Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

A narrow space. A young man obsessed with ambient sounds. All will be disrupted when the sonic presence of the Russian neighbors invades his space.

For 15 years, a photojournalist bears witness to migrant journeys across the dark crossings of European borders. His camera delves into inaccessible places, documenting the stories of people who push human boundaries, to reveal how the Other Half lives.

Captures of Kareem’s universe during the pandemic. A short film about the feeling of isolation, creating art in a world paused by Covid-19, and friendship.

During the German occupation, Mrs. Dimitra, widow of pilot Nikiforos Avgeris, lives with her daughter Natasha and her mother-in-law. One day, she happens to meet Haris, a stuntman who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband, and asks him to play the role of her husband for the sake of her daughter. Haris agrees, and for a while they live together. However, the Germans, believing him to be the real Avgeris, arrest him. He does not reveal his true identity...

A minor fender-bender triggers a string of unexpected events when a young optimist and car sales representative chances upon the incognito daughter of his antagonist. Will this lead to a fresh romance, and the fulfilment of his dreams?

Dimitris, a 23 yr. old swimming champion, meets Elsa, a yound environmental activist. Their relation, and her sudden dissaperance, make him re-evaluate his settled life.

The Zoumpos, a smart, lively and cheerful punk, which is Margarita dressed boy smuggled aboard a cruise ship. Certainly not slow to discover. Captain of the ship is Manolis Sorokos ....

Poseidon is a peaceful man who cares about nothing more than his job at the factory and his violin at home. One day, he discovers that his brother, Michalis, whom he considered a conscientious medical student, has become involved with a gang of pickpockets. To save him and bring him back into line, he transforms himself into a kamikaze pickpocket...

A young man leaves Thessaloniki and goes to Athens to find a job. But he gets tangled in different situations and gets accused of murder.

Kostas (Dinos Iliopoulos), a small-time lawyer is tasked with accompanying Smaro (Smaroula Giouli), a young rich heiress, from the country to Athens where she wants to sell her estate. Kostas though starts a day late and Smaro goes to Athens by herself. In the end after much wandering and misunderstandings Kostas will meet Smaro who will fall in love with him.

The brief love story that Sonia lived in the summer with her teacher, an older man and married in the 60's. For the autumn, Tonio travels with his family abroad, leaving Sonia with his most intimate memories. Sonia has lived in Florence, Paris and has acquired the romanticism of the interwar years she has found in books, paintings and music of the time. He has chosen to live a life apart, of introspection, away from the crowds, but always in a sensational mood.

Today is the one year anniversary of Nikos' and Sofia's break-up. But Nikos misses Sofia. And he wants to see her. So, he will use Elvis in order to get her back.

In Greece the advertisement in exterior billboards has been recently forbidden. As a result there are hundreds of blank billboards that don’t show any messages. But the empty frames are now the message. And Greece is out of frame.

Graceful Sofia falls in love with Alkis, a charming young writer. They make plans for the future; but, one day, her boss, Memas, enters the picture: a tough guy who owns a cabaret in Trouba, and wants Sofia back.

The film takes place in a student dining hall. A rather lonely student is the narrator. As a frequent visitor of the hall, in his third year of study, he introduces us to the workers in it. He singles out one of the employees, whose name we never learn. Between them there will be a friction with repercussions in the lives of both.

Two girlfriends are having a car accident with two boyfriends...

The leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them. 12+1 kids and the carcass of a whale washed ashore…

An early exploration of intimacy and perception, the film portrays the body’s beauty and sexuality as animated by the soul. Through dissolving and vanishing images, Beavers creates a sensuous interplay of touch, memory, and after-image, leaving an imprint on both eye and mind.

Sandra is travelling with Fay, helping her take the bus out of the country. A transphobic attack leaves them both stranded in the middle of nowhere. A sensitive and vibrant response to intolerance in the form of a gritty and realistic road movie.

The childhood traumas of a solitary young man have a determinative effect on the formation of his personality and sexual behavior and have turned him into a rapist with the angelic face. One day, the young man, Giorgos, confides his secret to a friend and colleague named Toni, who advises him to visit a psychiatrist. At the same time, he encourages him to have a relationship with a colleague of theirs named Kaiti, who seems to be interested in him. But the police, who had been looking looking for the perpetrator all this time, finally appear.

A harmless simpleton with a heart of gold arrives in Athens and falls in love. Can he prove his worth in the bustling big city and fulfil his destiny?

Whispers fill the silence around her, each one a subtle accusation, a reminder of guilt and blame. As a grieving mother struggles to navigate the weight of loss, the whispers grow louder. Will they ever let her find peace?

Alkis, a young gay man, is upset when Tonia, his ex-girlfriend, moves in next door to him with her new husband. Her marriage is not going well and she makes a play for Alkis. He rebuffs her but is worried that her next target will be Babis, his boyfriend.

In a crisis with his wife, a man consoles himself with an attractive girl, but hesitates when he discovers she's trans. That "something more", however, does not prevent him from continuing the relationship, which becomes embarrassing when the two also join the wife, attracted by the novelty. The unusual triangle is not destined for a happy coexistence and fate will prove tragic for everyone.

During a pandemic, a granddaughter has daily telephone contact with her isolated grandmother. Until the day when the grandmother does not answer...

An arrogant lieutenant of the Royal Hellenic Navy who finds out that his ex-lover has deeper feelings for one of his colleagues, wants to take his revenge on him after a nearly fatal accident. Can he swallow his pride and accept the truth?

Prudent Damianos, co-owner in lingerie shop, fights every day with his business partner tychanei and childhood friend. Cause of their frequent quarrels is the persistence of his friend flirting all women, even the wife of Damian, and playing all day in the saxophone

Makis Bitsakos is a young man who loves football and his dream is to become a football star. His father tries to stop him. His sister is in love with the son of Archos, a wealthy and powerful man. One day Archos insults her and soon afterward she has an -almost fatal- accident with her bike. Makis is hired by a major football tema and soon becomes a star. Soon Archos' son is murdered by Nick, his ruthless assistant. Makis is seriously during a game. He needs money in order to save his foot. Along with his friends, they kidnap another football player and demand ransom. When they collect the money they go to attend a football game. During the game's ending, Gate 7 is full of enraged fans.

"Gia pente diamerismata kai ena magazi" is a documentary about how the process of "exchange" transformed the neighborhoods of major cities of Greece, particularly Athens and Pireus.

Tamtakos is serving in the Navy and his commander assigns him to watch over his daughter. But what will happen when he discovers that the commander's daughter is dating an officer from his unit?

A former teacher, Alexis Vergis, agrees to give private lessons to the young son of a wealthy family, but quickly realizes that the real reason he was hired is to help Anna, the boy's sister, who has suffered a nervous breakdown after the death of her fiancé. With kindness and methodicalness, he tries to lift the girl's spirits. Walks in the countryside and conversations about happy and carefree topics help her to relax somewhat. However, Anna's stepmother is disturbed by the relationship developing between the two young people, because she actually intends to have Anna committed to a mental institution and inherit her husband's fortune. She tries to slander Alexis and partly succeeds, but in the end, the truth shines through and the love of the two young people triumphs.

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.

His advanced studies in philosophy have caused Stephanos to view all people as his inferiors. When he is discharged from the -obligatory in Greece- army service, he thinks the world belongs to him. In reality all that does belong to him are debts left by his mother who has just died and rejection by his formerly devoted girlfriend. Nikos, an old high school classmate, reappears in his life.

An unexpected big break changes the life of a young, ambitious actor.

Anna faces everyday problems in her Greek life. Her previous "man" left her debts, the new guy approved not to be the right one, in addition to these she loses her job and indeed needs somebody to rescue her!

When Flora realizes that there is no way she can marry Kyriakos, with the three and twenty she saves per month, she decides to commit a robbery. That is, just enough to cover the wedding expenses. In this way, she also lures Kyriakos into this illegal act. However, the children are unlucky, because as soon as they enter the target they have chosen to rob, they are trapped in the building's elevator and stay there all night. When they are finally released in the morning, they are confronted by the store's employees and customers and are forced to immobilize them with their weapons in order to leave. However, the misfortune continues because the cleaning lady, who locked the door, lost the keys and so they have to wait for the locksmith. However, instead of the locksmith, the police arrive...

Panagiotis and Giannis are two good friends but also rivals in love. The first is a merchant and the second a violinist; one is tall and slim and the other short and fat; one is bossy, the other one mild. Both make an inimitable comic couple, wandering in the Peloponnese, looking for a date tree that will prove the innocence or guilt of the wife of one of them and possibly lover of the other. They are guided by an old picture depicting Panagiotis' wife, Maria, in the arms of Giannis, under a date tree. However, the area of their search, there are no date trees.

Fragogiannou, an elderly woman born and raised in a male-dominated society, believes that the birth of a girl brings misery to both the child and its family. Starting with her own newborn granddaughter, she commits crimes against young girls.

The manager of a hotel, where the Spring Beauty Pageant is held every year, hires private detective Theseus Doriadis to protect the ten finalists, who are being threatened by someone unknown...

Joe, and Gardelis his friend, plan to rob a safe, a Russian émigré, Lavrentis Shack. By opening, however, the safe, -propylcarbamoyl ekplixeos- see, they have stolen all the valuable items, apart from the will of the princess, which defines as heir, poor niece Shack, Nadia maid. Joe will go through a lot: You get into and out of prison, will fall victim to extortion by gangs, ultimately, though, he'll discover the real thief of the safe, which will make the Nadia maid to love ...

On the last night of their respective trips to Athens, ex-lovers Fatima and Leon meet once again.

The Minister of Health is invited to a radio show, in order to hide a scandal he’s involved in. On air, they are walking on a tightrope, that gets even tighter by the listeners’ reactions and the pressure by the pharmaceutical companies and the government.

A college student seeks to set things traight with his mother, that abandonned him as a child as she fled with his uncle to America.

A petty thief breaks into the mansion of a wealthy industrialist, hoping to make off with something valuable. Instead, the inhabitants welcome him with open arms, believing him to be the magnate's son. Can anyone set the record straight?

The heroic Souli have managed to repel the asker of Ali Pasha and his brave Malamos Dragon sends his mother to ask her hand Maro, niece of the captain Tzavelena. She ignores the hatred that separated years both Families and agrees to give her niece, but to know that Maro loves Kitsos Botsari. When the son of Fotos Tzavellas engage Maro with Kitsos, the Malamos drowns his pain and unleashes his rage against the Turks, who are trying again to get the Souli.

Everyone hates Babis, except for his wife, who looks at him with adoration. One of his colleagues, just to mess with him, spreads the rumor that Babis won $80 million in the lottery. Then everyone changes their attitude. The manager, his colleagues, women and men. After a crazy game of misunderstandings, Babis actually becomes a millionaire. Now he is liked and moves around with ease.

Kaiti's father decides to end Nikos' family and evicts them. Nikos and his mother rent a room in Anna's family's house. Together with Giovanna's band, in which he is a pianist, he will find himself in Thessaloniki where they have gone for various performances with his beloved, Lisa. Lisa will receive a message and will return hurriedly to Athens. There she will have an accident, will become disabled and will decide to disappear from Nikos' life. Upon returning, Nikos tries in vain to find her...

A taxi driver is trying to make ends meet with his debts. His brother, a famous TV presenter, lives every day like it's his last one. Tied in their childhood, but alienated in their adult everyday life, they will meet again under unpleasant circumstances. The shared memories, the long journeys to Jamaica - the unattainable dream shared by children - one's inexhaustible humor and the other's pure soul will unite them again.

Pelops (Nikos Tsouka), after the appearance of the deceased brother and he has discovered a method of preparing gasoline, desperately trying to find the missing ingredient to complete the formulation. His friends (Stathis Psaltis and Antonis Papadopoulos) attempt to chase away ghosts that haunt him, which is no more than two people (Mari Karavia and Markos Lezes) who want to drive Pelops to explore the house, inside in which is hidden a treasure.