Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

A couple in love returns to Greece from France and has plans for their future.

There are people who fear the dentist, others fear the IRS and others who fear the earthquake. Manolis, however, Intrepid and nothing scares the except one. The horn. This fear does not become cuckold make him jealous, controlling and suspects his wife, Marina, and why they are beautiful and petachtoula is. So when holidays go, snakes zonoun Manolis, he sees many suspicious moves. To avoid the "fatal", resorting to disguises to watch his wife ..

Two women face the final moments of their relationship, navigating the tender rituals of goodbye. As they reflect on their separation, they immerse themselves in a world of care, loss and the transience of existence.

The first day of the school year, a girl remembers the incidents that took place during the summer, when the family was forced to close their bookstore and move to their grandmother's house. Now the family has to maintain their dignity and keep the hope for the future alive.Inspired from 'Jesus stopped at Eboli' by Carlo Levi.

Thanasis in the lighthouse and Rosalia in her cage. They live for their freedom.

The poor daughter of a once-famous musician sees her world turn upside down when she gets fired, and her beau, the son of a wealthy industrialist, finds himself without a place to live. Will his cruel father realise his grave mistake?

A boy escapes from the reformatory and hides in a young girl’s house. The two kids become friends...

At a high school in Athens, the unhappy headmaster is having a hard time with a group of seniors who have paired up, are making life difficult for the teachers and himself, and insist on going on a trip together to find her. However, the Board of Directors objects and decides that the girls should go alone. The boys, however, not wanting to be betrayed by the girls, follow them in various ways. So, when they arrive, the party begins...

Psarogiannos lives with his wife and five children in a seaside village. One day, a sailor appears, seeking revenge and wanting to fight Psarogiannos. Psarogiannos realizes that the sailor is his son from another woman. When the time comes for the confrontation, neither of them can hurt the other. In the end, Psarogiannos' family gains another child.

Lordan is a primitive man who lives alone and believes he is the only human being on Earth. His life is simple and peaceful, without problems or stress, but Lordan is not happy. His only companions are animals, to whom he talks before eating them, in order to forget his loneliness. In his effort to find someone else of his kind, he decides to search far from his cave, which he has never left until now.

Haralabos is at his late forties and he has just lost his dog. He decides to fill his empty space and time with a collection: on a whim, he chooses to collect egg holders. Until one day he meets Dimitra, an avid collector and also a loner. Their relationship will share the joy of discovery and the grounds of sharing. But everything will change after a trip in the country, where the couple will face an unknown temptation: the egg holder that could be the most beautiful piece in their collection. If they don’t own it, how can they go on?

Louisa's father does not approve her young painter lover because he is poor.

Jasim and Alsaleh are underage refugees in a Greek prison. Coming from Syria and Iraq, they were arrested and accused of smuggling illegal immigrants. With unique access in the juvenile prison and court room, the film follows the two friends closely while in custody, during the trial and after the verdict, through a narrative of suspense which reveals how youngsters are forced to transport migrants across the border to Greece while the smugglers stay behind and continue their job uninterrupted. If Jasim and Alsaleh are found guilty, they will face extremely long prison sentences. Phone conversations between the imprisoned young boys and their mothers at their war-stricken countries accentuate the double enclosure that these families experience. No one knows how and when their long run will end.

During the years of occupation in Greece, little Loukas is abused by his wandering father, by his fat classmate and his mother is unable to offer him the tenderness he lacks.

When people think of Greece, few realize that the country has high mountains and a winter season, with skiing and snowboarding. Determined to change this perception, Greek-American filmmaker Constantine Papanicolaou sets out on an adventure to make a ski film that will show the magic of winter in Greece.

"I painted the worlds entering the eyes." In her day, painter and portraitist Sofonisba Anguissola was much celebrated. In this sumptuous animation, she is rescued from the realm of obscurity and given new life in an epistolary missive to her pupil, Flemish master Anthony Van Dyck.

Doctor Alexis Karatos is the protector of young Alikis Loizou.

In the winter of 72 a young actress and divorced mother, is arrested and goes at Korydallos for resistance activities. But the nine-year daughter, Olga, who now has to live with her father will not ever forgive the abandonment and keep the "trauma" even as adult

A documentary that describes the story of the renovation of the two southernmost lighthouses in land Europe, from the point of view of the architect who undertook their reconstruction. The project was difficult and full of unexpected incidents, but he and his team managed to complete it successfully.

The last shovelful plunges the shot into darkness. The film seems to be talking about death, yet it's doing the exact opposite.

Emma is an aspiring influencer, youtuber, instagrammer, 22-year-old social media sensation. She manages to hit 1 million followers. On the day of the celebration, she learns through social media that a private video of herself and her ex having intercourse is leaked online. Her comeback will be live soon…

A girl wanders like a flaneur in the center of Athens: a Constitution, a War Museum, a Town Hall. She wears sunglasses and black clothes. "Kills" a boy outside the Galaxy bar and describes, sitting on the balcony of an apartment in Exarchia, the way the Molotov bomb is operating - it is an incendiary and not an explosive mechanism, he says.

The owner of a ship falls in love with the ship's captain, but the war will ruin their plans for marriage. The captain goes missing, and her accountant pushes her into the arms of his brother.

Two loners meet for the first time. Their dogs interact. Perhaps they do, too.

A documentary, divided into "chapters", about the life of the inmates of the asylum on Leros. From the point of view that the mentally ill are victims of social oppression, the film turns a harsh light on the psychiatric system and offers pointed criticism of the policies that produce such inhuman conditions.

There was once a donkey that no one needed anymore, a dog that was the disgrace of his master, a cat who had no hope for the future and a rooster that lost everything. They met, joined forces and took their lives into their own hands.

The second part of a trilogy which focuses on a young Greek woman in three stages of her life as she recalls leaving her homeland of Constantinople. The trilogy is based on the infamous “Septemvriana” events of 1955 — the worst anti-Greek riots in history.

A writer, locked in his house, writes about a young man who wanders in Athens and tries its fruits.

Mr. Lazaridis is a garbage collector in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. Steward believes that, he is very attached to his work and to his comrades. In the following during their work day, we can discover the behind the scenes of a little known trade and especially better understand the everyday lives of these men in green.

Paola, Betty and Eva are three trans women in their 60s who have known each other for more than forty years. All three of them started making their living early in their youth as sex workers in Athens, Greece. In “The Oleanders” Betty Vakalidou, Eva Koumarianou & Paola Revenioti revisit all the different places in the city where they used to work, socialize, get harassed or arrested by the cops, fight for their rights, have fun and find love. The unapologetic, humorous, and empowering discussion between Eva, Betty & Paola is a history of Athens as well as a history of sexuality in this region.

Two young people (Christina Silva and Takis Varlamos), living in a provincial town, fall in love with each other and are stolen. After a wild chase, the girl returns pregnant to her father (Theodoros Moridis), who removes the newborn, saying that she died in childbirth. The girl leaves for Athens where she marries a businessman (Lambros Konstantaras), but loses her eyesight in an accident. Her father, remorseful, investigates and discovers the child (Takis Vidos) and the woman, because of unspeakable joy, regains her sight.

Eftyhios Anemelos is a detective with slow down business. One day...

A deep, unfulfilled love within an erotic triangle. A story of trust and betrayal. A story of present-day Athens, of onlookers, of hesitation. Where holding back is normal, no matter how self-destructive.

In Corfu, three musicians, friends, fellow students and roommates, experience life through music. The power of their musical improvisation transforms into a youthful and fresh improvisation on life itself.

Two friends, former shooting champions get involved with the world of professional assassins.

Centres on two brothers, Stelios and Yannis. The impulsive Stelios skips their small town, deserts from the army, and is thought dead, until Yannis, now a city cop, recognizes his name on the papers of an illegal immigrant seaman. He begins a search for his lost brother, a search that takes him across many borders: between past and present, between Greece and its neighbouring countries, between one identity and another.

During the German Occupation, two brothers, Takis and Christos, fight the invaders with great ferocity. Both of them belong to resistance groups – different ones. After the withdrawal of the Germans, the two brothers find themselves in rival camps. One is a captain of ELAS (Greek People’s Liberation Army) and the other one a captain in the Greek army. In the attempt by ELAS to seize the Makrygiannis Gendarmerie Regiment, one of the brothers is killed. A little before the Civil War breaks out, the other brother is transferred to Florina. There, the heroes will experience the tragic events of the Civil War, until the complete collapse of the partisans on the ridges of Mt. Grammos.

The lives of two male Greek teens and the young daughter of the British Ambassador in Greece are turned upside down when the best friend of a teenage gang leader dies. Meanwhile, a love triangle is developed between the three characters.

A retired General sends his nephew, Giannis, to Athens so to settle into a job. One day, Giannis discovers that a stolen suitcase which has given him to guard contains something suspicious. The naïve Giannis decides to hand it over to the police. The rich owner of the suitcase, is looking for a clever husband for his daughter Kathy, and Giannis seems to be the most appropriate person.

Are you afraid of a fairy tale? A year after their mother's death, Anna takes her brother, Michalis, and they go for a weekend to the old house they used to go to with her, before she died, to calm down from the tension of her life. However, the shadows of the past and the fears have been waiting for them for a long time and something dark seems to lurk at their every step. The once calm, warm shelter now seems like a dark place. Haunted. Anna and Michalis feel alone. More alone than ever. Anna is called to put an end to her fear and move forward. Not to tremble.

The film tells the tale of three men, who have murdered the rich mother-in-law of one of them and four members of her family in order to steal her fortune. An unemployed man decides to kill his mother-in-law in order to take her property. But when, with the help of two accomplices, he sets fire to her house, his wife and their two children will die with her.

Young boxer tries to imitate Rocky Balboa as played by Sylvester Stallone.

After his bossy stepfather decides to take him on a business trip, 16-year-old Michalis spends his last day in the city hanging out with his friends. It will be a day full of illegalities, music and bold risks.

The film depicts the life at the Larissa Railway station in Athens in the spring of 1995. The camera focuses on the station’s ‘tenants’, Antonia, Florakis and George..

Etel Adnan’s last words recorded by her close friend, the Lebanese historian and writer Fawwaz Traboulsi, on colours, Nietzsche and poetry. Twenty years after her film Etel Adnan: Words in Exile (2007), the filmaker returns to find Etel Adnan’s lost voice in a Lebanon marked by ongoing historical fractures.

She is responsible for the rehabilitation of patients with injuries or disabilities. A connection with a wounded young man will push her to her limits.

Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.