Having been recently discharged from rehab, 26-year-old Phoebe takes her young son on a road trip that will determine their future.
Follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos.
Mount Athos is a peninsula situated in Northeastern Greece, the home of 20 Christian Orthodox monasteries and the largest area on earth where access is reserved to men alone. Female animals are banned too, except for cats, songbirds and insects. Throughout the film women discuss a place they have no access to and their ideas and points of view interconnect and take us all the way to the forbidden land. Since the female duo that directs Avaton is unable to visit the peninsula, they decide to reconstruct Athos by using material filmed anywhere but there, animations and reworked archival material.
In 1968, Georgios Papandreou is having an operation in a central hospital in Athens. Kyveli, separated for years from the great love of her life, goes to see him. How did these two eminent figures of Greek history come together? One in politics, one in theater? It all begins a long time ago...
Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which the viewer experiences, aghast, the madness of humanity.
A dark hero with memory gaps tries to prove his innocence. Alone against all. Faced with invisible mechanisms of power and a web of family secrets and personal passions.
The story of a young woman's struggle to separate from her religious and superstitious upbringing. As she battles her traumatic past she discovers exactly how far she will go to reconcile her internalised doubts.
An urban legend of Athens says that in the 80s a girl was swept away by an ancient underground river that nobody has ever seen. Today a young anthropologist is researching the case, interviewing the girl’s three best friends and their former history teacher.
The post-it messages of a stranger push Anna to her limits, shattering her mental health. A tragicomic glance at the life of a young woman, viewed through a distorted perception of reality.
Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of foreigners coming. They meet in Amerika Square in Athens because of Syrian refugee Tarek.
Themis Bazaka (Thessaloniki, March 3, 1957-) is a Greek theater, television and film actress. Since the 1980s she has appeared in several well-known and notable films, such as Order! (1980). ). On television she has appeared in the series, The Ancient Rust, The Minore of the Dawn, Rebetiko, Stone Years, Like the Crazy Birds, The Jersey with "9", Hotel Amore, The Tower of Moscow, Signature Priftis, Anatomy of a Crime, Women , Indivisible, Department of Morals , Silver Dinar , Earpickers , The Ridiculousness of It , Absent , Her and Me , A Night Like This , Like Sisters Red Circle , Taksim , The Women of Her Life , Run Away , The 10th Commandment , Marry Me all of ,I Miss You ,Only Two Days ,Wonderful Creatures ,Your Soul ,,Dark Sea ,Fire and Wind ,Milky Way The Witch She has been awarded three times by the Thessaloniki Film Festival, twice for Supporting Actress for the films Rebetiko and The Acrobats of the Garden and with the Award for First Actress for her performance in the film The Stone Years. For this role, she also received an Honorable Mention from the Venice Film Festival.
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