Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Still living at home, a middle-aged man devises an intricate plan to take his life after his mother chokes to death on a pistachio.

Just before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, at the end of the Cold War. Everything is changing in front of Anthi’s eyes and Christos seems to be changing too. Bella is the story of a moment in time recreated as if in a feverish dream where fiction and documentary overlap perfectly, creating a striking and emotional cinematographic universe.

The coming of age of a young student, through a series of events and erotic-emotional regressions, the same time that his mother is pregnant, without a father, while his boss falls in 'old age. "

Natasha, a Russian refuge, seeks a place in the Greek sun. She learns speaking Greek using audio cassettes. Finally, she learns the lesson of life.

Paris Vellis is a computer games programmer who has developed a computer that it is possible to transport oneself into to play games. Despite the computer warning of the danger he enters his latest game where he must win or die.

“I present the world with a very different approach, not as it was taught to us at school or in the army. I believe that each one has the right to see the society he lives in with his own particular view. I am, personally, more interested in Devil than God”- Elias Petropoulos. A restless and inquisitive spirit, a foe of academics and the status-quo, Petropoulos was the first folklorist in Greece, who dealt with social outcasts and described people and situations ignored by his country’s official history. Petropoulos takes us on a journey to unknown landscapes of our tradition and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground and who dominate his books. Rebetika musicians, bums, spivs, whores and homosexuals, people tormented and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground.

Eleven-year-old Semele unexpectedly arrives at her father's worksite in Cyprus with a note from school that needs to be signed. This is an astutely observed, ultimately heart-rending story about a youngster whose fierce longing to be noticed is matched only by her determination to make it happen.

Joanna descends to the Port daily to find love. Inspired by an urban myth, one woman's story, could be a country's tale.

Did you ever realise some people that would not sit next to them in a bus, or talk them. We eve hesitate to have a loot at this people but stare secretly. Sometimes those people against whom we have a lot of prejudices, are a part of our society, we just don't realise that, until we face some circumstances and really look into those people...

John, a dying from cancer cowboy tries to get medicine to expand his lifetime, by teaming up with his ex - partner, Bill.

A sailor, whose life has been destroyed in every way, is drunk all the time. By chance, he discovers the current owner of the villa that used to belong to him.

Based on real events In a school in the northern suburbs, the arrival of the mysterious and charming Chris will upset Dorothea, which will fall in love. Soon the two of them will bring the rest of the gang in a dark new world.

1957, Drapetsona, a working-class suburb of Piraeus. Katy feels stifled by her futile, enervating and almost ridiculous day-to-day life. An old dress becomes the pretext for the young girl to attempt what her mother dared not: to claim the right to living and not merely existing, or at least a simple stroll in the port.

I was hospitalized due to fumes, and while the contractor was diluting the medication, you arrived, asked me to marry you, and then pressured me to terminate the pregnancy. You came whenever you wanted, without responsibility. I didn't have an abortion. The child is growing up on its own, just like me.

Chris is an eleven year old kid with black belt in karate.

A dry and long summer on the National Highway. Alienated, young Maria spends her tedious everyday life in her canteen, serving the passersby.

A sweet and rich girl loves a poor shepherd and thus rejects the marriage proposals of a rich man. He accuses her beloved of theft—which the shepherd boy never committed, of course—but his scheming does not lead to the desired result.

Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.

Vasilis Tsivilikas directs and stars in this hilarious comedy of romantic misunderstandings by masters of the genre, Ray Cooney and John Chapman. The story takes place in a London fur shop, run by two businessmen who are completely different from each other.

Dimitris Dalikis was the owner of a bank abroad. However, he went bankrupt and returned to Greece with only a few securities left. With the stock market crash, he lost those too, leaving him literally "broke." He was on the verge of suicide when he met Anna, a widow with a young son, Stefanos. One day, Dimitris, in order to save little Stefanos from certain death in a building, injured his hands and was left paralyzed. Misfortune befell their home, and Anna decided to give the child up for adoption. Years passed and Stefanos became a prosecutor. His relationship with Rania, his fiancée, was sealed with their marriage, with Stefanos' mother watching from a distance.

Two poor roommates, Spouritis and Floros, owe their landlady, Mrs. Persephone, several months' rent and are in danger of being thrown out onto the street at any moment. One day, they take on a job painting a house, but Spouritis's repeated blunders cause them to be chased by the owner, who demands that they pay for the damage. In their attempt to escape, they come across a dying woman, who entrusts them with a sick child and asks them to find his father. The two friends, kind-hearted and compassionate as they are, take it upon themselves to place an ad in a newspaper to find the boy's father. Coincidentally, the child's father is someone who is pursuing them. They try various tricks to avoid him. Then they get into trouble as photographers, and so someone else takes up the chase, resulting in a series of mishaps and blunders.

Jinxi is a violinist, about to fulfill her dream of moving to Vienna to continue with her music studies. While trying to settle her affairs before departing, her encounter with Panos, a Greek architect newly arrived to Shanghai, will have a disrupting effect on her life. During the course of one day, their relationship will go through ups and downs and bring them in front of life-changing dilemmas.

A private investigator follows in the footsteps of his idol, Michael Knight, the star of Ο ιππότης της ασφάλτου (1982), and comes up with PSIT: the equivalent of KITT and Greece's first artificially intelligent, crime-fighting vehicle.

Two idiotic unemployed friends start answering job listings advertised on newspapers, with hilarious results.

A Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and author from Greece. He is famous for creating controversial characters in his films that have a rebellious attitude towards the social and political status quo. He illustrates a dark and pessimistic present and future, but also providing ambiguous hope for the end when his heroes find their escape in death. His films are shocking and contentious, raising questions during times when political visions start to fade away. His filming was poetic, dynamic and aesthetically beautiful in order to present situations on edge and elicit his audience's feelings. The aim of this project is to transfer his dynamics in a documentary that will convey some of his messages and create a platform for exchanging opinions among filmmakers from all over the world, in an effort to decipher his universe and his symbols as reflections of his unique and rare personality.

Agamemnon, CEO of Macedonian Enterprises, hires private eye Lezentano to go after beautiful Elena, who is accused of embezzlement. Lezentano intercepts Elena, but things turn out to be more complicated than they seemed on the surface.

In a nonaligned country, where a civil conflict is raging, a team of photographers follows a mercenary war lord, whose men wreak havoc among enemies and innocents alike. The story is a modern version of the tragedy Antigone, in a time when TV and the other media present unrelieved visions of war and bloody mayhem.

A Roma woman manages to overcome the obstacles that arise because of her origins and win her life and the man she loves.

The adventures of a young naive prostitute when she meets and fall in love with a law student and decides to escape her slavery.

After the death of her kind stepfather and Pontian Greek refugee, a young woman arrives in Athens to track down her biological father who is missing since the blood-drenched Pontic genocide in Asia Minor. Will she ever find him?

Ever since her husband, Andreas, died, Mrs. Antonia only has his picture to talk to. She is almost certain that he can hear her.

A married woman struggles to escape the decay of her failed marriage. She meets a strange young man with whom she falls deeply in love and with whom she lives the great illusion, the dream she longed for. She experiences intense dizziness and feels unprecedented joy. But the young man is "crazy," mentally disturbed, and epileptic. When his pigeons, for which he has an irrational and pathological love, die en masse from an unknown cause, he completely loses his mind and kills his lover, believing that he is offering her ultimate freedom.

"This Is Not a Coup" describes ECB's financial interventions in states like Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece. Featuring well known academics, politicians and journalists, it analyses the relation of EU institutions with big corporations and banks. In order to guarantee full independence from private companies and interests, the project is financed through crowd-funding - namely donations from citizens, trade unions and independent organizations and foundations across the globe.

In a port of Peloponnese the local Master Mason, his daughter, a Palestinian commando, a corrupt police chief and 17 girls from eastern Europe await the arrival of a ship with a route from Panama to Israel.

A crew of enthusiasts sets out in a monoxyl, a vessel carved from a tree trunk, on a journey across the Aegean Sea. Their goal is to verify how the first farmers could have traveled from Asia Minor to Europe 9,000 years ago. The documentary reveals new facts about ancient European history.

Tasos dies in a car accident, but he is given five more minutes of life.

Against prejudice, the beautiful daughter of Cyprus' most prominent industrialist falls for a humble fisherman; but, fate has a cruel future in store for her. Now, they all need a miracle. Can the poor lad from Cyprus save his beloved?

Despite being widowed twice, a goldsmith sets sail for his third marriage, aiming to find an obedient bride who will not object to his wishes. However, the woman he meets is a karate instructor who does not take orders.

A young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed to save money for his last years.

In a second division team, "Pyraulos," a conscientious soccer player, Manolis Yvanis, idolizes the Greek-French player Yv Triantafyllos, since his father is Cretan and his mother is French. His dream is to become great and famous. Thanks to his stubbornness and high performance, he manages to eliminate a big team in the Greek Cup with his team. His next opponents, fearing this player, send a femme fatale to distract him. When the parties exhaust him and his team loses the match because of him, the footballer restores his name and proves his worth with the help of his fiancée, who happens to be his coach's daughter...

Captain Angelos and the soldier Memos participate in a group of experienced ELAS's guerrillas. The team assumes the dangerous mission to reach the center of Athens, under the control of the English and the Greek regular army, and blow up the headquarters of the British headquarters located in the hotel of "Great Britain". When after a fight they manage to reach and place the explosives, the order is revoked. Their headquarters were afraid of the consequences of the possible death of British Prime Minister Wilson Churchill, who suddenly arrived in Athens and so the whole business was canceled.

After an accident, a young woman finds herself on a remote mansion trying to recover her memory with the help of a mysterious caretaker and a goldfish.

Two lovers try to die together in order to live forever. When they die at the same time, neither of them will experience the loss of the other person. This is the only time in their lives when they will never experience the inevitable loss of their lover, either by natural death or separation.

The story of a classic rebetiko night in the port of Piraeus.

Angela is married with Andreas a young gigolo who sleeps also with her best friend. Angela pays their maid to sleep with him and take photos so she can divorce him. The only problem is that he is too ambitious to let her go

Aris awakens in another world, happy that he finally managed to die. Despite the objections of Hades, that he is not yet ready, he begins his journey towards death.

​Two strangers, a man and a woman, meet during a brief interlude in their journeys, discovering a connection that exists only within the hours of a train delay.

When she fails to persuade her father to visit her mother in Venice with him, Diana decides to take the ship and secretly follow him.

When you are young and handsome is good, when you are married new and beautiful even better when your husband is money is GOOD but when he is money and gipsy then he goes looking for ... Mimi the erotika. A hilarious comedy for those who can with a lot of laughter.

Kyriakos has spent his entire career working for the Greek Customs Service. Day and night, holidays and weekdays, he has become the fear and terror of the airport and the pursuer of every smuggler who dares to enter. He is Cerberus. His personal life is non-existent. Unmarried and alone, his only love is his duty...

The dream Julia is to become movie stars.The sucker of this throws in comic entanglements and the petty hands. With Julia but is love two brothers, a compact set feasts money in the centers of Athens and a doctor and serious scholars. Which of the two will revive and It landed from the madness?

Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, war was declared, and the Italians attacked the Albanian front on October 28. From an outpost on the Greek-Albanian border, a military truck unexpectedly comes under fire by Italian tanks. Petros, the only one who manages to escape death or captivity, saves a village girl, Maria. However, the Greeks manage to recapture the machine-gun nest, setting free the soldiers who had been pinned down. The platoon in question puts up a hard fight against the Italian invaders, while, at the same time, the Greek army is preparing for a counter-attack, which doesn't take long to happen. Right after, the Italians are forced to fall back; Northern Epirus is recaptured, and the army of the Badoglio is repulsed from the Adriatic.