Set in the not-so-distant future where humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings, humans have evolved beyond their natural state and into a stage of metamorphosis, with the ability to alter their biological makeup. While some embrace the limitless potential of transhumanism, others attempt to police it. In this perfectly crafted Cronenberg world, “Accelerated Evolution Syndrome”, is spreading fast.
Stergios, is middle-aged fisherman and farmer living with his wife, Maria, and their daughter, Anastasia, in a lakeside Greek village on the border with North Macedonia. Stergios is afraid of going to jail for a fraud he had committed many years ago., He starts to traffic migrants across the border lake in order to repay the money he took. But soon Stergios finds himself trapped in a deadly game between the local mafia and his conscience, while his family starts falling apart.
While enjoying a day at Athens’ queer beach, 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his bestie and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a certain dog named Carmen. Two summers ago, Demosthenes was stuck in Athens dealing with health issues of his father. This serves as an excuse to reach out to his ex, Panos. Meanwhile, Panos got the overly cute Carmen, something he soon regretted. Likewise, Demosthenes seems to have regretted breaking up with Panos. Or did he not? Struggling to transform real events into a hero’s journey, the two friends question the no.1 rule of script writing theory – the hero that changes – while turning a page in their long-lasting friendship.
Α coming-of-old-age story of an eccentric Tailor who doesn’t quite fit into the world and has isolated himself into the attic of the family’s tailoring shop. On the verge of losing everything, he finally gets triggered: with a wondrously strange tailor shop on wheel she reinvents his life and his craft. He changes the brides of Athens and falls in love for the first time in his 50s.
A petty thief enters a house unaware that it belongs to a retired police officer. He soon finds himself trapped in a twisted game of power, infidelity and sexual perversion. This soon becomes a public spectacle. Driven by power and ambition, truth and deception fiercely collide. Which will prevail? Is escape a possibility?
In a small town in Greece, amorous passion meets the greed for money, dead bodies are starting to pile up and “Sleeping Beauty” Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of…
At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where an underground boss, Leonidas took him under his wing. During a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life which Stratos never forgot. As a free man, Stratos works the night shift at a bakery workshop, a far cry from the killing contracts he executes by day. He gives away all his money to fund an escape plan to get Leonidas out of prison. Leonidas debt to Stratos consumes his life, as he becomes further detached from life and consumed by ghosts and fallacies. The day of the escape, the most important day of his life, is near…
Austerity took everything but the roof over their heads, and today it will come for that too. But today, they will finally fight back, like a family with nothing left to lose…
Izmir 1922: Young Roza, the child of a wealthy family, is preparing to get married. Athens 1987: Roza lives with her granddaughter Mariana. She carries a well-kept secret that she does not want to share with anyone. But the passion of a collector, Dimitris, leads him to the coast of Asia and more specifically to the footsteps of enigmatic Roza. An old photo and a wedding dress is enough to reject an old love story for a new one to be born. The smell of the antique shops, the charm of the trips, the challenge of the mystery, the power of love in past and present, create the atmosphere and the journey of the heroes in Athens. Izmir and Istanbul to discover that people’s short stories are the ones that create great History.
A wary businessman from Thessaloniki, an unhappy married couple, a couple in love with many differences, a Bosnian young actress, an uprooted old woman from Palestine, a musician with existential quests and the famous Greek writer Petros Markaris, are the protagonists of this kaleidoscopic portrait of Istanbul.
Living in rural Greece, Nikos is an average guy without any ambitions, until his father’s sudden death reunites him with his uncle, who invites him to live and work at his house in the outskirts of Athens. Not having much to lose, Nikos accepts his uncle’s offer. He takes on the job of protecting his uncle’s purebred dogs from the hostile neighbors. Driven by envy, lust and anger, Nikos enters into a vicious circle of perpetual antagonism, the struggle for power over others
“Fugitive Pieces,” based on the critically acclaimed and international best-seller by Anne Michaels, is about Jakob, a Jewish-Polish boy who witnesses the massacre of his family in the Second World War.
Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money. He’s got a family, a baby, a home… He is being cheated. He loves and suffers… Takis can’t take it at work. He’s besieged by savages. But, his boss tops them all… Takis has one friend and relative. Takis runs out of time. Yet, in his mind, a heavy black cloud has settled, turning everything dark… Takis is silent. He lies down under and fills with anger. He fills with anger and sinks in…