Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Alexis, a charming little man, has taken on the task of looking after his nephews Kostas and Tolis, who have their eyes set on two beautiful neighbors, Anna and Kaiti, the nieces of a strict captain. When Kostas' aunt, Loukia Lolochampero, telegraphs from Africa that she is coming to Greece, they decide to throw a party and invite the two cousins so they can meet in person. The aunt postpones her trip, but the party must go on. They convince Alexis to dress up as a woman and pretend to be their aunt.

In a hotel room, by the seaside or on board a night train, discover five stories of love and desire in this original compilation of short films.

After a major surgery Maria returns to her family home to recover, living with her mother, her sister, and a newborn baby. While her body starts healing, an innermost desire emerges.

A veal has to be slaughtered by a butcher. But this veal is different than the others. It’s his 'child'. Based on a chapter of Giorgos Skambardonis book 'Everything Works Fine Against Us'.

For a long time, vessels crossing the High Risk Area on the Somali coastline would hire private mercenaries in order to protect themselves from pirates. Nowadays, the attacks have dropped off and the mercenaries encounter a new problem: the lack of action. Daily training to face a non-existent enemy creates a sense of absurdity, captured by Gregoris Rentisʼ camera with great inspiration and precision.

Inspired by Mark Rothko’s refusal to complete commissioned work in New York’s Four Seasons restaurant. A highly stylized, visually stunning exploration of absence, negation, and solitude.

The revolution of an oppressed husband, whose wife locked him in the coop.

An attempt to express the daily experience of Palestinians excluded by an apartheid regime, exploring various aspects of the Israeli occupation. Through narratives from four different regions of Palestine, it culminates in a collective narrative of Palestinian resistance as an everyday act of survival and struggle.

When the doors close, no one knows what is going on inside the house. Dissolving relationships of people who fell in love with passion. The murder of a man defines the relationship of three couples in three different decades. In 1990, Arianna dreams of a life together with her boyfriend, while trying to keep the relationship a secret from her mom. In 2010 Ilias and Kelly are looking to see if their relationship can survive the end of their student life. In 2020, Leonidas and Manos in a world that is changing from the pandemic of the corona virus, discover how strong their relationship can be despite the social stereotypes. Which of them will be the victim and who the perpetrator?

In the Thessalian plain, a wealthy landowner creates insecurity among farmers when he brings in a threshing machine and boosts his production to unrealistic levels. The landowner's brother is released from prison and demands his share of the property, while also slandering Thanos, the engineer who found the machine. Thanos is in love with the landowner's daughter. With the consent of the girl's mother, the two young people manage to get married.

The wife, a girl and a woman, lose their husband, father and lover in a plane crash. As it turns out, all three women are waiting for some news about the same man. In the end it is confirmed that the man died in the accident.

Lacerate blends elements of realism with a dreamlike, symbolic dimension, portraying the extreme decision of a woman who turns from victim into executioner. In a series of mises-en-scène shot only in natural light, we see a domestic setting overrun by a pack of dogs that roam around restlessly, attacking objects and furniture. The interior of this home is a mental space, violated and lacerated like a body that has undergone violence. Fruit, game, and remnants of food are arranged like still lifes, with allegorical elements evoking the precariousness of life and the loss of innocence.

A bankrupt businessman, Dinos Apergis, confides in his fiancée that he is thinking of committing suicide, but Rita, a poor telephone operator who has overheard the conversation, stops him. Together with two good friends, she follows him to Skiathos and introduces herself as the daughter of Nick Papas, the Greek-American oil tycoon. When Papas comes to the island on vacation with his voluptuous girlfriend Mitsi, Dino's former fiancée, Dino, who has fallen in love with Rita and knows that she is lying to him, suggests to Papas that he treat her as if she were his real daughter. The lies continue on both sides, until everything settles down under the umbrella of love that blossomed where no one could have imagined.

Leonidas and Vangelis travel to Munich to work in the successful restaurant of there uncle.

A music documentary that invades and highlights the queer music community in Thessaloniki. Through conversations with the artists capétte and Demetria, concerns, personal searches and dreams are expressed, which go beyond the geographical space of Thessaloniki, and build a more rounded image around the representation of the LGBTI+ community in the music industry and in art.

A family man is struggling to save his house from the banks, turning his life into a reality show.

The film is based on the novel of the same name by Nikos Kasdaglis and deals with the experiences of a group of soldiers during their military service in 1953, four years after the civil war.

Composed of two independent, medium-length segments set against the backdrop of the early 1980s Greek society, "Peri Erotos" pivots around the unforeseen complications of eternal Eros. Starting with "Chrisanthi", the female narcissism--paired with fetishism and latent homosexuality--gives birth to emotional impasses, unchanneled sexual energy, and ultimately, erotic violence. Then, in "Iason", a young man torn between two women struggles to find his feet in an ever-changing game of twisted love. As unrestrained male passion takes over, the man attempts to reconcile the conflict between life and death and cope with rejection and self-destructive masochistic tendencies.

A charming woman who feels that her husband has grown tired of her and is no longer as interested in her sexually as he once was tries to rekindle his interest by making him believe she has a lover. He is indeed taken in by the bluff, and jealousy motivates and rekindles a relationship that had noticeably cooled.

Anna, a shy girl, sits alone at a party. Vasilis, a shy guy, also sits alone at the same party. Vasilis really doesn't want to talk to Anna. Anna is burdened by something. Their reluctant meeting will bring forth memories Anna would much rather ignore.

The students of the 3rd grade of a Lyceum, for a week now, have a vacancy in Greek because their philologist is ill. During these hours they spend the pool with Sotiris, who is very hot with Teresa. One day at the pool, Teresa meets Nikos and their acquaintance evolves into a strong feeling ...

O Thomas, an incurable womanizer, he thought he could deceive his wife undisturbed forever. Until he met a sweet and beautiful Vicky, a young saleswoman in a clothing store and had to change his mind. I did not think, however, that the forbidden relationship could prove disastrous and overthrow everything in his life. He might have to think again before blindly follow his instinct ...

Close-ups and medium fixed camera shots of a man dressed in Liza Minelli’ clothes, who mimes to a recording of the music hall song “Life is a Cabaret”. In the soundtrack, the iconical reading of a text exposing the ideological clichés of a family soap opera in a state of crisis. “My little boy, alas, is gay…”.

Nana with her mother come from Thessaloniki to settle in Athens. The mother and daughter relationship is completely liberated from social taboos. Nana written at Athens High School, but from day one faces the bad faith of the classmate. All classmates are girls, the authorities of feminism is the guiding principle of their conduct. Nana between them looks like the fly in the milk and this bothers

Froso "the dreamer", is in love with Panagis but her mother, who isn't aware of her feelings, wants to see her married to wealthy captain Nikolas.

Menelaus is a womanizer with a weakness for young women, whom he usually promises to promote. Mrs. Helen, a faithful wife, tolerates her husband's games until she meets the handsome Paris. Then she decides to return the favor. But fate plays a strange game with them. The two couples end up at the same hotel to enjoy their love, and of course, the tables are turned.

After her father’s death, a queer Greek woman returns home to inherit a crumbling estate — only to find the house itself turning against her as grief and old debts close in.

The citizens of Athens are tormented by insomnia. Rumor has it that after dark an elusive creature is roaming the city streets. The film’s characters will cross its path during one night and for the first time in a while, they’ll go to sleep.

A lonely man tries to stay awake to avoid the nocturnal visitor who comes in his sleep.

Markos Seferlis, however, is always here, ready to shed plenty of light on the blackout of our daily lives offering the one and only way out... laughter!!! “Me paresyre to revma” At the Perokes Theatre! See light and get in! Because here the switch of laughter is always in the ON!

An old story about teachers, students, exercises, and mistakes. At the time the story takes place, about thirty years ago, strict relationships full of prejudice and misunderstandings prevail between students and their teachers.

The life of a young Greek man who has contracted AIDS is shown through a series of short vignettes.

Have you ever thought about what would happen if you suddenly escaped misery and found yourself with a sack of millions? That's what happened to Kimon, and it changed his life and his relationships with his whole family...

An intimate look into the life of composer Mikis Theodorakis from 1987 until 2017: comprising three decades, four continents, 100 locations and 600 hours of film material. The film interweaves personal moments with archive footage, documentary recordings and fictional pieces, all accompanied by Theodorakis’ music in jazz, classic, electro and rap versions.

A poor and "arbitrary" young man creates a radio station to send messages of love to his girlfriend. Suddenly, however, an unexpected will grants him a respectable name and a huge fortune, which creates endless problems for him. Even his life is in danger...

A little girl is tired of her parents' behavior and decides to take over.

This film takes place at a small village at the greek island of Chios, sometime around 1960. When the local field watchman dies, the agronomist must assign a new field watchman to be responsible for this village. We watch as four different people take this job and fail one after the other...

1868, Thessaly. Thanasis Vardas stalked by a Turkish-Albanian gang and forced to leave the 5 year old son Giorgis in a monastery in Meteora. Fifteen years later, when Thessaly was liberated and incorporated into the Greek state, Giorgis, big anymore, leaving the monastery. Flying robes and becomes engaged to the daughter of a fellow Turk-Albanians but always lurking and wanting at all costs a medallion held, on which is engraved the point where the lost treasure of Ali Pasha is hidden. The conflict with them is inevitable.

A world of color and music created from the poetry of Dinos Christianopoulos and Maria Tataraki interwoven within the backdrop of a futuristic Athens, which faces modern political turmoil due to a malfunction within the android population.

The fall and rise of an ordinary man and the oddity from the attic. When Manos, A 50 year old man gets divorced with his wife, he moves into a new house in order to start over. Quite unexpectedly, he discovers something that will change his life forever. And rock on. A short film about parenthood, divorce, glitter.

An honest man is trying to find a job, but finds it difficult just because of the honesty. The need becomes more urgent when falls in love for a young girl who lives near him.

Historical-political documentary about the life and activity of a mythical figure of EAM Movement and the National Resistance, that the captain of ELAS Ari Velouhioti.

The daughters of a big shipowner, bored by the boredom of wealth, enter a convent as novices. Spontaneous, cheerful and irrepressible as they are, they almost turn it into a disco.

Thessaloniki, Greece, 1948. The American journalist George Washington Polk, who works for CBS, walks into a restaurant. During his meal he discovers that he has already been murdered. A journey through the reflections of time and memory begins. The movie refers to the crucial assassination of the American journalist George Washington Polk during the Greek civil war.

A television reporter's investigation into the life of a popular idol, singer Demis Flerianos, becomes an opportunity to highlight and document a series of political and social situations and issues in the early 1980s. Easy wealth, rural depopulation, cultural degeneration, bad taste, the preservation of sterile anti-communism, etc.

Stefanos is a musician who lives a quiet life. One day, however, when he leaves his son with his nanny at the supermarket to do some shopping, something happens that changes her life forever. At the same time that some people are trying to rob the cash delivery, Stefanos' son, accompanied by his nanny, exits the supermarket and is killed by a stray bullet fired by the robbers at the money transporters. The pain of the unfortunate father stifles every human emotion within him, and when the law loses track of the robbers and control of the situation, Stefanos discovers the robbers...

In his film, Menelaos Karamaghiolis attempts to trace the evolution of the gypsy race in Europe, particularly in Greece, through four different points of view. These are expressed in the narrations of four people: the Teacher, the Photographer, Tamara, the old gypsy lady and the young girl Aima.

Jenny Petromichali is a widow who has just turned forty, but everyone keeps telling her that she is "forty and...". A flirtatious young woman, she falls in love with a charming but poor violinist and comes face to face with her brothers, who want to marry her off to the elderly George Hatzithomas, a rich but deaf shipowner. Jenny's love affair is a scandal for the morals of the time and her social class...

A young artist explores new ways to approach mixed media.