Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

"Lost Paradise", the code of an experiment that took place in the middle of nowhere, never to be completed. A pair of crazy people, Stelios and Eva, participate in the experiment until Eva is killed ...

A depiction of daily life in Chongqing, a fascinating metropolis of over 30 million inhabitants. A composition of shots, from sunrise to sunset, that attempts to capture the spirit of the city. The people, the buildings and the metro become integral to the cinematic language.

The Greek Women Servants' Association is chaired by Despoina, who fights for the rights of the union's members, and in particular against Bigos, who seduces all the maids.

An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, testimonies of his collaborators and relatives and analyses of his symbolic role in the post-war modern Greek reality. Thanasis Vengos, for more than fifty years, was one of the most important actors in Greece. His films and lines are written in history, raising more than three generations of Greeks.

Tamtakos works as a waste collector. One day he finds a briefcase...

Antigone returns from Athens to her troubled hometown, determined to keep a low profile. But this is a complex, difficult woman — her name is no coincidence — and her run-ins with the town's brutish men set a dramatic series of events in motion. A moral drama with an edge.

At the beginning of the pandemic, a family travels to Naoussa with the aim of bringing their elderly grandfather to Athens before the quarantine begins. Contact with nature and coexistence bring forth comparisons and confessions.

A Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family's past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.

In eastern Macedonia, the Bulgarians receive from the Germans the conquered Greek lands. Bulgarian Major Antoine Paiko is appointed governor of the area he had destroyed in 1918, shortly before he retreated. He secretly seizes Gregory and puts in place his twin brother Ivan Simeonov, whom the Bulgarians have kidnapped and raised as theirs. The "savior" fools the villagers, but not Gregory's fiancé.

Two plants in the same pot are suffocating, their roots have become entangled. In a house filled with plants, a couple of girls prepare for a journey. They are Iris and Danae. We follow the last minutes of their relationship, their transformation into savages and their separation. Just like plants need more space to blossom, it is time for them to transplant.

Having discovered his great luck at gambling, a stingy employee develops into fearless gambler.

Drama about a family split by the war in Cyprus.

Two young people who are very much in love want to get married, but their parents don't agree. So they decide to get married themselves and announce it suddenly, to surprise them. But an unexpected event will become the reason to ruin their plan.....

Survival, motherhood and movies all collide in a backyard pool.

In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.

Thanasis works at the reception desk of a luxury hotel. Every day he finds himself in unbelievable situations, trying to satisfy the crazy demands of the hotel's guests. All this will change one day when a crazy bomber invades the hotel, taking Thanasis' daughter hostage.

After twenty years of happy marriage, a devoted housewife is determined to get something off her chest.

A wealthy and ruthless landowner, Kitsos Mavromitsos, oppresses an entire region and uses his money to buy people and consciences. He feels omnipotent, but a poor young man, Lambros, who is in love with the beautiful Krystallo, stands up for himself and demands what is rightfully his. Kitsos asks for Krystallo's hand from her father, Barba-Chronis, who agrees to make him his son-in-law, but ignores the fact that his daughter loves Lambros. Kitsos then kills Barba-Chronis and pins the murder on Lambros. While Lambros rots in prison, Kitsos seizes the opportunity to marry Krystallo. However, Lambros escapes from prison and returns to the village, revealing the truth. Kitsos gets the punishment he deserves, as he is accidentally killed by his own brother.

The story of a child who had to go through Hell in order to find Paradise.

The adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was caused because of a childhood trauma. He remembers that he has a twin brother. When he discovers, he sees with surprise that his brother has become a successful lawyer, but who will draw him to court, accusing him of burglary.

At the Presidential Mansion news arrives every day indicating that things in the country are going from bad to worse. The President summons all the political leaders in order to understand exactly what is happening; and yet no one can enlighten him. He decides to act. He calls two journalists and assigns them the task of investigating the matter by speaking directly with ordinary people. The investigation starts with the notorious Gypsy Tamtakos, who struggles every day for a living. Then they move on to a simple employee, Markos, who dreams of a raise -which never comes. Then it's a farmer, Thymios, who comes to the capital to sell his oranges. In a largely burlesque manner, the film more or less reveals that the entire misfortune is due to Greeks' laziness and apathy, as well as to the prevailing attitude of "no big deal".

Lisa: A 25 years old pretty girl. She lives alone and works at the magazine Cosmopolitan. She is disappointed by the relations with men. She has a relation with a guy called Giannis, who is not that interested in her. Until one day, when she meets Paris ...

In a house by the side of the road that also operates as a taverna for passersby, a couple leads a dull and uneventful life. One day, a hawker talks the woman into buying colored tablecloths for her taverna on credit, and that changes things ...

Three friends, on a cruise in the Ionian Sea, throw erotic messages in bottles into the sea and fantasize about the women in their lives.

In the universe of Miss Dress, the exhibition to the public is a moment of revelation. The wounded child’s soul, continuing in the adult body, seeks acceptance and love.

Three years after a traumatic event that changed her life Kelly, a young girl, returns to her hometown Kastoria and to her friends whom she has left behind. At the same time, a curious case of a hit-and-run accident, that had shaken the town, is opened once again.

A poor and uneducated girl is forced into prostitution by a corrupt individual.

George, the director of a branch of a large American company, is a big, incorrigible womanizer. When the General Manager of America announces that he will come for an inspection, George is a little confused, because the General wants to stay at home, in a family environment and not in a hotel. But the good lad knows another path. George rents a beautiful young lady and christens her his husband. Wedding photos and other hilarious tricks are put into action to fool Mr. General.

Papa-Malachias, Papa-Haros and Papa-Bilias have founded the Priestly Band and make appearances at the nightclub "Xerokomata". Their abbot, who is learning their new occupation, comes to Athens, but fails to make sense of them. When he returns to the monastery of Medouli and tells everything to the other monks, they leave the monastery and form their own rebetika bands, causing a crisis in the field of folk song. At the same time, Papa-Lazaros, who is looking for a solution to his financial problems and at the same time is trying to find money to build a new wing for his parish's orphanage, is resorting to the following solution: setting up a football team with priests.

A group of young lives intensely, leading engines and wildly amusing. George falls in love with a serious girl, who will attempt to admonish him. Her brother would react to their relationship but will calm, when George, for the sake of the relationship with his beloved, will change mentality.

A Neo-Bucolic Horror story based on the legends of the 'Neraides', the Fairies of Greek Folklore.

A man must face his inner demons when he is confronted with the decision to euthanize his mother, who suffers from an incurable disease.

Mimis, the director of an advertising agency, has a weakness for beautiful models. But at home, his wife Lena is waiting for him to celebrate their wedding anniversary together. When Mimis returns home at dawn, Lena leaves him. Lena finds refuge with her friend, Popi, and after much searching, she gets a job at a fast food restaurant. She rents an apartment, but the apartment is one floor away from the apartment of an inventor, who is the target of a gang. The leader of the gang is Aris, whom Lena meets at the fast food restaurant where she works. Aris is preparing for the big heist. The operation, organized to perfection, is complicated by various comical incidents, culminating in an unlikely chase...

An immigrant worker renovates a flat. Young men reflect on their existence.

The film is a combination of documentary and fiction. A woman from the former Soviet Union, Irina, comes to Greece in search of a better life and falls victim to the sex slave trade (trafficking). She wanders around Athens in search of a friend of hers who has disappeared. Her story unfolds through a series of personal confessions. During these moments of reality, Irina is in some way present as a sort of "suffering angel" who comments on the aftermath, indirectly linking the present to the past, the real to the imaginary

A trip to the creating of the theatrical costume, starting from the first idea in the costume designer's mind, until the final construction by the dressmaker's hand. The film follows the set up of the exhibition "Traces of ephemeral", coordinated by Ioulia Stavridou for the National Theater of Northern Greece. By her students to her memory.

Hercules, a wrestler, father of many children, a lifelong miser, struggles to get by with petty schemes and various tricks...

Marianna and her mother. Three days in their parallel lives, broken into: 1) departures, 2) visions, 3) passion and 4) an ascent.

In the film Acropolis (2001/2004), she puts forth a subversive, feminist view of the famous monument. She follows a procedure that is the reverse of observation, putting together existing Super 8 footage with porn and archival material, and by identifying the Parthenon with the female body, she negotiates anew our received notions about Greekness and femininity.

The dull life of a retired tailor completely changes when a filmmaker comes to make a documentary about him.

Complications in life are common. But when they occur in different eras, the situation spirals out of control. A subversive comedy, with songs by Lefteris Pantazis and Stelios Rokos.

Mrs. Mina is fed up with her husband Laki's excessive kindness, patience, and stoicism. She can no longer stand his gentle nature and, with his consent, goes out in the evenings with his friend Fani. Nionios, another friend of Lakis, who is also fed up with his behavior, in an attempt to change him, tells him about his exploits with women and urges him to find a mistress. That same evening, the naive Lakis recounts to Pavlina, Nionios' wife, what his friend told him, and she, in order to take revenge on her husband, decides to seduce Lakis.

A young girl is at the mercy of three masked thugs. Her struggle is interrupted when a familiar knightly figure emerges from the shadows of the metropolis.

According to an old custom in a Greek village women taking power for one day a year. But what happens when they refuse to give it up?

Odysseus, a typical bourgeois, married and father of two, is working in the accounting department of a large company when he is suddenly fired, leaving him stranded. Now unemployed, with severance pay in his pocket, he wanders aimlessly around summer Athens. In his wanderings he meets a girl who represents for him the lost youth. He follows her everywhere, but every now and then he loses sight of her and worries. It's a wander from Athens to Hydra, and yet it's full of surprises, funny moments, but also suspense.

The 22-year Siege of Candia unfolds through the struggles of the besieged and the attackers, the failed Venetian efforts, and an unfulfilled love. Personal testimonies bring to life the dramatic events of Crete's past, as memory and time collide nearly four centuries later.

In 1943, 10-year-old-Rozina, from her hiding place (a small apartment in the center of the Thessaloniki) decides to write her diary under the fake name Roula Karakotsou. This was her only escape from the Nazis, as she endured 548 days of nameless existence in silence. The viewer experiences her adven- ture through her childish gaze, her narratives, as long as she is hiddden.

This is a document that Pantelis Voulgaris filmed illegally during the years of the dictatorship. More specifically, it includes images from the funeral of George Papandreou, which developed into the first major popular anti-dictatorship event. The film was completed in Paris thanks to the Greeks abroad who showed it at political gatherings against the Junta.

The performance is over, the actors step off the stage, the audience leaves the theater. However,in this case, the end marks the beginning. Eleven spectators star in their own tales, intertwined in a collage crafted by life itself. Restaurant and movie theater owners, immigrants and tourists, regulars and passers-by interact with the urban entourage and the people they come across, weaving a mosaic of endless possibilities.

A young girl comes-out to her old-fashioned Greek family, during Sunday lunch.

Peter, a lively and wacky young, along with the equally crazy friends, erecting tents on a beach next to a luxury hotel, which makes a holiday of the girl, Anna, along with strict parents of, not the allow comes with this company. The sister of Peter drifted into a supposedly Anna erotic rendezvous father to give the opportunity to Anna to see his brother