Real Art Ways
56 Arbor Street
Hartford CT 06106
860 232 1006
realartways.org
info@realartways.org

Cinema Admission:
Regular Admission: $8.25
Regular Students/Seniors: $5.75
Real Art Ways Members: $5.00
Student/Senior Members: $4.50

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HARD GOODBYES: MY FATHER
(Diskoli Apocheretismi: O Babas Mou)

Director:
Penny Panayotopoulou

Opens Friday, December 10

Greek director Penny Panayotopoulou has crafted this enchanting and sometimes wryly amusing coming-of-age story that pays tribute to the resilience of youthful spirit. Elias is growing up in Athens in 1969. He idolizes his father, a traveling salesman who is often away from home - leaving his mother resentful, and his elder brother determinedly sullen. When father is killed in a car accident, Elias simply cannot conceive of it. He clings to the parting promise his father made to him: that he will be home in time to watch the Americans land on the moon. He creates a healing and often creative fantasy that allows him to deal with the death. An extraordinary film. In Greek with English subtitles.
(Greece, 2003) 113 min.

Founded in 1975, Real Art Ways is one of the country's seminal multi-disciplinary alternative spaces, featuring an extensive gallery exhibition program, as well as commissioned projects for public spaces and an on-going series of artist discussions, cinema programs, concerts, performances, spoken word and educational programs.