Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

Vassileia at least has a job.

A clown of the street falls in love with a girl with tuberculosis, and, trying to find a way to cure her, he takes her to a monastery. The clown returns to the street performances with the dream of meeting with the girl again.

A little post-apocalyptic dream.

The pandemic and substances. Vagrancy and repression. Four young people, faced with silence. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

A group of young antiheroes with disabilities, try to know about acting in theater stage. Through their obvious love for it decide to put on a theatrical performance based on improvised scenes centered on superheroes. The young antiheroes are trained theatrically. At the same time, we are getting to know the young antiheroes better with daily scenes of their lives.

Katerina and Alkis live with Grandpa. Their parents have gone to Alaska to seek their fortune. When Grandpa falls and does not get up, things become difficult. Fortunately, there is always dancing.

Tasos, an ex-convict, is feeling responsible for his friend's accident at their workplace, a slaughterhouse. Kiki, a waitress at the local tavern falls once again victim to sexual harassment. When they both find themselves under extreme pressure, the eruption is unavoidable and the consequences are imminent.

The film is focusing on two self organized pedagogical preschool projects in Greece based on the values of libertarian education and experiential learning.

We trace the course of internationally renowned Greek musician Gus G. across seven countries in three continents. We follow him on his tour with his band, Firewind, but also on his solo projects. With him and his colleagues, we travel into the magical world of hard rock, where many taboos, social and other issues are being analyzed, while at the same time a very special personality is revealed. This course of 20 years was not paved with rose petals. It was a hard road through persecution, sweat, hunger and immigration, until the final vindication of his close collaboration with Ozzy Osbourne.

"Books have no life; they lack feeling maybe, and perhaps cannot feel pain, as animals and even plants feel pain. But what proof have we that inorganic objects can feel no pain? Who knows if a book may not yearn for other books, its companions of many years, in some ways strange to us and therefore never yet perceived?" A film inspired by the novel "Auto da Fé" by Elias Canetti. The film was shot in Athens, in the director's house, during the first period of quarantine in April 2020.

A man is painting a landscape. A woman is holding two cups. What can go wrong? A nightmare in pink.

While attending a reintegration programme, Lena finds a job that gives her access to the rural jail for minors, where her son is serving his sentence. Last time she saw him, he was five years old.

The documentary focuses on the daily life of the director’s father, an 85-year-old man. It addresses the difficulties of old age, loneliness, fear of death, and grief prompted by the loss of a lifelong partner, as we follow the protagonist experiencing the loss of his spouse, with whom he had shared a 57-year life journey. The film captures the strong feelings that prevail, as well as the initiatives taken by the elderly protagonist in his effort to overcome loneliness.

Greek drag queen hustler shares her perspectives on life and love.

From each of the 79 exhibiting artists works are on display in both the Arse­nale and the Giar­dini. Partic­u­larly notice­able this year are the numerous video and sound works. One that sticks in your memory is Haris Epaminonda’s “Chimera” (2019). In her 30-minute film, she combines found-footage shots with a sound­scape by Kelly Jayne Jones and creates medi­ta­tive images of aban­doned places and land­scapes, which hover some­where between memory and concep­tual construc­tion. The work deservedly earned Epaminonda the Silver Lion.

The world of adults through the eyes of a child: Intrigues, joyous breaks, illusory and conflicting interests, misunderstood pursuit of love, gestures of affection, dull faces, all make up the background of 7 years - the pinnacle of kitsch - captured on an old-fashioned movie poster at the edge of a dirt road in Thriasio Pedio.

Kostas Tsakonas is Thomas Rezilikis, a professional unemployed pontiac with a strange habit.

Greece (1936-1952): Through Metaxas dictatorship - Greco-Italian War - German occupation - Resistance - Liberation - British landings - December events - Civil war - Emergency courts-martial - Prison island of Makronisos

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.

Three Athenians from different backgrounds form a group in Athens to examine the current state of Greece, Europe, and the Mediterranean.

With the German Occupation in Greece (1941-1944) as a background, this film tells the love story between my father, an assistant professor at the mysterious German Scientific Institute of Athens - financed by the occupying power, Germany, but in reality a refuge for resistant students - and Nelly, a young student in Fine Arts. The film also traces the portrait of their friend Rudolf Fahrner, founder of the Institute, comrade of the Stauffenberg Brothers and one of the few conspirators of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, on 20 July 1944, that survived the repression that followed.

She comes into your life and finds the details / of your past of your body / of your everyday habits / Life without this merciful presence / has no meaning anymore – and suddenly / she leaves and life has no meaning... Mourning / lasts for a while and if you survive – which you will / you start recounting again the same details. / from the past, releasing your body on another body, sharing your every day again. / You learn from this repetition ./ You learn to ignore / the certainty of your gestures. / You learn to ignore / the impressive architecture of a meaningful life.

Stamatis Kokoras leaves the profession of the fakir and accepts to work for diplomat Petros. Stamatis, however, must sleep during the day and stay up at night.

A chronicle of Lefkada in 1960, documented through archival material by a member of a Swiss humanitarian organization, whose work constitutes photographic anthropology. The spontaneous images became windows into moments and relationships of people who, in a harsh environment, gave their best. Through them, coexistence, survival, dignity, and culture are recorded as a heritage. The island in Western Greece serves as a reflection of a shared experience in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas of the country and brings to life an era that will never return.

An overnight ferry. A disco where the music never stops. An empty swimming pool. Rik asks Mary something.

A young couple from different social classes are unable to overcome the obstacles set by their relatives. The girl is destined to marry a man of her social class, but when the engagement breaks off due to her love for someone else, her father "pushes" her to her death. Her lover will follow her, leaving behind a diary, in which he recounts exactly what happened to the two lovers.

Stavros Tornes directs this documentary centered on the poet Nikos Kavvadias and his poetry.

In the quiet bloom of youth, Christos falls for a classmate. They drift through fleeting moments—until life pulls them apart. A tender ode to first love and inevitable goodbyes.

A solo performance entitled "HOW DARE YOU?" as filmed in December 2024 at the Psyrri Theatre.

A unique snapshot of Mytilini in the early 1970s: the camera of Manos Efstratiadis, in constant curious motion, follows the streets of the town, enters shops and houses, records public ceremonies and private gatherings.

This student creation entitled "Elizabethan Theatre" narrates the basic historical and social elements of the Elizabethan era, regarding the development of the theater of the same name in England. The time period it focuses on starts from 1562 until 1642, when the English Parliament banned all plays and sealed all theatrical stages for the following 18 years. This Documentary Short Film was created with the Stop Motion Animation technique by the students of E1 of the 6th Intercultural Primary School of Eleftherio - Kordelio in Thessaloniki. Students of the 6th grade also aided filming, while students of the 3rd, 5th and 6th grades contributed to the construction - collection of the sets used.

Their world through words. Orfeas searches for them to express himself. Chrysa uses them to communicate. Eirini collects, weaves, and entangles with them, seeking to define love. Kostis transforms them into a performance. A stranger makes them disappear. Uncontrollable situations and questions occur.

Three friends get together after a long time and speak of their recent mishaps. Each of their stories ends with a problem and each problem can be resolved only with money, which they don’t have. Moving between reality and fantasy, they decide to rob a cafe they suspect is a façade for money laundering.

Looking closer at the things we see every day, we realize more things about ourselves, we discover new feelings, and we dive into our subconscious to really understand our emotions, and how they affect our life, our decisions and our relationships. All of these, happened to me, when I decided to shoot this short film in Germany and Austria

A woman studying at a monastery in the Cyclades has a vision of Christ's passion, which serves as the catalyst for the narration of the Divine Drama.

The life of Melpo Axioti, a modern Greek novelist and poetess. A navigation in the labyrinth of her life and her expression, through the analysis of the psychiatrist Spilios Argyropoulos.

A group of young people with dreams, decide to move into a building. But its owners have other plans. Annoyed by the youths' illegal activities, they try to chase them away. The means at their disposal are powerful. But corsairs love life and will not surrender so easily. Along the way a lot will come up.

One bed, five languages, nine mornings after, in nine awkward minutes.

This first-person film is a letter to my sister that I have never met, as well as an act of reconciliation with my father and the inevitability of death. Three different formats in five decades of life compose a cinematographic mosaic that walks the tightrope of the interplay between the joy of life and the contemplation of existence.

Meeting my parents, in their place surrounded by a few flower petals.

A harmonious documentary about the life of a unique figure of the Greek Cinema: Dinos Katsouridis was both a great classical film director and had successfully tried himself through all different stages of filmmaking. Audiovisual interviews, archival material, and a journey to his childhood years in Cyprus are seamlessly combined with the memories of people who loved him and worked with him on the way.

Shortly after she finds herself in the main departure hall of the airport, a young woman will remember the forgotten story of her childhood. "When we grow up, me and dad, we're going on a trip to Australia." The airport terminal as the closed space where we spend our last moments. A modern Acheron. It may be so...

Anna is a gifted but insecure 17-year-old girl who is desperate to belong. During an aquarium school trip, her jockey boyfriend pressures Anna into entrapping his go-to target, tough Albanian classmate Jo, so that they can bully them later on. Anna accepts the mission only to find herself perplexed by her own feelings for Jo. Now Anna needs to decide if she's brave enough to follow her inner voice or succumb to the need to be accepted.

The limits of intrusion in the peaceful lives of local folk on the island of Ikaria are being tested in a group of scientists' quest to find the secret for long and healthy life. Islanders go about in their daily microcosms - in the kitchen, in the garden, in the workplace and in their "hangouts", when researchers invade asking for something rather personal. A clash of energies rises between locals and perplexed scientists that leaves no stone unturned, in the attempt to understand frozen time and intriguing idiosyncrasies. A comedic study in pacing and reframing a world view.

Andreas, a 45-year-old widower and architect, tells the coroner of events leading to his young daughter's death.

The love story of two men, Simos and Musa, who probably met one night in an elusive, secretly erotic place. We follow them closely, during their first intimate moments. As their relationship evolves and they are living together, Musa strives to fit within unfamiliar circumstances, while Simos tries to control his possessiveness and enduring fear of losing his lover. Whenever his rationalization proves insufficient as a instrument for handling his crises, Simos opens the door that separates fantasy from reality and channels his fears into his dreams, which sooner or later become haunting nightmares.

A suitcase arrives at the airport with its owners and all is ready for boarding. But what happens when the suitcase is naughty and wants to be free?

A lyrical documentary film, an elegy to Epirus that fades away, but also to Epirus that survives. A love song for those who stayed, for those who migrated, for its musicians and its unique nature. A journey to Giromeri, Thesprotia, during the Easter days. Through the cinematic lens, we observe the everyday life of this little village and search for the roots of a very special tradition. An attempt - contrary to the relentless digitization of our times - to keep the analog memory of the Greek countryside alive: a life memento.