Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

A young teacher is appointed in a small mountainous village with a single student. Upon arriving there, the man will come face to face with the death of the Greek countryside.

Marina, a young woman experiencing troubling symptoms, undergoes her first MRI scan. As the machine’s rhythmic sounds engulf her, Marina is whisked away on an unexpected voyage through her memories and fears. The portrayal of a woman’s journey towards understanding amidst the chaos of uncertainty.

Alex and her friends go on a trip away from Athens. Soon, she realises that this decision is bringing her closer to everything she hoped to escape from.

A young dancer Ivan , lost in search of inspiration, encounters a photographer during a desperate act of theft. Their fateful meeting sets off a chain of events that will alter their lives forever.

Fani returns from abroad after her father's suicide. She accepts the harsh treatment of her relatives and distances herself from their environment. She meets the son of the man responsible for her father's financial ruin and falls in love with him. When she realizes who her beloved is, she leaves him. However, despite his father's objections, he finds her and marries her. His father regrets the harm he caused Fani and her family.

A lost short film.

Leontarius was a false warrior who boasted of his fantastic exploits; a false maniac who feared his own shadow. An offshoot of this character is the word "lionism", which is still used today.

Comedy short film directed by Filippo Martelli.

‘Kaló taxidi’ means 'Good journey' in Greek. This is a journey back to Ithaca, to that place where we were happy and where we learned that the journey is more important than the destination. However, someone once said that you should not try to return to the place where you were happy.

What was the uprising in December, who were the social subjects who participated, what were the causes and what is the deposit for the future concerning the socio-political demands. All these questions are trying to find answers in the documentary "Enraged December" which was filmed by a group of people met in the first days after the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos Thessaloniki

During the pandemic and the Greek lock down, the locked down relationship of a married couple with kids reaches a pivotal point at the sight of a younger and in love couple who lives in the opposite apartment.

In Athens, during the financial crisis, a young man and a young woman had no other choice but to stay in the same apartment for a few days. When each one’s plans for the future collapsed someone had to make the move to change their fate.

A pair devise various tricks to catch an ostrich for hunting.

The film was shot during the period of the dictatorship and is an attempt to criticize in a veiled, suggestive way, for understandable reasons, the American model of life.

Melina and Vivi live out their romance not minding social conventions and tomorrow. Their final separation comes through an explosion of lust and sorrow.

After a date with Anna and through a eccentric presence, a young man, Victoras, learns about Vicky's curse. What is Vicky's Curse?

A documentary about the greek band Raining Pleasure and the music scene surrounding them

Illustrations (in the area of Crete) of 14 poems by seven modern Greek poets: Cavafy, Ritsos, Seferis, Sikelianos, Prevelakis, Kazantzakis, Christodoulou.

A female figure obsessively sews a garment until the boundaries between her and her art disappear.

Where is the DIY music scene located in Thessaloniki? Following Paranoid Reverb, we discover that in fact many bands are looking to find their own self-managed space in the city of Thessaloniki, which will give them the freedom and comfort for artistic creation. But how easy is this in a city that exploits every free space with profiteering and business practices, limiting their availability? (can be modified)

Yannis Kyriopoulos is a Greek academic internationally recognized as a pioneer who combined the study of health with economics and politics. His work has had a significant impact, as it contributed to the promotion of social justice. After his death, his legacy continues to inspire and guide his colleagues and students. The narratives of his friends, associates, and students highlight his multifaceted personality and his spiritual legacy.

Evgenia is an idealistic young woman who is angry at the entire world. She keeps a diary, referring to herself in the third person singular, imagining herself as a heroine who returns to the embrace of nature intending to record its reality. Her goal is to penetrate the lives of a couple of nomadic shepherds and understand their way of interpreting the world.

Documentary with interviews of prisoners describing their miserable living conditions in Greek prisons.

How can a woman who experiences pain have the strength to provoke and fight for her place in society? Maria Cyber, a member of the LGBTQI+ community, succeeds in that, through her everyday fight for the right to diversity.

In the documentary The portrait: Yorgos Rorris paints Evaggelos Averoff, a parallel narrative unfolds, centered around the lives of its two main protagonists. The film intricately documents the creation of a portrait of the politician and benefactor Evangelos Averoff by the painter Yorgos Rorris. Rorris guides us through the meticulous process he is about to embark on. His working method is unique, as the subject of the portrait has passed away (Evangelos Averoff: 1910 – 1990). The studio, serving as the documentary's primary setting, is creatively enhanced with sounds, descriptions, memories, and images from the life and acquaintances of Evangelos Averoff.

Seeking to highlight Roma culture and tradition, the film follows an engaged couple who are led to disaster.

On the occasion of what has been said from time to time about the "Macedonian" problem and through a modern comic-tragic dialogue, with an Aristophanic mood, a definition of "Greekness" itself that goes beyond "right speech" is attempted, having more to do with that invisible thread that unites the mysteries of ancient religion with those of today.

Anthology film by: Despoina Karvelam, Giorgos Karypidis, Alexandros Papailiou, Thanasis Skroubelos, Lena Voudouri

A film that follows the relationship that develops between the priest Stamatis Skliris and the filmmaker Stamatis Giannoulis, during the filming of a documentary about the painting of Father Stamatis. This loving relationship is violently interrupted by the sudden death of Stamatis Giannoulis, in one of the last films of this important filmmaker.

In the last years of their lives, the poet Nanos Valaoritis and the painter Marie Wilson lived together in an apartment in downtown Athens. Nanos Valaoritis is reflected in the cinematographic lens, weaving personal memory into space and time. A personal microcosm, containing multifaceted manifestations of a creative life.

“Is the city dead?”, asked the mermaid, instead of seeking for her brother. Alexander was long lost, definitely dead but not forgotten. None remembers of the mermaid, although the city bears her name, Thessaloniki.

Three “songs of revolution” from Crisis-hit Greece, illustrated in both documentary and narrative ways. These songs, from 1947, 1968 and 1997 show their relevance to 2015.

Impressions of the annual 28th October march in Greece.

“We are all stardust”: this was a phrase often quoted by Dionysis Simopoulos (1943–2022), an astronomy educator and science communicator who was the one who established the first-ever Planetarium in Athens, Greece, introducing the universe to millions of people with lectures, books, tv shows, documentaries. This documentary focues on his fascinating life!

The timeline of a fire that broke out on August 19, 2023, and 17 days later became the largest wildfire in Europe in recent years, leaving behind 935,000 hectares of burnt land. The account of the fire was recorded through aerial images, to achieve the best possible visualization.

Α mother and a daughter reveal bits of their past life. They had to deal with some major political and social shifts of Greece’s recent history: civil war, exile, emigration.

Impressions of the city of Volos, Greece.

Focusing on the rearing of newborn sheep at Mount Pateras (father) in Attica, Greece, First Milk weaves a sensory narrative on the human-animal connection, exploring the concepts of motherhood, breastfeeding, and orphanhood. Seasons pass, animals are born and die, the film captures the cycle of life: birth, death, rebirth.

Nowhere is a work about the physical space of the theatrical stage. Constantly changing and defined by the men and women that inhabit it, it can be countless different places while designed to be nowhere at all.

Two lovers lie in bed, as one of them makes a life-changing decision.

In an apartment in the center of Thessaloniki, Maria and her mother Vaya live together, struggling with the passage of time and the loss of memory. Vaya's descent into dementia turns their relationship into a daily ritual of caregiving. A difficult everyday life, which the two women face with humor and tenderness.

In near future, there is no more spoken language. People communicate only through writing, and concurrently get controlled through written cards with orders send by an unknown power.

A Duke and his valet go on a winter hunting trip looking for Partridges.

A selection of 40 one-minute diary movies by Giannis Misouridis

Three for one or one for two? Many times we tried to give a definition of a nightmare but we didnt find anyhting, while I'm trying to find a reason to exist, i created Lif who lives in the obscurity of alcoholism, Belen tried to make Pablo, and Pablo wondered if he was made by me.

A film by Eirini Tampasouli

About my exhibition in Athens, and an art discussion with four policemen.

Finding new eyes through an old camera.

A music video for La jalousie)The Callas) by Jacqueline Lentzou

A film by Eva Stefani

A split-screen animated film that explores the complex nature of memory in contemporary post-communist Romania. Using a collection of everyday, household objects as windows into the past, it features 16mm stop-motion animations of these artifacts, projected alongside selections of interviews from the ethnographic research with the objects’ owners.

Against the backdrop of an everyday scene, where nothing extraordinary happens, a girl remembers and expresses nostalgia and an ardent desire to return to a place that can be described as "home."