Phaneromeni21 Arts Festival brings art and music all summer long

Bringing together several forms of art, the festival will travel from the past to the present day with events suitable for all ages. Next on the agenda are two outdoor film screenings. Coming up on August 5, the 1994 Italian film Il Postino (The Postman) will be screened at the Cultural Foundation at 9pm. The film is set when exiled Cuban poet Pablo Neruda arrives on a tiny Italian isle and there’s so much new mail that Mario, an unemployed, uneducated layabout, is hired as a postman. His job is simply to deliver Neruda’s daily mail but he soon becomes a student of the poet, learning the art of poetry to woo a local barmaid and tell about the struggles of the working-class villagers. A firm friendship develops, and the postman turns into a changed man.