Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Over 72 hours, a young boy with a psychological disorder attempts to cope with the world around him. Yet, as his world unravels, he realises the difficulties in trying to escape his own delusions.

a short film by Vassu Pitsi made on Jihlava Academy

The story refers to a group of people struggling to improve their lives, but their strenuous efforts encounter insurmountable obstacles and often end in tragedy, as luck smiles on them occasionally, but without any real reward.

Before his death in 1932, a monk created his own camera in one of the most isolated places in the world. 90 years later, a filmmaker discovers and reconstructs the found footage.

When the wind blows, everything acquires a strange power

iakovos is married to rich popi.Actually his mother in law is rich,with business abroad.They make iakovos manager in a hotel in greece but....

Kalliopi Kalogerou has spent her whole life in the Greek village of Ano Ravenia where she was born in 1900. Simple witness of the century, she lived through Turkish domination and successive occupations linked to different wars. Most of her family stays elsewhere, in Greece or abroad (USA, Canada, Germany, Bulgaria); her shattered family world is representative of the Greek diaspora. The film is exclusively devoted to her life story, told to a young Epirot friend, Eleni Pangratiou-Alexakis, and to her daughter, Evguenia, both of whom have settled in the States. The result is a rich, yet austere film where nothing distracts the viewer from the dialogue and the face of the storyteller. It also constitutes an ordinary yet important testimony on this long and painful page of Greek history (1900-1983).

An enigmatic figure moves across the landscape of a seaside town. She is the Parrot Lady; an elderly homeless woman with three pet parrots tied around her finger. Inspired by a true story, 'The Parrot Lady' is an artistic contemplation on a woman's life who chose to live on the streets with her parrots, afraid of dying alone in her home.

An elderly collector, Agathon, leaves his servant Nikos a map of an area where an extremely rare ancient statue is buried. Nikos, in turn, wanting to mislead the members of a gang who are watching him closely, assigns a young couple of private detectives, Alekos and Danae, who are constantly arguing with each other, to bring him the statue. Disguised as Catholic nuns, they go to the place indicated on the map, on an island, and stay at the hotel. There, they do not escape the attention of Miss Soula, a tenant with a keen nose, find the statue, escape from the gang that is following them, and return to Agathon's villa, where they are surprised to discover that the collector is still alive.

Eleni Karaindrou Music Concert in Prespa.

Fondas is a Greek butcher and he puts his family honor before everything else.

Paola Revenioti and the filmmaking team Paola Team Documentaries present their first documentary feature. Kaliardáwas the secret language of the homosexual community in Greece, from the 40s until the first years following the fall of the dictatorship in the mid-70s. Paola became acquainted with the use of kaliardá towards its end, in the 80s. We started out with an aim to record the history of kaliardá, but along the way we realized we were recording the history of the homosexual community in Greece during the twentieth century. Themes started emerging, such as love, sexuality, hangouts, problems faced by people at the time and how conditions gradually changed. In the documentary, we speak with academics and people from the street who have first-hand experience of our topic.

We often wonder what becomes of people who finish rehab and try to integrate back into society. Do they succeed? In this film, we meet several such cases – people who completed the 18 ANO drug rehabilitation program and have been drug free for a number of years. We observe them in their daily lives and listen to them talk about their efforts to find a job, to become creative, to go through with something they had left undone, to face the problems bequeathed to them by their drug use, to build new relationships with their parents and children, to make new friends and fall in love. If we choose nurture over nature, these people’s efforts are nothing more then the efforts we all make to get back on our feet after an inescapable misfortune

In the heart of Athens, Omonia Square stands as a paradox within the city’s rapid gentrification. While neighbourhoods are rebranded and beautified, Omonia remains suspended in time a raw, fractured landscape that the metropolis chooses to ignore. Square of the Unseen moves through this hidden world, where lives on the margins leave their silent marks: handwritten passages etched onto urban surfaces, whispers of despair, resilience, and fleeting hope. Through these words and images of a city in constant transit, the film reveals an Athens of shadows, ghosts, and truths rarely seen.

Experts suggest that if we come to terms with our own weaknesses, we might find some relief from the emotional burden of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) that consumes us. But is that truly enough? Living so closely with our digital avatars, we find ourselves needing to scratch beneath the layers of harsh comments to reclaim our self-confidence. This tendency towards criticism can become the very foundation of the unending, agonizing daily reality for individuals with GAD.

A magical journey, an escape from reality. The film follows a man and his animal friends on an adventure in a colorful dream world.

Episode from the documentary series Paraskinio, dedicated to Mimis Fotopoulos, who speaks about his life and work in a monologue in front of the camera, likely improvised. We watch footage from his films, and we hear him reading aloud. Among the ruins of an open-air space, mostly used as a film studio, he initially plays the blind man from "The Counterfeit Coin", talks about his films such as "The Counterfeit Coin", "Laterna, Poverty and Dignity", and "The Little Chauffeur", and comments on that period of the golden age of classic Greek cinema. Fotopoulos wanders through the ruined studio and discusses the increased responsibilities of actors in theater and the challenges of filming while performing in plays during the flourishing period of Greek cinema.

An original will brings together four men and a modern-day "Salome," who plays an original, erotic game with them, exploiting her charms and thirst for adventure, until a fifth man arrives.

When jealousy and insecurities make their presence felt, people's relationships falter and gradually "die". Two painters, with different temperaments, collide with sights and sounds. As long as neither gives in, their relationship is headed for the end.

a short film by Olympia Gauget

a day in a remote beach

A filmmaker spends a year in the national garden of Athens, Greece and discovers the secret life of this place, by following several characters who seek refuge in its serene setting.

Kostas spends every night in the local music venue. One night he decides to stand up in front of everyone and dance. Closing his eyes he dreams of an oneiric meeting with the woman he loves.

The open-eyed girl is waiting for the alarm clock to ring. He hasn't slept tonight. He hasn't slept many nights. Her day starts normally, but nothing normal happens. Its course changes as time passes, as the "signs" she meets on her way lead her somewhere else, somewhere far away, somewhere she will finally be able to close her eyes and rest. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

The adventurous creation of a painting and a friendship taking place inside a workshop. From winter to the end of spring, painter and model create their own world, special, charming and unknown.

After Ifigenia dies, her body does not belong to her any longer.

A day in the lives of two strangers in the city of Athens, who accidentally meet and go on a date.

Documenting the testimony of one of the last surviving Rhodeslis (Rhodian Jews), Sami Modiano, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, this film assumes the tasks of defending historical memory, humanity and dignity.

Dare not to be different. A totalitarian society forces unequal things to become equal. Ignorance creates fear and envy brings violence. The average person's weak mentality rules by any means. Inspired by Costis Georgiou's art.

School's out for summer, school's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

A 'road-movie' documentary about Pindus Mountains and their people.

He wants to have children but his doctors have ruled it out. So he decides to follow a practical treatment, which is to frequently change his sexual partner. This way he develops into a terrible lover with many hilarious episodes.

Summer ends, and with that, every illusion of reality slowly fades away. What happens if you want to hold on to this illusion no matter what?

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.

Yannis Behrakis and Lefteris Pitarakis have recorded with their cameras notable war events and moments that marked humanity. Dilemma focuses on photojournalism’s importance and the ethical issues that arise during war or extreme violence. A single episode from ERT’s TV series Viewpoint.

A barber takes on the household chores and caring for the baby, since his wife sings in nightclubs and is constantly busy. His hardship touches the heart of the neighborhood baker, who gives her consent for the barber's nephew to marry her daughter.

Alexis is disappointed because Nancy left him. So he wants to buy a motorcycle to cheer himself up, but his mother won't give him the money. So he won't give her permission to remarry. Alexis meets Sophia, but his mother doesn't like her at all, as she is afraid of losing her son. At a party that Alexis and Sophia attend, they meet Nancy, and Alexis decides to take revenge...

High Sabbath . The fireworks for the Resurrection feast will be the cause of a revival of an earlier, dark encouragement, between Luan and Thymios. The stranger and the locus, the atheist and the religious, the murmur and the "lamb". Our story ends in a dramatic one. Her victim, Harris, is a child immigrant. Albanian and Greek together. Christian and Muslim. The village is tall and it is FRONT.

When Sofia courageously reveals her rape by a powerful figure within the Hellenic Sailing Federation, it sparks shockwaves and ignites the MeToo movement in Greece. Amalia reaches out to Sofia for support—she was raped by her coach from the ages of 11 to 13—leading them on a path toward justice. In a milestone trial, Amalia faces grueling courtroom proceedings, intense victim-blaming, and attempts to discredit her. Sofia stands firmly by her side, providing support and crucial testimony. The statute of limitations on her case has expired, preventing her from having her day in court.

Nitsa is trying to cope with her mother’s loss, a woman to whose shadow she has lived under for years. In order to cover the shame of loneliness she invents a false reality that leads her to a masochistic satisfaction.

The settlement of Dendropotamos, the gypsy settlement, is located to the west of Thessaloniki, on the outskirts of the city. It is surrounded by expressways, flyovers, the train tracks, the KTEL station, the abandoned camps. All "invisible" and degraded, the city's largest river underground, the lives of the residents and the environment together. Every day, thousands of cars pass over the torrent ignoring it. Despite the adversities, in the ghetto of Dendropotamos, the Lighthouse of the World (Minor Protection Center), the Second Chance School, the Women's Association of Dendropotamos, proud people resist and hope for a better future.

A short film that reexamines the meaning of the ancient Greek myth of transformation in the context of a supposedly "perfect" society, in which love (regardless of sexual orientation) is considered an act of anarchy and subversion of norms. Anyone who breaks the rules and falls in love is punished on their 25th birthday by shedding their human status and being transformed into a plant or animal of their choice. Transfiguration abolishes the historicity of the human body and the limits imposed upon it, as man puts on the body of the species into which he was transfigured and acquires the status and eternity of the species into which he was transfigured.

Haris and Tzimis accidentally overhear a conversation about an oil tin full of golden sovereigns, burried by a partisan during World War 2. With the help of beautiful Flora, they set out to learn the location of the treasure and recover it. Panagos, the barrista of the village where the treasure is burried, becomes suspicious of their movements and foils their plan.

A young man descends the stairs of his apartment building and realizes that he is still on the same floor. When he begins to explore his surroundings, he meets a supernatural being with whom whenever he comes into contact he loses his senses and also a part of himself.

It's Christmas time. Shortie, Beanpole, Alekos and Sinoue, everyday people, decide to reinvent themselves because in the garden of god everything seems the same. They play ball, keep notes, lose their friends, strike their enemies, working out in the yard, learning how to dance, reciting poetry. They drink alcohol, paint, set fire to their bodies. And they promised to themselves, this Christmas to "make their way down" to the sea.

Detective Rose Cotta unwittingly becomes involved in the major robbery of gold from Metallotechniki. Her great love, Sergeant Savvas, has officially taken on the case and is sad to find out that his sweetheart is also mixed up in this robbery. Meanwhile, in order to escape arrest and get away from Rose Cotta, who is constantly on their trail, the robbers lead her into a minefield. Savvas, trying to save her, puts the "siege" plan into action...