Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

In an interview with a humble postman, a mysterious death becomes the focus of his life as he was the first to discover the corpse. His days of innocently delivering letters in the Desert Hills now feel empty without the presence of the Sand Woman, whose death might turn out to be more violent than it seems.

After the fatal accident of his parents and older brother, Jason leaves his life behind to write about art in the field of anthropology. However, the publisher who attracts him by recognizing his writing talent requires Jason to change some points to become more commercial. Jason at first refuses but after the advice of the psychologist he changes his mind and accepts. But in the presentation of his final idea he reviews and leaves the bookstore.

Educational documentary by Robiros Manthoulis, Fotis Mestheneou and Iraklis Papadakis, shot under the archaeological guidance of Yiannis Miliadis, Director of the Acropolis Museum, who is also the narrator. It is a wonderfully consistent mapping of the Acropolis space, in the objects, the spaces, the iconography, the connection with history and tradition. From the opening moments and the presentation of the complexity and specificity of the location of the Acropolis, and through the presentation of every impressive detail, but also of a wider artistic context, the film takes us on a journey through time connecting the centuries of glory of Athenian history with today, with the monument framed not only as the shining relic of an old civilization, but also in its current location, above a large, modern city.

Of the thirty inhabitants of Arki, a windswept island in Greece’ Dodecanese, Kristos is the last remaining child and the only student of the small elementary school. To finish compulsory education, he needs to leave Arki and move to a larger island. However, his family cannot afford this and his father wants him to become a shepherd like his older brothers. The child’s teacher, Maria, cannot accept this situation and is determined to find a solution to further his education. Will Kristos stay on the island or will he leave Arki to continue his education on the other side of the sea?

Humanity on Trial follows humanitarian Salam Aldeen as he is accused of human smuggling by the Hellenic Coast Guard.

"Myrsini", deals with the story of a group of young people who roam Patras, live and fall in love in the narrow streets of the Old Town and attempt a search for consciousness and the inner self, in just one night.

An encounter between two people who are united by their past.

Alphonso Ford was a successful basketball player, carrying a big secret. Far from the bright lights of the basketball courts, Ford was fading away with leukemia. This is the incredible story of one of the biggest scorers that ever played in Europe and at the same time the story of the greatest American basketball player, Americans have never heard of.

Who are the people who clean the roads of the world? Why are the majority of them women and immigrants? The well-traveled show “Clean City” of the Onassis Foundation Stegi becomes a hybrid film. Four separate directors follow the tour of the show to four cities - Skopje, Sarajevo, Montpellier, Istanbul. Immigrant cleaners, stars of the show but also of their real lives, talk about their experiences, touch on the subject of racism in terms of what is “pure”, the danger of fascism, female immigration and sexual abuse. An anthology film somewhere between documentary and fiction, having as its starting point the filmed theatre play by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris.

A rainy morning by the sea. A talking house. A car that returns. When the inside and the outside alternate. When the familiar and the unfamiliar coincide.

The melodramatic story of Virginia, an ill young woman in love with her wood-carver husband. One day, she has a miscarriage and her health requires monitoring and care. A cousin of hers, Liola, comes from the village and takes it upon hershelf to look after her cousin. Between the latter young woman and the husband of the ill woman, an intense love affair is developing.

Even after the Civil War had ended in the rest of Greece, a small rump of the Democratic Army, six men and two women, remained in hiding for 14 years in Chania, Crete, where they continued to take part in illegal political activity. In 1962, six of the former partisans escaped, via Italy, to Tashkent. The documentary focuses on the three who are still alive.

Miltos and Thanos are a couple of friends going away for the weekend in Milto’s house on the mountain. Upon their arrival they come across something extraordinary. A young woman lives in Miltos’s house. Both men try to communicate with her but to no avail. A cloud of mystery surrounds this girl and each friend reacts differently to her presence. This movie is the ‘ Qualia ‘ of the two friends. Their subjective perception.

The psyche of Athens through the transfer, the relocation of the National Library. The dominant old building of the National Library in the centre of Athens, with its neoclassical style pillars, tries to remind us of the Golden Age of Pericles and the sages of ancient Greece. But few of the residents seem to be interested in it. The preparations for the transfer of the books, ‘victims’ of looting and wear, have begun. In a city that looks like a battlefield we witness both the transfer and the city, which in its unrest remains exciting. And also, we get to hear the voice of the National Library, connecting the past with the present, wondering about the future.

The associative thoughts of a lonely man who has committed suicide out of love.

A documentary for the freedom of press and the human rights in Turkey .The violation of human rights, in a country juggling between the East and the West, is not only being present now, during the first and second decade of the new century, the time coinciding with the absolute power of one and only man: Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish 'democracy' cannot tolerate citizens of a different national, political or sexual identity.

The story takes place near the famous Ancient Corinth (around the mid-4th century BCE), referring to its two harbours (named Lechaion and Kenchreae). Several ships, avoiding the dangerous travel around the whole of Peloponnese, were transferred from the Corinth Golf to the Golf of Saronikos, on top of an eight-wheel vehicle dragged along a stone-paved road (the “Diolkos”), almost parallel to the actual Corinth-Canal. The film describes several technical details of the whole operation, as well as various events such as the visits of the sailors to an ancient Greek Temple and to a tavern, where a hypothetically available Hydraulis (water organ) was played, or to a public fountain encountered along the Diolkos.

A film about time, memory, and nostalgia. A film about the beauty of archeology and excavation, conveyed through the post-mortem portrait of archeologist Yannis Sakellarakis. A journey in search of a man who is no longer present, through the traces he left in the places he visited and the people he met. A cinematic excavation that brings to light an image through fragments and traces, just like archeology does.

This is the story of a Woman refugee from the Pontian Genocide. She describes what she have suffered trying to survive from killings and torture.

The documentary deals with the daily challenges and political choices of the 90s generation through the lens of hip-hop culture. The 90s generation is a part of Greek society whose collective hopes for a better future and relative prosperity have been dashed by political decisions, media discourse and the daily challenges of the harsh reality of the crisis. It is a film of review, artistic interpretations of reality and reflection on political and social change.

Two kids research Nouvelle Vague for a school project.

The beloved Harry Klinn on videotape, which, in addition to his older works, also includes a wealth of information about his personal life, the places where he grew up and got his start.

The different traditions interfere with the details, but their fire is the same. It is an undeniable fact that Saint Maria lived during the Ottoman domination and even during the time of the tyranny of Epirus Ali Pasha (1788 - 1822 AD). She was a girl of great beauty. But her physical beauty was in accord with the beauty of her soul. Her ornaments were modesty, piety and temperance. Although at a very young age, she had a mature thought. She resisted all the pleasures that sweet and sly come to destroy the youthful souls. She had decided to devote herself entirely to God. She came from a village in Ioannina. According to tradition, Ali's Pasha's spy saw the Holy Koris, and was surprised by her beauty. He ordered with great secrecy to circle her monastery, capture her and carry her to his palace. But God did not leave this youthful soul helpless.

A young beauty who appears like an apparition in the most unlikely places, at the most unlikely moments, turns the life of a young civil engineer upside down, with great success in gambling and especially at the racetrack...

Everything is going great at the fur shop, until the day when Grigoris confuses Mrs. Jenny's fur with... her own fur. When his wife, Mary, finds out, Grigoris asks for help from his partner, Thanasis, a man of ancient principles. Katerina, one half of the two partners and of the same principles as Thanasis, is in love with him. Thus, Thanasis finds himself having three mistresses and being threatened by Jenny's mafia husband...

Girls of the Rain concludes Alida Dimitriou’s filmtrilogy on the contribution of women to political struggles in Greece during the twentieth century. The film is about women imprisoned and tortured during the Colonels’ dictatorship of 1967-1974. At the time, these womenwere in their twenties. Fifty women offer their testimonials. They all share the ethos of the women who took part in the National Resistance, and pursue the establishment of human dignity just as persistently. The “Girls of the Rain” consider themselves successors of those women. One of them said:“...we are their successors, just like the youth of today are our successors”. Remarkably, these are the words of a woman deprived by her torturers of the ability to have children.

In the Skaramanga's Refugee Camp Greece, a group of refugee children from Afghanistan at the age of 10-13 paint their experience and memories from the war and their journey to Europe. In this short documentary they describe through their drawings their city as they remember it, the city that they've found shelter in and the city that they wish to live in the future.

A casual morning in the city of Athens, a woman, some unexpenting news, and the gradual improvement in the weather

The story focuses on two friends who, in their attempt to quickly make money to get involved in the clothing trade through one of their aunts, borrow a large sum of money from a loan shark. Through a series of high-tension events, they try to get out of the impasse, even risking their own lives.

Greek three-man band who with their songs and their dance moves make familiar to children the animals. The complex has a membership of Artemis Kokkinara, Teresa Sassou and the man of the group is Efthymis Kokkinaras while lyricist is Manos Vafeiadis.

Five people are waiting on a rocky isolated island for the ocean liner The Great Eastern to pick them up in a journey towards hope. Their isolation, lust and expectations escalate, triggering a series of unexpected events. The film features music by Greek duo The Callas and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo.

The life cycle of a man from childhood to death.

Two friends making prank on their best friend, only then get involved in big adventures

Three different stories of three different people are combined together through various events becoming one... Robert works as a bodyguard for one of the biggest mafia bosses of Nicosia, Socrates' Iacovou. Things get complicated when Robert and Lisa, Socrates' wife, fall in love. After they run together, Socrates' revenge begins. But everything changes when Robert reverses the ball-game finding the exit. Time passes by and everything changes. Not for the better but for the worse. We are all inside a labyrinth. And we are all looking to find the exit .... the EXODOS

Thesaloniki Digiwave

An alternative scenario of recent Greek history, where Greece and Turkiye are planning to unite into one state, while the region's architecture reflects the passage from Modernism to Postmodernism and, finally, to Post-Postmodernism.

A cinematic transform of Little Prince.

Maria and Demetra are two sisters who live together again, after the separation of the former from Peter. We watch Maria sink into depression, making Christmas cakes and looking for a way out.

Kreno (primary language) to say, speak, challenge or invite someone. thirio(s) the; beast(s); beast(s); beast(s). Wild animal; wild animal; large carnivorous, hardy, brave, capable, very great physical or mental strength; mischievous; large snake; dragon; kite; strange creature; monster; (metaphorically) sin; devil.

Prometheus, a Titan who defies the gods and gives fire to mankind, acts for which he is subjected to perpetual punishment.

Two men known or unknown to each other meet in an apartment for a game of submission. What is real and what is a lie? Who is straight and who is gay? Who enjoys the game and who has a secret motive?

A phone call leads a girl to an unexpected act.

One winter afternoon, two siblings visit the grave of their beloved grandmother for the first time. In front of the view of the tomb and the abrupt contact with the loss, the siblings discover, in a snowy landscape, the paradoxical ways in which mourning can be expressed.