On the day of their ailing, elderly father's birthday, the reunion of three siblings leads to an intense confrontation after which their lives can no longer remain the same.

Dignity

On the day of their ailing, elderly father's birthday, the reunion of three siblings leads to an intense confrontation after which their lives can no longer remain the same.

A film Director is facing financial difficulties as the banks are trying to seize his house for an old family loan.The Director decides to shoot a family drama at home with his wife and children, casting himself and his family in the lead roles. The Producer asks for more and more provocative scenes and requires a product placement in order to extract money from a strong cooperative. The Director receives a payment from the sponsors and pays an installment to the bank. Children are soon transformed into experiment animals that are constantly trying new products.The Director gets to the point of committing violence against his Wife,supposedly for the needs of fiction. She tries to escape with the children, but the Director manages to trap the family in the basement of the house. The Director leaves his family hungry and thirsty, until they are forced to consume the products he throws in the basement. Their struggle for survival is broadcasted live on the internet. The name of the show is “The BigFather”…

The BigFather

A film about a family man who is struggling to save his house from the banks, turning his life into a reality show. A social drama with elements of black humor and suspense.

The memory of the land.A documentary film by STAVROS PSILLAKIS, 88min, 2022"Thousands of fighters around the world had given all they had for a cause that, as they believed, as they said, was greater than themselves; but in the end it turned out that they themselves were the greatness of that cause." Chris Marker&nbsp;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. The backbone of the film is unpublished footage that was shot in 2007 as part of the documentary "THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY".

Farewell

A young shop owner with dreams for a prosperous life, faces the financial crisis. He blames the decline of his business on street vendors and refugees. Soon, this is followed by moral collapse.He becomes cruel and hardhearted. Circumstances, however, soon push him to seek the support of food banks in order to survive.A companion in his new predicament helps himrediscover the values he once had.His way out comes through change. This time refugees contribute to his salvation.His fresh beginning in life, is signified through re-discovery of thecore human values of solidarity, companionship and love.

THE LIFEBELT

As if they never existed.People on the move. Facing danger in unfamiliar and unwelcoming places.For 15 years, a photojournalist bears witness to the journey of migrants across the dark crossings of European borders.Futility, death, and exhaustion from a never-ending struggle, as well as pushbacks, represent a large part of Giorgos Moutafis' work.His camera delves into inaccessible places, documenting the stories of people who push human boundaries, to reveal how "the Other Half" lives.

the Other Half

George was born in Athens.When he was 4 years old, he saw a Karagiozi show for the first time in his life.It was unforgettable for him.When he was 5 years old, his parents, who are bank employees, due to work, moved from Greece to Switzerland.When he was 10 years old, his father made him his first berde, and so he started playing Karagiozis's play for his friends in Switzerland.He is now 13 years old and lives in Nyon.Plays in English and French, in schools and theaters in Nyon.But George's big dream is to play in Crete, in Greek.The life and dreams of the little shadow puppeteer in Switzerland, between two cultures, between two homelands.

Nion’s Shadow Puppeteer

The film is inspired by the contemporary life of the indigenous people inhabiting the European arctic region, the Sámi, widely known as Lapp.After twenty years of researching and photographing the European arctic and its indigenous inhabitants, the Greek award-winning film director Dimitra Zirou, begins to film an art documentary inspired by this distant land and its people.Two parallel stories, are gradually unfolding the everyday life of two very different persons: 87year - old Sara, one of the few remaining keepers of Sámi oral tradition and Mihka, a 7 year-old Sámi boy, both living in Guovdageaidnu - Kautokeino, a remote small town in the middle of the Norwegian Arctic tundra. The film is observing their life during an one-year’s cycle, through the changing of the arctic seasons as they shift from the long winter’s darkness to the summer’s never-setting light.

Into the land of Ice and Fire

In While We Live, musical journalist Andrea Voets makes a social roadtrip through Greece, in search for a way out of fundamental loneliness in society. Together with dozens of Greeks and Greek musicians, she deciphers their tools for meaningful contact and the social logic they live by. The journey takes us from the metropole of Athens to the remote island of Lipsi, the mountains of Eipiros and eventually to a concerthall in Amsterdam. There, the conversations and images turn into a documentary-concert, in which live music expresses the layers of meaning that could not be put into words.

While We Live

Sea turtles and humans in the Mediterranean.

My name is Blue

"Little Axel" is the life story of a boy who grew up on the Greek island of Hydra with Leonard Cohen as his stepfather.

Little Axel

When the financial crisis destroys your life and everything around you dissolves, you start an internal monologue trying to pamper yourself as much as you can. Your only goal is to save your family. By all means! And Christmas is coming soon...

Christmas Present

During a riot in the streets of Cyprus, a man of Arabic descent attempts to find shelter inside a family's home. However, he soon realises that his life is probably more in danger inside the house, rather than outside in the streets with the rioters.

A Night of Riots

Soul Food

Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in, at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.

a short animated film, which explores and symbolically expresses my grieving process for my mother’s loss, from her passing until today.This three year journey is captured allegorically in this film as a weaving of two parallel paths; the mother’s journey to the afterlife and the parallel grieving states of her child.From the last breath, to the mourning and the only temporal salvation from it. It is an observation of her transition, which her child follows with its personal emotional dissolve.

my mother, the sea

A recently divorced middle-aged man receives a smartphone from his daughter and reconnects with the first love of his life who asks him to meet

Summer Breeze

Paul is a veteran rock musician. His daughter, Anna is secretly a phone-sex worker. Drugs, alcohol, sex, ephemeral relationships, meaningless lives, rock n’ roll: an allegorical reflection of Athens today, and a raw depiction of a family drama between father and daughter. Two hopeless people, two common lives, countless clouds.

CLOUD

Ruby, who lost her mother at birth to gun-violence, works as a rookie cop in LA. Drawing her gun to stop a robbery, she finds herself in the same situation as when she was born.

Fire Born

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