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Browse 274 movies from Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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
One day in the life of Angelos and Ioanna, each dealing with last night's fight.
Nov 2025
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.
Fast on his feet with a fat mustache, short stature, and investigative gaze. For a couple of days in the mountain, in his native land, we approach a man, strange and loud but nevertheless genuine and sensitive, a hunter. In his own way, Mr. Sotiris shines light on our bond with nature, history and man.
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.
May 2024
A solitary dinner for two in a dehumanized society that has a craving for itself.
Jul 2019
Martha, while doing her makeup, tells her about the romantic dinner she prepared for her husband last night. When she gets home later, she will need to wash herself.
Nick saw a dream about God's suicide. The day after dream he goes to his work and has a conversation with his boss about that dream.
Nov 2015
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
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
A group of four friends is struck by a sudden loss. A year later, the memories return, traveling them through time in an attempt to reconcile with their tragic past.
Vassilis, a talented art student, is informed that the deadline for a prestigious gallery's exhibition competition has been unexpectedly changed, giving him a week to complete the last painting required for his entry. The days that follow are hectic as Vassilis works non-stop on his canvas, while dealing with his annoying roommate, the gallery's eccentric curator, and the prospect of artistic rejection.
A maturation trip, the childish nightmare of K. In a wooden house, she revives her childhood's fears and desires and experiences her sexual awakening...
Feb 2011
Are you afraid of a fairy tale? A year after their mother's death, Anna takes her brother, Michalis, and they go for a weekend to the old house they used to go to with her, before she died, to calm down from the tension of her life. However, the shadows of the past and the fears have been waiting for them for a long time and something dark seems to lurk at their every step. The once calm, warm shelter now seems like a dark place. Haunted. Anna and Michalis feel alone. More alone than ever. Anna is called to put an end to her fear and move forward. Not to tremble.
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A haunting experimental stop-motion animation that reveals the violence of heteronormativity, gender and patriarchy on trans bodies. Erma, neutral: Principles or motives that guide one's behavior or actions. A film about gender, the body and all their intertwining moments in between. Through an abstract stop-motion / body horror narrative point of view it attempts to highlight the continuous process and struggle of the construction of gender subjectivity against the oppressive power of heteronormativity. From birth to death the error in the code of patriarchy is subjugated and resisted, emerging but also trapped by the erinyes of the social. With an ironic and critical mood and intense religious symbolism, Erma highlights the contradictions of gender composition both in the field of solitary subjectivity and in the dominant heteronormative narrative. Gender identity is a war waged in the trenches of the body.
About how sadness gives birth to joy and one eats the other.
Washingtonia starts when the giraffe's heart can no longer be heard. Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree whose heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because its heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.
Feb 2014
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.
May 2021
Hermetically sealed and sunk in non-chronological qualities of time, the experience of the wound is always relived torturously, quoting a series of dualities: immobility-movement, inactivity-activity, absence-presence, alienation-proximity, pain-pleasure. Seven long takes represent the wound as something that probably pre-exists and then takes place in an (anti-)erotic situation.
May 2026
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