'Gaza Mon Amour': Film Review | Venice 2020

Lottery winner Chloe Webster won't be in a huge rush to return home from her holiday in Greece after learning of her jackpot.The 29-year-old was left speechless after finding out she had won £30,000 on People's Postcode Lottery.She was one of five neighbours in Seamer, North Yorkshire, who shared a huge £150,000 windfall.Chloe was on a family holiday in Kos, Greece when People's Postcode Lottery's Judie McCourt video called her.When she saw the cheque she said: "No way! Wow! That is amazing.

In 2013, a fisherman from Gaza netted a 2000-year-old statue of the ancient Greek god Apollo from the waters near the Egyptian border. Sensing the opportunity to drag themselves out of destitution, the fisherman’s family put the 300kg bronze relic on eBay for $500,000, only for the ruling Hamas authorities to confiscate it for themselves.

In a welcome sign for a struggling independent film market, the Venice Film Festival kicked off this week with a series of international deals. Sony Pictures Classics picked up worldwide rights, outside of Italy, for Luca Guadagnino’s documentary Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, which covers the life of fashion icon Salvatore Ferragamo.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentDaniele Luchetti’s “The Ties” (“Lacci”), the first Italian film to open the Venice Film Festival in 11 years, garnered warm reviews on its world premiere on Wednesday evening, and has been sold by MK2 Films in a raft of territories around the world.MK2 Films has been able to lure major distributors in key markets, notably France (Pyramide), Spain (Caramel), Latin America (Synapse), China (Huanxi), Portugal (Midas), Greece (Weirdwave), Austria (Thim),

Yorgos Lanthimos' dark absurdist comedy Dogtooth in 2009 ushered in the so-called Greek Weird Wave, which blossomed at least partly out of national chaos triggered by the country's financial crisis that same year. Christos Nikou, whose background includes working as an assistant director on that film, establishes himself as an exciting new voice in the movement with his assured feature debut, Apples.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticChristos Nikou couldn’t have anticipated the almost unrecognizable world into which he would be releasing his debut feature, “Apples,” but it’s a testament to the strength of this lonely and aloof tragicomedy’s central allegory that it adapts so well to our pear-shaped times.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorAfter more than six month of struggle for the film industry, this morning saw the first major movie event return as Venice staged its first press screenings for opening film Lacci and Greek drama Apples.What a difference a year makes. Last year’s screenings of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth were largely full.

police after a mother-of-four from Yorkshire was struck and killed by a speedboat while swimming off the Greek island of Corfu. Local media reports have described three “young” people who are being held by the authorities following the death of the victim, Claire Glatman, 60.Mrs Glatman is said to have been enjoying a regular morning swim in the sea just off Avlaki Beach when the boat hit her.She was on holiday with her husband Mark, 63, and one of her daughters.

Christopher Vourlias Curzon Artificial Eye has acquired distribution rights in the U.K. and Ireland for “Apples,” the feature directorial debut of Greece’s Christos Nikou, which opens the Horizons section of the 77th Venice Film Festival on Sep.

Harry Maguire has been found guilty of assault following his arrest after a brawl last week on the Greek island of Mykonos.