Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Little Alexander lives with his father. After the Great Catastrophe he wants to visit his mother often. After all, it is the only thread which connects him with the memory from the past…

Greece, 1977. A proposed law brings gay men and “transvestites” together in a historic event and sparks the creation of the first Greek LGBT movement. For the next 13 years, AKOE and its magazine Amfi, would define the way LGBT Greeks think about themselves. This film celebrates their story and legacy.

A short documentary film on the attempts of a young Greek filmmaker to connect with his distant Lebanese half by discovering his mother's secret stories of the war.

A small mysterious man, who is the objectification of monetization, infects the mind of the western white man, and several symbolic sequences of xenophobia and dehumanization follow.

A tailor mistakenly considered an ambassador of a foreign country, which exploits the future father in law to present him as a groom on frivolous daughter.

Etel Adnan’s last words recorded by her close friend, the Lebanese historian and writer Fawwaz Traboulsi, on colours, Nietzsche and poetry. Twenty years after her film Etel Adnan: Words in Exile (2007), the filmaker returns to find Etel Adnan’s lost voice in a Lebanon marked by ongoing historical fractures.

Haris Acharos is a poor family man, a tax collector by profession, very honest and unwilling to compromise his conscience in any way. His financial problems are great and the temptations to take bribes are many, but Haris Acharos is unshakeable. As a result, his family is deprived and he argues with his wife on a daily basis. His only hope is that his godfather will come from Chicago to bail him out financially. The godfather arrives and solves all his problems, but gets him into other kinds of trouble because he is a mafioso...

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A talented young musician, Petros Apostolou, arrives in Athens and soon manages to record his first album. The success comes along with the love of young Anna, the niece of the director of the recording company, Mr. Theoharis. Despite her uncle's objections, Anna marries him, stays pregnant and dies at birth, but brings a little boy to the world. The blow is too heavy for Peter, who abandons everything.

Brother and sister live in Athens; then they start a road trip.

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 ...

It's the last day of the family's vacation. What could go wrong?

A forgotten satirical (and occasionally dark) comedy about sex life in the Greek countryside.

Young men find themselves scattered and defencelessly exposed to a merciless sun. Their gaze moves off searchingly into the distance. Deserted places appear to offer vague promises of refuge. On a prison wall, an explosive image of desire emerges, full of hope for freedom.

This photography-based short film depicts a part of Athens that remains hidden from the glamour of Hollywood films.

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".

The hard daily-life of a teenager, in parallel with the miserable life of his mother.

Poet of freedom, faith and patriotism, Dionysios Solomos left behind a work that responded to the demands of his time - noble and always relevant. A dive into the life and work of Greece’s national poet.

It’s the hunting season. Two grieving, estranged brothers try their marksmanship together with their sons. Can a bird’s heart stop in the sky with no bullets coming through its body?

Anna, married to a husband much older than she, longs to see her island, which is right across the island she lives.

Dimitris Dalikis was the owner of a bank abroad. However, he went bankrupt and returned to Greece with only a few securities left. With the stock market crash, he lost those too, leaving him literally "broke." He was on the verge of suicide when he met Anna, a widow with a young son, Stefanos. One day, Dimitris, in order to save little Stefanos from certain death in a building, injured his hands and was left paralyzed. Misfortune befell their home, and Anna decided to give the child up for adoption. Years passed and Stefanos became a prosecutor. His relationship with Rania, his fiancée, was sealed with their marriage, with Stefanos' mother watching from a distance.

Can a blind person see the Acropolis? Can a deaf person hear the sound of the sea? Do people with mobility impairments always use a wheelchair? Are museums in Greece accessible to each and every one? A documentary about the issue of accessibility in Greece and how persons with disabilities experience reality. They share their thoughts and express their demands not only from museums but society in general.

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Kostas spent years sailing the endless oceans as a ship engineer. Now retired on land, with the marks of time growing deeper, he lives between memories of the past and the singing of his canaries.

O Thomas, an incurable womanizer, he thought he could deceive his wife undisturbed forever. Until he met a sweet and beautiful Vicky, a young saleswoman in a clothing store and had to change his mind. I did not think, however, that the forbidden relationship could prove disastrous and overthrow everything in his life. He might have to think again before blindly follow his instinct ...

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.

That man's dearest dream is to be a mother.

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.

Sprogitis, a clumsy goofball with a good heart, constantly finds himself embroiled in the most unlikely situations, along with his friend Floros. Unable to pay their rent, they take care of the needs of those around them and always end up being chased.

O 3os Nomos is a 2010 drama, crime and thriller Greek television series written by Vassilis Risvas and Dimitra Sakali and directed by Panos Kokkinopoulos.

The late Panos Geramanis talks to the forgotten heroes of the Greek Folk Song and retrieves moments from their lives, trying to record and revive images and values of an era, forever lost. Through his daily radio show, the legendary "Folk Bards", he presents the greatest, often forgotten, heroes of Greek Folk Song.

A girl wanders like a flaneur in the center of Athens: a Constitution, a War Museum, a Town Hall. She wears sunglasses and black clothes. "Kills" a boy outside the Galaxy bar and describes, sitting on the balcony of an apartment in Exarchia, the way the Molotov bomb is operating - it is an incendiary and not an explosive mechanism, he says.

A girl tries to combat her wearisome life taking pictures of strangers. A customer at the coffee place she works at asks her to escort him to the hospital. A boy is in love with her. He stalks her. Their lives intersect. Four days of their interaction scattered in time.

Jasim and Alsaleh are underage refugees in a Greek prison. Coming from Syria and Iraq, they were arrested and accused of smuggling illegal immigrants. With unique access in the juvenile prison and court room, the film follows the two friends closely while in custody, during the trial and after the verdict, through a narrative of suspense which reveals how youngsters are forced to transport migrants across the border to Greece while the smugglers stay behind and continue their job uninterrupted. If Jasim and Alsaleh are found guilty, they will face extremely long prison sentences. Phone conversations between the imprisoned young boys and their mothers at their war-stricken countries accentuate the double enclosure that these families experience. No one knows how and when their long run will end.

A feature film based on the true story on the life and death of Athanasios Diakos (1788 – 1821). Hassan and his Ottoman gang terrorize the family of Yorgis Psychoyos… His wife Psychoyina will send their son, Nasos, to the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Artotina… However, the profound love that the handsome Diakos has for his faith and his homeland will lead him down thorny paths… His horrible martyrdom, like a fiery sword plunged into the hearts of Greeks!…

Angeliki is a young girl who works as an answering machine in a small company in the city center. Through her work develops a special relationship with an elderly woman, Sophie. Inside from Sophie's fantastic stories, Angeliki will review some situations of her life.

A series of archive films depict the implementation of the plan, while figures who played a significant role in the 1950s, mainly in relation to American intervention in Greece, give their own views and testimony on the events. Historians and contemporary diplomats also participate.

Bursting with excitement before meeting a blonde hottie and her equally good-looking companion, a lascivious merchant lures his gullible old friend into a splendid afternoon by the sea behind his wife's back. But, will he get away with it?

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 ..

When a young country boy becomes of age, he must face his family's rite of passage.

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A violent change in the environment is reflected on a family's collision. A young girl has to leave her dog behind, before her family abandons their home in the village, because of the construction of a dam.

Three different characters, caught in a frenetic everyday loop in pursuit of time. Never finding the right moment to eat, cross the street, or go to the toilet. Until time suddenly freezes. A short introspection inspired by pandemic lockdowns.