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Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.
Mar 2016
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.
Sep 2011
A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.
Jan 2016
Mar 2014
Thomas works as a taxi driver by night and he lives with his wife, Maria, and his teenage son, Tassos. When one of his customers commits suicide, Thomas is prompted to confront everything he’s kept buried inside for too long, and realize the shortcomings of his life. When he meets Eleni, his client’s lost daughter, he sees in her a way out of his weary life and becomes romantically obsessed with her.
Nov 2023
In a remote village near the Greek-Albanian borders, an exiled father becomes obsessed with a young woman's murder.
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An aged, above suspicion, bourgeois man known as ‘The Master’ lives isolated in a luxurious beachfront villa with his teenage daughter. In reality, however, he is involved in an illicit trade in antiquities, acts as a loan shark, and trades antiquities on the black market. The ‘Master’ has two henchmen, Mercury and John, who both commit fatal mistakes. Mercury falls for the daughter of ‘Master’, while John becomes obsessed with a prostitute. Both of them, as ‘sentimentalists’, must be eliminated.
Dec 2014
Born on 1988 in Athens Zoo and abandoned by his mother, silver-back gorilla Ivo has never been able to mate. Now he needs to be transferred to another zoo. KING KONG is a story about a 50 years old man, working in the Zoo while taking care of his bedridden mother. Unable to form any type of relationship and express his sexuality, he will go down the path of violence and despair.
Sep 2013
Summer in Athens. Nikos is a musician with no future who takes care of a villa while the wealthy owner is out. With nothing to do, Nikos decides to invite his ex-girlfriend Sofia over and force her to tell him why they broke up a year earlier.
May 2017
Summer of 2000. A young boy arrives at his grandparents’ home in a seaside village. Keeping him company during his carefree summer days, is the mysterious “witch”, a self-isolated elderly woman living in an old house on the beach. When one day the woman is no longer there, the boy will turn his gaze to the setting sun for the first time.
Sep 2023
26th of September 1999. Alekos is dead. His teenage granddaughter, Margarita, refuses to attend his funeral and takes advantage of her parents’ absence to throw a small party at home. Three days earlier, unaware that this would be his last night, Alekos attends a reunion of old friends to celebrate the birthday of Lula, his first love, who now suffers from dementia.
Nov 2024
Running away from a life filled with failure and rejection, Nikos desperately dives into the dark waters of human desire, after closing a faustian pact. He is given an old piece of animal skin that promises its owner everything, but at a high price - his life. As he steadily steps down the spiral of madness, Nikos wonders if he could ever wake up from a life that more and more resembles a dream. A contemporary, radical outlook on Balzac’s classic novel.
Nov 2018
In 1984, photophobic Zano arrives in Athens and quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city.
Jul 2014
Stelios Dimitrakopoulos has 32 hours left before he loses everything. From the jazz bar he painstakingly keeps running for years, to his own family. The Romanian gangster who lent him money, now demands the debt to be paid. The middle-man and former friend, makes Stelios take care of illegal errands. His wife is seriously thinking of abandoning him, and a night club owner, not thinking about the consequences, finally starts to stand up for himself. Christmas is coming, the clock is ticking, and the tree in Stelios' house must be decorated.
Mar 2015
A sexist violence incident fires tension in Danai's friendship with Ilona and Toufa. Torn between theory and practice, the three friends realize that patriarchy won't die with bottles (only), and they now have marks to prove it.
Sep 2019
An unfinished love story between glimpses on wheels.
Nov 2012
Haralabos is at his late forties and he has just lost his dog. He decides to fill his empty space and time with a collection: on a whim, he chooses to collect egg holders. Until one day he meets Dimitra, an avid collector and also a loner. Their relationship will share the joy of discovery and the grounds of sharing. But everything will change after a trip in the country, where the couple will face an unknown temptation: the egg holder that could be the most beautiful piece in their collection. If they don’t own it, how can they go on?
Sep 2014
Two best friends in their senior year are turning eighteen. The girls intend to lose their virginity on the night of their birthday. Everything goes awry in this adventure, an Odyssey which, nevertheless, becomes a journey of self-discovery, friendship and adulthood.
When Helen is bored, horrible things happen around her.
Best friends from college, Elli, Natasha, and Joe are spending their last weekend together on a getaway at Elli’s summerhouse. Natasha and Jo are leaving to study abroad, something that makes Elli emotional, since she feels that she is being left behind.
Nov 2019