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Browse 70 movies from Onassis Culture
Just a man walking with nothing to say.
Jun 2020
Having a chat with my alter ego as it looks on my holding two pairs of scissors and slowly cutting my hair. Sometimes it encourages me and at other times, it tries to stop me.
May 2020
The wonderful digital world is not just about colors and fancy ringtones; it is also a space for thoughtful discussions, as well as a chance for us to become better people, leaving the past behind and, with science’s help, creating the future that we deserve.
Nelly has escaped from her wealthy and controlling family. As she dances in a strip club, she meets Markos, a small yet charismatic gangster, who helps her run away from her stepfather’s henchmen. Markos soon becomes her protector and lover. He brings her into Broadway, Athens, an abandoned entertainment complex squatted by a small community of dancers, tramps, thieves and a captive monkey. For a while, everything goes well, even when Broadway hosts a mysterious man, injured and covered with bandages, wanted dead by Athens’ most dangerous mafia. However, when Markos gets arrested and imprisoned, the newcomer will take an unexpectedly important place in the gang.
Jun 2022
The everyday life of a man locked down in a house takes imaginary turns. In times of isolation and deprivation, his mind leaps to the elusive, while he is restrained inside the four walls of his house.
Apr 2020
20-year-old Chloe leaves her dysfunctional family to follow a group of romantic outsiders and help the forgotten of society. During her travel through a shattered Greece, she will dream, fly, and fall in love but also she’ll realize that the true rebels are always alone.
Jun 2025
In this mesmerizing experimental film, Stephen King television mini-series The Langoliers is compressed and transformed through hypnotic black and white collage animation that meticulously reconstructs and reshapes its supernatural drama to an eerie and profound effect.
Nov 2021
Two young women, from different points of departure and by using different means of transportation, examine where disability begins and ends.
Dec 2025
Eva Stefani follows the rehearsals at Onassis Stegi and the international tour of Dimitris Papaioannou’s legendary stage work, Transverse Orientation. Her film is also a portrait of the artist in his effort to give shape and breathe life into his work.
Mar 2025
A desperate meditation on the extended passage of time as experienced through social distance.
In a distant future world, where water and air are contaminated, and it is prohibited to touch one another, a girl and a boy decide to go to a beach. Yorgos Zois creates an erotic sci fi through these dystopian times.
A railway crossing in the middle of nowhere. Two guards: solitary Yiannis who never leaves his post and cool Antonis who goes with the rhythm of the landscape. Every once in a while, a voice announces the passing of a train. The two guards manually lower the bars. Nothing seems to stir their daily routine until love charges in, crushing all certainties.
Oct 2023
Christina, a ballet dancer who struggles to earn her mother’s approval, is trying to succeed in an audition for which her mother is preparing her.
Sep 2025
Captures of Kareem’s universe during the pandemic. A short film about the feeling of isolation, creating art in a world paused by Covid-19, and friendship.
Dynasty Handbag must pack a go bag for vague disaster. What are the necessities she shall take with her into the unknown future? Is there a single object which will once and for all guarantee her survival, her self-worth, her youthful good looks and her totalitarian potential?
The seasoned Captain Mitsos Avgoustis stubbornly refuses to retire. The ocean swell has lodged itself in his mind, and the sea simply will not give him back. For twelve years he has been away from Greece—estranged from his family, at odds with the shipping company, yet bound by unshakable ties to the 22 sailors aboard the cargo ship ATHOS III. Defiant and unwilling to obey, he somehow keeps finding cargo, calling at ports, loading and unloading, silently roaming the waters of the Pacific. Day and night, he battles the relentless gales on the lonely voyages of his mind and heart, where the secret he carries has long since dropped anchor.
Dec 2026
How does music mark what unfolds between life and death? Can a musical ritual be both ancient and contemporary, nostalgic yet absolutely relevant? Throughout Greece and the southern Balkans, music-making is often linked with the customs and traditions of the cycle of life – events of exceptional significance for every community.
Mar 2026
An aquatic malady threatens a forgotten coastal village. Confronted with this rising marine crisis, three young fishermen resort to illegal dynamite fishing.
Sometimes you feel like an inflated prophylactic glove, and you almost want to jump out the window.
A rapper writes his new song, talking about his night out in the center of Athens. He sits in the kitchen of his apartment, where we see a mosaic floor and some colorful tiles on the wall. At night, a car wash transforms into a kickboxing studio, where the employees practice in pairs – yet all alone. The floor is mosaic and there are colorful tiles on the wall.