Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

The self-organized production “December 2008 – Anger Replaces Tears” is a documentary about the uprising that broke out in December 2008 on the occasion of the cold-blooded murder of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos by cop Epaminondas Korkoneas. It does not speak from the perspective of a supposedly objective observer but from that of a direct participant and takes a clear position: in favor of the uprising. By searching for chronicles, video material, texts, music and putting the final touch of editing, this work reminds us of the moments of our action, organization and emotions during the days of December. It thus tries to contribute to the preservation of cinematic memory against the silence and falsification that every power wants to impose. The DVD was released in September 2009 by the self-organized video production workshop VISUAL VOID with the technical and political support of TECHNASMATIA.

Sakis and Daphne are a young couple who have just sat down to have breakfast. Their relationship seems to be as perfect as the breakfast table. Everything seems to be going well, until Daphne asks Sakis to walk her dog. What could go wrong?

a queen seeks bloody revenge on the husband who betrayed her.

Years after a brutal family tragedy, two estranged brothers reunite and return to their desolate childhood home. A house heavy with remorse, guilt, and grief, reflecting everything that went wrong with them.

A brief history of humanity and a radical proposal for its future.

At the first major step of her career, a young painter faces loss.

What do oranges think as they roll down the hills of Athens—and how do they affect the lives of its residents?

An exercise in style, inspired by the cinema of David Lynch, and specifically by Eraserhead and Blue Velvet.

Embrace the Filth.

A short film that explores the concept of “gender ideology” as invoked by global political and cultural leaders. It opens with provocative quotes from figures such as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán, and others — e.g., “They are planting a time bomb in our national structure.”

Mysterious twin brothers have a life-changing encounter with God.

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Samos, Greece. Always Something Missing follows Parthenopi, a woman who returns to her family's ancestral home, confronting memory, ritual, and the absence of her late father.

Placed in Lefkada, an island in the Ionian Sea, a little girl finds a paper from 1955, that contains a list of objects that belonged to her great aunt and proceeds to ask her grandfather about it. He explains to her that this is the list of her dowry, an old Greek tradition, in which the bride’s possessions were concede to the groom as a formal marriage agreement. Moved by this finding, he starts recalling memories of his childhood, witnessing his older sister Armenia, having an arranged marriage and leaving behind her family and the island for a better future.

Spyros returns to Athens from his summer vacation. He realises that Elpida is missing. Will he ever find out why?

Almost all the caves of Attica are called Davelis caves, named after the notorious robber of the same name. However, the robber Davelis probably did not know of their existence. I made this pataphysical video to correct this logical error and restore the truth.

A young driver is persuaded by his uncle to follow the wife of a wealthy man, who suspects she is cheating on him. What begins as a simple surveillance gradually turns into a mirror of his own past.

In a city where people consume cartoons, a dog reconciles with its old friends, and together, they try to escape from humans.

Set in Exarchia during the COVID-19 quarantine, the film follows emotionally isolated tenants in an apartment building as they confront personal struggles and a rare chance for change, exploring the tension between transformation and the comfort of familiarity.

After a turbulent first meeting, Menios, a young journalist, convinces Rafaella, a trans sex worker, to share her life story. As Rafaella recounts her first night out on Syngrou Avenue, Menios realises he is no longer interested in the interview.

In modern times, the story follows a shy and introverted young man, who represents all the people who feel like nobody can see them. The movie captures his unusual daily life as the viewer slowly realises that he is invisible to everyone around him. The main character presents the ups and downs of leading an invisible life, as he finally reaches his limit

Marina Satti boldly marches through musical frontiers. This Greek artist with Sudanese roots gleefully draws on Arabic pop and Balkan folk to create her uniquely Aegean hip hop sound.

Created by Sister Sylvester and Nadah El Shazly, Constantinopoliad is a collective reading and audio work. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the story is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic”, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing queer archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.

When his mother dies by suicide, Dinos returns to the village where he grew up. Confronted with the Orthodox tradition that denies her burial, he — like a modern Antigone — defies social conventions by choosing a personal ritual of farewell.

A young man lives between his confinement and the anxiety of the upcoming summer.

In this short film, two teenagers decide to hang out and chat outside a cemetery.

a short film by Panos Markou

Fate unites a group a company of four students, "transporting" them from the carefree lifestyle and the innocence of the university years to the harsh reality that is going to transform their lives.

The movie follows an LGBTQI+ film crew making a documentary about an explosion that killed 70 senior citizens at an elderly home. One of the three main suspects carried out a suicide mission, taking everyone else with them. But which one?

George goes to Athens on the eve of his granddaughter's trial and does everything in his power to help her, in order to atone for everything he had done to her in the past.

A second generation Albanian migrant in Greece, Anisa Xhomaqi, follows her mother, Aphrodite from her cleaning job to a trip with other Albanian women in Southern Greece. A tender and caring view of a generation of migrants who are usually seen as working precarious jobs, Like Aphrodite focuses through a different lens: Leisure, as a way to connect, to resist and organise against work exploitation and racism. Through visual metaphors and polyphonic sounds, the film is a poetic start of a research of the Albanian migration in Greece by the filmmaker.

To how many names can a child respond to?

short film by Sylvia Robin Gionti

Although the Chinese started immigrating to Greece very late compared to other countries, today Athens is home the newest Chinatown in Europe. Trying to get a good grasp of the Chinese community in Greece, we realized the two nations have much more in common than they think.

The documentary chronicles the creation of Greece's first urban food forest in Neapolis, Thessaloniki. Designed using regenerative agriculture principles and planted with over 750 food-producing trees and plants, this community-led effort transformed a grassy lot into a hub for permaculture, urban farming, environmental education, community life, and hope.

short film by Iokasti Mantzog

short film by Iokasti Mantzog

Taxi is a road movie, a five-minute short documentary. In a provincial town, Vassilis, Giannis and Stelios break the routine of everyday life and tell stories of racing. From their stories we discover that everyday life can be a source of inspiration.

Maria and Konstantina are childhood friends. Growing up together, they quickly discovered that their feelings were not just friendly, since then they have never been separated and are each other's other half. However, Konstantina's death will force Maria to adapt to a new reality, but before that she will be given one last day to say her final goodbye. Through the five stages of grief, Maria will experience denial of Konstantina's death, anger, bargaining, separation depression and finally acceptance of this new reality.

The spell to protect each other. A forest grown from tears, the spell to protect each other, the leaves, the rock and the frog. Witches have always cried on Wednesdays

An artistic journey into memory, trauma, healing, and reconciliation. Visual artist Artemis Alcalay presents her works, narrates the story of her family, and unfolds how she - consciously or subconsciously - processed untold family stories, collective trauma, and the memory of the Holocaust.

Maria, Vrou, and Magda work occasionally in a basement workshop, engaging in various woodworking activities. Lately, they contemplated opening their carpentry shop, which is leaving the security of their neighborhood and transitioning from something semi-professional to becoming professional craftswomen. The time signals they are ready.

Microhistories of people who were taken on board of Tanais and tragically lost their lives as prisoners of war, after the steamship was torpedoed in 1944, highlights the common fate of people coming from different religious and cultural backgrounds. The film explores historical events of the past more than eight decades later.

HOPEgenesis fights depopulation in remote areas, offering free medical care, covering costs, and providing psychological support to women wishing to become mothers. Since 2015, it has supported over 800 families, bringing hope for the future to regions where births had nearly ceased.

This work, which was produced using Artificial Intelligence programs, presents and visualizes an individual’s effort to rediscover their lost memory and, by extension, to remember the life they have suddenly forgotten. The work is an audiovisual dialogue with intelligent software, used to digitally retrieve audiovisual data from the past and to reactivate the memory of a person searching for their lost identity.

Six female bodies are suspended in space; they detect, meet, and touch, dancing a light dance. Stop-motion creates the illusion of the bodies’ oscillation in the air, in an attempt to capture deviation and resistance to gravity. Battle of Fishes is an assemblage of snapshots, dislocated maps, technologies and bodies, rhythms and broken locations.

Adam bites the apple. He leaves Eve and the Garden of Eden in search of his destiny on earth. What he discovers, however, is his worst nightmare...

Athens, humans, animals, everyday life, coexist with the desperate and furious voice of Panagiotis, and the disregarded gentle speech of Apostolis.

Stavros a salepi seller learns the importance of friendly in the Thessaloniki street food selling business!

Against the background of the beach front of the Nea Chora district, two women, Elsa and Olga, take their daily baths.

The documentary reflects on the phenomenon of addiction and the vocation of rehabilitation. It investigates the transition from the interwar coercive inhuman system of dealing with addictions to a human-centered, free, diverse therapeutic network of rehabilitation, established for decades in Greece: DETOX (IANOS), PETHEA "Argo, P.P.SELFHELP, 18ANO.

"Islam in Greek" is a short documentary that offers a fascinating look at the vibrant Muslim community in Greece. Through interviews and striking visuals, the film explores the rich history, traditions and contemporary experiences of Greek Muslims. From the legacy of Ottoman rule to today's challenges and contributions, it presents the diverse mosaic of Islamic faith and culture, promoting understanding and appreciation in the Greek context.

The soil, the last fortress between life and death, passes entirely through the hands of Yiota and Labrinis. Their work, the last task for the now gone dead, a post uncomfortable but extremely important, without them the dead will not be buried and his story will not end. An Other City that gradually leads us to the reappropriation of a willfully unseen subject.

The festival of the Vravrona, was one of the most important festivals of Attica in ancient Greece. It was a procession with children, parents and teachers. Little Chloe follows the procession and goes to the sanctuary of Artemis , protector of animals and nature, in order to offer the goddess her humble gift for helping her get over her sickness: her favorite bunny.

Body and shadow collide between the breakwaters.