Sunsets, beaches, and summer flings. Or maybe not. The Greece of the postcards and the real one, both waiting for you to discover them.

Nina knows why her grandfather hates her - it’s obviously because she’s a lesbian. Time to come clean. In the weirdest car ride of their lives, Nina and Stathis will have to finally talk to each other whether they like it or not.

Driving Me Crazy

Normal

Born of a wounded heart that could find no solace in oblivion, "Voyage to Cythera" moves beyond the political dimension of history, approaching the limits of a genuinely existential work, anchored by the silent, devastating presence of Manos Katrakis.

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A film director welcomes his communist father, who returns to his homeland after thirty-two years in exile, opposes the sale of a piece of land, and finds himself unable to adapt to the new realities.

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Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 1984
FIPRESCI Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 1984
National Award for Best Film | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 1984
Best Screenplay | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 1984
Best Actor (Manos Katrakis) | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 1984
Best Actress (Dora Volanaki) | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 1984
Best Set Decoration | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 1984
Film Critics Association Award | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 1984

Voyage to Cythera

After the triumph of «Magnetic Fields», Yorgos Gousis turns the camera on his brother's life composing the funny but also melancholic portrait of a dreamy traveler of life who seems temporarily stuck in the same bus stop. A poetic character study, awarded at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.

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Panagiotis, an arm wrestler living in the countryside, can no longer bear the mentality of the small society and decides to move to Athens to pursue his dreams and engage more professionally in the sport of armwrestling. There, his choices and the new problems he will encounter, will lead to a bras de fer match with the most difficult opponent, himself.

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FIPRESCI Prize | Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival | 2022
Youth Jury Award | Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival | 2022
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation Award | Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival | 2022

Arm Wrestler

You can’t beat a Greek mother. The cinematic surprise of the year comes from Greece: an authentic tragicomedy that will entertain you from beginning to end, with Audience awards at the Thessaloniki and Trieste film festivals. Starring Eleni Kokkidou and Greek rapper Negros tou Moria.

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While filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son. But when he is accused of fraud, Haroula sets out with her other, disabled son and a Greek-African taxi driver to bring him back home where he belongs. Even if this means discovering who her son really is.

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Audience Award - Greek Festival | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2022
Audience Award - Meet the Neighbours | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2022
Greek Film Centre Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2022
Youth Jury Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2022
Audience Award | Trieste Film Festival | 2023

Black Stone

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.

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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.

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Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2004

Crying?

Ten Hellenic Film Academy Awards, Greece's official entry for the Oscars, numerous festival distinctions and two outstanding performances by Vangelis Mourikis and Argyris Pantazaras, in Tzortzis Grigorakis’ directorial debut that combines western, ecology and ancient tragedy in the Greek province.

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Withdrawn in a mountain forest, a man fights against an expanding industrial unit in the area. His alienated son’s arrival after his ex wife’s death and his claim for the part of the estate that she left him, will soon result in a clash between the two men.

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CICAE Award | Berlin Film Festival Panorama | 2020
Best Actor (Vangelis Mourikis) | Sarajevo Film Festival | 2020
Silver Alexander for Best Film | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2020
Audience Award | Tessaloniki Film Festival | 2020
10 Iris Awards | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2021

Digger

Truth and its perpetually elusive nature goes under the microscope of Theo Angelopoulos, who demonstrates from the very outset that he was already a fully formed filmmaker. The result is a multidimensional, semantically lucid work, unlike anything else in his body of work.

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An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event.

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Best Film | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1970
Best Supporting Actress (Toula Stathopoulou) | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1970
Best New Director | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1970
Best Cinematography | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1970
Best Film – Film Critics Association Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1970
FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention | Berlin International Film Festival | 1971
Best Foreign Film | Hyeres Film Festival | 1971
Georges Sadoul Award - Best Film | French Film Critics Association | 1971

Reconstruction

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.

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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.

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Official Selection - Greek Festival | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2019
Best Editing | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2020
Best Music | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2020

Winona

Does the big fish eat the little fish? Beyond its viral quotes and cult status, Economides' most mature and daring creative moment is a modern Greek film noir that claimed the Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival.

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Stratos works the night shift at a bakery while performing death contracts. He uses the money to arrange Leonidas' escape from prison, wanting to repay his debt to the man to whom he owes his life.

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Official Selection | Berlin Film Festival | 2014
Hellenic Association of Film Critics Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2014
Bes Actor (Vangelis Mourikis) | Hellenic Film Academy | 2015

Stratos

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).

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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.

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Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2007
Official Selection | Karlovy Vary Film Festival | 2007
Official Selection - International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2006

Pink

Originally drawing from the cinema of Yannis Economides, Fokion Bogris soon develops his story by following his own unique path, and provides us with one of the finest samples of fresh Greek cinema, with noir references and remarkable realism in the depiction of his world.

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Vaggelis, a remnant of the rave generation, gets by selling weed. He would like a steady job with no risks. Petros, a thug from the southern suburbs. He wants respect and a family. Katerina, unwittingly, brings them under the same roof.

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Best Supporting Actor Award (Stathis Stamoulakatos) | Hellenic Film Academy | 2021

Amercement

Tilos weddings, of crucial significance to the history of LGBTQI+ rights in our country, are now the subject of a documentary that befits them nd immortalized with nostalgia and emotion, as a precious testimony for future generations.

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In 2008, the mayor of Tilos agreed to officiate the first gay and lesbian weddings in Greece. The film follows the story of these two civil ceremonies through on-site footage complemented with scenes from the gay pride event of the same year, press interviews, and other protests related to the issue.

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Nomination for Best Documentary | Hellenic Film Academy | 2023

Tilos Weddings

Stavros Psyllakis ("There Was no Other Way") in another shocking documentary. Is living with cancer an "experience of self-awareness in a mortgaged future"? Metaxa hospital, its doctors and staff guide us on a unique cinematic journey of life.

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Starting with doctors and staff of the Metaxa anti-cancer hospital who suffer from cancer themselves, we follow this special group of people as they continue to work in the hospital. From the shock of the first time one hears it, to the experience of "... I learned to listen to time", cancer transforms from a death-threat to a life teacher for these people, not only adding years to their lives, but also adding Life to their years.

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Second Best Film Award | Halkida Greek Documentary Festival | 2012

METAXA listening to time

Based on the unpublished material filmed in 2007 as part of the documentary "There Was No Other Way", the great Stavros Psyllakis turns a personal confession into an essay on historical memory and the value of struggle.

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Yannis Lionakis, 87 years old, persecuted and rewarded guerilla, on a farewell trip to the place that defined his life, narrates his incredible survival story during 14 years (1948-1962), starting with the end of the Civil War in Crete. The body of the film is unpublished material shot in 2007 as part of the documentary "There Was No Other Way".

FAREWELL The Memory of the Land

Different worlds intersect here, separated by geographical, ideological, agonizing chasms. Romance can’t survive the monster of racism and kindness is distorted through the lens of daily suffering, in one of the strongest Greek films of recent years.

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Four people unexpectedly meet at Amerikis Square in Athens. Two childhood friends have diametrically opposed personalities. One hates the immigrants in his neighborhood. The second, a rock n’ roll 40-year-old, merely observes the changes until a love story shakes his world. An African singer, indebted to the mob, wants to cover up a tattoo; the chemistry between them is instantaneous. Meanwhile, a desperate Syrian refugee is trying to leave the country with his young daughter.

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FIPRESCI Prize - Greek Section | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2016

Amerika Square

A colorful, funny and impetuously honest coming-of-age story about two diametrically opposed sisters and the decisions they have to make in the course of one night. The best student film of the year, talks about all kinds of human connection -the basic survival tool in a scary world.

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Sixteen-year-old Mati is naive, lovable and spontaneous, with a burning need to live the romantic dream of a cheap soap opera. Her older sister, Themi, forced into an early adulthood, must settle an overdue debt. Desperate to find money, each of them will start their own journey and they will be confronted with a traumatic past, a disturbing reality and above all the difficulty of supporting a family tooth and nail.

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Best Student Film | Hellenic Film Academy | 2023
Best Student Film Award | Drama Short Film Festival | 2022
Official Selection | Olympia Film Festival for Children and Young People | 2022
Official Selection | Greek Film Festival in Berlin | 2022

Hussies

The cancers that oppress our lives, the things we lost, we forgot or we feel unable to enjoy anymore, in a daily life that crushes us and that we uncritically accept. Stavros Psyllakis treats Alekos Zoukas as a literary "hero" in an elegy on friendship.

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Alekos Zoukas is a very lovable person, a reveler and at the same time deeply thinking and contemplative. A man once you meet, you cannot forget. In the film, the director's travels with Alekos Zoukas and his friends in Pirsogianni are alternated with Alekos' confessions about his experience with cancer. A eulogy to friendship from a sinful angel.

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Best Documentary | Chania Film Festival | 2021
Best Director | Chalkida Greek Documentary Film Festival | 2021

Debt

The story of the legendary "Babel", an idea much bigger than a magazine or a festival, which influenced, from the beginning of the 80s and for two and a half decades, the cultural fabric of the country through the contemporary trends of designers, artists, musicians and writers which “Babel” introduced to the public.

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Athens, February 1981.
How a group of people, with the sole motivation of their love for the 9th Art, taught the Greek public that comics are not just for children.
The story of the legendary comics magazine (and not only) Babel and its international festivals.

Babel: From Silence to the Explosion

Through a multi-perspective narrative, Asimina Proedrou becomes entangled in the nets of provincial corruption, unfolding a brutal story of social corruption, family oppression, and shattered dreams. A captivating directorial debut, honored with 10 Iris Awards by the Hellenic Film Academy.

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A fisherman and farmer living in a village on Greece’s northern border, drowning in debt, begins smuggling migrants across the lake for a hefty fee. His wife, a housewife and devout churchgoer, searches for the true Word of God, while their daughter struggles to define her life within the oppressive environment that surrounds her. But when a tragic event disrupts the fragile balance, the three protagonists are forced to confront the cost of their actions.

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Best Film | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2023
Best Director | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2023
Best Screenplay | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2023
Best Actor (Stathis Stamoulakatos) | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2023
Best Actress (Eleni Ouzounidou) | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2023
Best Actress (Evgenia Lavda) | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2023
Best Cinematography | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2023
Best Film Editing | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2023
Best Sound | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2023
FIPRESCI Prize - Greek Section | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2022

Behind the Haystacks

The most explosive debut in Greek cinema of the 21st century, the "tragic comedy of the lives of the dead moving on" according to Economides himself, a unique deconstruction of the middle-class Greek family that begins with a broken air conditioner.

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One day, in the middle of a heatwave, the house of Dimitris, a small family man in his 50s, somewhere in Korydallos, turns into a battlefield! All the family members take it out on each other with incredible verbal violence and revelations of passions, jealousies and professional disagreements. Until an unexpected confession blows everything to smithereens.

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Hellenic Association of Film Critics Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2003

Matchbox

In the third part of his Trilogy of History, Theo Angelopoulos constructs one of the most relentless allegories in European cinema. A political requiem for the moral decay of the post–Civil War bourgeoisie, and for all that it sought to bury.

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During a hunting weekend on New Year’s Day, a group of wealthy bourgeois discover the body of a Civil War partisan, buried for decades in the snow. The presence of the dead man shatters their superficial calm, forcing them to confront their past, their responsibilities, and their complicity.

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Golden Hugo Best Film | Chicago International Film Festival | 1977
Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1977
Best Film of the Year | Turkish Film Critics Association | 1977

The Hunters

"Who would want to own something like that?". Filmed in Greece, this is a comedy full of heart and Greek landscapes about the value we often discover in things, right where we least expect it.

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Andreas arrives on a remote Greek island to sell a plot of land inherited from his uncle. But who would buy a barren, rocky field with a stone hut? In order to sell the plot Andreas has to pay off a debt his uncle ran up with Yiannis, a local farmer.

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Official Selection | Warsaw International Film Festival | 2023

Song of Goats

Between one embrace and the next, between ideas that fade and Balkan countries bleeding, an artist (re)discovers that what truly matters is the journey. One of the defining arthouse films of the 1990s.

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A Greek-American filmmaker returns to the Balkans after many years, in search of the lost reels of a film by the Manaki brothers.

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Grand Prix | Cannes Film Festival | 1995
FIPRESCI Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 1995
FIPRESCI Prize | European Film Awards | 1995
Léon-Moussinac Award - Best Foreign Film | French Syndicate of Cinema Critics | 1995
Nastro d' Argento Award | Italian Film Critics Association | 1996 
Best Film of the Year | Turkish Film Critics Association | 1996
Best Foreign Film | Argentine Film Critics Association | 1999

Ulysses' Gaze

An anarchist creator condenses all the conflicts of the time from the Civil War to the regime change (Metapolitefsi), through an allegorical story in the form of a modern tragedy. Papatakis draws inspiration from a true incident somewhere in Spain, to talk about a wounded homeland.

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During the Greek dictatorship, a young man flees for Paris, where he seeks help from a lonely, misanthropic distant relative who owns a fur processing workshop. He carries with him the photo of a singer whom he presents as his sister, creating a series of misunderstandings which drag him into a vicious circle of successive lies and fantasies. The furrier will fall in love with the girl in the photo.

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Best Screenplay | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1986
Hellenic Association of Film Critics Best Film Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1986

The Photograph

Olympia is three months pregnant when cancer knocks on her door. Faced with the dilemma of who to save first, herself or the fetus, she decides to save both. Another shocking example of Stavros Psyllakis' anthropocentric cinema, awarded by its audience at the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

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Olympia, a 33-year old woman, is already three months pregnant when she finds out that she has lung cancer. After enough thought, she decides to keep the baby. Four months after giving birth to a healthy baby and while her cancer progresses fast, at the initiative of her doctor, Psyllakis and his colleagues will stay near the new mother and her family for four days, recording everything they can.

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Audience Award | Thessaloniki Documentary Festival | 2015