76355007e40f13c” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663975573045{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Theatrical Premiere<\/b><\/span> | France\u00a0|\u00a02022\u00a0| Drama |\u00a099\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles <\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Directed by<\/b>:<\/span> Romain Gavras<\/span>
\n<\/span>Written by<\/b>: Romain Gavras, Ladj Ly, \u00c9lias Belkeddar<\/span>
\n<\/span>Produced by<\/b>: Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Mourad Belkeddar, Jean Duhamel & Nicolas Lhermitte (Iconoclast Films), Ladj Ly (Lyly Productions), Romain Gavras, Netflix France<\/span>
\n<\/span>Cinematography<\/b>: Matias Boucard<\/span>
\n<\/span>Film Editing<\/b>: Benjamin Weill<\/span>
\n<\/span>Original Score<\/b>: Surkin aka Gener8ion <\/span>
\n<\/span>Cast<\/b>:<\/span> Dali Benssalah(Abdel), Sami Slimane (Karim), Anthony Bajon (J\u00e9r\u00f4me), Ouassini Embarek (Moktar), Alexis Manenti (S\u00e9bastien), Karim Lasmi (Imam)<\/span>
\n<\/span>International Distributor<\/b>: Netflix France<\/span>
\n<\/span>U.S Release: <\/b>Netflix US<\/span>
\n<\/span>Release Date<\/b>: September 23, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

Echoes of Ladj Ly’s majestic 2019 <\/span>Les Miserables<\/span><\/i> (Opening film COLCOA 2019) and Mathieu Kassovitz’s groundbreaking 1995, <\/span>Hate<\/span><\/i> run through <\/span>Romain Gavras<\/b>‘s eagerly-awaited, incendiary modern Greek tragedy, <\/span>Athena<\/i><\/b>. It all begins with the death of a young boy at the hands of a rogue police officer in the Athena housing projects. The incident tears the boy’s older brothers apart. Karim wants revenge at all costs. Moktar is obsessed by his own drug-dealing activities to even react. Soldier, Abdel, who’s called back from the frontlines, desperately tries to calm rising tensions. But the firestorm escalates, spreading from neighborhood to neighborhood, city to city, igniting an all-out civil war of brother against brother. Operatic in scope and style, Gavras’s meticulously choreographed and rehearsed elaborate takes \u2014 no CGI effects here! \u2014 take one’s breath away, deftly sweeping us up in his small story of epic proportions. As Heraclitus warns, “It is difficult to fight anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The youngest son of illustrious Greek director Costa-Gavras, <\/span>Romain Gavras<\/b> has gravitated toward material and projects as political and hard-hitting as his father’s.\u00a0 In 1994, at the age of 13, he co-founded the Kourtrajm\u00e9 film collective, supporting grassroots filmmaking in the underprivileged outer-city and \u2014 since 2018, on the initiative of <\/span>Athena<\/span><\/i> cowriter, Ladj Ly \u2014 making vocational training accessible to a new generation of young film artists. Gavras began making his own shorts in 2001.\u00a0 He has directed numerous award-winning, often brutal, music videos for such artists as M.I.A., Jay-Z, Kanye West and Jamie xx, as well as commercials for the likes of Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Adidas and Louis Vuitton. In 2008, he directed <\/span>A Cross the Universe<\/span><\/i>, a documentary on the French electronic music duo Justice. He has cowritten and directed two feature films: <\/span>Our Day Will Come<\/span><\/i> (COLCOA 2011), which premiered at SXSW; and <\/span>The World Is Ours<\/span><\/i> (2018), which was screened at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes and was nominated for two C\u00e9sar Awards. <\/span>Athena<\/i><\/b> premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival and makes its North American theatrical premiere at THE AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/athena-first-look.png” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663686370111{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] ATHENA [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664817255314{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Thursday, October 13 – Renoir Theatre \u2013 5:00 pm (Screening ends at 7:00 pm) + Short Film Presentation: THE SEINE\u2019S TEARS Followed by a conversation with writer\/director Romain Gavras and actor Dali Benssalah\u00a0 FICTION \/ DRAMA [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663820580870{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Presented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11717","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11717"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13112,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11717\/revisions\/13112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}