Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Sofia and Dimitris are two young people who love each other and want to get married, but Dimitris' father wants to marry his son to a rich girl, and use her money to save his business from bankruptcy.

A group of men whose friendship begins from the Army

The tragic love of Anna and a prison breaker.

Kostas and Achilles are soldiers in a provincial camp. Kostas' explosive temperament drags the modest Achilles away and so the two friends run away from the camp with the intention of having fun in the neighboring village. Things do not develop as they want and they are now in the patrol car, facing charges against them. They must now choose: To accept their fate, or to blow it up.

When the taps of a remote town stop running, its inhabitants seek salvation in the repetition of an informal sacrifice.

The story follows Ero, a former police woman, who works currently as a private investigator. An old man, Elias, will pay her a visit and assign to her to find his long lost daughter and give her a special box.

And after much deliberation, the gay Cowboy presented the setting and configuration for the different stages on the process of painting, bleaching, swallowing, riding & haliding whilst chewing a delicious spanakopita. Who is the Gay Cowboy? when did the Gay Cowboy appear? how did the Gay Cowboy deliberate in such elegant and pugnant matter? this film has none of the answers for the questions presented

In the twilight of his life, an elderly man revisits a bittersweet memory and reshapes it in the way he would have liked to have lived it.

The everyday life of three young women in the decaying Athens.

In Filiatra, a half deserted township of Messinia, the remaining farmers face a constant struggle to pay off their debts to the Agricultural Bank.

A documentary short, about Prespes, that Takis Hatzopoulos shot in 1966, the first major act of a journey that would inevitably lead him to Gazoros Serron in 1974 and from there to his time on the TV documentary series Paraskinio, an inexhaustible hothouse of films and filmmaking talent. Hatzopoulos chronicles this one corner of Greece, where a lake divides people into nationalities, in 14 minutes, with obvious echoes not only of the documentation but also of the fiction of Takis Kanellopoulos as it is captured in the black and white photography of Syrakos Danalis, the music of Kostas Mylonas, and the voice-over of Angelos Antonopoulos.

A look at “Greek love” and the reality of homosexuality in Greece in 1991. Leaders of the once-called GLBT movement (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender) or simply people who dared to stand in front of the camera and speak about their lives, paint us a clear portrait – a bigger picture that might not have changed much in the last three decades.

We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The Pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us: Exploited migrants harvest our oranges, strawberries, olives, blueberries and other fruit and vegetables in Greece, Spain, Italy or Portugal.

On the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the death of Eleftherios Venizelos on March 18, 1936, the National Foundation for Research and Studies "Eleftherios K. Venizelos" made a short film starring Grigoris Valtinos.

A prophet says that this Christmas the end of the world will come, via a huge asteroid, bigger than the Colosseum. Our story begins in Nonda's Canteen and in less than an hour it will officially be Christmas.

Two brothers, who are rivals in life and in their professional careers, come into conflict when they fall in love with the same girl. She, hurt by the younger brother, decides to marry the older one, exacerbating the rivalry between them.

A vast photographic archive –like a long journey through the 20th century– featuring documents from the life of Giorgos Seferis, period materials from around the world, and records from the places the poet traveled.

14-year-old Anti jumps out of a moving vehicle. She runs, she is hunted, she fights back: all of which she records on the stolen mobile phone of her trafficker. This recording might be her only evidence.

A rainy morning by the sea. A talking house. A car that returns. When the inside and the outside alternate. When the familiar and the unfamiliar coincide.

Even after the Civil War had ended in the rest of Greece, a small rump of the Democratic Army, six men and two women, remained in hiding for 14 years in Chania, Crete, where they continued to take part in illegal political activity. In 1962, six of the former partisans escaped, via Italy, to Tashkent. The documentary focuses on the three who are still alive.

The fall and rise of an ordinary man and the oddity from the attic. When Manos, A 50 year old man gets divorced with his wife, he moves into a new house in order to start over. Quite unexpectedly, he discovers something that will change his life forever. And rock on. A short film about parenthood, divorce, glitter.

Two hounds from the Rapid Response Unit become heroes in a bizarre robbery at the Russian embassy's cash transport. Blunders, unexpected events, and beautiful women frame the story...

A Short Film by Christos Vakalopoulos

The film follows the first systematic underwater archaeological research in the marine area of Kasos, led by archaeologist Xanthi Argyris. The team has conducted 220 dives, examining 60km of coastline, discovering ten shipwrecks and recovering 108 archaeological objects. Their work expands our understanding of the underwater archaeology of the Aegean.

When a mysterious, valuable box appears in Stergios' life, he must decide whether he'll overcome his fear of responsibilities and protect it from the dangerous people that are after it. But there's one thing he absolutely shouldn't do: open it.

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...

It's the '60s and Sporos has a date with Molly his "6 to 8 girl" from the wild teenage years. Their meeting will bring about lost dreams and unfulfilled desires. A bittersweet farewell to a relationship and an era.

A Costas Ferris' short featuring two of the best greek songs. Back in 1961 this film was expelled from Thessaloniki Film Festival because of the lyrics of these songs. They belonged to the rembetiko genre that used to over-emphasize the pleasure of using drugs. The worst thing was that Acropolis was shown in a plan and that lead the government to completely ban the film as anti-touristic!

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.

A housewife putting her husbant's cheese in a mouse trap and a razor blade in her son's food.

A kaleidoscope of events, incidents, and moments from the everyday life of a village in the southern Pindos mountains. during an impromptu football tournament. The documentary aims to create, through observation, an "impressionistic" portrait of a small community in its summer aliveness. A portrait with light and shadows, charming and sometimes frightening, which, despite its contradictions is above all unexpectedly alive and genuine.

The Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, in 1821.

On a research trip to Greece, Adam slips into a parallel life without marriage, children, or responsibility. With Nysa, a local, he drifts through enchanted freedom while haunted by the life he once took for granted.

When you get involved in a love triangle, it's sweet. But what happens when two sweethearts end up in your studio apartment? Ask the young writer, who got involved with not two, but three.

In a provincial town, a group of men, beset by numerous financial problems, decide to solve them in an original way. Desperation leads a café owner, a taxi driver, a municipal employee, a baker, and a student to become strippers! Their paradoxical choice to earn money by dancing naked disrupts their lives, the small town where they live, and their wives...

Nikos, Christine, Homer, George, Regina, Dimitris, Jim, Margaret, Elias, Monika and Haris return from their summer holidays.

Invited by a desperate woman the psychiatrist and ex military Nik Jason tries to help her demonic possessed sister and gets into a deadly hell trip of a parallel world.

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.

In the dilapidated industrial buildings in Upper Ladadika or in the wider area of Valaoritou in Thessaloniki, bands and creators flourished for over four decades. Rooftops, music studios and rehearsal halls with the decibels turned up created the space and time for a continuous explosion of cultural action, personal and collective expression. Through the eyes of the musicians and individuals who continue to shape the city's underground music scene, we see how all this creative expression is increasingly threatened by the ongoing process of displacement due to gentrification. We discuss Thessaloniki, music, the future and the resistance that can be born.

When Karolina, Tamtakos fiancé, is been raped by a man he must defend her in the court of law. But things don't work out the way he expects.

“I present the world with a very different approach, not as it was taught to us at school or in the army. I believe that each one has the right to see the society he lives in with his own particular view. I am, personally, more interested in Devil than God”- Elias Petropoulos. A restless and inquisitive spirit, a foe of academics and the status-quo, Petropoulos was the first folklorist in Greece, who dealt with social outcasts and described people and situations ignored by his country’s official history. Petropoulos takes us on a journey to unknown landscapes of our tradition and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground and who dominate his books. Rebetika musicians, bums, spivs, whores and homosexuals, people tormented and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground.

The documentary presents rare photographic archives and hitherto unknown film documents documenting the unique case of Grigoris Lambrakis. Valuable first-time material that has been specially edited to be saved and shared with the public decades later. In the documentary - among other things - Grigoris Lambrakis himself appears in the Marathon Peace March, while footage of the popular pilgrimage to his body and the grand funeral-demonstration are presented, as well as testimonies of people who knew or worked with Grigoris Lambrakis.

The film follows a summer season in the lives of a group of retired Greek men and women who are regular visitors at various Greek spa towns. Life around Greek spa towns moves slowly with rhythms that are reminiscent of times past. Within this listless atmosphere, people feel free to do and say things they would never be allowed in their respective normal social circles. A sense of freedom and lightness is in the air. Instead of being amongst elderly people, one often gets the feeling of being around a group of teenagers in a summer camp. This joyful atmosphere often alternates with reflections on the past or on death.