The Boy

The impressive alt-history psychoanalytic sci-fi thriller by The Boy imagines Greece’s modern political history in a different way: Through a handmade, crimson universe, somewhere between giallo, erotica and sci-fi, starring Sofia Kokkali in a jaw-dropping one-woman show. — Niki's devotion to the resistance gives away her inability to respond as a mother. Lefteris, Niki’s son, inherits a past that he himself never dreamed of. Until one day, the thread that connects them, an invisible psychological umbilical cord, is severed. The Mother's struggle for her political beliefs is transformed into psychological chains that imprison the Son, who must ultimately fight for his own freedom and seek his own redemption. — Iris Award for Best Leading Actress | Hellenic Film Academy | 2017

Improvisational experimentation with the freedom of the digital camera, youthful creativity and recklessness, promises of an impressive future. Alexandros Voulgaris' first feature film has all of the above and even more. — Vassilis is an accountant in a film production office and is casting for a movie. Nadia is involved in the arts and is looking for a job. He is still immature and she is shy and underestimates her looks. Their paths will cross while friends and acquaintances move around them, all confused and lonely in their own way. — Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2004

Alongside his personal film and music career, the versatile Alexandros Voulgaris has in recent years directed a number of video clips of well-known Greek artists that are presented for the first time in his order of choice, like a movie that has never been shot. — 17 music films, from 2016 to 2022. Songs by Miss Trichromi, Nalyssa Green, Foivos Delivorias, Pavlos Pavlidis & B-Movies, Lolek, Tango With Lions, Krista Papista, Victory Collapse, Baby Guru, Kristof, Nefeli Fasouli, Paidi Trauma, The Boy.

A beach, four girls, some songs, a couple of movies and the looming danger of sudden adulthood. The Boy, in his fifth feature film, crafts a beautiful cinematic tale, both tender and dark. What a perfect day. — It looks like a simple trip to a deserted, beautiful beach. Four women laughing, playing in the sand, swimming, fantasizing and enjoying the warmth of the sun and the coolness of the sea. The day goes on with silly games, singing and dancing. Punctuation marks in their laughter, tears. The tears are wiped away by their fantastic tales. Until the day fades and they must say goodbye to their beach. — Official Selection - Greek Festival | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2019 Best Editing | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2020 Best Music | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2020

A sweet little poem about a mother and a daughter, a lush, dreamy postcard that plays music when you open it. The Boy's seventh feature film is overflowing with beauty and love. "A film for tender people in a not-so-tender world." — Sofia, the daughter, returns to Polydroso to take care of Sofia, her mother. In the neighborhood where she grew up, all the reasons that once made her want to leave are waiting for her. Polydroso is an isolated suburb and the two Sofias spend their days stumbling through first kisses, secrets and ghosts of the past. — Official Selection - Greek Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2023

In his most ambitious, experimental, yet vulnerable moment, Alexandros Voulgaris directs a deconstructed magnum opus about lost dreams and the specter of reality in the age of the pandemic. — Seventeen monologues about a gym that doesn't exist anywhere, about a movie that was never made, about the actors in that movie, about the words that turned them into real characters.

A tender manifesto of savagery, a deeply political and aesthetically aggressive sci-fi film that seems to emanate from a future that has violently collided with the past. Perhaps the most idiosyncratic film of the Greek 10s. — A group of people exile themselves to Makronisos to protect themselves from the Infected. 37 years later, we are watching the outcome of that decision. Six people next to fossils of civilization, aimlessly carry the roles that have been imposed on them, letting madness accompany them to their annihilation.

In his second feature film, Alexandros Voulgaris tenderly charts the emotional quests of an entire generation at the beginning of a new millennium, but above all he introduces us to a dog called Roz (meaning Pink). — Vassilis is a loner, he writes music and reminisces about Emily, a girl from Ireland whom he fell in love with on a New Year's Eve in Berlin. During the filming of a documentary about immigrant musicians in Greece, he meets 11-year-old Snezana from Ukraine. A special relationship develops between them, one that helps each of them free themselves from their own ghosts. — Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2007 Official Selection | Karlovy Vary Film Festival | 2007 Official Selection - International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2006