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Alps (18+)
Αλπεις ... Winner of the Best Film Award at the Sydney Film Festival, as well as Best Screenplay at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. ... Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos follows up his Oscar-nominated and Cannes award-winning Dogtooth with the equally unnerving Alps - a …Read More
Anna Kannava Tribute & Book Launch (18+)
Αφιέρωμα στην Άννα Kαννάβα ... « Suddenly I had fallen in love and this time I knew it was for real. I had discovered filmmaking. » Anna Kannava ... Anna Kannava was born in Cyprus a…Read More
Boy Eating the Bird's Food (18+)
Το Αγόρι Τρώει το Φαγητό του Πουλιού ... Starvation, alienation and de-humanisation on the streets of austerity-dominated Athens. ... Filmmaker Ek…Read More
Burning Heads (18+)
Το Γἀλα ... A powerful melodrama of familial conflict, acceptance and the search for redemption in a rapidly changing Europe. ... Adonis (Omiros Poulakis) is a 25-year-old immigrant desperate to cast off his Georgian roots and assimilate into Athenian culture. Ambit…Read More
Christmas Tango (18+)
Το Τανγκό των Χριστουγέννων ... "Robust characters, intense dialogues, an old-world atmosphere and heaps of romantic tension. In other words, commercial cinema at its best..." Flix.gr ...…Read More
Dead Europe (18+)
CLOSING NIGHT FILM ... « A bruising blast of intense drama. » Sydney Morning Herald ... Based on the novel by Melbourne writer Christos ‘The Slap’ Tsiolkas and from the producers of Shame and Animal Kingdom, Dead Europe is a deep, densely wrought autopsy of Europe …Read More
Dos (18+)
A love story in reverse. ... Two cities. Two languages. Two realities. Or is it all one? This slice of life drama set in Barcelona draws from seductive visuals to present two very separate, but parallel, relationships on the brink of collapse - in the Spanish corner are Héctor (David Fernand…Read More
Fading Light (MA15+)
Το Φως που Σβήνει ... I'll see through my music... ... Twelve year-old Christos (Vladimiros Golosinski) lives with his mother (Elissavet Nazlidou) on a picturesque Aegean island. The boy is blessed with a prodigious musical…Read More
Fish n' Chips (18+)
It's about the fishy smell of happiness. ... A hard-working immigrant in London, Andy, deep-fries his way into oblivion until his idealised image of ‘home' sends him back to his native Cyprus. Having slaved away for others his entire life, he finally opens his very own chip shop. But his drea…Read More
Greek Student Film Festival
Following the success of 2011’s inaugural Greek Student Film Festival and Competition, this wonderful event is running again in 2012. ... In order to be submitted the films must be a short fiction, animation or documentary film and must include the chosen theme. This year’s theme …Read More
J.A.C.E (18+)
« Eye-opening, terrifying, crazy, chaotic, whacky and, ultimately, tragic. » Flix.gr ... Twice-orphaned Jace - a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin - witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls into the hands of a bunch of ruthless …Read More
Jerks (18+)
Κωλόπαιδα ... Three friends roam the streets of Exarcheia on a hot August night... ... Phevos (Giorgos Kafetzopoulos), Savvas (Diogenis Skaltsas) and Andreas (Aineias Tsamatis) are in the final 12 hours of their life in Greece before they try for a new …Read More
L (18+)
« One of the more original, willfully bizarre films of the year. » Sundance Film Festival ... Beginning with an ode to a bear and then ending with one to the sea, L is every bit as absurd as its single letter title (referring to the L-plate when learning to drive a vehicle). ... A man l…Read More
Landscape in the Mist (18+)
Τοπίο Στην Ομίχλη ... « Angelopoulos is a great master… A powerful film with startling imagery. » Martin Scorsese ... In a working class suburb of Athens, two children – eleven year-old Voula (Tan…Read More
Larissa Confidential (18+)
A riotous comedy about two villages, a big wall and biological wastewater. ... Two villages divided by a large wall have lived side-by-side in perfect harmony until the Kallikratis plan to merge them and all hell breaks loose. ... A big-time journalist dies, the establishment of a biological wastew…Read More
Magic Hour (18+)
Μαγική Ώρα ... « Employs gallows humor to peel back several layers of Greek society and in the process expose some fairly substantial rot. » Bright Lights Film Journal ... One of the funniest recent Greek films presents the surrealist side of …Read More
Man at Sea (18+)
« You think you're a good man, you let them die... just like your son. » ... In this eagerly anticipated yet nightmarish drama/thriller, Alex (Antonis Karistinos) and Kate (Theodora Tzimou) reunite on-board Alex's ship following the death of their son. ... That same day, Alex rescues 30…Read More
Nisos 2 (18+)
Νήσος 2 ... OPENING NIGHT FILM ... The sequel to 2010's Greek Film Festival Opening Night feature film continues the laughs with some unexpected twists and grotesque situations. ... Fast forward five years, and the ‘heroes' from The Island, Babis (Vladimiros Kiriakidi…Read More
Paradise (18+)
Παράδεισος ... Paradise = place of recreation with luscious vegetation and wild or free-roaming animals. ... One weekend, amid the chaos, gaudy floats and colours of the carnival in Patras - a celebration to rival those in Rio and Venice - four …Read More
Poker Face (18+)
Bluff, bet, chase, gamble and play... the ultimate comedy battle of the sexes. ... Niki (Evi Saoulidou) has been reared by her father in the somewhat dubious world of professional gambling where she relies a little too heavily on the support of her lucky charm - a stuffed parrot. Her life goes down…Read More
The Canary Yellow Bicycle (MA15+)
Το Καναρί Ποδήλατο ... Based on a true story, Aris (Dimitris Alexandris), a new teacher in a junior school in Athens, soon discovers one of his students – Lefteris (Yorgos Halaris) – is highly illiterate an…Read More
The City of Children (18+)
Η Πόλη των Παιδιών ... Four couples. Four pregnancies. One inextricably violent end. ... This edgy drama follows a day-in-the-life of four pregnant couples in modern Athens, but with stories that differ drastically to the usual ones of ho…Read More
The Mirror and the Knife (18+)
The remarkable true story of Manos Hadjidakis – winner of the 1960 Academy Award for Best Original Song, ‘Never On Sunday’. ... Featuring a mix of archival and re-created footage, The Mirror and the Knife takes viewers inside the complex personality of Manos Hadjidakis who &…Read More
Tied Red Thread (18+)
Δεμένη Κόκκινη Κλωστή ... A taut and compelling period drama from the award-winning maker of Love at 16. ... One of the most bitter and taboo chapters in Greece’s history – the post-World War II civil …Read More
Tungsten (18+)
Exclusion, violence, psychological cannibalism and consecutive power failures highlight a society "forgotten in the dark"... ... A ticket inspector (Vangelis Mourikis) is looking for ways to rid himself of massive debts in order to keep his family together. A couple (Tasos Nousias and Kora Karvouni…Read More
Unfair World (18+)
Άδικος Κόσμος ... « A simple everyday story of little people trying to make it in the big world. » Flix.gr ... Filmmaker Filippos Tsitos follows the international success of Plato's Academy (Greek Film Festival 2011) with a…Read More
Wasted Youth (18+)
"One of the finest Greek films of the past couple of years." Neos Kosmos ... This spellbinding drama inspired by the tragic shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos observes a day-in-the-life of a young skate-punk (Haris Markou) and policeman Vasilis (Ieronymos Kaletsanos). While the teenager's life is…Read More
Welcome to All Saints (18+)
Απ’ τα Kόκκαλα Βγαλμένα ... "No f**king way I'm gonna trust a Greek hospital, OK?" ... Based on the experiences of filmmaker Sotiris Goritsas' medic brother - as well as a book written by Greek doctor Gior…Read MoreDocumentaries
Children of the Riots (18+)
Παιδιά των Ταραχών ... "The first week we believed this would change the world." ... On the 6th December 2008, 15 year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was killed by police while on a seemingly safe pedestrian street with his friends on…Read More
Fortunate Son (18+)
A film about faith, despair, renewal, and the different kinds of love in a family. ... In this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Tony Asimakopoulos - the son of Greek immigrants living in Canada, and a recovering drug user - turns his gaze on a complicated, painful relationship with his agein…Read More
Krisis (18+)
A time capsule of Greek life during the IMF crisis - the vision of many brought together as one. ... First there was the landmark The Prism GR 2011 project, in which a country tormented came together through 27 individual multimedia pieces. Now there is Krisis, the project's evolution into feature-…Read More
Wild and Precious (18+)
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Poet Mary Oliver ... Greek-Australian independent filmmaker Bill Mousoulis shoots his first feature film on European soil - a story of personal and public politics, ambitiously produced in two countries with very little mone…Read MoreShorts
Casus Belli (18+)
If one man falls, we all fall down. ... All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again. ... "Everyone is starving for somethin…Read More
The Foreigner (18+)
"The truth is, we have more people in the cemetery than in our homes." ... Featuring renowned British actor Phillip Bretherton (As Time Goes By) and produced by Christos V. Konstantakopoulos (Alps), this comic short film follows the trials and tribulations of a remote village attempting to raise it…Read More
The Palace (18+)
"One of the best short films I've ever seen." Morgan Spurlock, director of Super Size Me ... Cyprus 1974. When a young Turkish-Cypriot conscript soldier comes face-to-face with a Greek-Cypriot family in hiding, he confronts the brutal reality of war and his role in it. ... This is the premise behin…Read More