Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

An experimental film that ventures a post-modern take on the tragedy of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound.

A satirical low effort short film to portray the stupidity and ugly nature of racism, by Paris Sofianopoulos

Elias, a small farming village in central Greece, is dying out. But two cousins team up with the village grannies to cultivate the tomato seeds they have kept for hundreds of years. With a little help from Wagner’s music –which they use to help their tomatoes grow– the team succeeds to export little jars with organic tomato recipes across the world. The film follows the protagonists of this unlikely quest, as they struggle to survive and make their dream come true. Humorous and bittersweet, this is a story about the importance of reinventing oneself in times of crisis and the power of human relationships.

A free adaptation of the story of Oedipus. Antigone accompanies her father on a journey outside the borders of Greece. There she finds work with a group of wandering artists. Antigone tells the audience, with a magic lantern, the story of Oedipus. Ismene comes to Greece and begs Antigone to return, because Eteocles and Polynices are at odds. Antigone returns and finds her brothers killed. The wandering artists bring Oedipus back to Greece

A look at how the Internet affects personal relationships in modern life.

Iosif and Vicky go to his parents' house to clean it. He meets Antonis, a wanderer, with whom he develops a strange relationship.

The 2015 referendum sealed the country's modern political history. Ten years later, the protagonists of the era recount all the revealing details that led to the decision to hold the referendum and its implementation, as well as what happened after the deafening result of July 5.

As the custody decision for her son approaches, a woman on the edge struggles to navigate her volatile relationship with her sister — and her even more volatile relationship with herself.

A documentary on the vernacular and seemingly trivial encounters with the daily lives activities of Eleusis' dockworkers. With a direct reference to the exact meaning of Tonnage, a word describing the weight in tons, especially of cargo or freight, the film traces the vexed semantics and archives, of such a weight historically and symbolically.

Having just arrived in a city where everyone walks backwards, the young traveler must adapt as soon as possible so that he can meet the girl who brought him there.

Many years ago, somewhere in the mountains of Japan, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. They were very old and had no children. Every day the man went alone to the forest to cut wood, while his wife stayed at home to weave. But one day, the man went much further than usual...

Set during the dark years of the German occupation of Crete, it depicts the resistance movement, the heroism of the locals, acts of sabotage, and the desire to be free and fall in love in times of war.

The story of an immersion into the experience of being uprooted. Fragments and words. The unspoken, the indescribable. Memory shaken. Eyes closed. The city is under siege. Drift towards the unknown. The dilemma: resistance or migration? Mediterranean voyages of no return.

A recently divorced middle-aged man receives a smartphone from his daughter and reconnects with the first love of his life who asks him to meet.

An old man sets up a hideous trap for an unsuspecting victim. The hero of the film follows the surreal signs given by the old man, only to be captivated to a trip of no return.

Haris Acharos is a poor family man, a tax collector by profession, very honest and unwilling to compromise his conscience in any way. His financial problems are great and the temptations to take bribes are many, but Haris Acharos is unshakeable. As a result, his family is deprived and he argues with his wife on a daily basis. His only hope is that his godfather will come from Chicago to bail him out financially. The godfather arrives and solves all his problems, but gets him into other kinds of trouble because he is a mafioso...

Considered the first creative documentary in Greek cinematic history, this short homage shot by Roviros Manthoulis as his debut film on the island of Lefkada in 1958, commissioned by the Hellenic Press Office, is nothing short of a voyage through a land that takes the poetry of everyday life as its guide, since every image – be it sweeping or small – of this stunningly beautiful island is “translated” via the voice-over into a story forged from many ages of myths and traditions.

Sometimes a flower or a tree, a blanket or a notion, a building itself carries all the stories one needs to listen.

Images of a small boatyard, somewhere in Greece. Between the repairs and the boats’ departures, a team of men haul them ashore and set them afloat again. A 16 mm film built around gestures and movements that oscillate between a toing and froing, attachment and detachment, tension and tenderness.

The tale of a lazy dragon encountering tiny humans for the first time.

The director creates a parallel of thirty years of her life (mid-1980s to 2012) and the evolution of her country, Greece. The loss of her lover, revived in archive photographs and 8 mm movies, is the background for her despair facing contemporaneous Greece, seen by her in the streets and viewed on television broadcasts from American and Russian channels.

A boy wanders around the wilderness in the island of Andros where he discovers another world that makes him wonder and contemplate.

Charalambos Stournaras is a selfish, loud-mouthed but ultimately kind-hearted father. His daughter is in love with one of his company employees, Heracles. To help her forget him, he sends her to Paris for two years to study. When his daughter returns from Paris, instead of having forgotten Heracles, she presents him with a baby, claiming that she had it with Heracles. However, the baby is actually her brother's with a mannequin. She doesn't dare tell her father because he will cut off her allowance...

Shogra and Leyla are cooking. Shakiba takes piano lessons. All three of them will soon go to training. Hestia F.C., the first football team of women refugees, has become a small homeland for these young players. They have found solidarity, warmth, beauty. Yorgos Pyrpassopoulos is following them during their training, talks with Katerina Salta, the founder and soul of the team, about this innovative project and listens to the dreams of the athletes for their future. Can football change the world?

BYZANTION is a film in two parts. It centers on the song "Agni Parthene" (O Virgin Pure), a Marian hymn of the Christian Orthodox world. Part one, the Greek version, was filmed with Archimandrit Nikodimos (Panos Kabarnos), a star of the Byzantine music world, at the church Ieros Naos Analipseos tou Kyriou in Neos Kosmos, Athens, Greece. The second part, the Church Slavonic version, was shot with the Brothers Choir of the Valaam Monastery, located on Valaam island in the Lagoda lake, a couple of hours north of St. Petersburg.

In a city where the boundaries have changed greatly, where to go in Slovenia identification, where the barriers (real or metaphorical that they need not even show) have crumbled over the years, where the famous wall of mental hospital was demolished in the seventies thanks to Basaglia revolution, there is a wall that still stands. The wall that separates at the beach "At Lantern" women and men, but commonly called by all Trieste "Pedocin", unique in Europe, the noisy quiet corner, a stone's throw from the city center.

A film with a thematic self-awareness .

A social drama covering fifty years of Greece’s recent history, using the statue of the Delphi charioteer as a symbolic image, with the young hero embodied in a modern counterpart.

Invited by a desperate woman the psychiatrist and ex military Nik Jason tries to help her demonic possessed sister and gets into a deadly hell trip of a parallel world.

Lost identities and unknown truths that will be buried in the ground forever.

This film is based on a self-published comic by Peter Looles. The basic idea of the movie is that the characters within a comic page can penetrate each panel and interact with each other, so they go to war. The first official screening of the film was at the 2015 Camera Zizanio film festival.

After the climax of the second World War, Tzakas finds himself lost once again in the heat of battle in Stalingrad. With tensions rising between the two parties a new German sergeant has become a real threat. With sgt. Smitheropoulos and a new ally by his side, Tzakas needs to bring peace back to the world.

The short film "The minor order" was created by the CityFilm Productions team in memory of the train accident in the area of Tempe, Greece on Tuesday 28/02/2023. In the film we live the perspective of a relative of a victim, on the day of the tragedy, as well as a year after it. Our purpose is to never let the memory of the crime of Tempe be forgotten. Finally, we feel the need to help in any way we can in bringing real justice to this case, hoping that we are passing a certain message through our creation.

On the island of Fourni in Ikaria, a researcher observes the lives of the inhabitants. Without a predetermined script, without ready-made questions, as a simple observer. Through this research, the society of Fourni comes to life before our eyes through its people, through memories, through anxieties, through daily toil. On the island, the men are sailors and the women have taken on all the jobs that one would more conventionally expect men to perform, from construction work to farm work. The camera of Alinda Dimitriou and Nikos Kanakis thus vividly records the relations between the two sexes and how the division of labor is a key cog in the functioning of the social machine.

An Italian cinematographer finds himself in the midst of the Greek socio-political crisis. He returns home to Milano to his ex-wife and daughter, only to be drawn back to Athens, where an Australian TV producer hires his services as a maverick cinematographer.

In mid 2017 Makis Kalaras, a three time Paraolympic competitor and Silver Medalist, endured a severe injury to his bicep tendon, rendering his arm almost completely useless, leaving him with only one fully functional limb. No better time to set his sights on going to the Winter Paraolympics in South Korea in March of 2018. This is the story of his journey through rehabilitation, physiotherapy and qualifying for the games.

A politician, entangled in various, mysterious cases, advises his son to give up his job.

The film follows the Greek folklore band Encardia, whose music strives to save from oblivion the music genre called 'tarantella', a music developed by the Greek populations of South Italy.

1917-1933. The Bolshevik Revolution – Holodomor. The greatest Utopia mankind has ever known. An Utopia that shocked the world and was buried in mass graves along with millions of victims. The film narrates the global influence of the Revolution, the establishment of dozens of Communist Parties, the hopes created in millions of people around the world and this so full of promise yet tragic course of “The Great Utopia.” The film is a tribute to the centenary of the October Revolution (1917-2017)

A series of mysterious murders is causing headaches for the country's secret services, who are discreetly but persistently investigating every aspect of the case. With the help of various coincidences, it is revealed that the crimes are linked to the activities of foreign agents operating in Greece. As it turns out, all these agents—although their origin is not specified—are trying to steal a series of valuable and highly classified documents related to some "serious" experiments being carried out secretly at a NATO military base. Espionage against espionage and constant chases.

Iordanis Finos (born Iordanis Dimitsanis) was an ambitious director in order to create a movement similar to the Nouvelle Vague in Greek territory. A fatal accident during the shooting of his first film brought death to him and his crew, leaving the film halfway through. The accident occurred on May 20, 1979. On January 28, 2021, ARRI launched Spectraflex, a camera capable of capturing spectral debris, also known as ghosts. This documentary is an exclusive interview with Iordanis Finos about his film, art and life.

A home-beach video in Apollachia of Rhodes

A penniless writer comes to stay at his brother's seaside canteen to spend the summer. There, observing the erratic love behaviors of the patrons, he decides to write a novel, which will be based on all the incredible things he sees unfolding before him every day. As the novel progresses, the imaginary events begin to become more and more confused with the real ones. Through the ephemeral and frivolous relationships, a great romantic love is unexpectedly born that seems to come from another era. But has anything like this happened in reality?

Inside Korydallos women’s prison, incarcerated women share fragments of their lives before and during imprisonment. Through memories, daily routines, and the choices that shaped them, the film weaves individual voices into a collective portrait of life behind bars and enduring hope.

A vast photographic archive –like a long journey through the 20th century– featuring documents from the life of Giorgos Seferis, period materials from around the world, and records from the places the poet traveled.

A political documentary that captures the trajectory of the economy and society, and the imprint of crisis on the political scene of Greece during the period 2015–2025.