Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Shot in 1980 and finished in 2008, 121280 Ritual uses heavy breathing, incantatory chanting, and repetition to ritualize the pregnant body.

Antypas, a civil servant, lives with his sister and his rocker nephew, who doesn't get along with him at all. He's always complaining. Everything is everyone else's fault, everyone annoys him, and he wants to fix everything. Sometimes he despairs, thinking it would be better to just pack up and leave, to emigrate...

A young boy is trapped in a Gingerbread House which underneath hides a gloomy world, while his mother is desperately trying to find the gate that will take him out of there.

A drawing line explores the life and death of my Grandfather.

Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22 euros he needs to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.

Stathis Psaltis, as a Greek, pulls the oar and searches for the Ithaca promised to him by Giorgakis. Giorgos Konstantinou holds on tightly to the last loaf of bread so that the IMF doesn't take it away from him. Martha Karagianni, outraged by everything she sees on television, decides to throw it away. Kostas Evripiotis feels the "nightmare in the kitchen." Dinos Spyropoulos is a farmer who searches alone but finds nothing. "Julia's maid" Christina Psalti describes what happened in the pink room, and Stathis Psaltis, drinking champagne, wonders "to be or not to be." But Greeks never bow their heads. They forget all their problems at a folk festival with Sofi Zanninou.

The adventures of a child-monk assigned a task by the monastery where he is "pledged". The little one wanders off, following the road with the greatest interest. The trip will take a whole day. When it's all over, he'll make his way back, more mature now. All this happened many years ago, in another era.

An episodic, animated biopic of Kafka, inspired by rumors of his collection of pornography. He writes - masturbates - dies. And within him we discover ourselves.

Heimlich is homely. Paris lives in an unhomely home. Serena wants a home, in a place you wouldn’t exactly call Paris. They drink. They talk. They merge. In water, beer and memory. A frog leaps. Strange. Stranger. Unhomely. Unheimlich. Stranger than home.

A self-destructive filmmaker trying to regain his dignity.

Two bosom buddies who've won the lottery have a chance encounter with two beautiful but equally poor women who pose as rich. The two couples indulge in pleasures they couldn't afford up until now; but, what happens when the money runs out?

On the occasion of a theatrical performance, the tumultuous history of modern Greece is presented, from the Asia Minor Catastrophe to the invasion of Cyprus. In particular, the ways in which Greece's foreign protectors benefited from the disasters and trials of both our country and the wider Mediterranean and Balkan region are examined.

Relationship between two siblings. A violent - emotional journey from childhood to adolescent ferocity.

Adam and Eve, two eternal lovers, will find themselves in the city of Ioannina.

The film is about the life of a boy, childbirth, school, friendships, love, everyday life, and death. Everything seems to be predestined. Will he finally be able to discover his true self?

Sofia and Eleni and Petros and Alexandros and Despina and Daphne. Familiar, people-next-door types with their obsessions, weaknesses, hang-ups. People who make the daily rounds in search of communication. Sofia, fragile and with no defenses, searches for the scent of life. Eleni tries to combine career and child, making the mistakes she blames her mother Despina for making. Alexandros, a full-fledged adolescent strives to be loved. Petros goes after lost relationships. Characters and the absences of characters. Relationships that are articulated and disarticulated. Through tender glances and open wounds. With an invitation open to all as an antidote. One that we have extended dozens of times while we wait and hope. So... let's go for an ouzo.

The stories behind Nikos Oikonomidis’ most iconic works.

Time strung together by recollections, encounters and dreams. A farewell over the three last months of a man before his final transformation.

Lambis, a traffic inspector, falls victim to a misunderstanding when corrupt employees mistake him for a financial inspector. They try to appease him in every way possible in order to hide a book containing suspicious information. Comical situations follow one after another, until the real inspector reveals the truth, putting an end to the commotion.

Four sets of passengers and their romantic antics make the night shift of a rideshare driver one to remember.

Dinos captain in gkazadiko returns to Greece after Tesserete year absence. He decides to marry his girlfriend, buy a house and to stay on the land for a long time. However, As soon as presses the foot in the house, faces one surprise after another ...

A winter in an isolated island makes the appearance of a creature with a leather jacket and eyes that twinkle in the dark. Anyone who comes into contact with him losing his mind. Residents seeking the help of a strange girl who seems to be the only one that can put them with him. To strengthen her faith, it is driven to acts more and more extreme that seem to hide a secret relationship with him.

A letter was discovered by chance on the streets of Athens, stirring a deep emotional upheaval in the one who found it. The letter is entirely real, sent by a soldier to his companion he secretly has a fling with. Inspired by true events

A triptych film inspired by Peloponnesian folk tales: "The Changelings", "The Sinner", and "The Antichrist".

While facing pivotal life changes Matina arrives at the family summer house to clear out her late mother's things. There she begins to unravel, as past and present collide until she reaches a personal epiphany.

In Thessaloniki in 2021, a city bus of line 05 to Nea Krini has as its sole passenger a girl. She falls asleep on the way and when she wakes up she is in an unknown place. The voice of the announcement of the stops guides her through images of the past. A small film-work that was done very casually during last year's quarantine.

A road movie at sea and a love adventure. The story of two lovers at the world’s edge. Shot on location in the North Pacific, the Bering Sea, Alaska and New Orleans. A movie, with two Greek protagonists, about a myth that knows no borders.

Mother and Son attend the exhumation of Husband/Father. The painful process holds an unexpected surprise.

The Mountain Tears' follows the odyssey of a guild of stonemasons during the troublesome first years of the twentieth century. Far from their homeland, hunted, cut off by war and battles, slowly or quickly, they will perish one by one, and only Markos, the master builder, like another Ulysses, will continue his wandering.

Eighteen nautical miles east of Amorgos, lies Kinaros. An island of the Aegean sea, in the sea area between Cyclades and Dodecanese. Three people, one place, one dream. Renio makes a promise not to leave the place of his birth alone. On the return "journey" she is followed by her husband and her son. But life had other plans.. The lens observes the everyday life and the struggle of Rhenios to keep alive the lands where her people were born and walked. An attempt by the director to record through her own eyes, integrating the camera into her relationship with the protagonist and letting the events unfold in real time.

In a provincial town, a group of men, beset by numerous financial problems, decide to solve them in an original way. Desperation leads a café owner, a taxi driver, a municipal employee, a baker, and a student to become strippers! Their paradoxical choice to earn money by dancing naked disrupts their lives, the small town where they live, and their wives...

In Lesvos island an old abandoned dump lies on a mountain with two big craters. The craters are overflown by thousands of life jackets from the refugee waves. A worker is the only inhabitant in this place that resembles an alien planet or a new continent.

Euripides’ Medea in twenty minutes, set in the shabby outskirts of Athens circa 1970.

The financial decline of an ambitious Athenian shop owner has is followed by moral collapse. A companion in his new predicament helps him to reconsider his world view and rediscover the values he once had.

The hornets' nest

Kakoyrloc, a waiter, is about to close the tavern where a group of people work, who ask him to eat with the excuse that the kitchen has not closed yet. The group keeps him at his post for hours, until Kakurlos explodes.

Detective Mitsos finds a baby on the doorstep of an industrial building completely by chance. In his attempt to help the baby, he gets involved in comical and tragic incidents with the police...

The "good guy", a famous operatic actor, lives in a beautiful apartment in Kolonaki, which the "bad guy", who also happens to be his lookalike, attempts to break into. The similarity of these two heroes and the coexistence of various other people in the space, creates huge confusions and misunderstandings, which the "famous"... Chuck Norris comes to solve!

Harris, his wife, his mistress and his half German sister arrive with a boat to a distant Aegean island, assessable only by boat. The boat man forgets them and they are stranded there. Harris gets stung by a bee, and he develops an allergy. He gets terribly swollen and his alter ego emerges. Suddenly all secrets, hidden truths and feelings come into the open.

An ex-criminal wants to change his life but the Mafia wants him back.

A Short Film by Christos Vakalopoulos

Maria turns 20 and has a party with friends at home. As the party continues, she retreats and climbs the roof alone. Memories from last year's Birthday begin to flood her thoughts and the trip down memory lane begins. How much something that has long since ended can hurt us. Because we dwell on thoughts of things that don't exist. Acceptance of the past and reconciliation with what happened is now all we ask. PS: "I take pictures to remember. I write to remember. I don't like to forget, I often reminisce, I always try to remember." The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.