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A frivolous husband who longs for a fast 1000cc sports bike decides to sell the family business. However, his hard-working wife has other plans in store for him. Will he have to kiss his dream goodbye?
With the arrival of a self-confident and rebellious beautiful girl in the village, a romantic 16-year-old will be in for a surprise, as the unprecedented feelings of love and passion will offer a gradual but marvellous passage to adulthood.
Mr. Dimitris lives her life in the conservative Greek fishing village where she was born. She nursed her dying parents and now lives alone, able, at last, to enjoy her femininity by dancing in the street to old pop records, watched by her cat.
Daedalus escapes from the Labyrinth to find the ideal state, but soon he falls into tragic moments of history.
Why does a polar bear feel sleepy come fall? Why does she lose her appetite? Why does she avoid fights? It' 's not easy to find out the secrets of the polar bear.
When night falls, the cities of light open. The stars are not visible there. The idea of a dark city fills every part of it with fear. The vast starry sky remains untouched. Maybe it’s just there to remind people how small they really are.
Antonis Katsaris stars as a teacher in the small village of Zante who fights the growing desire of many locals to abandon the village for the big city or other countries. He works hard to organize traditional cultural events, such as outdoor performances of the traditional play I Chrissomalloussa, in order to solidify local values and a sense of identity. The teacher is aided by a young woman, a widow who has just returned from Germany and lives with her father-in-law. Kazan walks away with the film, as his sinister desires for his daughter-in-law are inflamed when he sees that she has fallen in love with the teacher. These developments lead him to whip up protests against the play by conservative locals, claiming that the teacher has changed the traditional story by adding elements of propaganda with the potential of causing peasant uprisings. The result is an unexpectedly violent example of social censorship.
This film narrates six different stories in a very lyrical way: a coachman wanders around town; two elderly people go to the park every Sunday; a man leaves flowers in various neighbourhoods in memory of a friend who was killed during the war; a boy narrates how they celebrated his father’s name-day; a member of the resistance lives his last moments; a woman keeps waiting for a letter which never arrives. (Greek Film Archive)
Three stories dealing with three men and their stance towards life, given their personal background. All stories are held in Northern Greece (Macedonia and Thrace), covering all the spectrum from urban to rural settings.
Visual artist Maria Tsagkari narrates her illuminating journey researching the life and musical career of the rebetis and violinist Nikos Syrigos, her great-grandfather, which began unexpectedly when she was invited to participate in an art exhibition about Rebetiko music.
A good-hearted taxi driver dreams of living comfortably and rich. In her attempt to help people, she upsets her little neighborhood.
Petros is a cop who loses his job and ends up sleeping on the streets. His chance comes when the head of security brings him back into action to take down a ruthless drug lord. Petros starts working for the drug lord as an undercover agent and makes the mistake of getting involved with his girlfriend, Monica.
Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is an honest working man who has to support his sister’s family as well, as Maria’s husband is only interested in football. Thanasis is in love with Juliet (Aimilia Ypsilanti), daughter of a rough butcher from Mani, who wants to have her marry a sausage-tycoon.
Martha is a young girl who constantly rejects Peter, her perfect match. Soon she meets Johnny, a young playboy, and they fall in love. Martha tries to shape his character by resisting having sex with him at first, as all his previous girlfriends did. A misunderstanding occurs between the young people in the gang, and Johnny now believes that Martha is rejecting him, so one night he decides to take revenge and rapes her with the help of his two best friends. After realizing what he has done, Johnny decides to leave everything behind, completely changes his life, and flees to Thessaloniki to work with his brother. A few months after overcoming her shock, Martha marries Petros. One day, Johnny has to deliver a shipment of goods to Athens, but his partner in Athens is Petros, and when they meet, Petros insists on having him over for dinner.
Thirty-five years since his legendary stage direction of the Bacchae, Theodoros Terzopoulos is part of the elite of theater innovation. The film follows Terzopoulos’s footsteps to stardom, from his home village in Northern Greece, all the way to the Berliner Ensemble, Russia, China, the US, Attis theater in Athens –his brainchild and foothold–, and finally, Delphi: the birthplace of everything.
Community service event for June 26, International Day Against Drug Abuse
Experimental film that combines adult movies from the early 70's, accompanied with the sound of the national anthem of Greece.
The biography of poet and actress Katerina Gogou. In the film, Boskoitis combines exclusively in black and white, archival material and interviews with Gogou's friends and collaborators, along with dramatized sketches from her life (starring Loukia Michalopoulou) as well as well-known, set-to-music poems of hers.
The everyday life and troubles of Yorgos Armouse, a human sized mouse living among people, as he struggles to make a living, fit in, and get some cheese to eat.
Forty-year-old Spyros lives in the countryside with his elderly mother, running an old refreshment stand together. His dream is to play for the local football team. When the team finally calls him up, a clash with his mother becomes inevitable.
Nikos, Christine, Homer, George, Regina, Dimitris, Jim, Margaret, Elias, Monika and Haris return from their summer holidays.
A coming of age story about two sisters leading their lives in pole positions, who are summoned to a night's call of decision making. In a frantic attempt to truffle out money, they come up against visions of both a traumatic past and a disturbing reality, while realizing how difficult it is for a family to make ends meet.
When the forces of the German occupation undertake a series of serious defeats in the Resistance, suspicions arise of being a traitor among the fighters. A girl who works within the Resistance finds in horror that the traitor is none other than her father.
Α rhythmic gymnastics champion lives far from her glorious past crushed by everyday life. Ιn her dreams all her nightmares return in the form of a waterfall that calls her forward.
Agapios Agapiou has a very good friend, a robot with high intelligence, its name is Lakis.
A free composition on the poem by Lambros Porfyras.
A marginal guy, Tony, returns from America and, in a nightclub, he meets his old love, who has become a prostitute for his sake, abandoning her husband and child. Tony tries to take advantage of his friend's daughter, who is about to get married to a rich young man.
The tragic story of three heroes: of Rina and her two sons, Antonis and Lefteris. Having emigrated years from Tbilisi, Antonis, ambitious and willing to evolve socially and turn back to his roots, maintaining relationship with the daughter of his boss, which he is about to marry. Lefteris, on the other, refuses to live in today, it remains weak and naive, while his behavior becomes increasingly strange - - increasingly freakish - Antonia visit scratches family dynamic and profound problems that haunt and three with axis archetypes Motherland, Mother and Love.
Psychiatrist Notis Sphinas is heading towards madness at full speed. His relationship with the girl he loves is going to hell, his dowry groom-to-be is constantly postponing the wedding with his sister and his patients are constantly burdening him with their problems.
The respectable Mr. Nikos Paganis is a commissioner at the Holy Temple of the Holy Apostles and considers his hunchbacked brother Markos to be a good-for-nothing because he does not work and spends his time philosophizing and speaking in riddles. His widowed mother, Liza, and his niece Sofia, who calls the hunchback "Karagiozis," share the same opinion. Nikos wants to betroth his daughter to his business partner, Thanos, giving her their family home as a dowry. He tries to usurp Markos' share and embezzles a considerable amount from the church treasury. The new priest, Father Timotheos, discovers the theft, and Thanos, fearing his reputation will be ruined, abandons Sofia. Liza tries to convince a senior judge, her former lover and Markos's real father, to help Nikos, but he categorically refuses.
This short addresses the international struggles, liberation and acceptance of queer life.
Two brothers, who are rivals in life and in their professional careers, come into conflict when they fall in love with the same girl. She, hurt by the younger brother, decides to marry the older one, exacerbating the rivalry between them.
A really skinny guy finds out that he has incredible strength in his punches. After starting a boxing career a lot of people try to take advantage of his talent.
In a dystopian future nothing is taken for granted.
An unemployed university graduate works as a maid in a hotel and there falls in love with a girl, which then correspond. It happens to be the daughter of the hotel owner. After several misunderstandings, the two young people meet and live happily.
Impressionistic documentary-cum-music clip of the residents of Kallithea, Athens, Greece.
A tailor mistakenly considered an ambassador of a foreign country, which exploits the future father in law to present him as a groom on frivolous daughter.
A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again?
When Karolina, Tamtakos fiancé, is been raped by a man he must defend her in the court of law. But things don't work out the way he expects.
Alexander is a young man who dies of leukemia at the age of twenty-six. At the hospital, his mother, his wife, and his friends stand by his side. Trying to react to the grim idea of his impending death, he asks his wife to make love to him. His memories take him back to his early adolescence and his first sexual encounter in a brothel.
The snake charmer follows Aamir Khan on a journey through India's TV and Bollywood film industry, as he attempts to change the way Indians perceive and treat women. From the set of Satyamev Jayate, the film follows Khan backstage to his new Bollywood blockbuster Dangal. Khan's quest ultimately opens a window into a country in crisis and into the changes it is undergoing.
A detective tries to find out how a couple wins a lot of money every night at the casino.
6 December 2008, few minutes after 9 pm - Time Zero of the December Revolt. Two policemen shoot against a group of youngsters hanging out on a Saturday night, at the heart of the Exarcheia district of central Athens, an area with a long history of insurrection against authority and riots for socio economic and political grounds, inhabited mainly by anarchists, anti-authoritarians and liberals. The police bullet finds in the heart and kills 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. As soon as the news of Alexis' murder spreads mainly through the internet, hundreds of people from the rest of Athens gather at Exarchia, which is circled by hundreds of riot policemen and that in turns infuriated people and the neighborhood quickly goes "on fire" with flaming barricades and stone attacks against the police, that lasted all throughout the night.
A group of sailors with two days on-shore leave go to town to have fun with their friends.
The last days of the historic siege of Messolonghi. The film depicts the whole situation that prevailed in the city after the Turkish siege for many months, and tells the courageous effort of its defenders who are attempting a heroic and desperate exodus.
Manolios and his band sign a contract for a tour in Germany. A rich girl hides in their car to escape the marriage her father is forcing her into. The tour is a success, and Manolios falls in love with the stowaway.
Hercules, a taxi driver, is married to Alexandra, a fanatical feminist. When he meets the beautiful, romantic Marie Louise, his previously peaceful family life is turned upside down. Hercules abandons his wife, follows her, and tries to change his life...
Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship.