Top Films & Series 2024

Hard and uncomfortable truths in an unconventional schoolroom drama, as well as a study of power relations and how they eventually erode. A riveting drama that stood out at the Berlin Festival’s Panorama thanks to its in-depth glance. — A new math teacher gets off to a good start in her new job, idealistically believing that she can motivate teenagers. But a series of thefts on the school grounds quickly casts suspicions on one of her students. The teacher indignantly tries to get to the truth herself, but the case is more complicated than it seemed at first and causes a series of consequences. — Europa Cinemas Award - Panorama | Berlin Film Festival | 2023 C.I.C.A.E. Award - Panorama | Berlin Film Festival | 2023

Aki Kaurismäki, the great poet of minimalism and melancholy, returns with his twentieth feature film, creating another unforgettable anthem for all those forgotten by the society. This film rightfully received the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. — Two lonely people meet by chance one night in Helsinki and try to find the first, unique and absolute love of their lives. Their path to this goal is hindered by the man's alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other's name or address, and life's general tendency to put obstacles in the way of those seeking happiness. — Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2023 FIPRESCI Prize | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2023

If you loved "Perfect Strangers", you'll love this cinematic surprise from Spain for its funny dialogue, snappy editing and perfectly tuned performances, but especially for the shocking twist in the final scene. Please do not reveal it. — Three married couples in therapy are invited by their therapist to a group session. They will gradually air their dirtiest secrets about childcare, jealousy and sex until it all comes to a very unexpected and equally shocking end. — Special Jury Prize | Malaga Film Festival | 2023 Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Juan Carlos Vellido) | Goya Awards | 2024

One of the most beloved films of recent years, Joachim Trier's comic drama (with generous doses of romance, tragedy and existential despair) is awarded at Cannes for Renate Reinsve, makes it to the Oscars, and reflects on absolutely contemporary personal and social impasses. — Thirty-year-old Julie doesn't know what she wants out of life. And while her boyfriend wants to start a family, she suddenly falls in love with someone else. A chronicle of four years in the life of a young woman who is asked to explore the complicated paths of life and love while struggling for her career. All of which will make her understand herself better and bring her face to face with a more realistic view of who she really is. — Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2022 Nomination for Best International Film | Oscars | 2022 Best Actress (Renate Reinsve) | Cannes Film Festival | 2021 Nomination for Best Actress (Renate Reinsve) | BAFTA | 2022

A film about sexuality like we've never seen before. A liberating exploration of stereotypes and what holds us back, in a mature, touching, and funny romantic comedy filled with humor, sensitivity, and a lot of sex. Starring the great Emma Thompson, perhaps in the performance of her career. — Nancy Stokes is a retired educator craving some action and good sex. Although her husband, Robert, was a good companion, he was never a good lover. He is no longer in the picture, and Nancy seeks adventure with Leo Grande, a gigolo. Neither of them imagined they could communicate beyond their encounter, but Nancy thinks she likes it. And he feels the same way about her. — Nomination for Outstanding British Film | BAFTA | 2023 Nomination for Best Leading Actress (Emma Thompson) | BAFTA | 2023 Nomination for Best Leading Actor (Daryl McCormack) | BAFTA | 2023 Nomination for Best Leading Actress (Emma Thompson) | Golden Globes | 2023

Un Certain Regard award in Cannes for one of those rare directorial debuts that uncover a tremendous new talent. Molly Manning Walker observes without rambling, unearths terror amid words and delivers an astonishing study on consent in a completely contemporary manner. — Three young girls from England travel to Malia to experience the best summer of their lives. They want to live the all inclusive Dionysian experience of the Greek summer: alcohol, clubbing, meeting boys. It is, after all, something of a coming-of-age tradition. But something will happen on the last night, something that they themselves can't quite put their finger on at first. And it's enough to shatter every teenage dream. — Un Certain Regard Award | Cannes Film Festival | 2023 Golden Athena | Athens Film Festival | 2023

Darren Aronofsky ("Black Swan", "The Wrestler") directs a bold and emotionally sweeping film about reconciliation and redemption, giving the heartbreaking Brendan Fraser the performance of his career. Oscar-winning performance and make-up for a film adored by Greek audiences. — Charlie is a reclusive English teacher who lives unhealthily and suffers from an advanced degree of obesity. During one crucial week, Charlie will attempt to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter, seeking one last attempt at redemption. — Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2023 Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Oscars | 2023 Best Actor (Brendan Fraser) | Oscars | 2023

Who said April Fools' jokes don't lead to great collaborations? The beloved characters of "Kourafelkithra" comics come to life for the first time on our screens in a lively short film that was destined to be Cinobo's debut production. Now, that's a good idea, boss! — Annie is facing problems. Lately, inexplicable events have been complicating her life. Her personal life is collapsing, she's stuck professionally, and she feels desperate. Seeking refuge in Luther's bar, she confides in him, but no one seems to understand her. Meanwhile, a breaking news gives her the final blow. What is true and what isn't? Could it be that she's reading too many comic books after all?

After "The Square", Reuben Östlund again tackles class satire in a delightful black comedy that puts Marx, consumerism and... bodily fluids in a blender against the backdrop of the greek Chiliadou beach. — Carl and Yaya are influencer fashion models whose relationship is increasingly soured by money. Offered free places on a luxury cruise, they find themselves sharing a superyacht with arms dealers and an oligarch, while a cynical Marxist alcoholic captains the ship as things quickly turn upside-down. — Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2023 Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 2023 Nomination for Best Screenplay | Oscars | 2023 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2022 Best European Film | European Film Awards | 2023

The greatest Oscar triumph of the last 15 years. A multiverse martial arts comedy that speaks to the present: Relentless, delightfully absurd, deeply emotional, full of humor, action, and imagination. With Oscar-worthy performances from the legendary Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ke Huy Quan. — Evelyn, a marginalized Chinese-American, not only struggles to communicate with her father, husband, and daughter but also can't afford to pay her taxes. When she is given the opportunity to leap into alternate universes, she finds a chance to set things right and experience everything she never lived. However, she certainly didn't expect that she would be the one to save all of existence from a massive threat looming ahead. — Best Film | Oscars | 2023 Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2023 Best Director | Oscars | 2023 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Michelle Yeoh) | Oscars | 2023 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) | Oscars | 2023 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Ke Huy Quan) | Oscars | 2023

James Gray freely adapts Dostoyevsky's White Nights to take place on the streets of New York and creates a complex and sensitive romantic drama, which was in the Official Competition at Cannes 2008 and is lead by Joaquin Phoenix's sensational performance. — A man returns to his childhood home in Brooklyn after a suicide attempt. As he recovers, a mysterious and beautiful neighbour with various problems and a tender girl, daughter of the man who will buy the family business, put him in deep emotional dilemmas about how he feels, what he wants and what he should do. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2008

If you believe that "every man for himself and the Spanish for crime thrillers", Oscar Aibar's reality-based film is made for you and reveals with mastery and suspense one of the darkest pages of recent Spanish history. — A young journalist interviews an elderly doctor in an attempt to get information about the fate of a police officer involved in a murky case of murder and political intrigue.

The next father-daughter heartwarming hit after "Aftersun," comes with a Best Picture win at Sundance, the star aura of Harris Dickinson, and Lola Campbell's inexhaustible energy as a 12-year-old who does not seem to need adults. — Georgie, a multi-talented 12-year-old, lives alone in an apartment in London after the death of her mother, constantly convincing social services that she has guardians. Her imaginative and adventurous life takes a drastic turn when her father, whom she has never met, shows up. — Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | 2023

What if we told you that before "Anatomy of a Fall", Justine Triet made another film with a trial and a dog? But this time in a delightfully offbeat romantic comedy that redefines the genre and gives us an irresistible performance from Virginie Effira. — Victoria is a criminal lawyer whose love life is null and void. Her old friend Vincent is accused of attempting to murder his girlfriend. The only witness is the victim’s dog. At the same time, she runs into a charming former client.Thus begins a series of cataclysms in Victoria’s life. — Official Selection - Critics' Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2016 Nomination for Best Film | César Awards | 2017 Nomination for Best Actress (Virginie Effira) | César Awards | 2017

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. — 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. — Best Screenplay | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1986 Hellenic Association of Film Critics Best Film Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1986

Everyone has their own Chimera. Alice Rohrwacher creates an eerie, adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between the nature and the city, a search between ecstasy and solitude. Starring Josh O'Connor from "The Crown." — Fresh out of prison, archaeologist Arthur continues to search for his lost love, Beniamina. Arthur will be reunited with the Tobaroli gang, grave robbers who together plunder Etruscan tombs and collect their ancient treasures. His ability is to track them, their ability is to plunder them. But their goal differs. They want the money - Arthur wants Beniamina. No matter what he has to do to reunite with her. — Official Selection - International Competition | Cannes Film Festival | 2023

Maintaining his familiar style, but more delightful and poignant than ever, Yannis Economides takes us to a small town in Greece, when erotic passion intersects with greed for money, the corpses start piling up one by one. — A charming woman decides to leave her businessman husband for a nightclub owner and former folk singer. But she doesn't stop there as she takes a million euros with her. The husband misunderstands, and vows revenge. Meanwhile, the underworld of the night, in the small provincial town, goes into a frenzy around the illicit couple. And the icing on the cake: the dreadful mothers of the two brothers won't just sit back and do nothing.

After the worldwide success of 'Under the Tree,' Icelandic director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson makes his English-language directorial debut with the genre that established him, namely, the comedy that highlights the absurdity of human existence. — A diverse group of people with long-standing fears of airplanes is put to the test on a flight from London to Iceland. Will they manage to find a way to confront their fears and work together to spread their wings... and fly?

Two people, always together, always apart. The most sweeping romantic drama of recent years, based on the book of the same name by Sally Rooney, became the first major television phenomenon of the '00s, lured viewers into its emotional maelstrom and made stars of its protagonists overnight.

It may have been described as sci-fi, but Russell T. Davis' gripping series describes with chilling accuracy our contemporary political landscape, from economic collapse to the rise of the populist far-right, predicting our bleak present as early as 2019. - As Britain slowly turns into a dictatorship throughout the years, the lives of a typical busy family from Manchester converge on one crucial night in 2019.

Following the huge success of Normal People, Sally Rooney's first novel finds its TV adaptation in a mini-series just as beautiful, true and intimate as its predecessor. — Frances is in her early 20s and lives in Dublin,where she attends Trinity College with her best friend, Bobbi. Cracks begin to appear in their relationship when they befriend successful writer Melissa, and her actor husband Nick, and start spending more time with the older couple. As Frances finds herself in an intense affair with Nick, her friendship with Bobbi– and sense of self – are challenged.