Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

After a car accident, a young psychologist is forced to stay at her parents' house under the care of her little sister until she recovers.

A life in a day. A man in the middle of a pandemic, decides to return home on foot, wanting to avoid the trolley full of people, thinking that with this choice he will be invincible. Omission of the useless moment in the rhythm of the movement. But who knew that on this route he would come face to face with familiar situations of our everyday life that we pretend not to see. Consequence of security situations. Just another biped. A poor ending and the end of a wish. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

o An attempt to disconnect from technological everyday life. Another confirmation that this is becoming an inseparable part of us. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

The young Michalis returns to his father's house. He feels isolated from everyone and everything, but he tries to get back into his old everyday life. Returning to his city seems difficult and Michalis faces moments of intense loneliness and confusion due to a recent breakup. Everything in his mind is disturbed by his return to the city as his concerns increase and he comes to the conclusion that he must turn to himself. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

An experimental short film dedicated to the Mother of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda. Highly inspired by Agnès Varda's Along the Coast (1958).

An allegory about love. What if love was a fish...

Antonis, a private metal detectorist, is looking to find the lost ring on behalf of a man of the night. Things take a strange turn when he meets and falls in love with the mysterious Elsa.

Citizen Monikin: The Person and the City is an ambient film concerning the play "The Pre-last of the Monikins - A monologue without a beginning and without an end" of Paris Tacopoulos. It is a film in Beckett's style-atmosphere and Joyce's style-content as a narrative peculiarity imposed by oral speech when encountering the moving image. The filmmaker, as the manager of his own look, always aims at the realm of the "other person".

Four soldiers from different European countries (Germany, Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia) find themselves up against a common enemy.

Petros and Giannis live together in an apartment in Piraeus, sharing a daily routine that seems they do not like. A film fires up a fight between them, making Petros decide to leave Athens without a final destination.

A lost soul wanders through various parts of an abandoned port, searching for movement and meaning in the landscape. He discovers various elements of abandonment and decay, long left to their fate. Through them he discovers the fragility of human presence in time and space.

The work of the Citizens' Movement of Thessaloniki and their struggle to prevent the government's decision to detach and dismember the antiquities that were excavated at the Venizelos station, during the metro works. It covers the 15 months from the birth of the Movement to Christmas 2020.

A shy engineer with the help of his friend tries to meet girls.

Young Cordelia watches nightmarish images on a movie screen and from the dark cinema room is transferred to an unfamiliar dream world from where trying to escape. The invisible pursuer chases her in stone alleys and the macabre presence that haunts her in her sleep as another Mora awakens a new aspect of herself. An experimental short film inspired by the painting "Cordelia" by William Frederick Yeames. A vivid nightmare of sexual awakening.

Ιn Eleochori, Messinia, the last and elderly residents tell us how they rebuilt it after it was destroyed in the great earthquake of ’86 In the mountains through which modern Greece began we have the opportunity to see elements of the past coming into contact with the present and to reflect on the past looking back at us. We visit Eleochori, Messinia and talk to the elderly residents who stubbornly decided to rebuild their village when it was destroyed in the earthquake of 86. But time and the modernization of life have left the village empty as most left for Kalamata or even larger city in Greece.

A young artist struggles to reconcile her dreams with reality, in this bricolage exploration of the creative impulse.

"It's Me" presents some of the most important moments of a teenager 's daily life , his activities during the day. he narrate some words that highlight the reflections he make during the day, he plans for the future.

A day in the lives of two strangers in the city of Athens, who accidentally meet and go on a date.

From the perspective of dancing , music, costumes and semantics, the content and the synthesis is a blend of traditonal and contemporary dancing and aesthetics. The two women act in the space as individulas from one hand but also as a small collectivity in the other. Through poetic images and movement they introduce themselves to the ideas of liberty, identity and collective memory of their homeland. Dancing along with the elements of nature as a driving force, the collective unconsious is flowing through their bodies in order to find for themselves their grounding and self-awareness. Carrying alongside the traumatic memory of their land are trying to find their own standing in life as persons and women.

It is common within Romani communities for children at the age of 13 to drop out of school to get married. But this is not the case of the children of the first-ever Roma Robotics team, who struggle to overcome the segregation of their community, travel all the way to USA, finish school and change their life paths.

Thessaloniki, Greece, under Nazi occupation, 96% of the Jewish population is sent to Auschwitz. The adventures, hopes and dreams of nine Jewish students of the Italian School Umberto Primo come to life. The film is based on the archive found by an Italian professor and the testimonies of the protagonists. By recreating their stories, we tell the story of the Holocaust in Greece.

The emotional division of two women for the same man.

In a country where money and corruption rules, a prime minister of defense couldn't be part of it. But his love to women and some wrong choices made him have some troubles. Will he find the courage to avoid the net of the Black Widow?

December 22, 1986: Two sisters, dancers, return from a show. In the back seat of the car, there is a small child. A fatal moment will mark his life forever. 35 years later, in an ordinary moment of his daily life, a pianist, while looking for a forgotten melody, digs up traumatic memories of the past. He is 44 years old and blind. In the submerged darkness, an empty frame in the hands of the hero, takes us back in time. It leads him to the haunted, forgotten melody and brings him out of the darkness in a lyrical and unexpectedly liberating way. The trauma, miraculously, becomes one with the keys of the black piano and leads to cleansing. There is a melodic journey to the light, a journey into the spotlight of the last performance.

Dr. Niles is searching for victims to materialize his sadistic thoughts. "Prisoner 068" starts where "Granny loves you" ended, the doctor abducts Roux with an eye to the exploitation of her body.

Amplifying the journey of Athens based dancer Sandra Voulgari, as she took to her rooftop every day at dawn to dance in the Sanctuary on the Fault Line movement in 2020 and 2021. The film narrates a story of experiencing pandemic times and putting the pieces back together through the liberation of dancing at dawn with the Athens skyline. Film by Alistair H M Simmons and Hayley J S Matthews with footage by and inspired by dancer Sandra Volugari.

'Death Under Control' is a documentary about the neighborhood that was created around and nurtured by the 1st cemetery of Athens. Athenians always respected the dead and their social status was reflected in the grandeur of the epitaphs they created for their departed loved ones. The religious notions may vary over the years but the ecumenical need to remember remains the same. Throughout the years, mostly poor unskilled workers flocked to the neighborhood to work in all aspects of the funerary procession. As traditions changed and evolved, these professions gained structure and gravitas but never escaped their discomforting associations. In 'Death under control' we meet the descendants of the first workers of death. Businesses that go back for at least 4 generations with undisrupted continuity. What is considered to be a brim and macabre form to make a living, is seen under a new perspective from the stories that morticians, funerary house owners, florists, and sculptors narrate.

An experimental interpretation, without actors, of Homer's eleventh Rhapsody, where Ulysses goes down to Hades and talks to the shadows of the dead.

A group of young antiheroes with disabilities, try to know about acting in theater stage. Through their obvious love for it decide to put on a theatrical performance based on improvised scenes centered on superheroes. The young antiheroes are trained theatrically. At the same time, we are getting to know the young antiheroes better with daily scenes of their lives.

Marios, a 12 year old boy, on his way to school, finds out something utterly unexpected.

Six boys spend an evening playing poker when one of them receives a mysterious text message.

A moving-image work commissioned by the Syros International Film Festival featuring images conceived by musician and music archivist Ian Nagoski. Along with Harout Arakelian, Nagoski weaves together found footage images - sourced from both archival material and feature films - to poetically explore displacement, longing and the experience of Greek migration to America in the first half of the 20th century.

A documentary dedicated to the memory of the Blessed Holy Elder Iakovos Tsalikis

Marinos Kassos combines music with motion, designing directly on virgin cinematographic film.

Greek Public Power Corporation’s activities in Eordaea, northern Greece, have transformed the area, making it look alien, unusual; a never-ending process, where man and machine set the stage for an ominous future. Hard work and hope for escape bring a human touch back to this land.

Vagelis Douskas' first attempt at a short film

Football games, fights between mosters and explosions, everything that happens in a normal day in Athens.

In Veroia, a small town of the Greek countryside, Christos decides to interview his 87-year-old grandmother Fofo. Although he told her he only wishes to make a film about her and her life, Christos sees the interview as the perfect opportunity to ask his grandma about something he is afraid could endanger their close relationship.

Palikari - Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre deals with labor relations in early 20th century America, as told through the story of Greek migrant and trade union activist Louis Tikas.

Coal workers are one of the professions that disappeared in our time due to the rapid technological development of industrial society. The film refers to the survival problems faced by both the coal traders and its producers, mainly the coal miners. Black and white emphasizes not only the product of production, coal, but also the acuteness of the problem. In addition, he follows the latter throughout the production of charcoal in the forests of Evia, where they move as a family. It describes the different phases of the production process, alongside the different phases of their reflection on the future, the whole family together and each member separately. Alinda Dimitriou does not use a questionnaire to elicit their thoughts – she lets the conversation "unravel the tangle of confessions", as she typically said.

Although the glaciers keep melting, we still whistle without any interest. Forests are burned to be turned to pastures, factories and arbitrary buildings. The cities we live in are crushing us. We cannot breathe, but since habit is the greatest scam, we carry on with broken brakes driving off the cliff. Until technology has overtaken us.

The camera opens a window to the outside world life for the detainees and students of the Second Chance School in the prison of St. Stefanos in Patra. The voices of the attendees and their on-demand film shots from outside illustrate their hopes, as their dreams gain form, color, and sound, in a sunset, in the sound of the waves, in the open sky. A documentary made during a filmmaking workshop organized by the cultural organization Neaniko Plano, in an attempt to connect the worlds inside and outside.

Phainie Xydis stares at the lens and smokes a cigarette. Phainie Xydis talks and lights up another one. Phainie Xydis loves her friends, boys and girls; she loves life, Themos, and ashtrays full of cigarette butts.

Despite the European Union’s commitment to put an end to overfishing by 2020, the Mediterranean remains the most overfished sea on the planet, in the era of climate change. Traveling across the Mediterranean, the film captures the lives of fishermen who struggle to make ends meet and are at risk of becoming an “endangered species” due to bankrupt EU and national policies.

Hermann is determined to look after the trees of Athens. Following the footsteps of his teacher, traditional pruner Takis, and drawing inspiration from the work of his great-grandfather, essayist Evangelos. P. Papanoutsos, he prunes the city’s trees in his spare time. A proponent of the artful grace of handiwork and the value of aesthetics in everyday life, he proposes a way of direct action and care for the neglected urban greenery.

The everyday life of Panagiotis Banouzas, a guard of the Greek village of Pachtouri, proves tough in the winter, but gets even harder when he’s confronted with the camera, as the film crew attempts to get closer over time. Last August, during some festive celebrations, one of the village elders called him Guardian Angel, thus contributing to the project’s continuation. After Fall, January finds everyone wiser and even more eager to work together.

The sexuals desires of Periandros drive him on the edge and his boyfriend makes him come out. What wil he do next?

How many days can a person last eating only coconut? Is it capable of "nutting" someone due to meat deprivation? How long can someone last without a bath? And how long can someone else sleep next to him? How much weight can a rapper lose if he goes to an island without a taper? Would 4,000 women vote for a man to stay away from them for months if they were satisfied with his performance? How many days can a woman stay unpainted? If someone talks to her in those days did she paint? How many crosses does one have to make, to come out first in a test? How many rosaries does it take to win a Cypriot? How many days does it take a famous blonde to finish in a competition that requires endurance, intelligence and speed?

During the period when the Great Emperor Constantine the Great was considered the Great Emperor, that is, in the 4th century AD, Avenir reigned in India. He acquired a son, Joasaph, for whom astrologers said that when he grew up he would become a Christian. When Evenir heard this, he became agitated, anxious, and, in order to thwart this urge, locked Joasaph in a remote palace. He advised servants and teachers never to speak before him about the faith of Christians. As the years went by, Joseph grew up and received a brilliant education, but he could not banish melancholy and apathy from his limitations. He asked to know why this was happening, but no one answered. His father once allowed him to go out for a walk, but under strict surveillance. On one of his walks he met two poor elderly people, approached them alone and gave them generous alms. Excited, they revealed the secret of his limitation. From then on, he was thirsty to learn about the Christian faith.