LSD: Love, Sex & Dance

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

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

Gaspar Noé, contemporary european cinema’s favourite provocateur, in the most lustful moment of his filmography, a sexual odyssey of memories, passion and nostalgia that -almost literally- involves the viewer in the erotic life of the protagonist couple. — January 1st, early in the morning. The phone rings and Murphy wakes up next to his young wife and 2 year old child. He listens to the voicemail where Electra’s mother anxiously asks whether he’s heard from her daughter that has been missing for a while. During an endless rainy day, Murphy is alone in his apartment, thinking of the most beautiful erotic relationship of his life, his two years with Electra. A fiery passion full of promises, playfulness, exaggeration and mistakes…

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

Based on the cult trilogy of novels by Virginie Despentes and starring the always excellent Romain Duris, the miniseries is a mural of Parisian society today, but mostly a love letter and a tribute to the music, culture and lost dreams of the 90s generation. — Vernon Subutex, the unemployed former owner of the legendary Revolver record store, is being evicted from his apartment. In search of a place to stay, he gets in touch with his old friends from the music world in the 90s. One of them is rock star Alex Bleach, who dies of an overdose, leaving behind three mysterious videotapes. Vernon packs up and slips anonymously into town. He soon becomes the most wanted man in Paris.

Turn up the volume for a nostalgic rave party. Mia Hansen-Løve, inspired by her brother’s life, traces the birth of Daft Punk and the deep cuts that defined an era, capturing a generation that refuses to stop dancing - even when the music suddenly cuts out. — Paris, the 1990s. French electronic music is on a rapid rise. In the heart of the city’s vibrant nightlife, Paul takes his first steps as a DJ. Together with his best friend, they form the duo “Cheers” and quickly find their audience. But it doesn’t take long before they’re swept up in a euphoric ascent to fame, plunged into a world of sex, drugs, and endless music. — Official Selection | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2014

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

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

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

Paolo Sorrentino won the Oscar fair and square for his Felliniesque tribute to the Eternal City, a dionysian cinematic ride concealing grief and emptiness behind its gorgeous imagery, transforming existential pain into a never-ending party. — Rome in the summer. Tourists flock to Janiculum Hill. A charming -despite first signs of aging- man, enjoys the city’s social life. He attends dinners and parties, where his dazzling presence is always welcomed. As a young journalist, he wrote a novel that procured him a literary prize and the reputation of a repressed artist. He throws a roof party at his apartment, which has a view of the Colosseum, where "The Human System" (his novel’s title), is exposed and an empty farce is taking place. — Oscar Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 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