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Browse 277 movies from Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
A young woman experiences a pregnancy nightmare.
May 2024
One day in the life of Angelos and Ioanna, each dealing with last night's fight.
May 2026
Dimitris Pistiolas, a retired employee for the Greek Post Office, is the owner of the largest cinema museum in the world. In two tiny venues in Athens lies his renowned by the Guinness World Records collection. Now, 90 years old, Dimitris recounts his past, hidden in his machines, hoping that his memories are not going to be lost forever.
The Snake lays the Cosmic Egg, which births the Cosmos. The Cosmos can only exist until it is time for it to die, and for the next one to be born.
Stamatis cannot get over his breakup with Katerina. He stays locked inside, until one night Katerina visits him with one purpose only: to get him out of the house.
May 2025
In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century. until the present day. Despite the fact that the Revolution of 1821 constitutes the founding act of the modern Greek state, as a subject matter it is underrepresented in national film production. This is one of the points on which the research looks, which simultaneously examines the periods of concentration of films on the subject of the Revolution or, respectively, the periods of its collective silence. The purpose of the documentary is to study the ideological discourse and the cinematic language of the films with the theme of 1821, in order to highlight the function of the cinema as a carrier of Public History and as a factor in shaping the collective historical consciousness.
Oct 2021
Through a journey into love, myth, the present and the past, Argiro seeks the missing pieces, in her effort to decode the Phaistos Disc.
Sep 2019
In 1986, during the World Cup, John, a conservative man with right-wing beliefs and his brother, Antonis, with Communist authorities are waiting for the crossbar of the Soviet football match Union-Belgium.
May 2021
Five short stories made by five directors on the theme of memory, all shot on film.
Two friends, a boy and a girl, at the age of 16, decide to deal with the taboo of being naked.
May 2019
Angelos, Tilemachos and Efi just finished their final high school exams. University life is ahead and they spend their last summer in their small hometown. Then Angelos starts seeing a dark figure of a motorcyclist. He’s unable to express this to his father and his friends as he has to face his past to finally move on.
Oct 2024
A short fiction-documentary film set during WWII after the Massacre of Chortiatis . Two men are heading to their execution by the Nazis, who are leading them to a path in which their lives and choices collide. This is a part of History, but what has actually changed since then.
Sep 2013
A video rough puzzle project
Mar 2012
The documentary Creative Producer: The Unsung Hero of Greek Cinema explores the role of the producer in the creative process of Greek cinema, highlighting the complexity and unseen creative role that distinguishes this special profession.
The Contract, Stephanos’ birthday gift, will force him to reconsider the archetypal values created by his mother’s cult. His choice of signing it or not will set off his coming-of-age journey, ultimately determined by accepting or renouncing his family’s factitious religion.
May 2023
Michalis, unable to accept the loss of his wife, keeps cooking every day for two dishes, in a vain effort to keep her memory alive. Despite the efforts of his brother-in-law, he retreats to himself and his cooking routine. But, suddenly, the "other" dish starts being consumed daily...
Nov 2017
The unemployed Dimitris lives with his unemployed mother. Without thinking twice, he bets the rent on a football match: In tonight's PAOK-Panathinaikos, he bets on PAOK winning on penalties!
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Peter is an eight year old boy who lives in a cheap hotel room. When his mother oddly disappears, a transsexual woman comes to take care of him, against her own will. Sooner or later Peter will find out that this is the woman with the 'plumed snake', the woman that will pull him to outside world, where anything is likely to occur.
Sali, a young man of Albanian origin, has dropped out of school and works at greenhouses. He wants to save enough money to go through the tryout process of Juventus Academy. But to realize his dream, he must first overcome a series of hurdles in his harsh daily life.
Sep 2023
Suddenly a strange yellow dust covers Athens. At first everyone thought it was sulfur. But a few hours later Yellow Fieber erupted. No one expected what was about to happen. No one could tell that the city would turn into a forest of palms. Yellow Fieber is a story of the loss of a city
Oct 2015