Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

In the 1970s, a small Greek island emerges as a symbol of hope, freedom, and self-expression. Mykonos was "paradise on earth," and for some, it still is.

While ascending a staircase on his way to an important pitch meeting, a writer is faced with a dilemma.

A young woman abandons her father's home due to misconduct in her family environment and is thrown into a life of pleasures for a long time. Unexpectedly, a heavenly hand is sent to her life.

"I thought of all those gloves I see here and there on the street and it's like they're waiting for someone to turn around, look for them, take them back". A tale on missing gloves, loss, absence, resilience and the journey to find our other half - or ourselves

As Socrates is abroad for treatment, Elina's young woman falls in love with the painter Hector whom he has installed. Louisa, a girlfriend who lives with her, poses for Hector and is in love with him. He plans to murder Elina.

The three blunders unspeakable detective thalassonoun all their affairs.

A pop singer with a good heart and a lot of achievements, Manos, tenderly loves an orphan anthopolida, Annoula, which works several years in the center singing Manos, in order to finish high school. When he decides to leave Daisy's mistress and marry Anna, the girl's natural father, who was missing seventeen years in Canada, intervenes and claims her. He tries to redeem her stepfather and mistress, Mr Spyros, who, however, refuses. Anna is following her natural father in Thessaloniki. Mr. Spiros is in danger of dying from his fortune, and Manos gets sick by losing his voice. But everything is corrected by the return of the girl and the revelation that her father suddenly remembered it because she intended to put in the money her mother left.

A young girl drifts through the dark, empty city on a lonely journey. Fragments of her past unfold the story of an unusual phenomenon to which her life is bound: a worldwide jellyfish outbreak.

A food-loving and scientific tribute to the Mediterranean diet and, not least, the liquid gold: olive oil.

A girl, locked in a room, makes a magical portal to escape reality using her imagination, a stuffed rabbit and a diamond. She travels to a dark forest where she meets a mysterious man with an animal mask. Back to reality, her domineering mother prepares a birthday cake and after a while enters the room. The girl seems indifferent during the visit, but suddenly decides to hug her mother. Soon, the mother is seduced and lured into a dance with her daughter, only to find herself trapped on the other side of the portal, into the dark world her daughter created.

Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where violent loss seems to be his only destiny. The movie follows Jace's inverted Odyssey in a dark universe of abuse, murder and fear, as he desperately (and silently) seeks for a "family" of his own or, at least, for a sense of belonging

In 1827, at an inn in Nafplio, the capital of the newly established Greek state, a group of people from different parts of Greece are celebrating the defeat of the Turkish fleet in Navarino. However, in their patriotic fervor they drink too much, and a hot-tempered Arvanite, not understanding the dialect of a Cretan and thinking he has insulted him, injures him with a pistol. Police Inspector Dionysios Fantes from the Ionian Islands arrives at the scene to interrogate the witnesses but he too can't understand their various dialects as they can't understand his.

Tungsten deals with the idea of electricity as a metaphor, the scenery is urban, and the plot is unfolded during a single day. One day in Athens, continuous outages, and a final blackout, caused by the strike of technicians at the electricity company. A day during which, six people's lives are being crossed and diverted.

Andreas a young solitary taxi driver, part of a modern chaotic mega city,lives his own life through the stories who get in and out of his cab. Maria, one of the kind, leads him to a dangerous game where the boundaries between lies and truth and between hatred and passion, can barely be sensed.

A factory worker with autism and a woman with Tourette's syndrome discover an extraterrestrial entity that helps them escape the world's storm.

"Transpassing" follows two young souls caught in a mysterious and terrifying liminal space.

A hybrid film, part-documentary, part-fiction, on the history of Greek radical music.

A mother loses her daughter to femicide. Instead of reacting with rage against the world, she mourns in her own different way: by going out, speaking publicly, and fighting to trade love for patriarchy for the sake of our society. By interweaving every-day moments with the story of our protagonist, the film tries to describe the banality of this evil. Mothers of Daughters pushes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking by poetically and sensitively trying to find imagery for this unbelievable story, that could happen to any of us.

Theodoros arrives in Greece from abroad. He is welcomed by friends and acquaintances, all eager to host and pamper him, with an eye on his supposed wealth. Theodoros, poor but cunning, promises everyone—each one secretly from the others—that they will inherit his fortune.

A woman is forced to sit under a hanged rotting corpse in the middle of a burnt forest, until the authorities decide that she has been punished enough.

Greece is now full of ruins. Everyone is trying to survive at any cost after the disaster. Everyone but Kostas, who, along with his friend Tassos, is looking for Vicky, trying to understand the cause of their separation. The only thing that keeps Kostas in his senses is his love for Vicky. And when Greeks are in love, survival comes second. He will be killed rather by his sorrow - than hunger and other people.

A girl from the province, who works in a fashion house in Athens, goes to Kos to promote her clothes. Residents believe that the daughter of a Greek-American tycoon and she plays the role will lead it to embrace the real son of the alleged father.

The story of a besieged country in wartime and the effect of such on the children. Told in flashback by a young man after the war, he tells how he and his orphaned sister can barely subsist and he has become a petty thief. He comes across a group of boys, the "Barefoot Batallion", who steal food from the Germans and distribute it to the needy and destitute of the city. The boys take pity on the brother and sister and let the two join them. In addition to their work of stealing food and provisions, they also hide and eventually smuggle an American aviator out of the country

Kitsos from Gastouni comes to Athens and gets a job at the souvlaki restaurant owned by Dimos from Roumeli. He falls in love with his boss's daughter, Zeta, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. After a heated argument with Dimos, he quits and leaves. He opens his own souvlaki restaurant and is very successful. His terrified competitors try everything they can to learn his secret and even go so far as to recruit the beautiful Suzy to seduce him.

Captured in the open-air majesty of Athens’ Lycabettus Hill Theater, the nearly two-hour set stands as both a career retrospective and a fierce declaration of the band’s continued vitality. The performance marks a significant milestone for the Greek metal pioneers. With a setlist spanning over three decades, the album celebrates the band’s evolution—from the raw aggression of their early releases to the ritualistic grandeur of more recent works. Live in Lycabettus captures not only the breadth of Rotting Christ’s discography, but the intensity of a band still commanding stages with passion and precision. The atmosphere at Lycabettus Hill—one of Greece’s most iconic venues—provides a powerful backdrop to this performance.

Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.

The Recorder, the keeper of Epameinondas's mind, documents his moments on on little notes. Encouraged by his best friend Yiannis, Epameinondas sets out on a hike to escape the weight of a recent breakup. As time flows by, he becomes a father, only to later find himself battling dementia in a nursing home. The Recorder's room is now in a state of danger. Yet, the hike goes on.

A children's film about the adventures of a young boy, Lampros, who returns to school after an absence of many days due to an accident. Lampros has a loyal and true friend in his dog, whom he calls Lykos (Wolf), with whom he spends endless hours of games and carefree abandon.

A grandson returns to his ancestors’ village for the winter. A grandfather returns from death to see his grandson for one last time. A village unable to cope with the returns that occurred out of love.

Two young men embark on a woeful trek to the nearest kiosk to get some beverages.

On the last night in August, Nikos will make love for the first time. When September dawns, Maria will start her new life.

Stratos, a marginal figure, carries on his shoulders the freedom and doubts of his generation. Upon leaving prison after serving a five-year sentence, he will seek out those responsible, demanding his share of a theft for which he paid the consequences. It is an extremely dangerous journey, and to reach his destination, he must pass through the dark circles of nighttime illegality. He encounters old "friends" who still want him as a pawn in their game, women with strange identities, and police officers who lead him into a relentless pursuit...

Mrs. Efthalia, a woman with origin from Smyrna, is an active citizen of an Athenian neighborhood: she deals with everyone and everything, and loves to gossip.

A story set in the Green Line in Nicosia, Cyprus, where a wall divides a country. Two soldiers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, decide to embark on a secret journey that is dangerous no matter which side you are at.

A Balkan Ska concert at a contemporary art museum somewhere in Southeast Europe.

A man wishes he could turn back time to correct the mistakes he made in his relationship. The timing, destiny and the meaning we give to love are the subject of this dramatic film that intends to involve the audience in a unique way, since the story will not be able to complete without their intervention.

Two high school students, constantly seeking their identity through violence, will inevitably test each other's boundaries.

Kokovios and Kavouras pretend to be private detectives, but their naivety results in them messing up the cases they take on. Their latest case is of the utmost secrecy and seriousness. The extremely clumsy detectives must find out if a client's philandering husband really has a mistress and who she is.

Nontas, a failed actor, is working part-time in an escape room. Tony, the slimy owner of a countryside restaurant, lives far from his shadowed past. A past that has heavily affected Nonta's life. The time for revenge has come!

Athens 1982. Somewhere between Kypseli, Patisia and Exarchia districts, Creep Records was born. In its four year run, Creep Records featured some of the most important bands of the Greek New Wave, Post Punk and Dark Wave scene on its roster. Creep released a series of iconic records that are, to this day, music works of inestimable sentimental value. A documentary about one of the first and most influential independent record labels in Greece which gave shelter to several underground bands of the 80's, such as Yell-o-Yell and many others. Besides the personal narratives of the founder of Creep Records Babis Dallidis, the film also features members of the bands who recorded with the label, such as Angelo and His Egos, Art Of Parties, Clown, Cpt Nefos, Headleaders, Metro Decay, Rehearsed Dreams, The Reporters, South Of No North, Villa 21 and The Vyllies.

In 1948, Dimitris, whose wife is expecting their first son, is exiled to Makronissos. There, the cruel torturer Kothras bets that he will "break" him so that he will sign a statement of repentance, but Dimitris resists fiercely.

A portrait of a lonely 35-year-old woman who fills her empty days with useless objects.

It’s Christmas, and Elias and Spyros are once again fighting over the last two cookies. But a more powerful enemy, Cookie Panda, defeats them and eats the second-to-last cookie. Only by working together can they defeat him. Who will get to eat the last cookie?

While managing endless phone calls from her mother-in-law, mounting anxiety, and a race against the clock, Penelope struggles to get somewhere important on time — when all she truly longs for is a moment of rest.