
Sections: Greek Cinema Now!
Women and men from other lands with marks on their bodies (Athanasios Karanikolas – tribute to a Berlin-based Greek filmmaker). Medea as myth, Medea as research. (Nikos Grammatikos’s world premiere after five years of immersion in Euripides’ tragedy). Poor shepherds in the mountains of Nafpaktia whose life is going…To the Wolf (Aran Hughes – Christina Koutsospyrou, the directorial debut of these thirty-year-old filmmakers that thrilled Berlin and Toronto, in Athens for the first time). At the edge of a miniscule planet, two dinosaurs patiently await a brief encounter (Athina-Rachel Tsangari – her small masterpiece for the Venice Film Festival’s 70th birthday premieres in Greece).
A young man falls to the ground and the inner force that keeps him upright becomes a scream (Alexandros Tsantilas – his awarding at the Short Festival in Drama constituted a political act). Lust and indolence in a heat wave in the middle of nowhere (Lakis and Aris Ionas – the directorial debut of The Callas has its Greek premiere). John Smith spends an hour learning Greek because someone gave him raki, honey and olive oil (visual artist Maria Theodoraki’s bold video for the first time in Greece, and indeed together with Dad’s Stick, the British filmmaker’s new little gem). A little girl flirts with a crocodile (artist Irini Karayannopoulou’s animation screened at a film theater in Greece for the first time). A young boy becomes a man (in Karamaghiolis’s epic J.A.C.E.) and a young girl learns how to be a Daughter (in Anastopoulos’s political allegory).
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My Room
My Room Animation, Greece, 2006, Mini DV Direction: Irini Karayannopoulou A hand drawn animation film made to accompany a pop … Read more →

Lustlands
GREEK PREMIERE Lustlands Fiction, Greece, 2013, DCP Direction:Lakis & Aris Ionas (The Callas) With Aphrodite Psarra, Terpsihori Savvala, Angeliki Chatzi, … Read more →

Boys
Boys Animation, Greece, 2007, Mini DV Direction: Irini Karayannopoulou The director uses a particular DIY animation technique in order to … Read more →

24 Frames per Century
GREEK PREMIERE 24 Frames per Century Fiction, Greece, 2013, DCP Direction:Athina Rachel Tsangari With Evangelia Randou On the edge … Read more →

Elli Makra, 42277 Wuppertal
Elli Makra, 42277 Wuppertal Fiction, Germany, 2007, 35mm Direction: Athanasios Karanikolas Elli, daughter of Greek immigrants in Germany, quits her … Read more →
Martha
Martha Documentary, Germany, 1990, DVD Direction: Athanasios Karanikolas Grandma Martha sits cleaning fish in front of her grandson’s camera. Athanasios … Read more →

My Best Worst Mistake
Mein bester schlimmster Fehler Direction:Athanasios Karanikolas Documentary, Germany, 2005, Digibeta A portrait of Karanikolas’s Aunt Vasiliki, living in Adelaide since … Read more →

My redeemer
Mein Erloser Fiction, Germany, 2001, 35mm Direction:Athanasios Karanikolas With Jonathan Richter A 12-year-old boy experiments with gravity. (Awards at Capalbio … Read more →

S
S Experimental, Germany, 2001, DigiBeta Direction:Athanasios Karanikolas Every human body has a story to tell. (Awards at Oberhausen and Jena.) … Read more →

Echolot
Echolot Fiction, Germany, 2013, HD Cam Direction:Athanasios Karanikolas A small group of young friends spend a weekend in a country … Read more →

To the Wolf
ATHENS PREMIERE Στο Λύκο / To the Wolf Documentary-Fiction, Greece-France-Great Britain, 2013, BluRay (DCP) Direction: Aran Hughes & Christina Koutsospyrou … Read more →

Khaima
Khaima Documentary, Germany, 2011, DigiBeta Direction:Athanasios Karanikolas About six hundred Afghans have been living in a makeshift camp for ten … Read more →

The Forrest
The Forrest Documentary, Germany, 2000, 16mm Direction:Athanasios Karanikolas The life of a couple in Berlin. (Awards at Oberhausen and Jena.) … Read more →

J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant
J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant Fiction, Greece-Portugal-Turkey, the Netherlands, 2013, DCP Direction: Menelaos Karamaghiolis With Alban Ukaj, Stefania Goulioti, … Read more →

I hope that this won’t take long because I am very busy today and have very little time to spare. I am only doing this because you gave me raki, honey and olive oil.
GREEK PREMIERE-FREE ENTRANCE I hope that this won’t take long because I am very busy today and have very little … Read more →

Dad’s Stick
GREEK PREMIERE-FREE ENTRANCE Dad’s Stick Experimental Documentary, Great Britain, 2012, Digital Direction: John Smith Dad’s Stick features three well-used objects … Read more →

Medea Louder Than Any Thought
WORLD PREMIERE Medea Louder Than Any Thought Essay Film, Greece, 2013, DCP Direction: Nikos Grammatikos With Yukiko Krontira, Antonis Antoniou,Vangelis … Read more →

Pieta
Pieta Fiction, Greece, 2013, Digi Beta Direction: Alexandros Tsantilas A young man collapses on the ground. The inner force that … Read more →

Nice Mustache Giorgio
Nice Moustache Giorgio Fiction, Greece, 2013, DSLR camera Direction: Anastasios Gotsis A gentleman wearing a suit enters his apartment. He … Read more →

The Daughter
The Daughter Fiction, Greece-Italy, 2012, DCP Direction: Thanos Anastopoulos With Savina Alimani, Angelos Papadimas, Yorgos Symeonidis, Ieronymos Kaletsanos Fourteen-year-old Myrto … Read more →