{"id":754552,"date":"2026-06-23T07:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754552\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:15:12","slug":"melbourne-to-host-world-premiere-of-acropolis-cats-other-wondrous-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754552\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne to host world premiere of &#8216;Acropolis Cats &#038; Other Wondrous Animals&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Zournazi\u2019s \u2018Acropolis Cats &amp; Other Wondrous Animals\u2019 is set to have its world premiere at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) on 11 July.<\/p>\n<p>The film will be shown as past of a special retrospective to her work, screening alongside her previous two works \u2018Dogs of Democracy\u2019 and \u2018My Rembetika Blues\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to show this new film as a part of my Greek Trilogy at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival,\u201d Zournazi said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-354750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AcropolisCats2-PRINT_16200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"602\"  \/>Screenshot from Mary Zournazi\u2019s latest documentary. Photo: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The film highlights the lives of cats and other animals that have been abandoned in Greece, Australia and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>It delves into the love and cruelty humans can inflict on other animals as well as themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcropolis Cats &amp; Other Wondrous Animals is a film about love, tenderness and cruelty and puts a spotlight on humans and animals what connects us to each other and the world. It\u2019s a small step towards remembering our humanity in these times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Zournazi\u2019s \u2018Acropolis Cats &amp; Other Wondrous Animals\u2019 is set to have its world premiere at the Melbourne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-754552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}