LSD: Love, Sex & Dance

Turn it up. Mia Hansen-Løve wrote this story of the French electronic music scene with her brother, the DJ its hero is based on, and once Daft Punk let her have their music for the minimum fee, the other acts followed. It’s about a generation that keeps dancing even after the music dies down. — French house is only just getting going in 1990s Paris, and Paul, a teenager with a bag full of records, is playing his first sets in basements. He and his best friend start a duo called Cheers and find a crowd almost straight away. From then on, the nights only get longer. — Official Selection | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2014

Cannibalism as the perfect allegory for maturation and sexual awakening. A young vegetarian studying to become a vet, starts feeling... hungry. A triumph of Belgian fantasy cinema for extreme viewers. — A promising 16-year-old student from a vegetarian family of veterinarians enters a merciless, dangerous and seductive world, as she begins her studies in veterinary medicine. Her first week is filled with strange rituals. Determined to be accepted, she renounces her principles and tastes raw meat for the first time. She will soon face the consequences of her actions as her true nature emerges. — FIPRESCI Prize- Critics' Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2016 Best First Feature Award | London Film Festival | 2016

Gaspar Noé (“Irreversible”), the leading provocateur of European cinema, wrote just seven pages of script before he shot this sexual odyssey, and it may be the furthest he has ever gone. Across the two years of the affair, you land, almost literally, in bed with the lovers. — It’s early on New Year’s Day when the phone wakes Murphy, asleep beside his young wife and their two-year-old child. The message on the machine is from Electra’s mother, whose daughter has been missing for a long time and who wants to know if he’s heard anything. Murphy stays in the flat and drifts back through his two years with Electra, the promises, the games and the mistakes.

Under Antiparos’ burning sun, a lonely middle-aged doctor gets together with a group of wild youngsters and spends the most hedonistic summer of his life. But if he gets any closer, they will all burn. Makis Papadimitriou and Elli Tringou in the film of 6 Iris awards of the Hellenic Film Academy. — Kostis is a 42-year-old doctor that finds himself in a tiny island, that is a total bore by winter and a sex crazed cosmopolitan hotspot during summertime. Αll young Anna has to do is burst into Kostis’ clinic with her group of hard partying friends and the good doctor falls hard for her. Kostis will go out of his way to conquer her and impress them, but the more they tease him, the furthest he draws his lines. And too far might be closer than he thought. — Best Actor (Makis Papadimitriou) | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2017 Best Supporting Actress (Elli Tringou) | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2017 Best Screenplay | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2017 Best Director | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2017

Noe’s magnum opus, a kaleidoscopical LSD aesthetics’ journey of a lost soul. The viewer watches through the protagonist’s eyes, the camera is always on the move, while the great provocateur delivers a directorial tour de force for an audience with a strong stomach and a pure spirit of adventure. — Oscar is an American dealer living in Tokyo. After his best friend's betrayal, he is murdered during a transaction. His soul, watching the consequences of his death, wanders in search of resurrection. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2009 Jury Prize | Sitges Film Festival | 2009

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

Harmony Corinne's explosive film that pulled Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens away from their Disney roots and sparked conversation like few others in the past decade with its wild mix of Florida parties, gangsters, Britney Spears songs and The Scarface. — Four young girls set their sights on Florida for spring break. Quickly, fun collides with illegality, they crash parties and fall in with dangerous mobsters as their trip spirals into the wildest, most reckless extracurricular adventure of their lives. — Official Selection - Main Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2012

The reinvention of the Greek family in an improvised and playful paradise of youth, overflowing with glitter and soul. Silver Alexander Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for the feature debut of Nikos Pastras, which was discussed as few others in summer cinemas of 2023. — The Bastards have left the city alone. In the countryside, their new home only smells of summer. Five girls and five boys live here, now, for the present. No one gets near here, here all of them keep watch, kiss each other, play dead. They are still kids. They are your kids. They are our Bastards. — Silver Alexander - Film Forward | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2022

New York is burning! The film that excited the crowds of the Un Certain Regard of the Cannes Festival, following a path of liberation for its central hero as a different world opens up before him when he meets and falls in love with a young trans woman. With Fionn Whitehead of Dunkirk. — 20 year old Paul arrives at the Port Authority Bus Terminal of New York, where he meets Wye, a charming trans woman, whom he falls in love with at first sight. When he discovers that Wye is trans, he begins a journey of self-awareness full of challenges, during which he is called upon to confront his own identity and what it means to belong somewhere. Official entry in the "Un Certain Regard" section of the 2019 Cannes Festival. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2019 Official Selection | Thessaloniki International Film Festival | 2019

Jep Gambardella turns sixty-five on a terrace overlooking the Colosseum, where the wild partying keeps running into an existential void. Sorrentino’s most Felliniesque tribute to Rome won him the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and it’s all painful revelry and, well, great beauty. — In summertime Rome, Jep Gambardella is sixty-five and still the most wanted guest at every dinner and party in town, and the best of them are the ones he throws himself on his terrace overlooking the Colosseum. Back when he was a young journalist, he wrote one novel, which won a prize and earned him a name as an artist. He hasn’t written a word since. — Oscar Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2014