San Francisco GFF to screen Arcadia with director Zois
TOI GLOBAL DESK | Nov 14, 2025, 22:54 IST
San Francisco GFF to Screen Arcadia with Director Zois
On November 19, the San Francisco Greek Film Festival will be the location for a special screening of Arcadia, Greece’s Oscar submission. A Q and A session will also be held with the in-person director Yorgos Zois.
TL;DR
On November 19, the San Francisco Greek Film Festival is going to stage a gala screening of the Arcadia film, the official Oscar submission from Greece. The festival extends a fruitful Q&A session with director Yorgos Zois to the audience.
The San Francisco Greek Film Festival is presenting the dramatic film Arcadia on the occasion of its special screening at 7 p.m., November 19, at the Cinemark Century Tanforan, San Bruno, California. Apart from the movie, the festival also communicated the director Yorgos Zois' arrival. A question-answer session with the director will be followed, and he will be available for the audience to talk to directly, which is a rare occasion. At San Francisco Greek Film Festival 2025, the film Arcadia which is presented by Greece as an official Oscar submission to the 98th Academy Awards has been crowned Best Narrative Feature Jury Award.
Following the sold-out screening, the festival’s management team has been communicating to the audience of the festival that they should reserve their seats ahead of time as they expect a massive turnout. The San Francisco Greek Film Festival is a festival of films in the U.S. that honors and promotes the film industries of Greece and Cyprus. This is a festival of films that have received accolades from the international community. These are films that have garnered global recognition. Festival organizers declared that the first reason for selecting Arcadia for the program in November was the film's profound themes, and as a second reason, they pointed out the excellent critical acclaim the film received.
Arcadia is about Katerina, a neurologist, and her husband Yannis, a doctor who had retired, as they go to an empty sea-side village. The journey was made in the calm atmosphere of a stormy fall, and it was already affected by the heaviness of the very beginning. The police have summonsed Yannis to identify the body of the person killed in an accident. When a local policeman telling the couple that a car had gone over the edge of a stone bridge takes them to the morgue, Katerina confronts the things she tried to push away. The worst that she could have thought of turned out to be real, thus dispatching the two on a mission for the truth that walks far beyond the official versions.
Left with handling the grief, Yannis is busy while Katerina goes to a little beach bar called Arcadia where she witnesses new faces and situations which slowly introduce her to fresh details about the incident. The movie centres around those people who are trying to understand their loss in their own ways. The performers express the characters' love, their reunion, and their heartfelt acknowledgment of the loss through them facing the sad reality.
The film runs for 99 minutes and the spoken language is Greek with English subtitles. It was acclaimed by Greek critics and performed very well at international film festivals due to its charming way, silent tension, and beautiful filming. Zois, a contemporary Greek cinema director, has been acclaimed at a number of international festivals like Venice and Locarno.
Earlier this year in a press release, Zois said that Arcadia is a film revolving around "the delicate line separating memory and reality" and he expressed his desire that people will see it as an introspection of grief and human connection. According to the festival staff, the director's visit is like a bridge leading to the discussion of the creative process and the themes of the film with the audience.
The occasion constitutes one of the very last specially scheduled screenings of the year by the festival and is a testament of its pledge to showcasing Greek films to the varied audiences of the Bay Area.
FAQs
- Where will the event occur
At Cinemark Century Tanforan, San Bruno, California. - Will the director attend?
Yes, director Yorgos Zois will be there. - How long is the film?
Time of the film is ninety-nine minutes.