Lena is a 20 year old woman who lives in Athens, works at a local supermarket and lives with her family.What if keeping her baby is the only way to keep her job?

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Life in a Beat

20-year-old Chloe 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, and fall in love but also she’ll realize that the true rebels are always alone.

Our Wildest Days

Thomas Alexopoulos is a businessman drowning in debt, watching the walls close in around him. Cornered by a threatening loan shark and with only a few days left to save his home, he sets a seemingly flawless plan in motion.

Broken Vein

Set in the Greek mountain village of Tirna, Bearcave follows Argyro, a badass farmer, and her best friend Anneta, the village "it" girl and local manicurist. Once Anneta admits that she's pregnant and planning to leave town with her lame cop boyfriend, Argyro challenges Anneta to embark on an adventure to find the mystical bear cave. Before Argyro has a chance to confess her own love, Anneta leaves for her new life in the big city. Argyro is left broken. Meanwhile, in her new home with her clingy mother-in-law, Anneta quickly realizes her destiny lies elsewhere.

Bearcave

Kosmas, a cemetery worker, has set up a lucrative “grief business” with Father Argyris. The money flows freely until Kosmas’s greed leads him face-to-face with his own Nemesis.

Dust to Dust

Athens, April of 1967. During the first days of the military dictatorship, little Loukas is suffocating in his family’s apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house’s phone line gets mixed up with that of the Studio cinema…

La première image - I Proti Eikona

Christina, a ballet dancer who struggles to earn her mother’s approval, is trying to succeed in an audition for which her mother is preparing her.

Fouetté

Forty-year-old Spyros lives in the countryside with his elderly mother, running an old refreshment stand together. His dream is to play for the local football team. When the team finally calls him up, a clash with his mother becomes inevitable.

Fuit

A conceited janitor of the Municipality of Athens, decides to provide his 6 year old son with the education for the elite and enrolls him in the first grade of a private school. With each step he takes towards the “Greek dream” he sinks deeper and deeper into a tragicomic conflict with his close environment and finally with himself.

Rooster - Κόκορας

Within the concrete silence of Athens, a child is lost in the shadow of its own mother. When the light fades, a grandmother's love becomes the only way out.

MAVRO VOUNO (black mountain)

Against the stereotypes of the “ideal” woman and the symbols of Pornography, the women in the works of Greek comic artist Stavros Kioutsioukis preserve their personality: they are the girls next door who try and get their rights in Happiness and Love.

Make Love Not Porn

The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political prisoner for two decades.  This insightful portrait conjures the ghosts of the Greek Civil War – the maverick people, revolutionary politics, and breathtaking events that have shaped today’s Greece.

White Mountains

A documentary on the vernacular and seemingly trivial encounters with the daily lives activities of Eleusis' dockworkers. With a direct reference to the exact meaning of Tonnage, a word describing the weight in tons, especially of cargo or freight, the film traces the vexed semantics and archives, of such a weight historically and symbolically.

Tonnage

The film follows Smaragda, a middle-aged woman on a journey of self-discovery. After countless failed relationships and a stagnant career, she decided to jump into social media for some notion of visibility, which she definitely sucks at.

Smaragda - I Got Thick Skin and I Can't Jump

10-year-old Persephone has a school project due tomorrow — but first, she must find her mother, who’s been missing for days.

Prelude to a Supernova

A taxi driver recounts stories from his passengers, each ride becoming a kind of therapy session. Through their experiences, the film sheds light on issues like toxic relationships, bullying, and the search for meaning.

Unfair Routes

Clowning, comedy and dance became her tools for survival. They provided her with a safe space for self-expression and the strength to confront and acknowledge the abuse she endured as a child. Moving to Los Angeles ignited a journey of self-discovery, empowering her to reclaim her lost inner strength and create her own version of "Hollywood." She shares her insights to help foster a world where survivors no longer live in fear or shame—a world where they can laugh, embrace humor, and find happiness. “If we recognize that speaking up can help others, we can overcome the fear that holds us back.”

A Clown Girl

3 Friends—an American teacher in Greece studying at Aristotle University and two of his Greek friends seek to understand how Greece's youth perceives their nation amidst its economic recovery. Their journey finds direction when a shop owner tells the unlikely triad that Greece’s heartbeat is found within family, specifically family business.

3 Friends - 3 Φίλοι

On the island of Naxos, a winemaker, a beekeeper, a musician, and a local who is reviving a historic neighborhood offer a quiet resistance to overtourism through their work and way of life.

emery, marble and vine

The movie follows an LGBTQI+ film crew making a documentary about an explosion that killed 70 senior citizens at an elderly home. One of the three main suspects carried out a suicide mission, taking everyone else with them. But which one?

The Great Massacre of Alimos

On the eve of the biggest show of her career, a young pop singer struggles with her sense of control over her art and her mind. But fate has other plans for her.

NIKH (or The Impossible Hope of Trying)

Vasilis lives with his father in a village in rural Greece. When he turns 12, his father buys him a gun and a young hunting dog, Max, and sets out to train him to become a hunter.

Gekas

Maria, who lives on an island, discovers she is pregnant when she visits her religious sister in Athens for their mother’s memorial service. The unexpected pregnancy at forty and an unexpected encounter make her realize that only by coming to terms with her choices can she “laugh, no matter what the world says.”

Don't Laugh, They'll See You

After the directors' mother's death, he returns to his empty childhood apartment to handle a troubled inheritance. As he navigates its spaces, fragments of memories resurface, entwining the past with the Greek Junta's collective trauma.

Two Greek mountaineers, Vanessa Archontidou and Christina Flambouri, are attempting to conquer the 7 Summits, i.e. the highest peak on each continent. Kilimanjaro - Africa, Aconcagua - South America, Elbrus - Europe, McKinley - North America, Vinson - Antarctica and Everest - Asia. Through this effort, they will try to become the first Greek women to conquer Everest, the highest peak on Earth.

7 Summits

Lefteris Arapakis was born to be a 6th generation fisherman in Greece. Instead, he started the country’s first-ever fishing school, training fishermen to remove plastic garbage from local waters and convincing this ancient profession – including his own family – of the need to protect the Mediterranean Sea and beyond.Lefteris is the first of six young climate activists, our Change Makers, to be featured in a docuseries of the same name. Together, they are tackling the biggest issue of our time – the race against climate catastrophe – as they transform their individual communities and inspire people with their innovation, persistence, and grace.

Change Makers

Valentinos is a 90 year old ceramics artist, living in Limassol, Cyprus. Having studied under the big British name in ceramics Bernard Leach and lived in Baghdad for 30 years teaching ceramics at the university, Valentinos is a vessel of knowledge and experience. Still working to sustain himself at 90, he struggles with the loneliness of old age and starts to take account of his life achievements. He’s dedicated his life to his work and his old age crept up to him.

Valentinos

Greek Sarakatsani community members, a former group of nomadic animal breeders, share personal experiences and discuss the concept of identity in today's world. A tribute to collective memory through an experiential journey that sets out from the past, progresses into the present, and contemplates the future.

The Last Nomad

Long-distance runner Giorgos Stamoulis greets us with “Karibu”—meaning “Welcome” in Swahili, the language of Kenya! The documentary "KARIBU: Giorgos Stamoulis" follows him to Iten, Kenya, where he trains alongside some of the world’s top athletes.The film invites us into the dream of an athlete striving for distinction, while also unveiling Kenyan culture and the network of people supporting him along the way.With the Swahili welcome "Karibu," Giorgos invites us on his own journey, navigating between his studies in the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Thessaly in Lamia, his training sessions with Panellinios Gymnastics Association in Athens, and his training in Iten, at an altitude of about 2,500 meters in north-central Kenya, where Olympic and World Champions train. The distance between everyday life and the dream is bridged through the support of a "chain" of people—family, coaches, professors, friends and fellow athletes, who stand by him every step of the way.From Lamia to Athens, and from there to the mountains of Kenya and Evrytania, "KARIBU: Giorgos Stamoulis" is not a journey into the "industry" of sports, but into the personal journey of a young man fighting to make his dream a reality.Karibu! Welcome to his pursuit of a dream!

KARIBU: Giorgos Stamoulis

The goal of this short video is to showcase the beauty of San Francisco, present my work to the U.S. Film Industry and possibly offer me the opportunity to network and start blending in with the American cinema.

San Francisco | The Jewel of California |

Somewhere between realism and magic, ordinary people long for the miracle. They instinctively dive into acts of redemption and pursue a moment of freedom so addictive, that they want to experience it again and again. It is this moment of ecstasy that they cease thinking and simply live! An ecstatic experience of Greek paganism, struggling against modern conformity.

True to Our Inner Daemon

The documentary takes us on a journey to the historic village of Theriso in Crete, where the natural landscape, legends and traditions are deeply intertwined with the lives of its inhabitants. From the struggles for freedom to the memories and daily customs of the villagers, the village emerges as a living symbol of collective memory. Where memory soars, freedom grows deep roots.

Theriso: The Eagles' Lair on the White Mountains

The film focuses on the relationship between Christianity and Hellenism through the contributions of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and individual Patriarchs to the Greek language, education, and philosophy. It shows that, despite common misconceptions, Christianity was a major contributor to the survival of Ancient Greek culture, as intellectuals and institutions - many of them affiliated with the Patriarchate- adopted the aesthetic values of pagan literature and employed concepts of Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy to articulate Christian doctrine. This provided a cultural continuity that helped the survival of Greek thought and language, contributed to the Renaissance, and became a steady reference point for Greek and Orthodox communities in Greece and around the world.

Guardians of Hellenism: The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

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