Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

What happens if we neglect our insecurities and feelings when we are daydreaming?

Artemou (27), a girl from a rich family from a village in Cyprus, falls in love at first sight with their poor and working class man Petris (29), their love is doomed since her cruel rich mother (48) has other plans for her, she wants to marry her to the also rich man of the village Konstantinis (26) so that they can unite their fortunes and their money. Allied to their love is his sister Petri (27) with whom they make a plan for the wedding day of Artemous and Constantis.

A short story about processing subconsciously an uncured trauma in order to achieve an inner growth and evolution. Seeking the truth in the depths is a battle of life and death with an uncertain result.

A short music documentary.

On their ordinary walk through the park the grandparents decide to play a game that their granddaughter invents.

Due to a mistake by the Ministry and the Archdiocese, a male abbot is appointed to a women's monastery. When the abbot arrives at the monastery, the fun begins. And as if that weren't enough, the Minister decides to take the monastery's property, but the nuns decide to make him change his mind...

In the final 'battle' of her career, a determined archaeologist - who has dedicated all her life to protecting the cultural and natural environment of the land - has 2 months to salvage as much as possible from an archaeological dig which is planned to be flooded during the construction process of a new dam by the Greek National Power Company.

The full live performance from VIC's headline show at Faliro Sports Pavilion Arena in Athens, GR on February 15th 2020.

A woman's soul is trapped inside a mannequin in the basement of a clothing store. As it is summer, the mannequin reminisces about moments from her past and dreams of stepping out into the light.

The stages of Yannis Lafis's attempt to make a documentary about some people he considered remarkable, the reason he was interested in them, and ultimately the reason he was forced to give up.

Three mystics, poetess Rabia Al Basra, writer Marguerite Porete and poetess Akka Mahadevi are each making a ritual. Those women refused the life they were forced to live and devoted themselves to their Gods. Their devotional spirit is an indication of a somekind erotic union with the Divine giving extended dimensions to the spirituality of the Female, which is usually related to the archetype of the Mother.

A woman is weakened. A man tries to approach her. Both are surrounded by a deadly virus.

A young man strategizes on how to impress his date.

Once upon a time, the Time of the World had a problem. But no one took notice, because everybody was part of the World, of Time and its problem.

On their 10th wedding anniversary, Elena organizes a surprise evening for Marco. What she doesn't know, however, is that he is preparing his own surprise for her, one that she will remember for the rest of her life! A couple like any other looks back on the stages of their relationship with a lot of humor and unexpected twists, to finally realize whether their marriage is going to fall apart or last forever! The first meeting! The first date! The proposal! The wedding! The child! The first clouds! The second clouds! The storm! The rainbow!

Looking into a plot of 1,000 square meters in Geraki, Laconia, a village in Southern Greece, an international team of archaeologists has been constructing the distant past of the acropolis of Ancient Geronthrai. Between olive trees and stones, amidst these harsh landscapes of the Southern Mediterranean, archaeologists along with the people of Geraki add their own layer of time to the eternal quest for understanding the past.

The adventures of a bunch of young lovers in Greece.

Island of Imvros, 2005-2009. The documentary portrays the lives, the voices, the moments that have passed; the everyday life of people who never left their land. It presents the dreams that people continue to foster for a homeland that they were deprived of, that was violently taken from them, that was devastated. Memories, dreams, sacrifices, suffering, nostalgia, life. All these unfold through the stories of the heroes. It is their homeland that they are looking for in the rubble. It is their lives that they want to recreate. It is their dreams that they wish to be revived.

In a mountainous village, a young country girl is getting ready for her wedding at the local town hall. It will be a day unlike all the rest. However, her future husband does not seem to share the same longing. When the wedding is postponed for the next day, everything is up in the air.

In 1990s Athens, Angelo, an Albanian young man working at a record store, is eager to begin anew. A fleeting encounter with a client draws him into a world that feels strangely familiar. But will that cost him much?

The story of two teenagers during a school year. In this movie the goal is to show, not the extroverted and revolutionary side of puberty but the introverted and idealistic one.

He is a monster of strength. Occupation: Gorilla. Specialty: Protecting VIPs. But who will protect him from his clients?

Trying to match up the colors of the Rubik's cube, a confused teenage girl finds a mood ring that helps her detangle her emotions.

The extraordinary adventures of an exceptionally ordinary young man in a city where nothing ever happens—until he opens the wrong door and irreversibly punctures his world. A report on a hypothetical world, and at the same time, its user manual. A serious comedy shot in black-and-white Super 8, created entirely in collaboration with Stratis Vougioukas.

A bold re-imagining of the Ugly Duckling, Salty follows a misunderstood outcast who, after meeting a quirky goose and misfit friends, navigates bullying, identity, and gentrification in a vibrant, pop-culture-infused animated tale for the whole family.

On a winter morning in 1997, a father unintentionally leads his two children on an unnatural journey into the future, while struggling with his addictions.

He was having his sweetest dream. Blurry images from when he was a boy and his parents were alive. An old song begins to play in the background, giving clear form to the figures of his parents. But he is not dreaming. He is awake. And the music is playing in his head... K. is 40 years old, lives alone. This song is his only chance to remember his parents. Time passes and K. gets more and more lost in his memories, putting his life on the back burner.

A Short Film About Theft

Dimitris and Pavlos are sitting in their favourite cafe as usual when suddenly a misplaced tile on the floor opens a window over the secret world behind our reality.

Ektoras, recently released from prison, has two jobs. During the day he is a pest control technician and during the night he stays awake. His social worker wants to know why.

In a nightmare where guilt makes a forest look like prison, and someone leaving feels like grief, Ilektra has to say everything she has never had the guts to say.

Through the visit of an old aristocratic family to their mansion, which has become a museum, a critique of the past is attempted.

The video-performance "Construction Insight" presents a process of exploring and shaping an unfinished semi-ruined construction site and the materials it contains, while at the same time this process is connected to the exploration and the formation of human identity. The work is an alchemical experiment with construction materials and bodies in a ritualistic journey towards the interior.

A young faithful wife leaves flowers on the grave of her husband who died under unclear but tragic circumstances.

A song awakens memories of youth to an elderly pensioner suffering from dementia. Longing to reclaim his independence, he leaves the house secretly from his wife and against medical advice. A sudden event subverts their fragile routine, while it rekindles the spark of their long-standing relationship. Can you ever forget love?

Ana, a trans woman, who migrated to Greece from Cuba, is brutally murdered in her apartment downtown Athens. The same year, Spain votes the most progressive legal framework for trans rights in Europe. How does the law affect the lives of the members of this community?

A monoplane seven minutes about the life of a new-born infant in the incubator.

A girl's journey from the tender years of childhood through a melancholic adolescence into the dreamy days of young adulthood. The film, inspired by the visual aesthetics and themes of director Sofia Coppola, outlines the transition from a girl's tender childhood to a more mature adulthood. The heroine travels in times and places that mark the passage to new chapters of her life. A poetic journey is condensed into one day.

Hermes is a conscientious, honest, and hardworking employee at a canning factory. He lives a calm and quiet family life. He will soon retire, which weighs heavily on him. On his last business trip to Mykonos, his friends will give him a strange gift. They will send him a beautiful and impressive woman who will radically change his life. She will make him feel and taste what he has been deprived of for so many years...

A poor man, Angelis Katsavidis, and his hard-of-hearing friend Stratos leave their village and come to Athens in search of a better life. Their local MP, Lefterakis Laosotiras, is unable to help them find work, but Mrs. Elpiniki Katsipodiu hires them as unskilled workers in her art agency, which also operates as a private investigation agency. However, while she assigns them to follow an illicit couple, she actually wants to throw dust in the eyes of a police officer who suspects her of running a network of high-class prostitutes. Aggelidis and Stratos will experience several amusing situations, but they will also meet the "golden-hearted" Kleio. When her wealthy uncle dies, she hires them to work in the family business she has inherited.

The film approaches in an original way the devastating events of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising in 1973, starting from today.

Two worlds, two different people. "Gatos," who always gets along with everyone and everything, and his cousin "Koroidos," who undertakes to educate him but ends up getting the short end of the stick...

Louisa Ragozzi, exhausted by her husband's antics, whom she caught red-handed with her typist, pretends to have amnesia and does not recognize him. She asks their servant Petros to throw him out of the house. Her husband is worried and seeks the help of a famous psychiatrist, who tries to help Louisa regain her memory. However, he must proceed discreetly, because the "psychopath" thinks that the doctor is her husband!

Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players (1975).

Two men are talking inside a car. One of them is dead.

Two brothers define themselves as vigilantes and try to protect their property.

In Thasos, by the humble means of a limpid and poetic observational gaze, slivers of an island life routine are made into a proposal countering the picture-postcard image of an entire country, at precisely the time when Greece was experiencing its first explosive wave of tourism back in the 1960s. Rhythmic, at times frenzied and bordering on paganistic, structured around traditional folk songs of the Greek islands, with an emphasis on seeking out a sense of familiarity with the “feel” of the island, and with humankind and the natural world set at its heart.