Discoveries from Greece World Cinema

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."

Not Allowed For Algorithmic Audiences is a video featuring a fictional virtual assistant named ‘Voice’, who has managed to scan the entire contents of the Internet and gather all sorts of information that they long to share. The virtual assistant uses seven brief monologues as an opportunity to introduce themselves. They talk about their skills, their ancestors, the rare earth elements they are made of, and the significance of voices. They reveal information regarding the listening infrastructures and the social dysfunctions and stereotypes on which their programming and operation are based. Listen to their monologues to receive tips on how not to be heard by algorithms online.

Two guys, one deadly virus, a city in quarantine and a lot of sexual desperation.

A young boy mourns his father's death, trying not to lose his innocence.

Experimental video, created entirely with the AI system Dalle-2, with numerous variations of an initial generated image of Ophelia, following different paths of variations each time. Sound was created by AI platform Melobytes, turning that same initial image of Ophelia to sound. The final result, based on the randomness and fluidity of the AI generators used, is a surreal animation where a classic theme (Ophelia) meets with weird dreamlike mutations and unexpected futuristic scenes.

Everything starts on a Group Therapy session. Eleni attends to face the bitter truth and cope with the situation with her mother, that has been diagnosed with Altzheimer's disease. The film features the side of the child that chooses to stand by the diseased parent till the end.

A filmmaker spends a year in the national garden of Athens, Greece and discovers the secret life of this place, by following several characters who seek refuge in its serene setting.

Athens 1982. Somewhere between Kypseli, Patisia and Exarchia districts, Creep Records was born. In its four year run, Creep Records featured some of the most important bands of the Greek New Wave, Post Punk and Dark Wave scene on its roster. Creep released a series of iconic records that are, to this day, music works of inestimable sentimental value. A documentary about one of the first and most influential independent record labels in Greece which gave shelter to several underground bands of the 80's, such as Yell-o-Yell and many others. Besides the personal narratives of the founder of Creep Records Babis Dallidis, the film also features members of the bands who recorded with the label, such as Angelo and His Egos, Art Of Parties, Clown, Cpt Nefos, Headleaders, Metro Decay, Rehearsed Dreams, The Reporters, South Of No North, Villa 21 and The Vyllies.

Andreas is an unknown actor, who has ridden the rod and believes that he was born to play only Shakespeare and culture. He has a bond with Zeta, who is a comedy star, and managed to get him a small part in a project, which she will star in. In other words, let Andreas dress up as a woman and make a college girl. But he does not agree... The couple has a close friend, Alexis, a young lawyer, who has come up with an original trick to extract money every now and then from a rich aunt who lives in Africa. Sometimes he writes to her that he just got married and he needs money to open a house, sometimes that his non-existent wife gave birth to a baby and other similar tales...

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That man's dearest dream is to be a mother.

Two twenty-one-year-old twins are standing on two opposite, "twin" staircases. Breaking an object of sentimental value is the reason for their awakening and the beginning of a literal and figurative hunt. The differences in the psyches of the two brothers along the way are expressed, as the escalation of the narrative leads to their reunion and the restoration of their archetypal, embryonic relationship.

Thanasis’ eternal loves, music, nature, poetry, meet in a musical documentary filmed at the estuaries of Pinios, at the top of Kissavos and in some more corners of natural beauty of the area.

An experimental film that emerged during the time of isolation, out of a desire for intimacy and a need for escape. It is a sci-fi, queer fairytale - manifesto that envisions a non-heteropatriarchal world of self-determination, emancipation, and mutual care.

Using the archives of different sources, the film tries an alternative reading of Makronisos, an island used as a concentration camp for supporters of the left after the Greek civil war.

Synthetiki was founded in 1985 in Athens by Apostolis Loverdos and Dionisis Avgerinos. The music documentary A Film about Something highlights the late recognition that this electronic band through the web, while recording moments from their concerts and jouney as a band. Apostolis refers to this early period as a “perfect rejection toward us.”

The documentary follows the lives of Greek women immigrants who came to Germany during 1960–1973 and worked in hard jobs. The Second Word War was a landmark both in European and Greek history. Since then, one million people immigrated to Germany. Some decades later, the scenario remains the same.

“If we fish now from Dardanelles to Piraeus, the fish we will catch will be two, the barrels ten, the bottles a hundred, and the garbage a thousand!.” Last year, Dimitris from Kavala, with his trawler, retrieved from the sea 2.5 tons of litter. He is one of the 40 fishermen who collaborate with the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation.

“In 1981 I started working with Nikos on this job. 30 years have passed so fast. I really enjoy socializing here with people, and having fun together. We didn't make money, but it was beautiful”. Nikos and Thodoris have a repair shop for Vespas in Chania, Crete. Just before their retirement, with grease and bearings on their hands, they host us in their daily lives.

Sibylla was a priestess and propthetess in the Apollonian oracle at the Greek colony of Cumae in Southern Italy. God fell in love with the young lady and she asked him to make her immortal. But she forgot to ask for youth and so she ages throughout centuries without being able to die.

Eleanor and Sarah are an eighteenth-century couple situated in Antilia. They live isolated in the forest, but soon the outside world will take notice of them.

Danger and defying death has its own beauty for some people. It is grand and courageous. The Kalymnian sponge divers start when they are eighteen and devote their lives till they are thirty-five to their difficult and tough profession. In this documentary, filmmaker Demetres Anagnostopoulos takes a brave dive into the "sponge job" as Kalymnians call it, including all the factors that linked this profession to an entire island and this unique human race. Starting from Kalymnos, their island, and its surroundings, the boat yards where they built their boats, the traditional ways of sponge diving and the testimonies of the protagonists, captains and divers hit by the divers' disease, and moving on to show the sponge manufacture, the world-unique museum where they guard their tradition, and the folklore artists who chronicle it in their own way.

Upon being shown a photograph of a 6-year old boy, now digitally aged to 50, Yathay Pin’s realities collide. Haunted by his inner demons, his guilt surfaces for abandoning his son to escape during the Cambodian genocide. The Player, embodying Yathay, plummets into his mental prison, containing locked memories.

The ghosts of Hebron is a short anti-war documentary.

The film is a portrait of the life of Stacey, a woman who lives and works in Thessaloniki.

Sigma masturbates. I woke up in the room like in a dream. He goes out of his room and finds himself on a snowy mountain.

The Count lives alone without contact with the people around him and observes them stars from his telescope. When by chance his attention is drawn to the couple who he lives in the apartment building across the street, he witnesses the abuse of the woman by the her husband. He gradually becomes obsessed with her and decides to save her.

Kostas is walking on the sidewalk, Lazarus and George are sitting on some steps on the same sidewalk and their legs prevent Kostas from passing, he is disturbed but does not say anything. Kostas uploads a story on Instagram and enters his apartment which is full of people. He is now on the balcony and his gaze falls on Lazarus and George who are walking down the street with their walking sticks. He realizes his wrong attitude both before and in general in his life and decides to delete Instagram. The crowd in the apartment stares at him, but he has made up his mind and turns off his cell phone to finally see that no one is left with him. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

As a girl opens her eyes and wakes up in a vast forest, a voice announces that she is part of a simulation, artificially shaped by scientists from the future. The girl, refusing to believe her, hurries to escape unsuccessfully. This virtual world is her only memory and the way out of it assumes that the girl will succeed in recalling her real life. This is the last hope for the experiment to be successful and for the girl to regain her life. Will he be able to remember or will he be disconnected? The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

A thief breaks into a mansion in the middle of the night. In the attic he finds an intubated girl sleeping. While he observes her the girl wakes up and the oscilloscope starts to beat. The thief reassures her before waking the whole house. But the girl seizes the opportunity and asks him to do her a favor before he leaves: To pull the plug on her and let her die. The thief helps her die a beautiful death. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

Quarantine. People locked in their homes. Terrified. We follow a girl during her everyday life. She goes out alone or sits at home doing...nothing. We hear her thoughts, her concerns. A species of people that had disappeared makes its reappearance. They are called "passers-by" and they scare her. In fact, she meets one of them during a walk. He doesn't see her. People have stopped feeling because they should but she hasn't made it and still feels. He feels an overwhelming need to speak to this passer-by, the stream boy. He doesn't. Instead, she takes us through a labyrinth of reflections and shows us her own perspective on this new everyday life. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

"Violence doesn't need a reason. It just happens." With the event of a love-marked burglary involving a young girl, the film deals with an exaggerated but everyday form of violence and violation, as well as a reality that is not far from ours. A cell phone that runs out of battery, a deep sexual desire but also the question that raises, really, how far is someone willing to go to satisfy it? The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

Odysseus came to Athens after 10 years to meet Vasilis again. Everything is awkward during the day, but that changes at night. This love story feels like a dream, a dream that only Erato knows how it’s ending. Sometimes dreaming with your eyes open can really ‘wake’ you up!

Marios comes face to face with himself.

o.micron O.mega [the scenography of the microscale] darkness – light, absence – presence, urban environment – nature, cell – universe. Life journeys…

A man lives in an abandoned factory with an immobile robot child as his only company. Until, with the appearance of a woman from his past, Chaos invades the place.

The works on the Athenian Acropolis: People and Monuments directed by S. Mavrommatis. Documentary with footage from 2003-2009 produced by the Acropolis Monuments Maintenance Service.

In order for Greece to deal with the pervasive inequality that stems from anti-black rhetoric, Greece as a country needs to address its multicultural reality and engage in racial dialogue with its Afro Greek citizens. This can begin by acknowledging the demographic diversity in all social spheres. In this Afro Greek portraiture film, the lack of visibility and inclusion of Greeks of African descent in the dominant narrative of Greece are highlighted. Black Greeks / Afro Greeks, despite that some now have legal citizenship, are still being seen as foreigners or even referred to as immigrants in the country of their birth and upbringing.

An essay film about separation, through the director’s experience as a child of divorced parents. We observe them in their workspace as the director narrates the story of their meeting and separation as a natural progression of life, despite the trauma that inevitably follows her.

The Zouzounias have prepared for you the most famous fairy tale, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and are delighted to present it to you through five new wonderful video clips by the Zouzounias!

A ghost loses his childhood friend with whom he shares many happy memories. In an attempt to deal with the grief that torments him, he resorts to a group therapy of ghosts where he makes some new acquaintances...

The film “Short stories of restoration” created by the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) to accompany the photographic exhibition “Chisel and Memory: the contribution of marble craftsmanship to the restoration of the Acropolis monuments” which was hosted at the Acropolis Museum. The film uses footages of the audiovisual archive of the YSMA and the personal testimony of marble technicians who took part in the works, to shed light to the everyday life in the worksite, the contribution of marble craftsmen to the restoration works, and the emotions that they experience and share during the interventions.

Footage of the Greek refugee crisis filmed on an iPhone.

Afe lives with his father. There seem to be problems communication at home. Afe plays rugby in a local club. There seem to be communication problems with them his teammates. Afe wants to prove he is good in front of his coach. They seem to exist communication problems between them. Afe is struggling to maintain his composure.

Lazarus goes on an excursion with his parents after a long time. The family's expectation is to relive the times when he was young and traveling by car. But things are not as they used to be. An announcement mobilizes changes in the balances until then. The car breaks down and time for everyone goes backwards.

A pilot tour of the Tate Modern, London. An Experimental trip at Tate Modern, London. A journey of emotions, a storm of intense images, colors, a testimony of fear, violence, pain.

End of summer 2018, Athens, Greece. During the preparation of a festive dinner for her name-day, Elpida will answer in a survey. Distracted from the conversation, it will lead to the revelation of a well-hidden secret.

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

Mary has just stolen a pile of clothes. The city drives her to seek refuge in an Orthodox church. Father Alekos sees his unexpected visitor as a huge opportunity to escape his routine. What follows is a joint confession, which is absurd by the standards of the Orthodox Church.

After the death of his boyfriend, Abraham relives the abuse he endured as a child.