Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Documentary about the nightlife in Athens. The nightclubs, the musical acts, the striptease shows, but also some dramatized acts with well-known actors...

The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political prisoner for two decades. This insightful portrait conjures the ghosts of the Greek Civil War – the maverick people, revolutionary politics, and breathtaking events that have shaped today’s Greece.

Manolis and Manolios are two mischievous plumbers who decide to get married through classified ads. After meeting the nieces of their prospective brides, they find themselves working as waiters in a wealthy household.

The Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, in 1821.

A woman who does not hesitate, in front of her maternal instinct, to do what she never imagined... A young man who will never learn the most important thing for his life. A man who will consent to something extreme. And a child...

In "Spaces #1", 8 beloved Greek directors shot, after commissioning by the Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book "Species of Spaces" by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine. The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell. "Incredible thoughts of a woman on a tier" is Rinio Dragasaki's submission.

A short story about a great intrusion and an irreversible loss. Do you even know who you are? How often do you change your mind? How much can you trust what you think you know? Caught between memory and nightmare, Margarita is trying to shut the door.

A coffee-shop owner does not serve coffee. Four old men insist to order. A fridge filled with the last ice creams that everyone craves for.

A short animation film about a real horror story. Are you watching a genocide on your sceen?

During his investigations in an increasingly criminal metropolis, detective Jimmy Cloud gets into a world of gangsters, espionage, murder, prostitution and drugs, in which a terrorist group also targets his girlfriend to stop him.

The film, with many scenes shot on location, constitutes a precious document as it exquisitely captures some of the most important landmarks of Athens and its outskirts, as well as daily life in the 1930s. synchronise moving images with a sound-ondisc system in Greece, using a semiimprovised setup according to press coverage of the time.

Two young women convince each other they are under threat after accidentally photographing what they believe to be a concealed automatic rifle. Shot in drawn-out, static takes, Emma Doxiadi’s comical mystery comments on Greece’s ongoing refugee crisis in real time, pointing squarely at foolish knee-jerk reactions.

A young man suffering from lymphoma befriends an interesting young woman after an accidental meeting at a doctor's office.

A sarcastic, improvisational film, with anarchic origins, strongly cinephile flavor, and largely autobiographical in nature and content. A film director strives to escape alienation, while, at the same time, expressing his intense feelings for his wife, cinema and Greece during the restoration of democracy.

A boy and a girl hide in the ruins of a future world not knowing if there are any other survivors. Their passion and their love is all they have left. Unable to predict the chances of their own survival they decide to play a life or death game and leave things in luck.

Two friends and roommates, who face a grave financial problem, try every trick in the book to evade their landlady. Everything will change in their lives when they undertake a secret mission pretending to be detectives.

A film production company, which has only made flops, decides to start a film that it believes will be a huge hit. The film is about the lives of a group of "pick-up artists" who flirt with girls who are unaware that they are being filmed. From among the many types of men who prowl the squares of Athens (Kolonaki, Syntagma, etc.), they select the seven best, each of whom, in his own way, has many successes to show for himself...

An action film is interrupted by a breaking news report, the events of which are mysteriously similar to the plot of the film.

Maxwell lives with his cat Eleanor Cumpene and is secretly in love with Johnny. Michel is a hypochondriac and suicidal art critic, who is obsessed with Lucy, the girl who abandoned him.

Aliens have invaded Earth. After months of conflict, they reach the northern border of Greece, wiping cities and villages in their passage. Will a young man's courage be enough to overturn the inevitable to the technological superiority of a superior race?

A compulsive gambler and his girlfriend on her birthday, illegal immigrants, salsa dancers, lovers in their love nest, amateur thieves, a girl in a wheel chair, a doctor, and a radio host are just some of the many, many characters that form this mosaic of young life in Greece. From the early hours of the day to the evening on a Tuesday (not) like any other, their stories reel off in episodes with not much connection apart from Athens´ urban scene and a certain idea of an unsuccessful search: everyone seems to want something, or someone, and they can´t get it.

During World War II, a lieutenant of the Royal Navy, Aris Galanos, arrives in Italian-occupied Rhodes on a secret mission. He takes the place of the Italian officer Giovanni Retsini and, as captain Giovanni, now helps the residents of the island as much as possible. At the same time, he also falls in love with Anna Roditi, a member of the Resistance. He travels back and forth to the Middle East carrying secret plans for the defense of the Dodecanese. The revelation of Aris' activity also leads to Anna's arrest, who is about to be court-martial-led. The capitulation of Italy, however, averts such an unpleasant development. With the end of the war and the unification of the Dodecanese islands with Greece, Aris returns to Rhodes to live there forever with his beloved Anna Roditi.

An old ill man, the young woman who looks after him and his unemployed middle-aged daughter, are tasked with taking God's place, who appears to be absent.

A lugubrious man hired to do a crime, now awaits for his last, brief contact with the mobsters, to pick-up his money. A very short film which tries to re-imagine film gris and to capture the sub-genre's "greater psychological and social realism".

1943. Sergeant Tim Barker is parachuted into the occupied mountains of Greece. Injured he' s searching for his link in the resistance when he's rescued by a family.

Six different couples, in six different kitchens, in six different acts-times of their relationships, all living a life which could have been the life of one single couple. This common thing that unites all couples all over the world in one common, and yet very different experience. The thing we have in common in the stories of our relationships.

An old-school painter who consciously resists anything modern unexpectedly creates a groundbreaking work of art.

Wandering Athens by night. A grand parade with actors, singers, composers, orchestras, attractions and generally performing artists of the night, in a series of great figures who made significant humorist. Sung by Gregory Bithikotsis Jenny Vanou, Mary Linda, Giannis Vogiatzis George Zambetas Laura Tony brushes etc. Displays orchestras Mouzaki George, Gerasimos Lavranos, Von-Von, Apostolatou and Mikis Theodorakis.

A pair of struggling artists meanders through Athens, Greece, posing as tourists to keep a roof over their heads.

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Zacharias is a sanitation worker on an island, and his job is to clean the streets and beaches. He does not accept the label of garbage collector and says that he is the man who protects the environment. No one takes Zacharias seriously and everyone considers him a "loser." Most people hate him and chase him away, but the police officer hates him the most because he discredits his honor and reputation. His only friend is Giorgakis, who wants to teach him karate so he can defend himself. A sudden stroke of luck makes Zacharias rich. This angers his persecutors even more, who seek new ways to hurt him, now setting their sights on his money...

Not having much information about the discovery of the perpetrator of the robbery of the jewelry of the lonely and strange Christina, the security commander, tries through her narratives, to discover the persons with whom she has been associating lately. Christina keeps her personal life to herself, so she sends police officer Dimitris to approach her, pretending to be in love

A couple in crisis comes closer when the woman (who suspecting her husband of adultery) decides to work as a dancer in a nightclub. When he sees her dancing, he desires her again.

After generating a series of AI-produced images and videos, the artist initiates a dialogue with another AI model – uploading the visuals and prompting it to interpret their meaning. As a final step, the music is specially written by an AI model as the most appropriate to the topic of the work, according to its opinion.

Kids battle bad guys using martial arts.

Dimitris is in love with Antigoni but he's shy about showing his feelings to her. Antigoni is in love with Dimitris but she's also shy about showing her feelings to him. Eleni, Antigoni's best friend, is in love with Dimitris and she's not shy at all. Panayotis hates Dimitris, is crazy in love with Antigoni and tries everything to win her heart. Vassilis and Costas, Dimitris' best friends, want to set him up with Eleni. They have no idea about Dimitris' feelings for Antigoni, and on it goes!

Two best friends in their senior year are turning eighteen. The girls intend to lose their virginity on the night of their birthday. Everything goes awry in this adventure, an Odyssey which, nevertheless, becomes a journey of self-discovery, friendship and adulthood.

Electra, was a teacher a few years ago in the industrial village "X". A decayed village under the shadow of a huge factory, not on its heyday. Lia, until a few years ago a student of Electra, was and remains beautiful. She works in “Heaven”, a local cafe owned by the 50-year-old known as "Cannibal". Lia has no way out. ntertainment and spectacle is nothing more than souped-up cars drifting on the empty lot. Electra knows that Lia deserves another kind of glory, she knows that as her teacher she has to lead her there. Electra returns. And she will take Lia with her to commit the robbery they both need: Lia to escape, Electra to tie Lia with her.

Ourania is a middle aged woman who has neglected herself. The appearance of a young man will help her regain her long lost woman nature.

Evi visits her interplanetary pen-friend Klooms on Pluto. They have fun together while Evi tries to get accustomed to life on the dwarf planet. On their way home a figure approaches them suddenly. They react differently. Will the Plutonians affect the Earthling?

Petros struggles to find the right way to grief as he attends the funeral of a loved one. He is in denial. As the ceremony progresses, he gets more isolated into his own world, filming everything with his Hi8 camera. People “demand” of him to be more normal, but he only wants to be on his own. When he arrives home, exhausted, he must face reality.

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In Eduardo Williams’s video, scales are flipped and imperceptible movements are unveiled. Images from a camera passing through a digestive system and gazes into the far distance sustain each other with the tension of celestial bodies.

We watch the evening of Petros and Sophia, where his representation emotion constructs a personal truth. A story where the variable takes on the role of constant and communication codes define love.