Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Oracle is a short, experimental work of videopoetry. The film derives inspiration from Etel Adnan’s ‘Le Livre de la Mer’, as we meditate on the Mediterranean Sea and our relationship to it.

The film is about the life of a boy, childbirth, school, friendships, love, everyday life, and death. Everything seems to be predestined. Will he finally be able to discover his true self?

A short Avant-Garde experimental film

A film crew travels out to a village in Anatolia to shoot a movie. But after each were affected by a dream they saw, the remaining four team members decide to stay and investigate the incident.

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 Thirty-five years later, the unpublished conversation has been found; both the tapes and the transcripts!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.

Victoria turns 23 today. She can no longer stand the distance that exists between her and the rest of the people. She has found the solution that will remove her from soul-destroying human interactions. Today is the big day. Everything looks the same, she has not doubted her decision. Is a chance encounter enough to bring her closer to humanity? Change everything? The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

It is Christmas Eve. Angelos, a mysterious 50-year-old man, observes a young boy singing the carols in the streets of Athens. He convinces the child to go with him in his car towards an unknown destination.

The adventures of three brothers who live lazily on their aunt's farm, waiting to inherit it.

Historical documentary, on the life and work of the great Greek politician who contributed decisively to the shaping of the physiognomy of modern Greece. Venizelos came to Athens in 1909, after the Goudios Movement, at the invitation of the Military Association and, upon assuming the prime ministership, clashed with the palace. The film follows the man's path, through recorded testimonies (cinematic newsreels, photographs, newspapers), from his beginnings in Mournies, Crete, until his death.

Leonidas and Vangelis travel to Munich to work in the successful restaurant of there uncle.

One night, a woman and a man in a house, while outside the city lives and entertains.

A couple in love returns to Greece from France and has plans for their future.

1978, on his birthday, Stavros was set to get engaged to Matula. Instead, he was forced to embark on his first big journey. 2020, on his birthday, Stavros wanders around the city alone. It is the day that he doesn’t like to talk. It is the day that he reflects on his past considering how things would have been if he had made other decisions.

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.

Pavlos (40), a cynical, racist Airbnb host, spends a night with his new tenant, Fotis (55), a romantic, insightful blind man seeking human contact after his wife's death. As the night progresses, however, Fotis begins to shed light on Pavlos' misconceptions.

If there weren’t any buses, would there be films? In March 2020, the window of my gaze narrowed down. City life almost ceased. Non-essential movements were prohibited, and cinemas closed. I don’t know what I miss the most, cinema or a non-essential movement.

In this experimental short, the artist is exploring the notion of identity and belonging using as a starting point the last phrase from Ray Bradbury's allegoric book "The Martian Chronicles". The environment where the short takes place offers glimpses of a labour past that can be mistaken as an otherwordly space. The artist chooses this location to set the story of an astronaut while challenging the notions of extraterrestrial migration, ecology and imperialism.

A diabolical hybrid tale explores the consequences when a sensitive boy is forced to be a real man.

The story of Steve, an Adélie penguin, on a quest to find a life partner and start a family.

A Greek-Japanese Cine-Operetta, where the ancient Greek myth of the Abduction of Persephone comes alive before the eyes of a Japanese group, as the arrival of a stranger man forces the family members of the hostel 'Persephone' to identify themselves with the fate of the mythological heroes.

This documentary follows the survivors of the 2023 train accident in Tempi, Greece - along with the 57victims’ families - as they fight for justice.

A mini-documentary which depicts Marina Satti's greatest insipiration while writing her debut album (YENNA): People and what they leave behind when they come together: tradition.

The Fanouris, who's dream is to catch the 13s, to do the grocery store Super Markets. The imagined wife. The modern daughter and a whole world of the neighborhood with their problems, their differences, their love and their plates.

A retro-futurist story of utopian politics, ideological conflicts, supernatural leaders and totalitarian spectacle. Cyberpunk queer pirates against rainbow homo-capitalist normies. Revolution vs reformism; logic vs affect. The trappings of post-internet identity politics through a contemporary take of the myth of Orpheus.

An exercise in the relation between haute cuisine and erotica

A woman begins her journey joyful and self-assured, but her mood will change along the way to her destination.

A family of four lives isolated in a wetland. Their home is surrounded by water and vivaria. The children are playing outdoors, the mother is trying to preserve their innocence, and everyone is walking a fine line between the arrival of the third child and the impending death of the father.

A look at the culture of the electronic music scene and at the night parties in modern Athens. On the second floor of a building in the historic center of Athens, daily life scenes, parties and conversations convey the atmosphere of an informal community with the audience of electronic music.

A love triangle story between two friends and a woman called Ioanna.

Two loners meet for the first time. Their dogs interact. Perhaps they do, too.

When do videos die? When we forget they exist. When do people die? When we forget they exist. So grandpa, grandma, you've died twice. Sorry, I'll make it up to you.

The second part of a trilogy which focuses on a young Greek woman in three stages of her life as she recalls leaving her homeland of Constantinople. The trilogy is based on the infamous “Septemvriana” events of 1955 — the worst anti-Greek riots in history.

Marika is an ordinary Greek housewife living with her family in Athens. Her everyday is a living hell.

Set against the 2020 lockdowns, Hedgehog Island is a raw, "on-the-ground" documentary chronicling the environmental transformation of Andros, Greece. The film follows a community standing their ground against industrial-scale wind turbines, capturing the friction between top-down development mandates and the urgent need to protect the island's natural heritage.

A poor university student, Ntinos Vristhenis, has abandoned his studies due to financial difficulties and is searching for a job. He is hired as an actor in a troupe, where he meets and falls in love with the leading actress. When she yields to a businessman who promises her a bright future, Nikos, feeling disappointed, leaves the theater. Poverty forces him to join the proletariat and become a tobacco worker in order to make ends meet.

Three childhood friends are discharged from the army and seek ways to become wealthy. They form a partnership and open an entertainment center. Seeing that business is going well, Filotimos forgets his childhood friendships and betrays them, taking over the entire business for himself...

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.

Visual artist Maria Tsagkari narrates her illuminating journey researching the life and musical career of the rebetis and violinist Nikos Syrigos, her great-grandfather, which began unexpectedly when she was invited to participate in an art exhibition about Rebetiko music.

A teenage girl believes she never dreams, or otherwise doesn't remember any of her dreams; apparently, they are too dull to be worth keeping. But in the course of a single day at home, time will pass like a dream. And when she opens her eyes, she will find that her waking life, outside the world of her empty dream state, is a much lovelier place to be in.

Plants are immersed in a world of eternal silence. Caterpillars fall from the clouds into salt and what attracts butterflies, those that fly in the stomach?

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.