Best Greek films and rare cinema from Greece.With English subtitles.
Based on a visual material provided by the collage book of the Basque Chumy Chúmez, the film forms, out of cultural deposits of the industrial era, a novative oneirographic discourse, through the audacious and unprecendeded claim of a combinatorial optimization of collage/montage techno-poetics.Read More »
“What wild and unnatural spirits exist in the depths of the forest,
possessing an ancient and eternal power far beyond our reckoning?“
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City doctor Panos relocates his practice to a remote village, where he falls for Danae, a young woman who lives in isolation and suffers from an unusual skin condition. Determined to find Danae a cure, Panos learns of her dark secret and that things are not what they seem…Read More »
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Chloe, 20 years old, 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, fall in love but also she’ll realise that the true rebels are always alone.Read More »
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Vangelis, a remnant of the rave generation, scrapes by as a small-time weed dealer. He is a cool, low profile person who would rather have a steady job than continue a life in petty crime. However, his prior arrest record blocks his attempts to join a society that rarely forgives past mistakes. When his neighbors threaten to call the cops on him, his life changes overnight. He is forced to leave his apartment and take refuge at his sister’s house where he comes under the protection of her boyfriend, Petros, a bouncer with strong ties to the local underworld. Petros offers Vangelis a way out, by involving him in various crime deals, which would offer him easy money and respect among the underworld. Only problem is Vangelis doesn’t want to be part this world.Read More »
Synopsis: A woman who has lost her memory struggles to reconstruct her past while cooking simple yet delicious food for workers at a working-class seaside tavern.Read More »
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87-year-old persecuted and declared guerrilla Giannis Lionakis, in a farewell trip to the place that defined his life, tells us about a 14-years (1948-1962) incredible survival effort, which begins with the end of the Civil War in Crete.Read More »
In the desolate wilderness of the disappearing islands along the Brahmaputra river, 12-year-old orphan Afrin is coming of age. When heavy rainfalls and flood waters ravage Afrin’s island, she refuses to surrender to its deadly tides. Afrin rows herself in a wooden boat toward the teeming metropolis of Dhaka to find her estranged father among the millions of climate refugees. Forced to grow up fast, Afrin must confront the mysteries of a sinking world.Read More »
On the way to their dream chance at a new beginning, Palestinian cousins Chatila and Reda end up in ‘stopover’ Athens. To a Land Unknown follows the two as they desperately plan their escape route when their paths cross with a young boy from Gaza and a lonely Greek woman. With their friendship and souls at stake for a passport to freedom, Chatila and Reda are drawn into a spiral of crime and violence. More and more, the in-between area tragically turns into a grey area … Internationally acclaimed director Mahdi Fleifel keeps the audience on the edge of their seat and humanity at the heart of his social-realist thriller. Anchored by nuanced performances by leads Mahmood Bakri and Aram Sabbah.Read More »
A fantasy thriller, where one face merges into the next. The thread that connects the worlds of the two protagonists, Niki and Lefteris, is memory, violence and a polemic of hope. A ‘solo’ performance in many respects by The Boy (director, writer, art director, composer) and his actress Sofia Kokkali, Nima challenges the values of contemporary society, with a unique cinematic articulation.Read More »