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A British couple on a break on a small Greek Island are spreading terror beyond anything the islanders could have ever imagined. Only stopping every once in a while to shag anything that moves, be it man, woman or animal. But will they go unpunished, or will the inspector from London be able to put an end to their killing spree?Read More »
Frieda Liappa’s rarely seen last film: a highly symbolic feature, which was banned in Greece.
(she was accused of using a child as a voyeur).
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It is the end of a hot summer. A group of holiday-makers continue their holidays on a beach. Elektra, who was born there, lives alone, ignoring almost everything about herself in anticipation of something. One day, Pavlos arrives. Everything seems both familiar and strange to him at the same time. A strange virus, resulting from the high temperature, has affected his memory.Read More »
While travelling alone, Elena decides to change course on a whim and finds herself on a ferry to an island. Antonis is on that same ferry, on his way to the island cemetery where he hopes to bury an ossuary box. When his car breaks down, Elena offers him a ride to a hotel and then again, the next day to the cemetery, where they are told the box can’t be left there for bureaucratic reasons. Having enjoyed each other’s company and random banter, they decide to keep wandering around the island in search of a good place to bury the box.
The film picked 5 awards including the one for best film at the 2022 Iris film awards of the Hellenic Film Academy and 6 awards at the Thessaloniki International Film festival including the Golden Alexander at the Film Forward section.Read More »
During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos’ girl who allows him to sleep next to her holding her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome Yorgos’ jealousy as well as the ups and downs of their own affair. Since they all seem to be suffering, they form a trio that manages to live together in harmony but then a well-hidden secret from the men’s political activism in the past is about to hit them like a new earthquake.Read More »
Sotiris is a police investigator in Athens who lives by a strict moral code. An honest man, he carries himself as though held down by the weight of the world. Dora is a cleaning lady, struggling to get by any way she can. Dealt a rough hand in life, she has developed a rich layer of cynicism and mistrust that informs her every action. When a man Sotiris believes is innocent is arrested for a brutal crime, his attempt to uncover the truth results in a grave mistake. Finding himself on the other side of the law for the first time, he places his fate in Dora, the only witness to his malfeasance and the only person who can help him, for better or for worse.
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A biographical film about the life of the greatest songwriter in Greece , Eftyhia Papagianopoulou (1893-1972)Read More »
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The 1970’s … Greece is under a brutal military dictatorship (the so called “Revolution” 1967-1974). Christmas is walking in a military camp, at Evros (in the extreme cold north of the country, borders with Turkey) and everyone is getting prepared for the traditional celebration. The thoughts, however, of Lieutenant Captain Stephen Karamanides are somewhere else. He is a man closed to himself, never smiles, rough and rugged. He has only one desire: to dance with his secret love, the wife of Lt. Colonel Emmanuel Logos. But he does not know how to dance. Read More »
An affair–parenthesis in the dull life of two people (Angelos Antonopoulos and Alexandra Ladikou), who meet by chance on a railway trip and spend a few hours together while the train is stuck in a station.Read More »
The stories of three lonely people surviving a sweltering summertime in Athens are interwoven in this gentle romantic drama. Nikos used to be a merchant seaman, traveling around the globe to exotic places and testing his wits and his mettle in different situations. Now he is retired, living in Athens with his wife whom he no longer loves. While at the train station, he encounters a woman who faints more or less into his arms. From her, he learns that this day has already been special to her for two reasons: her husband just died, and it is her birthday. Curiously, this meeting sparks new life in him. Another man suffering through the hot Athens summer is a bank employee who gets calls every day at four p.m. from a woman who seeks to arouse him. What succeeds in doing is rousing his curiosity, which he is likely to regret giving in to. Finally, an elderly woman lives in near isolation, lost in dreams of bygone love. Her new neighbor is a young woman who makes a good connection with her. ~ Clarke Fountain, RoviRead More »