Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

In the countryside, a man lives isolated from the world. More than 200 years ago, a couple puts their naïve love for each other above anything else, with tragic results. Two people form a peculiar intertemporal conversation on the meaning of loss, grief and rediscovering one’s self after a life-altering event.

Despite their different perspectives on things, three people set up a conspiracy plan to escape from a mental institution.

A singer tries to make a name for himself without compromising his beliefs or his personal life. But the music industry has other ideas...

The story of a poor farmer from Bangladesh who migrate to Greece deported back, attempts to return back to Greece but luck is not on his side.

Against the stereotypes of the “ideal” woman and the symbols of Pornography, the women in the works of Greek comic artist Stavros Kioutsioukis preserve their personality: they are the girls next door who try and get their rights in Happiness and Love.

Petros, one of Greece's best athletes, decides to end his life with the help of his beloved wife Anna in order to escape his incurable illness and the terrible pain that accompanies it. Anna is then brought to justice on charges of premeditated murder. The trial unfolds through the testimonies of people close to them, who testify about the reasons that led her to this decision. During a break in the trial, mentally and physically exhausted, she cuts her veins and dies. Innocent or guilty? The answer to this question is left to the audience.

Michael, a middle-aged man confined to his home, receives an invitation from his twenty-year-old niece to accompany her to an event where one of his childhood idols will be present. Michael is confronted with his OCD, which he has denied to himself for many years.

An audiovisual experiment on the relations between light and material, material and garment, garment and body, performance and shooting, real and pretended self.

Do you want to make people laugh? Do you want to be the center of attention and have everyone crack up with your jokes? All you have to do is attend the “Great School of Laughter” with the professor of the genre, Markos Seferlis. Also, laughter lessons are taught by: Sakis Rouvas. The leading Greek showman performs his greatest hits at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus. Tryfon Samaras. The beloved hair stylist, after the great success he experienced through “DANCING WITH THE STARS”, gives an exclusive but very revealing interview. Patty. The kind and kind-hearted girl from Argentina, claims the boy of her dreams, Matias, from her rival Antonella.

In a television contest, three boys and three girls, high school graduates earn a 7 day cruise on the Aegean islands. They accompany a professor and a professor. Infinite contingencies, funny incidents and peculiar coincidences occurring on board

Strong winds shake the leaves of drought-stricken trees in an ancient olive grove near Delphi, reminding us of the wildfires that are engulfing the country. Here, a family of farmers attempts to restore its land.

In Strumica, North Macedonia, maestro Biko Agusev proudly upholds his family's rich tradition of Balkan music. Each year, the enchanting sounds of Biko and his brass band resonate through the air as they join their Greek friends, captivating crowds with their thunderous and unique melodies during the vibrant carnival festivities of Naoussa, Greece.

Set in the world of Greece's urban-folk music scene of the 90s, the film depicts the fatal relationship between a young singer and an elder songwriter and her mentor.

Rena Verygou is a woman who gambles constantly at the casino. However, her husband, Dimitris, has a problem with this and does not like Rena being at the casino. He vows that she will never touch a deck of cards again. When her husband Dimitris goes on a business trip to Frankfurt, Rena and her friend Despoina find the opportunity to go to the casino in Rhodes, but they get caught up in comical situations.

Aris is a young man living between two worlds. On the one hand, his professional space in the world of entertainment, which thirsts for brilliance, money and power. On the other hand, the suffocating family and the crisis that has hit the country and worsens human relations, which are in any case complicated and traumatic. The protagonist tries to find his balance through love, which also betrays him. Will he finally find a way out?

Athens, mid-August. Tsiou, addicted to substances, while trying to get his dose, mixes a number of people to his search through his sister and her mobster husband. A chain of meetings follows where the pressure passes from one to another.

A young Casanova falls in love with a tallyman-woman who keeps persisting knocking at his door everyday.

Oedipus at Colonus is the second of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC. The play describes the end of Oedipus's tragic life.

Novelist Rosa Anagnostou invites Christine Agathi to the village of Artemiada. A private investigator and a columnist, Christine is to interview Rosa for the first time. During the interview Rosa announces the upcoming publication of her new book, namely an account of some rather deadly, well-kept secrets of the local residents. Quite unexpectedly, while eating her eggs, Rosa dies. Christine, trying to seek help, witnesses something shocking happening behind the door, when a sudden blow to the head knocks her unconscious. When she regains her senses, Rosa's body has disappeared.

A descent into the world of mourning and loss through three homicide stories that shook Greek and European society: the cruel murders of Shahzad Luqman, Pavlos Fyssas, and Zak Kostopoulos. The grieving families of the victims converse with their absences, defend the memory of the dead, and turn their suffering into a fight for justice.

In the mid-80s, Aegokeros publishing house intended to publish a magazine about film and the theater. Theo Angelopoulos and Nikos Panayotopoulos had been chosen by the editorial board for the first issue. A summer evening at Angelopoulos house in the Mati area, Antonis Kokkinos and Yannis Soldatos recorded a three-hour interview between Theo and Nikos, within the frameworks set for them, in order to be included in the magazine. The interview brought to the fore their common course, even though completely opposite from one point onward. Thirty-five years later, the unpublished conversation has been found; both the tapes and the transcripts! This conversation stands as a valuable manifestation of the creators’ views regarding their own, until then, existing and future work, as well as a thorough insight into the New Greek Cinema, and into World Cinema in general.

A glimpse of the Greek Civil War, which followed soon after the end of WW2, as it was experienced in the remote and rather peculiar island of Ikaria. After the defeat of the Democratic Army of Greece on Samos island, several men attempt to escape certain death at the hands of the Greek government. The loose film plot does incorporate many local stories and legends from that dark period, as well as older tales.

Maria, the daughter of Barbie Lambrou is dumb village we all laugh. The new village teacher Gregory, just to know is willing to learn the language of the deaf. Her father is impressed that manages and communicates with his daughter and radically changing behavior towards her. One evening Maria would raped by the chairman of the village, but will not say anything to anyone until after three months revealed her pregnancy.

Jo, a 15-year-old tomboy, has a nightmare made of fog and aurora light: her dog is lost, her voice cannot be heard, and her surroundings seem completely unfamiliar. Has the tone of the day been set yet?

Greece is deeply missed by Luca (10), a young Greek immigrant living in Cargèse, on the Corsican coast. The boy finds solace in training and obsessing over freediving, an ancient sport that involves diving on a single breath. But his father, Alex (39), a former champion haunted by the life he left behind and the recent loss of his wife at sea during a dive, forbids him from continuing after a series of reckless behaviors. Struggling to fit in with the village and at odds with his father, Luca is at his breaking point. He's ready to risk everything to prove he’s got what it takes… and make the ultimate dive.

The main characters of this film are some habitants of Athens, that i met either on purpose or by chance. Between them two politicians, a taxi driver, a mother with her small baby and her family, two whores, two activist actresses, the mother of one man who hanged up by the Nazi party.

Night spread its veil over the presidential suite of Korydallos prison. "The Lady of the Lord" in her cell, closed her husband's diary, which she had been reading for a long time, while she decided to break the hunger strike, which she did with a "dirty" person, who sent her a package "The Doctor of Hunger". Then she turned on the television. How boring this report with the unemployed Greeks who are emigrating to Australia seemed to her, as did Angela Merkel's first exclusive interview with a Greek journalist. But finally. When will her favorite TV series "LALE! Love in Istanbul" start? Oh, if only Theodoros Kolokotronis could see all this Turkish lust from one side. she thought. He would even bring his wax figure to life at the "Vrellis Museum"! And all this in a country that not even Superman can save since for 30 years now, the government has only learned to "eat".

A not so good in his mind director tries to get funding for his new film

Odysseas Akribos is a watchmaker and wants his life to roll like clock. However, the death of his partner and his children's comrades, Angelos and Katia, will deconstructed him. He will try to put his old life in order starting with his co-operative, Electra.

After 35 years working in a factory in Germany, Ilias returns to his almost deserted village and buys a service station on the main street to Ioannina. He wants to make a new start but soon feels like a foreigner again, this time in his own country. His relationship with Eleni, his younger and still beautiful wife, is going though a serious crisis. Eleni, who married him when she was very young to escape the poverty of village life, now feels she is suffocating. She wants to live while there is still time.Their life changes when Ilias saves Petros, a young Albanian illegal immigrant who comes to Greece seeking a better life, from the border guards and hires him in his shop.

A pariah and his dog experience the pandemic as a triumph of the outcasts and deconstruct the threat of death politically, socially and existentially.

Christos and Maria, a couple living in poverty, hope for a better future. However, their love will be tested by the harsh reality and poverty that plagues them. When Christos loses his job, he abandons Maria for a wealthy woman. His life is filled with riches and comforts, but he soon realizes that his happiness lies with Maria. He searches for her and finds her at the home of Lola, a prostitute who has taken the unfortunate girl in. Their plans to claim their happiness are overturned once and for all when Lola's protectors rape Maria, who dies shortly afterwards in hospital. Christos takes his own life and Lola kills the man responsible for the girl's death.

A movie is being filmed in a deserted hotel, and a young actor is taking part in it. His big dream is to play Hamlet. Every day, his difficult personality causes problems, and so one day, after many warnings, the film's producer fires him. Desperate, he hangs himself from the hotel balcony to commit suicide. A young woman happens to be there and convinces him not to end his life. The young actor falls madly in love with the woman, who is a writer, but unfortunately for him, she is engaged...

On a secluded beach, two people remain silent in the face of the distance that separates them. The man's disappearance and an ambiguous message on his cell phone leave the woman alone in an experience that finds no words or witnesses.

Vanina, a 39-year old flight attendant, works on a domestic route onboard a Boeing 737. She complains about her recently attached braces, in a late attempt for a perfect smile. What she really must do is confront her, since forever, absent mother, whose body lies in the cargo hold of the plane.

The owners of a glass shop (Spyros Ioannou and Panagiotis Soupiadis) are unjustly accused of tax evasion. They end up being pursued by the police and by the smuggler, whose car they stole to escape—a car that is full of contraband gold.

Stefanos is a successful businessman, and violence enters his life completely unexpectedly when three young men rape his daughter. The "marks" they leave on her soul and the police's sluggishness in finding the culprits lead him to decide to find them himself and punish them...

Just before turning thirty, Danny and Stella often feel lost and disorientated. This is the chronicle of their relationship that reveals the portrait of their generation with sarcastic humour and sincerity.

Thanasis is a sixty-year-old confectioner and owner of one of the oldest confectioneries in Thessaloniki. The film builds a portrait of a man who worries daily about his future in the possibility of his upcoming retirement and the redefinition of himself without the status of an employee.

A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while under self-hypnosis.

A man gets out of prison. Like a modern Ulysses he will undertake a homeless journey into contemporary Athens peopled by migrants, homeless, and other marginalized persons of the society. On his way he will meet a woman and a little girl. Are the three of them members of a disrupted family or just persecutors and victims of a violent and conflict driven society that prevents them from living together?

The swan song of the Honorary Director of the Eugenides Planetarium Dionysios Simopoulos was to be the last unpublished musical work of the late and world-renowned composer Vangelis Papathanasiou. On the occasion of the New Digital Planetarium's 20th anniversary, this show looks back on its previous productions, with unreleased music by Vangelis and narrated by Dionysios Simopoulos. A tribute to Science and Art by two creators whose friendship and mutual appreciation is more than evident in this work.

Giovanna, a former circus acrobat and now a dancer in a nightclub, sees Stefano among the customers one evening. He had previously treated Giovanna for an injury at the clinic where he works as a doctor. This encounter is followed by others. A great love blossoms between them, until unforeseen events disrupt their relationship. Giovanna, who is pressured to sit with the club's customers, quits her job and returns to the circus... The video features Andreas Alafouzos' motorcycle group and the artists of the Cristiani Bros. circus.

Nikos, the son of a famous factory owner, lives a carefree and wild life in the rhythm of Lambada, together with his friend, Lakis. The clumsy young man decides to replace his father and takes over the business, appointing Lakis as manager, who is introduced to the staff as a consultant. With this plan, he discovers that two supervisors, with Lena's help, are stealing from the company. Lena devises a plan involving flirting and romantic games and tries to seduce Nikos to keep him quiet about her schemes. However, Nikos falls in love with Efi, his father's private secretary...

An undocumented immigrant arrives in Cyprus, thinking he is in Italy. A story evolves around him, involving people who live in the margins society, and a veil of hypocrisy is created.

An anxious mother is searching for her missing daughter while she deals with her deepest fears.