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A man has second thoughts about a deal he has made with consequences he isn't prepared for. A cutting horror-satire from Greek director Daniel Bolda that fans of Bolda’s countryman Yorgos Lanthimos will love.

The trainee Orthopedic Doctor George Spyrou began his career in the fictional General Orthopedic Hospital "All Saints', somewhere on the outskirts of Athens. There you will discover that the hospital population, by physicians, administrators and nurses, to patients, they are all forced to confront dancing a grotesque dance routine. With humor and humanity within a social landscape so angry George Spyratos trying to balance between the warring parties these microcosms. The gradual evolution from inexperienced trainee to experienced editor will be done through the encounter with the absurd environment. Something that would transform from naive young man who initially stands speechless in front of modern Greek chaos, a mature man who will ultimately make a thoughtful account of choice, but persevere, continue to work on public health.

The Erotokritos is a narrative poem composed by Vitsentzos Kornaros in early 17th century Crete. It consists of 10,012 fifteen-syllable rhymed verses, the last twelve of which refer to the poet himself. It is written in the Cretan dialect of the Greek language. Its central theme is the love story between Erotokritos and Aretousa. Around this theme, revolve other themes such as honour, friendship, bravery and courage. In this adaptation, colorful shadow puppets are deployed.

This is a documentary that looks the story of the pharaonic road project in the heart of Thessaloniki, the "needs" that were imposed on the city, how the state tried to mislead everyone to materialize, and the responsibility we have in road projects for our "convenience" and at the expense of public spaces, air and quality of life in the end.

Foula is kicked out of her father's house when the doctor who loved her leaves her, and she ends up in a brothel. There, her brother, who is unaware that she is his sister, meets her and falls in love with her. The girl attempts suicide, but luckily for her, she is taken to the hospital where her former lover works as a doctor.

Schools have reopened. Our friends find it difficult to return to their desks and are trying in every way to prolong their holidays. Taking advantage of the new headmaster, who is a priest and very strict, they go on strike. However, their parents stop giving them pocket money, so the students organize a beauty contest to elect "Miss High School" in order to boost their meager funds. But the beauty contest turns crazy...

When Rod Foster, an American diplomat, is coming to Athens for an international conference, a young Russian delegation resorts to his suite to hide and creates a series of comic strikes, with the danger of the conference hanging in the air.

As a forest scout he was ready to spend some nights on the mountain but nothing could prepare him for what was lurking near.

Sequel of Dr. Jason (2022) and Dr. Jason II - Lights & Shadows (2024).

Michalis returns to the tobacco growers of his rural village after having spent some time in the city and persuades them to form a collective, rather than suffer the poverty-inducing prices they are paid for their crops by tobacco brokers. They agree not to sell to any of the brokers and start to form a farmers' group. When one of the farmers breaks the agreement and is found dead, Michalis is accused. However, rather than expose the farmers' plight and give publicity to the brokers' greed, the motive the government gives for the killing is thi asimanton aformin, for unimportant reasons.

Freedom Besieged is a feature-length documentary concerning the economic and political climate of Greece and specifically how such has impacted the development and psychology of the nation's youth. Treading fearlessly into what has been called a "humanitarian catastrophe", the film explores the pursuits of Greek youth living within the country's crisis. Freedom Besieged is an intimate portrait of a young Greek generation who serve as the focal point for the future of European youth today.

An advertising executive, in order to deal with his financial problems, uses his talent to impersonate the Italian son of a businessman, the fruit of a youthful passion. His appearance will cause a lot of turmoil and misunderstandings. When the owner of his office comes to ask for his overdue rent, he is accompanied by a client from Italy.

A short film by Vasilis Kalemos

Recorded performance from the Minos Theater (1999-2000). An English couple, Stanley and Joan, go on a trip to a small village in France. Unable to find accommodation due to a local festival, they end up in a miserable suite in a dilapidated hotel. However, due to a mix-up, Claude, a French businessman who is in the area on business, also ends up in the same suite. Claude takes advantage of his wife's absence and invites a cabaret dancer, Simone, to the suite. But unexpectedly, his wife, Helga, suddenly shows up to surprise him for his birthday! The two couples and the cabaret singer are forced to share the suite and find themselves embroiled in a series of hilarious comic situations. The icing on the cake of their adventures is the crazy hotel owner, his wacky employee, and... a radiator that climbs up to the ceiling!

A brief peak into the crazyness of going through job interviews in today's market and the reflection of what to say.

Summer of 2000. A young boy arrives at his grandparents’ home in a seaside village. Keeping him company during his carefree summer days, is the mysterious “witch”, a self-isolated elderly woman living in an old house on the beach. When one day the woman is no longer there, the boy will turn his gaze to the setting sun for the first time.

Magda and Georgia have been friends for years now. However, an unforeseen event causes them to change their daily routine. This day takes a different turn, and so probably will the days to come.

Greek horror‑thriller and SOV remake of Maniac, set in late‑’80s Athens. Angelos, a seemingly mild‑mannered window‑display mannequin maker, is haunted by grief and obsession. After crafting a doll in memory of his beloved wife, he spirals into madness—strangling sex workers along Sygrou Avenue and fashioning mannequins from their corpses as twisted trophies.

O businessman Michael Syrianos, convicted for economic crimes, is released suddenly. He maintains that he is innocent. He proposes to the prosecutor Dimitriou who recommended his conviction, to reopen the case in exchange for leading him to SECRET NOVEMBER, organization assassinated predecessor prosecutor. The prosecutor is obliged to cooperate with the interweaving and interlocking. But as the investigation proceeds the more annoying it is for some. Where it does not pay the bribe, terrorism act. The Syrianos while raising economic demands by the group VOX, where he was CEO. The cycle opens.

Kokovios and Kavouras become street vendors in Athens to earn a living. They are in love with Annea and Paraskeva, unaware that Paraskeva is a man who disguised himself as a woman in order to get a job as a maid. Mary is afraid to reveal her relationship with prosecutor Nikos Giannidis to her father...

Anna, married to a husband much older than she, longs to see her island, which is right across the island she lives. She has never visited it again since her marriage. Thus, she persuades Mathio, a young shepherd to take her there with a 'borrowed' boat. He accepts, hoping for a romantic adventure. However, all she wants is to see her island. Her husband follows her ...

a house. two people. there are. they hover. over the ground. without moving. in one direction. a meteorite. it diminishes them. they deteriorate. meteorites. meteors. Meteora. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

Four girls high school expelled because of Tryphon, the seducer of the school. The Trifonas flirt with many girls and when they decide to throw rotten vegetables, manage to throw in not Tryphon but in high school gymnast. All high school begins a fight to help. They are trying to postpone the council of teachers and to convince Lykeiarchi suspend the expulsion. When all these fail the students resort to eikoniki..aftoktonia.

Haiku film by Yannis Deliveis

A young journalist, Alexis, witnesses a political crime and is pursued by the killers. He then meets an unhappy girl, Marie, who has nowhere to sleep, and takes her home. He offers her support and treats her tenderly, but when he realizes that they are not compatible, he abandons her. The desperate young woman ends her life.

Facing one of humanity’s biggest questions, ‘what is left of us after our death?’, this haunting documentary covers the author’s thought process on the idea of what might remains of us after we die, supported by the vision of an artist who decided to come back in Italy after spending forty-seven years in New York and turn his little apartment into a mausoleom where his death-filled artworks will lay along with his ashes. Raising questions like ‘are the things we create in our lifetime the mark of our existance?’ and ‘can the artist escape death trough the art objects?’ the documentary touches a vast variety of themes and ideas as well as paying a visit to one of the oldest mausoleums in ancient mythology, the Acheron River.

Martha and Nikos, a married couple, frequently engage in jealous behavior toward each other. When Nikos leaves for a business trip to Rhodes, Martha decides to follow him to the airport. On the way, she is involved in an accident with her car and is forced to drive the victim to her home. However, Nikos' flight is canceled due to bad weather and he returns home...

The neighborhood video club has no customers because it doesn't have any tapes. Only Filipinas rent Greek films to learn the language. From them, he learns about their high salaries and so he decides...

A disturbing parallel montage alternates between an earthquake drill at a school and a celebration with references to missing combatants.

Petra Going is a migrant cyborg, an agent of the Global Nomad Project: an international “Experience Data Agency” which sends hundreds of “receivers” like her to wander the globe and record a succession of random encounters. Periodically, they return to agency headquarters where they deposit their accumulated memories into an archive. This archive is available to users who then vicariously and virtually inhabit the ready-made landscapes of touristic consciousness. The motto of the GNP: “Nostalgia For Rent.”

Kaiti is a secretary at a record company. Kostas, the director of the record company, watches a video and discovers the talent of an up-and-coming singer. He immediately begins searching for her, but another company enters the fray and a race ensues between them. However, everything takes a turn when Kaiti, who is in love with him, enters the game as well...

All indications were that Maraki was made for great things, for honor and distinctions. And yet contrary to all expectations our heroine cops out. She refuses to take the university entrance exams is left behind in the country town selling fruit tarts. No one can figure out how come that whiz kid got left behind. Neither can anyone understand why Maraki isn't mad at fate for having wronged her so flagrantly. How does she manage to be so creative and optimistic, ready to do battle with the everyday injustices of life wherever the may appear? She appears to understand something that all the others ignore.

The Timolaos is a teacher of Greek province and to find a job, do not hesitate to hit even the door of the minister. But the minister instead to appoint the school, finds work in a factory and there, by a strange quirk of fate, you will love the daughter of industrialist.

Two teenagers are trying to enjoy their summer at the beach, but the girlfriend of one of them seems to have other plans. Meanwhile, this year's summer is not that kind to all.

The real-life story of the life and murder of an 18-year-old girl by her husband.

Harley Quinn sets a deadly plan in motion, the consequences of which she and she alone is prepared for.

Two ghosts, the girl and the woman.

In a provincial town, eighteen-year-old Clementine works at the farmers’ market with her oppresive father, until a coach from Athens discovers her talent in football.

Rebellious driver Andi and a restless zombie named Pina are driving through the city with a dark secret in the trunk. Their destination is HOPEPUNK, a queer zombie squat at the edge of town where they set a trap for a gang of nationalist taxi drivers that has spread its filthy tentacles across the dead-zone metropolitan highways, controlling the streets of Athens.

An unemployed sailor gets a job at the yacht of a wealthy man, where he is tortured by his beautiful young wife and decides to leave his wife and son to leave with her.

After 40 years of wrongful imprisonment on death row, César is finally released and must rebuild his life. Having spent nearly his entire life in the Polunsky Unit, a prison known for its extreme isolation, he arrives in Mexico ready to embark on a journey of healing. Confronted with his own limitations and the challenges of a new beginning, César is resolute in his quest to discover what true freedom means.

The acquaintance of two refugees in a reception center.

A group of former Russian nuclear scientist has settled on a small Greek island with about 60 inhabitants. These "Russians", as the locals call them, had a promising future in the USSR or in the West. But they decided differently. More than 20 years ago, they decided to take part in a lifelong experiment to explore the basic questions of human society on the basis of Pythagoras' philosophy.

Popi falls in love with a much younger, sexy immigrant from Georgia and decides to marry him. The soi and the neighborhood, who consider the immigrant to be a bounty hunter, do everything to prevent the marriage, but also to pocket the small purse with the golden pounds that Popi's grandfather once hid somewhere.

At a crossroad in Athens, people of different nationalities, including locals, refugees and tourists come together. Only for a moment.

Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.