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Browse 287 movies from Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
After his parents’ separation, a young boy finds comfort in his drawings of a treehouse. One night, a tear brings to life a tiny version of himself, who guides him through a dreamlike journey of reconciliation and creation.
Sep 2026
A narrow space. A young man obsessed with ambient sounds. All will be disrupted when the sonic presence of the Russian neighbors invades his space.
May 2019
Like an annoyance to the eye that makes you cry. Like the smell of a forgotten garment that brings back the shadow of a person you no longer talk to. An inconvenience without a clear source or cause. Get rid of the inactivity and calm until then before the big outbreak. Separation is a difficult and painful thing, but what happens when one is confronted with memories and thoughts of the past that one can not turn off? The film follows the lonely and anonymous protagonist through a day that will be an important part of her healing process after a separation. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.
May 2021
(will come later)
May 2026
Two young activists try to sabotage 'DEE', a futuristic company that aims to create a highly controlled global society.
Jan 2014
A forgotten wedding videotape holds the coming-of-age story of a girl, pieced together through fragments of family life in provincial Greece during the 2000s. From the wedding festivities before the ceremony to the couple’s exit from the church, childhood memories intertwine with contemporary recordings of her adult self.
A young runner’s life quickly slips out of control after an accident in which he loses a large quantity of drugs. As he struggles to replace the missing package under intense time pressure, his decisions become increasingly dangerous.
What happens if we neglect our insecurities and feelings when we are daydreaming?
A film is being made. The characters of the film have escaped in the countryside. The director wanders in the city at night. The crew is filming, trying to consist the film from everything that appears to be useful or function-able, but is that so? A woman is wandering in the city at night. The characters start to act for themselves. The crew and the director are getting into the film. Crossing in and out - all these people - from that film that's being made by and with them, among other things.
In the near future, rapid evolution of technology has led humanity in the creation of holograms identical to dead people.
Sep 2015
The confused memories of having once stood and the dizzy hope to get up again.
Mar 2012
An action film is interrupted by a breaking news report, the events of which are mysteriously similar to the plot of the film.
May 2023
Evangelia visits her grandmother just before leaving for the city where she will study. In the evening she has to go to a party, where she hopes to meet Tasos. Her grandmother takes care of her and makes her the French braid that she has been doing since childhood. But Evangelia does not pay much attention to her grandmother. Not even to the childhood braid. She is impatient for her meeting with Tasos and rushes to leave, to get ready as she wants. When she finally goes to the party, she will be asked to decide what it is that she really needs to say goodbye to just before her departure.
I. and F. are wandering. They walk. They stop. They talk. They are lost. They remember. They forget. They reappear. They continue. They pass mountains, fields and villages, meet friends, but also strangers. They go on, walking, stopping, talking, disappearing, remembering, forgetting, reappearing. This is their story, through the landscape, the road and the stories of others.
Sunday afternoon. The best time to install the new automatic home security system. All I need is my magnifying glass so I can read the manual. But where the hell have I put him?
Thanasis, a rising movie star is excited about the new movie he is starring in. This movie is called FILM. The excessive ambitions and artistic vision of the director that will lead Thanasis to madness. He himself is determined to discover the secret of filming and ultimately the secret of life. In a film shooting nothing is as it seems.
Oct 2022
Young Cordelia watches nightmarish images on a movie screen and from the dark cinema room is transferred to an unfamiliar dream world from where trying to escape. The invisible pursuer chases her in stone alleys and the macabre presence that haunts her in her sleep as another Mora awakens a new aspect of herself. An experimental short film inspired by the painting "Cordelia" by William Frederick Yeames. A vivid nightmare of sexual awakening.
May 2022
Nikos continues his daily life with the beautiful company of Elena. As time passes, reality is revealed in a bathtub.
May 2025
5+1 images for the absurdity of the struggle. A collective production.
May 2013
A little post-apocalyptic dream.