Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom

An original documentary produced by Tasos Bakasetas and Stars Inc. 11. Witness Trabzonspor's journey to the first Super Lig title in 38 years. Experience the personal, behind the scenes stories, the celebrations and the player’s point of view. See the cultural elements of Trabzon and how football affects the everyday life of the city that lives for its club. A fascinating story that was meant to be told.

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis Tsopanellis) wants to marry her eldest daughter (Anny Loulou) and take advantage of the family's meager earnings. He kidnaps the not-unwilling girl, and argues with her mother about the dowry. But the girl refuses to marry him when she wakes up to the fact that he is only looking out for his own interests. She then decides to start working in order to earn money to raise the child she is expecting. The film is an adaptation of the novel 'For Honor and Money' by Konstantinos Theotokis.

9:30 delves into the case of the vitriol attack on Ioanna Paliospyrou, documenting her recovery and the trial of her assailant that gripped Greece. The film examines the psychological impact, community response, and resilience required to navigate the aftermath of such violence, spotlighting the pursuit of justice and victim support.

Sometimes clumsy, sometimes amateurish, a well-meaning private eye is assigned the task of uncovering a conspiracy involving his old friend's sweetheart. Will he finally manage to get to the bottom of it?

Michalis Mitakidis, also known as B.D. Foxmoor of Active Member, narrates rhythmically-through his unique and direct style-the most pivotal moments of his life so far. The man who kick-started hip hop in Greece in the mid-80s lays his cards on the table, opening up his fiery life story in this rhapsody.

An everyday family man finds his quiet life disrupted by a shop window mannequin that resembles his long-lost love.

A scrambled eggs cooking tutorial show, turns violent. But will the cook ever notice?

A rare fog weather phenomenon unites parallel universes. A group of old classmates decide to organize a reunion on the night that Athens will be affected by it. As the hours pass, the friends move from one universe to another and calculate where their lives evolved better. Ready even to kill to take their place. Eleni is the only one in the group who doesn't have an alter ego and the only one who can save the friends in every universe. To succeed she has to accept herself and decide what she wants.

A documentary about the origins and legacy of Bouzouki, an instrument which dominated the Greek folk music era of the 2Oth century in Greece.

Despoina, a 20-year-old girl from a village in Evros, trying to find a way out of her stifling provincial life, runs away with a reserve officer to Athens, believing that there she will find the fulfillment of her dreams.

Two friends prepare to cheat on their wives without considering the...unstable factors that jeopardize their plans. In fact, the arrival of one of their twin brothers proves to be disruptive for the anxious husbands!

After several years of marriage, Kosmas and Kiki's marriage is in crisis. Kiki wants to have a child, but Kosmas does not. Kiki wants to make love, but Kosmas finds a bunch of excuses. One day, when he comes home, he finds her in bed with the postman. All hell breaks loose, and Kiki grabs her suitcase and leaves. Lakis, a friend and colleague at the small ready-to-wear clothing factory, tries to calm things down, but to no avail. Kosmas is elated now that he has found his freedom. Now all the women in the world are, or seem to be, his. Out of anger, stubbornness, and wounded male pride, he throws himself into romantic adventures. Charming, beautiful, tender, and strange women begin to parade before him...

The maid of the night, which upsets the hotel, causing customers and spreading promises wishes. All this makes for a sacred purpose. To collect money to release her boyfriend, who is imprisoned for debts ..

An old man, cut off from his future and his past, brings a young taxi driver into his game. The two meet Karkalou, a crazy prostitute, whom the former once loved madly and the latter will soon love.

Lakis is a rock singer who is experiencing a downturn in his career and is facing challenges with his record label, his manager, his girlfriend Barbara, and his friend Leo. The "other" Lakis is his twin brother, who is dealing with personal problems in his life in Gatzohori, his father Manthos, his girlfriend Krostallo, and his friend Kotsos. One is unaware of the other's existence, but the arrival of their mother Heidi from America and the preparation of a show in Gatzohori will be the beginning of a series of misunderstandings...

This is a two-episode video series, each episode lasting approximately 80 minutes. This video series, together with the video series "Unknown War 2: The Man with Two Faces," is a remake of the older television series "The Unknown War (1971)." Two video series were released due to the long total duration. The original music by Danae Evangelou from the opening credits of the 1971 television series is the same music heard in the opening credits of the video series. These two video series were broadcast as a television series by ANT1 under the title "The Unknown War (1990)" when the station began operating, and it was the first Greek television series broadcast by the station. That television series was rerun in 1995 by New Channel.

Stathis, who is the director of a corporation, after the death of his lord confesses his daughter, but her mother, who is also a major shareholder in the company, wanting to dominate the situation itself, degrades her name. Stathis' reaction is direct and "satanic". He devises a kidnapping pattern of his stunt during a fun party they give at home, but the authorized kidnappers make a mistake, and in his place they capture him. His mother-in-law refuses to pay the ransom and he is in the most difficult position to convince the kidnappers that the target was not his but his poor homeland.

An existential reflection on time and gender.

A romantic saleswoman nurtures the sweet fantasy of marrying a rich lad who will turn her life around, as a low-ranking office clerk has exactly the same aspirations. Can they count on true love, or is it all about the money?

An amateur fireworks maker lives in a working-class neighborhood. Debts and threats from loan sharks are chasing him, and he is desperately trying to find a job to pay off his debts and marry his girlfriend, who is starting to pressure him emotionally. He agrees to work temporarily in a trendy tavern as a magician and begins his controversial career. The tavern where he is to perform belongs to a shopkeeper who has a depressed daughter confined to a wheelchair. On the day the amateur magician takes to the stage, the depressed daughter rises from her wheelchair...

A Greek Sports Drama.

Stella, daughter of a banker from Zakynthos, loves a poor telegraph operator. Her father wants her to marry a rich man, but Stella refuses and her father locks her in the attic, where she lives in isolation. When she learns that the telegraph operator only wanted her fortune, that he did not truly love her, and that he is marrying the daughter of a nobleman, Stella Violanti collapses mentally and physically, and her death is inevitable.

A surreal and symbolic ode, a visual poem, a mash-up of re-invented (or slightly tweaked) mythologies, celebrating the hairy female body, beyond binaries of normal vs abnormal, trivial vs relevant, accepted vs rejected, female vs male, beautiful vs monstrous.

Trapped in a vicious cycle, three drug pushers who want out, find themselves forever indebted to a hardened drug kingpin, who, in turn, is dependent on the protection of a corrupt police officer. Can they escape from the inevitable?

As the winter season begins in Creta, an overly touristic Greek island, a family of locals, owners of a small struggling bed & breakfast, get an unexpected visit from a Nordic family of tourists looking for a tour into the piratic past of the area. The relationship between Manos, the Greek father and Tassos, his son, is being tested as they are struggling to meet the increasingly challenging demands of the tourists looking to live the authentic pirate experience.

The industrial shares that Argyris Zomas bought lose their value, leading him to financial disaster. Desperate to feed his family, he will be appointed as an undertaker.

Sotiris Moustakas is Periklis, a barber with financial problems.

Three generations of women in one household do what they can to prepare for the impending loss of one of their number.

Amidst the serene landscape of the Angelohori lagoon, “To Spiti tou Fylaka tis Alykis" ("The Salt Keeper’s House") is a meeting point where the sounds of nature and music intertwine, revealing the inherent bond between nature, art and people.

short film by Iokasti Mantzog

A journey from heaven down to earth

Christina and Chrysoula are two teenage friends in Zakynthos and they are completely different as characters. Christina is ugly but honest, while Chrysoula is beautiful, but scandalizes the neighborhood with her provocative behavior. First fully sound-synchronized Greek motion picture. The film was shot in Constantinople by the director of the National Turkish Theatre, Muhsin Ertugrul with a script by Grigorios Xenopoulos, based on his novel by the same name. It was shown as one of the first contemporary Greek films to include full sound and conversation.

Leonidas, a 33-year old punk rock paraplegic and his friends plan to climb on the highest peak of Mount Olympus. For whom is it going to be more difficult?

A lively countryman arrives in Athens in search of a better future, only to find himself entangled in the well-orchestrated scheme of a notorious thief who is his spitting image. Will he manage to get out of the tight spot?

Sick of his own face Sick of his skin, of the dark, He crawls outside himself To sing.

The video film was created by the review of the same name, which was staged at the "Vembo" theater in the period 1987-1988.

Thodoris is a lonely 25-year-old who spends his days working out. When he signs up to a new gym, he meets Vicky, a sexy 30 year old trainer. He tries to claim her attention as he struggles with his shame, image and repressed libido.

A pasta-factory owner, Aristotelis Kolokythas, after two unsuccessful marriages in the past, is now crazy about a folk singer, Mirella. For her sake, he lavishly squanders his pasta profits, despite the earnest efforts of his partner Orestis, to rein in his spending and put some sense into him. When the business finally goes bankrupt, the hero considers leaving for the Congo to work with his twin brother, Vangelis. Suddenly, however, everything changes, as Vangelis arrives in Athens.

When a timid villager sees bureaucracy's ugly side, he makes a hollow bomb threat, unbeknownst to him that, only moments after his outburst, a very real bombing attack will level the Tourism Organisation.

The night club "the River" situated in the small Greek city Livadeia is looking for a music group to perform there for a few nights. Many different musicians come from all over Greece and many funny incidents take place among them.

In an attempt at social and economic liberation, against an establishment that with insecurity and violence deprives any form of hope for the future, a group of friends dance on the edge of moral irregularity and walk the fine line between legality and illegality. Will the reverberations of their choices light their way?

Sotiris Moustakas is Thiseas Doxapatris, a detective with a twin brother.

A young man pushed beyond his endurance remembers his life on the roof of a tall building. He's there to commit suicide.

Niko is a romantic, young Greek writer living in London. When his finances go astray, Niko hides out in his neglected family house in the Greek mountain town of Siatista. Surrounded by the ghosts of the past, Niko must uncover the mystery of his father’s death and retain his grasp on reality.

A young couple, Dario and Belen – the first an aspiring actor and the latter a military woman - strive to manoeuvre and remain intact from the reality that surrounds them, struggling with truth that finally proves to be tougher than lies themselves. A lieutenant and a director force them to confront authority, as well as their own essence. Authority in art and authority in war. When does exercising power becomes equal to the abuse of power? What is the role of the victimizer and that of the victim, when everyone is free to “manoeuvre” in their attempt to attain their goals? However, as they venture a manoeuvre, the social system interferes, limiting their freedom and depriving themselves of their ability to govern their own selves.

Kitsos, a charming countryman from Gastouni, visits Athens to secure a dowry for his sister. Instead, Uncle Charalabos mistakes him for Kits Harad, his wealthy Greek-American nephew. Will Kitsos give his sister the wedding she dreams of?