Ten days of Greek Films Monday 12 / 7  |  Plato's Academy | Fillipos Tsitos Tuesday 13 / 7 |  Gold Dust   |  Margarita Manda Wednesday 14 / 7 |  Island | Christos Dimas Thursday 15 / 7 |  Strella |  Panos Koutras Friday 16 / 7 | Athansia…
Plato's academy Akadimia Platonos (Greece-Germany) Director: Philippos Tsitos In Athens’ Plato’s Academy District., there is a small, quiet junction with three tobacco stores and a dog. Stavros owns one of the stores. His wife has left him and refuses to come back; and he must care for his sick mother.…
Directed by Panos H. Koutras. With Mina Orfanou, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Minos Theoharis. Plot Summary George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets…
GOLD DUST a film by Margarita Manda Athens, today. Three siblings face the prospect of selling their family home. The potential buyers will tear it down and erect a modern building in its place. Alexis defends the sale, documenting his position with the financial benefits that this will bring. Anna…
Dir. Panos Karkanevatos Greek and English language with English subtitles Greece/USA/Netherlands/Belgium/2008/100mins/35mm Written & produced by Panos Karkanevatos A compelling personal epic that trips across the globe embracing the worldwide Greek diaspora, Well Kept Secrets, Athanasia was the winner of the critics’ FIPRESCI Prize at last year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival.
2009 Direction Christos Dimas with Helen Kastani, Elizabeth Konstantinidou Vladimiros Kyriakides, Tania Tripi, Dimitris Tzoumakis and Kostas Voutsas. The plot of the film focuses on a closed society, an island where everything was flowing smoothly, until the sudden death of the ruler of the place.
Directed by Spyros Teskos "Μy Nikaria" is a documentary on life and occupations of the inhabitants of Greek island Ikaria. It tries to investigate their particular ways and thoughts, and how they have developed through the ages. Opportunity is given by a local custom -still practiced in the villages of…
The Building Manager Directed by Pericles Hoursoglou Prize FIPRESCI (International Critics Association). 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival. "Trying to set the world around him in order for he cannot set himself in order". Plot: Pavlos. Late forties. With two children who go to school every morning, the apartment block which…
Audience Award FISCHER Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2009 SCRIPT-DIRECTION : Sofia Papachristou Synopsis Peter is an engineer, employed by a multinational company, whose commitment to the environment is dubious at best. Eager for keeping his position, Peter agrees to supervise the construction of a high-technology waste recycling plant for producing electricity…
4 BLACK SUITS Comedy, (2010) Director Renos Haralambidis Plot: Four bankrupt gravediggers prepare for the “big money”, an opportunity to change their lives and leave their profession - which initially began as a temporary solution, but remained their occupation for life. With the promise of high pay, fulfilling the last…
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