Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Greek bootleg smurf movie, with people in smurf costumes.

Eleftherios Venizelos, one of Greece’s greatest statesmen, faces challenges that test his diplomatic and humanitarian skills during the critical decade from the Balkan Wars and World War I, up to the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. His struggle is told through dramatized scenes, rare archival material, and expert interviews.

A particularly amorous 45-year-old father "dies" as soon as he sees a woman under the age of 20, because he believes that women over 20 should retire. His two children and his long-time girlfriend set up an adventurous and hilarious trap to make him see sense. But will this particularly amorous cat give up? Will his desires finally make him see sense?

Piece based on a cinematographic work that links found-footage (images from Greek cinema produced during a tense period between civil war and dictatorship) with a work on the rhythmicity of images. Bodies in movement thereby truly create a dance of the ambient air.

Greece 2011. In an uncertain economic climate, two young people suddenly find themselves out of a job when the owner of the company they work for suddenly declares bankruptcy. With nothing left to lose, they decide to take their destinies into their own hands. All they need is a plan. A simple plan...

What does Adonis Georgiadis have to do with Elvis Presley and Napoleon, why does the Police only train dogs and where have the organs of order gone? Why is Loulou blonde while her father is a gypsy and how will the mother's pension be enough to feed her seven unemployed children? You will find the answers to these and other questions at the Peroke Theater and in the new review prepared by the incomparable Markos Seferlis.

This is a performance that contains the basic elements of the inspection (satirical sketches, dance, singing) while it is enriched with innovative high-tech digital (laser, portable cameras, video projection, etc.) that convert it automatically in a Super-Inspection.

John has a problem.Trying to marry his sister Rebekahhaving a feeling Leonidas and avoiding any kindmatch to marry

Extreme canyoning follows five outstanding athletes in a driving adrenaline adventures that go to their limits and beyond far beyond. Turned to the most exclusive hot spots in Ticino Canyoning can begin this extraordinary trip. Using remote-controlled camera drone you are up close and enjoy a unique and unseen shots against an impressive natural backdrop. Experience the men at the limit at dizzying heights, the most spectacular waterfalls, daring jumps, extreme water slides and thrill every second. Buckle up for this action-packed adventure and experience an extreme sports highlight of the class!

Clara takes care of the bedridden Nitsa, who is gradually losing her sanity. Between them, in a relationship that begins with need and daily wages, a tender language of their own develops.

When a sensitive woman, Katerina, sees Elena, a child who lives in a neighboring apartment, with a bruise and being outside her apartment, she begins to suspect that she is being abused. She feels a strong need to help Elena escape the abusive situation that Katerina believes she is in.

References to great Renaissance painters, to figures who defined the 20th century (Samuel Beckett, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, Sergei Eisenstein) and to architectural models (Hadrian's Villa, Villa d'Este, the Capitol, the Vatican, the E.U.R. district) form a set of "sibylline sayings" in the film through the use of double images. A discourse that is unpredictable, internal, mystical, and above all silent, which predicts the end of innocence (Part I), of enigmatic and irrational love (Part II), of death (Part III), and of despair (Part IV). And with the masses now being dissolved by the violence of power, which leads the individual to isolation or madness. And in the end, the silent, desperate song of Sibyl, in the shadow of the buildings of the fascist period, signals her return as a prediction.

A real Noah’s Ark, where the last true natives of one of the most cosmopolitan islands in the world seek shelter, along with their animals, from the relentless wave of development that threatens to swallow them whole.

Anna is waiting in a hospital hall. She is excited but also troubled. Her brother just woke up from an 11-month coma and she has to tell him that she has fallen in love with Sofia, his fiancée. Suddenly nothing makes sense anymore. Can just a thought give away her secret? What happens when you realise that people can hear your thoughts?

Orpheus and Eurydice strive to remain connected forever. Even against death. And their love earns a place in eternity.

A moment of silence for a musician, which becomes an eternity.

Ancient Greek Medicine from the Neolithic Age to the Late Antiquity: Homeric Medicine, Theurgical Healing, Theocratic Philosophers, Hippocrates, τhe Foundations of Rational-Modern Medicine, Alexandrian Doctors, Galen, Pharmacology. Its glorious history comes to life, through fiction and the help of digital technology: 3D representations of ancient temples, aerial shootings of archaeological sites, location scan-using photogrammetry, original medicine drawings.

A Ruthless gang along with the assistance of their leader's girlfriend Monica, make a heist into an spirits factory's vault and they take 20 millions. On their way out after closing back the vault the alarm goes off and the police is after them. During a shootout all of the member are killed or wounded apart from the gang leader Peter, who makes it, to his girlfriend's car, with all the money in a bag, and he also takes hostage a high rank police officer. The peculiar fellowship is now running away from cops, escaping from road blocks, helicopters and car chases, stealing and changing vehicles constantly in an effort to cross all over Greece and make it to the northern borders.

An ex-wrestler becomes a junkie. When his cousin dies from heroin-use, he wants to take revenge and goes after the big boss.

A muck raker journalist tries to trap the Education Minister, why is rumored to be gay, but he perceived as gay. Dismissed from his job, but becomes the idol of all sexually oppressed. Forced to represent the gay, he decides to establish "alternative" party with the former minister, who represents his lover for electioneering purposes.

Jealousy is a reasonable indication of love and expressions of interest for the other half. But when it exceeds the reasonable limits, is suffering for both. Typical is the case of a jealous wife who during a cruise in the Mediterranean, will upset everyone with her antics.

Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P’Orridge talk about their pandrogeny manifesto, about gender, and about how they seek to become identical to one another via medical experimention.

A young woman called Iro is haunted by a mysterious middle-aged man, on the verge of reality and nightmare.

Pictures from the Greek expedition to Asia Minor.

A teacher fells in love with a very beautiful prostitute, who hides from him her true identity.

A 10-year-old girl returns angry after a bazaar with her friends. On the way home, she finds an injured cat. While trying to take care of it, she has to confront her troubled relationship with her mother and her sister.

Through a keyhole.

Kitsos lives a quiet life in Gastouni, grabbing his sheep. But the pressure of his father and his beloved Asteros forces him to become a merchant by turning to nearby villages without success. Desperate father sends him to Athens where everything is so different from the village. Kitsos goes to the house of the uncle, Pericles. There he discovers that Ritsa, Pericles's daughter, has relation with an employee, Vassilakis. Pericles wants to marry Ritsa with Parmenion, but Kitsos decides to help the lovers.

COMEDOWN follows a portrayal of a woman in the throes of drug addiction - through two female actors embodying different states - one high, the other in withdrawal.

An umbrella protects from the rain, but also gets people together.

Melanie, a young cancer patient, is trapped in the postoperative state of her body and mourning for the prior existence of it. She is in a deadlock and tries to identify her new substance. She is the subject of her psychological experience and at the same time the object of her sight. Her obsession to look like before becomes her interior demon and her personal witch. She needs to feed her worldview, to identify her new substance and building a better relationship with herself. Her catalytic encounter with the confident trans woman Sissy takes her stress away.

P. is getting ready to leave the house to buy his pills. But to get out, he must first win a game with specific rules: first, he writes a number, from 1 to 6, and sends it in a message. Once he has received the answer, he proceeds to the next step: he rolls the dice. However, the dice number does not correspond to the message number. Punishment: instead of opening the front door, all the interior doors close. Trapped in the hallways of the house and separated from his locked dog in one of the rooms, P. now has to wait 24 hours to roll the dice again in order to get out or, most likely, face a new, more painful test. As time goes on, hallucinations, buried memories and dreams become entangled with reality and P. gradually reaches his limits. Filmed during the pandemic, "ENA" is a -not so much- dystopian thriller with comic elements that explores the marginal and paradoxical condition of home confinement, but also the forgotten mystery of everyday spaces.

Ιnspired by Delacroix’s painting “Greece. on the Ruins of Missolonghi”, the filmmaker visits this lagoon-bound town. He records his thoughts, the daily life of the youths, he converses with local artists and poets in search of a connection between the painting and contemporary Missolonghi.

Andreas has to take care of the boss’s house and dog. The dog is mad. The house is luxurious. His co-workers are jealous. The neighbor is stalking close by. The dog is called Leben. The dog has its own plans.

Five airfields, each with strategic value, shaped the progress of the Great War and changed the tides of history forever – yet they remain unknown to the general public. Fearless men, strangers – arriving from the ends of the world – but also Greeks, defeated the fear of the unknown, defied death, and flew with primitive flying machines made of cloth and wood. They fought over the skies of Macedonia and the Aegean. Some of them never returned home...

The loneliness that the man feels living in an impersonal metropolis, where one is indifferent to the other, often leads him to refugee settlements, where people have developed stronger bonds with each other.

A major member of the underworld is using the so-called "Death Avenue" to traffic hard drugs, as well as exploit young women. The police, who are aware of his activities and are monitoring him, have assigned one of their men to arrest him. The dismantling of his network and the end of the smugglers will be achieved with the effective assistance of the Coast Guard.

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.

Best friends from college, Elli, Natasha, and Joe are spending their last weekend together on a getaway at Elli’s summerhouse. Natasha and Jo are leaving to study abroad, something that makes Elli emotional, since she feels that she is being left behind.

An impotent husband pushes his wife in the arms of a playboy in order to offer her satisfaction. At the same time a lesbian is flirting with her.

Tony, a Greek immigrant, arrives in San Francisco chasing the “other” American dream.

short film by Alkis Papastathopoulos

The film is a portrait of an ordinary family, as each of its members tries to manage their own little secrets.

Greece, Russia, USA, Brazil, China, Senegal. Meeting young people in these countries we heard a ‘Rumble’ foretelling an impending explosion. The fall of communism, crisis of capitalism, ecological catastrophes, migration waves, globalization. The new generation is at the forefront, exposed, helpless without being able to envision a more optimistic future. This ‘Rumble’ comes from this young generation. Their words, images, sounds and music compose the notes of an audio-visual symphony entitled: ‘The Rumble of the World’.

An elementary music teacher living in a secluded town in the mountains with his dog, longs to escape the cold in favour of a warmer life by the beach. When his dog disappears, his sanity comes into question, as ringings of the afterlife begin to bring forth visions that shake up his world.

In order to secure money for the production of his first film, a young man asks help from a film producer. The producer, however, was involved with pornographic films.

From the Greek civil war to the war in Afghanistan, from the Franco years to the years of the pandemic, and from the French Island of Reunion to Siberia, many children have been violently uprooted from their natural environment for political reasons. Through their testimonies, terrible and often unknown aspects of history emerge.

A popular party, the Social Justice Party, is created to save the people and become the party of truth. Surprisingly, it comes first in the elections and forms a government. But as soon as it begins to govern...