Filmhouse/New Kalamata Cinema Club-EIGHT MOUNTAINS

"8 Mountains" is a story of male friendship over the years against the backdrop of the majestic Italian mountains, forests and plains, sun and snow. "Eight Mountains" make up the life adventure of Pietro and Bruno.

Pietro is a boy from the city, while Bruno is the only child in a forgotten mountain village. Over the years, Bruno remains loyal to his mountain, while Pietro is the one who sometimes leaves and sometimes returns. Their encounters bring them face to face with love and loss, reminding them of their roots and unfolding their destinies as they discover what true lifelong friendship means.

It takes a special kind of mastery to write characters like Pietro and Bruno, who are best friends in the world, but without their relationship being suffocating or imposed daily by social conditions. No matter what life throws at them (and it's hard at them), one is always there for the other, an enduring constant, like the lake of their childhood summer, the rutted mountain trails, or the glowing fire below from the starry sky of the countryside.
Masterfully based on Paulo Canietti's book of the same name, the naturalistic "Eight Mountains" has already won 16 awards at global festivals and walked away with the Jury Prize from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

The screening is organised with the cooperation of the Kalamata Hikers and Climbers Association "Efklis".
S.P.O.K. "Efklis" was founded in 1981.
Today, there are four active departments: the Department of Hiking/Climbing - the Department of Excursions - the Department of Volunteering and Social Offering, and the Department of Competitive Cycling.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 24th
EIGHT MOUNTAINS - LE OTTO MONTAGNE
Drama | K-13 | 2022 | It, B| 147'
directed by: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
starring: Lupo Barbiero, Cristiano Sassella, Elena Lietti
21:00 | Thod. Aggelopoulos Amphitheatre, Kalamata Labour Centre

General admission is 5 euros, admission is 3 euros for the unemployed, those with many children and students, and admission is free for young people under 18.