
OPENING NIGHT FILM
3-5 OCTOBER 2025
HYDRA ISLAND GREECE
OPENING NIGHT FILM
What better way to open ArtCInema Hydra 2025 than with a film about artists, by artists. We are excited to welcome legendary independent film producer Christine Vachon, founder of Killer Films, to present her company’s most recent title, LATE FAME. The film, starring Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan, is currently on the festival circuit playing at Venice and New York Film Festival.
LATE FAME SYNOPSIS:
Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Intoxicated by the attention — and by the alluring presence of Gloria, the group’s “tragic heroine” — Saxberger gradually reckons with the authenticity of his newfound poetic circle.
This thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.
CREDITS:
Director: Kent Jones
Production: Killer Films (Pamela Koffler, Mason Plotts, Christine Vachon), Fresh Fish Films (Danny Roberts, H.S. Naji, Jackie Langelier)
Running Time: 96 minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
Year: 2025
Main Cast: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan
Screenplay: Samy Burch
Cinematographer: Wyatt Garfield
Editor: Mike Selemon
Production Designer: Tommaso Ortino
Costume Designer: Carissa Kelly
Music: Don Fleming
Sound: Lora Hirschberg
From the novel by: Arthur Schnitzler