Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

‘A man. A woman. In a car. Fastened. Immobile. Blood. Silence.’ A suitably skewed short, from the team that brought us Dogtooth and Attenberg.

Six-year-old Markos, aiming to find out where the sun sleeps while visiting his grandfather in isolated Vourvourou, stumbles upon the most important stages in life.

Costas is known as the "Prince". Now that he has learned of the arrival of the Greek-American Paralis and his daughter Vera, for whom Paralis is looking for an aristocratic groom, he decides to appear before him as a real prince.

A wealthy business executive finds his daughter dead from a drug overdose. A police inspector tries to find the drug dealers.

Two countries,two languages,two groups of friends. Between black humor and bitter realism the film Pencil Knife Baton composes a tragicomic puzzle about friendship in the paradox world we live in.

After the sudden death of his grandfather, the pervasive Stathis suddenly finds himself president of a large public limited company but is in danger of being out of business because he does not find the shares he has inherited. These young people are also looking for these shares, who manage to turn all the members of the board against them. But Stathis shows, from the very beginning, that he is the absolute sovereign and does not raise any doubts, while at the same time instructs a private detective to find the valuable shares.

Disappointed with his life, Mihail goes to the pharmacy to buy sublimé (mercury dichloride) to commit suicide. On the way, he meets a girl, Concetta, with her mother. Mihail falls madly in love with her and decides to follow her to Faliro. There, his suicidal tendencies resurface and he prepares to drown himself. Luckily for him, Concetta grabs him by the collar and saves him at the last moment. Mihail falls into her arms and is overcome with happiness. Suddenly, Concetta's mother appears and beats Mihail. He hides in order to escape. Conchita's mother quietly takes a boat and sets out to sea. After a while, the boatman attacks her, demanding that she give him her money. Fortunately, Mihail realizes what is happening and rushes to save the mother, who eventually takes a liking to him and gives him her daughter's hand in marriage.

In near future Europe human beings surrender themselves to an ongoing death row.

It’s night. A young man steals a car that stops outside a drug store. In the back seat there is a young woman covered with a white sheet. Together they take a dream drive all the way to the MILKYWAY.

In a world where food is scarce, a father and his daughter search for prey in a derelict building, and find themselves entangled in a savage battle for survival.

A woman accepts bullying because she is fat. Another woman accepts bullying because she is a lesbian. A man is looking for love and a musician playing his accordion also uses aspect instead of view.

A young wannabe gangster looking for a chance to prove himself, gets caught up in a situation which reveals his true colors.

Gregory has developed separate bonds with four married women, the atheophobe. They all love him and declare to him, each in their own way, that if he leaves them, "snake stump that ate him". Until one morning the husband appears, a husband like all cuckolded husbands and tells Grigoris that tonight he must divorce his wife. She threatens him that if he doesn't break up she will empty the gun on him and leaves. But whose wife is she? Come on, she can't describe him to any of his four mistresses because he could simply be the man of one of the other three...

A family that lives in a strange house is waiting for a guest. A typical Sunday meal turns into a conflict of generations, ideas and behaviour. The older generation sets the rules and younger ones call them into question in a board game where nobody wins.

Newborn twins are split as infants but they will find each other after many years and funny situations.

The documentary follows the daily routine of stray dogs struggling in the center of Athens and the people who take care of them, in the course of five years. A hidden world emerges from the routes of these unknown Athenians, unveiling the unexpected face and the heart of Athens in the midst of change.

Sofia, a 14-year-old girl who has no interest in science subjects such as math and physics, accidentally destroys her brilliant brother's robot. In her attempt to repair it, she enrolls in her school's educational robotics class, where, with the help of her friends, she discovers her potential and proves to everyone, but especially to herself, that anything is possible as long as you believe in it.

Sissy tries to cope despite lots of problems. Her brother Harry asks her for financial support to produce his feature film about the first Greek rocket in space. Harry describes the plot of his film to Sissy so vividly that we also see his film on screen. Sissy's and Harry's stories meet at a certain point and they both help one another to find freedom.

Two homeless people, one blind and the other disabled travel the city streets with a supermarket trolley on an endless journey.

In the Mediterranean island of Crete, Maria heads to the cemetery every Friday to tend her beloved husband's grave. When the bus that picks her up breaks down, she will be forced to spend the night among the tombstones.

One night, all the stars fell from the sky. Everyone got to make a wish. A sleepless guy, a woman on the bus, two confused lovers, a director, a lost musician and his band, they all search for their way after this event.

On the occasion of the return of the Kythera antiquities from Piraeus to the new Archaeological Museum, the film invites us to another journey, contemplative yet full of questions and with only shadows of answers: Why do we dig the past? What do we expect to find? What can we learn? And, at the end of the day, who are we within this ever-changing historical context?

Nikos Firfiris will respond to the radio appeal and donate blood to Julia Papamarkou. Despite her wealthy father's insistence, Nikos will refuse to take money, but his partner in the grocery store will ask for it on his behalf. Nikos will accept the invitation to the party organized by Julia. Her fiancé, Jim, seeing Julia's obvious affection for Nikos, sets a trap for him with the help of his accountant, Zisis, and Nikos ends up in prison. Jim is now certain that he will marry Julia so that he can save his father's business from bankruptcy...

When Maria, a young pregnant woman is fired, she goes on a birth strike.

"Gjuha e re" is an attempt to capture the communicative exclusion experienced by an Albanian immigrant in Greece. It is minutes of anger towards the dominant languages of a place. An untranslated poem with "bad accent" and "fake" words.

In a small rural community, between the mountains and the sea, no child has been born in the last eight years. This inexplicable long run of infertility is coupled with rumours about women giving birth to animals.

The menagerie male goes outing, the boys meet girls MENAGERIE girls and trying to lure in debaucheries. The attendant professor of boys, Takis, falls in love with the most beautiful schoolgirl, Vicky, who is Protaras, and students of the make with the girlfriends. The attendant teacher of girls, the spinster Charikleia, seduced by the owner of the expensive hotel living.

A unique extravaganza with elements of circus and amusement park, featuring large doses of magic, imagination, joy, twists and turns, and above all... laughter! In a country where everyone is "Allou," Markos Seferlis sees it all... funny and entertaining - in a word, "Fun" - finding once again a way to take us on a journey with his friends to the land of true comedy, wit, and humor, and to make us children again for a few hours! Clowns, magicians, acrobats, dancers, actors, singers, and a live orchestra make up the craziest party ever.

Tryfonas and Agop have a store selling clothes and they sell in installments.

In 1926, Ada and Ignacy go to Cairo and open a perfume shop.

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's work, Shadow Beyond Time tells the story of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, an Arkham-born prodigy. At age 22, he becomes the youngest associate professor in the history of Miskatonic University. His bright future is disrupted when he falls into a coma, from which he won't seem to recover. That doesn't mean that his body doesn't wake up in the hospital, however, although that being is clearly not Nathaniel. 5 years later, Nathaniel returns to his body and from that moment on he begins an intense search to discover what happened to him. That's when disturbing visions begin to haunt him- visions that uncover things not only from his immediate past, but also from his own bloodline...

Coronavirus. Staying Home. Three siblings. Stephanos 3 years old, Dionisis 5 years old and Sotiris 9 years old. They can’t see their grandparents. They don’t go to school. A diary. A small documentary.

Once upon time, in the depths of Kavalawood, if you ever dared go there through Poseidonian waterways, behind the spider complex, you would find the secrets of a strange presence. A documentary about the legend of Kavalawood, the silent murderer and cult genius of the improv series, Eleftheria Karadimou.

Vicious circles, mind games and black shadows. A young girl stands alone in front of a white canvas. Anxieties and fears spread across the canvas. Lost in space and time, she is looking for her way back, but in reality every journey ends where it started. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

Eva is a seven-year-old girl who accidentally sees her parents making love. This spectacle, unbearably mysterious and violent, causes fear and curiosity at the same time.

Portugal's Fernando Pessoa and Greece's Constantine Cavafy were two of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and the literary giants finally met in 1929 aboard a transatlantic ocean liner carrying immigrants to the U.S. This genre-bending documentary from Greek filmmaker Stelios Charalambopoulos blends truth with fiction in imagining what that meeting must have been like, offering an innovative mix of archival footage and fictional re-enactments of the poets interacting with one of the ship's immigrant passengers.

Christmas Eve. On a busy shopping street a young man with a crowbar causes total chaos.

The complex, adulating, and passionate story of being a mother.

An experimental short film inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

George was a naughty and spoiled child, due to a congenital disability. He was born with one leg longer than the other. He spent the last two years of elementary school bedridden in the hospital, due to an experimental treatment. Returning back to his village, he began to go to church often, so he chose to become a monk. During his ordination, he goes from secular George to Father John and leaves the capital and the opportunities for professional development to return to a remote but beautiful place. At the same time, we follow the rituals of Holy Week in the community and the priest's views on the Sacrifice and the Resurrection

Lakis is desperately in love with Lilika. However, her mother, Mrs. Erasmia, does not even want to look at him because he is a poor student. Mrs. Erasmia is a harsh woman, an "iron lady" who runs a boarding house. As a result, Lakis, in his despair, attempts suicide. But his mother remains unmoved, and as for Lilika, she is a weak-willed, beautiful creature who does whatever her mother tells her to do. Finally, after much ado, a mysterious bag of African diamonds solves the lovers' problem and Mom's greed...

The film follows the transformations of a mass of plasticine under the influence of its environment.

A young man living a luxurious life in Athens. As he tries to overcome his boring lifestyle and explore his sexuality with another man, he finds his limits and what he needs.

A man is on vacation and meets a married woman. She falls deeply in love with him, while her husband begins to suspect something.