Festival films

A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious mission, a high-rise window cleaner on an illicit break, an elderly sketch artist, a hectic paramedics team and a group of hungry nuns. A cross-section of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine. They live in an unsure world where anything could happen at any time. An unexpected chain of events can seal many fates in a mere 11 minutes.

Three designing tools become the lead characters: a pencil, an eraser and a pencil sharpener. The three of them are having fun on a 35x50cm “paper floor,” until a bad-tempered black marker appears, to ruin all their fun.

During a gun deal arranged by a Mexican cartel, a young smuggler named Amulfo kidnaps a detective and leads him to his boss. During the 600-mile drive, the two men will build a relationship of trust that will undermine their certainties. In its first half, the film plumbs the depths of illegal gun trafficking from the US to Mexico, avoiding excessive scenes and observing a naturalistic narrative, while capturing images of an unfamiliar reality. In the second half, the film unfolds like a road movie, maintaining a subtle tension that remains unflagging until the last sequence.

35 X 50 / Spyros Rassidakis
Abeyance / Eleni Miltsi
Bulb / Alexandra Papagianni
Cicada and Ant / Alecos Papadatos
Dinner for Few / Nassos Vakalis
Eight Minute Deadline / Zina Papadopoulos, Petros Papadopoulos
Erebus / Georgios Cherouvim
Il Duce Narrates... / Stamatis Polenakis
Man in a Box / Elias Papastamatiou
Mariza / Constantine Krystallis
Modern Life / Constantinos Peppas
Morning Awakening / Natalia Kostopoulou
My Mother’s Coat / Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits
Star System / Spyros Siakas
The Fountain of Youth / Panagiotis Rappas
The Hole / Iordanis Ananiadis
The Holy Chicken of Life and Music / Nomint
The Line / Yannis Koutsouris, Nassos Mirmiridis
The Ordeal / Katerina Avraam
Why Can’t You Just See Me? / Eleni Tomadaki

A Portrait / Aristotelis Marangos
Apodemy / Katerina Athanasopoulou
Birds / Angelos Spartalis
Bloody Mary / Zina Papadopoulos
Brats & Rats / Manolis Kapazoglou, Alexandros Michalopoulos
Cosmos / Dimitris Karathanassis
Dawn / Nikos Dimitriadis
Deconstruction / Spyros Pantazis
Fish / Denis Constantinou
Frics / Eleni Tsambra
Ismus / Constantinos Demis
Knight / Thanassis Radolgou
My Stuffed Granny / Effie Pappa
Scent of City / Yorgos Sifianos
Shhhh / Thodoros Maragos
Short Program / Dimitris Papadopoulos
The Girl on the Wall / Gavril Psaltakis
The History of Mankind in 1 minute / Andreas Vakalios
The Village / Stelios Polychronakis
Walk / Stratos Stassinos

Larry is content with his dog Arrow and booze, barely tolerating anything or anyone else. His marginally successful relationships include his grandmother, who keeps him afloat financially, and his best friend Norwood, who provides him with pharmaceuticals. But a chance encounter at a Jiffy Lube gives Larry a beguiling new boss and the impetus to head in another direction for a while.

An old woman lives isolated and alone in an apartment building. She passes the time cleaning the house. A persistent mark on the wall, which she hadn’t noticed before, will become her obsession. Should we or should we not hold things in abeyance?

Abel and Junon had two children, Joseph and Elizabeth. Victim of a rare genetic condition, Joseph’s only hope was a bone marrow transplant. As they and Elizabeth were incompatible, his parents conceived a third child in the hope of saving their son. But little Henri too was unable to help his brother, and Joseph died, aged 7. After the birth of a fourth child, Ivan, the Vuillard family gradually began to recover from the death of the firstborn. Years later, Junon learns that she has leukaemia, and that chemotherapy will not work. Her only hope is to find a bone marrow donor amongst the members of her family. Her children and grandchildren are all tested. And Paul, Elizabeth’s son, the oldest of the grandchildren and a tortured adolescent, allows himself to become overwhelmed by anguish. Will Junon accept a dangerous transplant to cure an illness that may never develop further? Will Paul’s father Claude allow his son to become his grandmother’s donor, and thus risk the responsibility for her death? As for Elizabeth and Henri, what can be done when a dispute moves beyond all reason?

The famous rock band “Paperback Music” is unwittingly summoned by its drummer and manager, Phil, to take the stage for a concert at Big Depression. Phil, a drummer with an old mechanical arm, brings the band to the desolate land of Big Depression. There stands a monolith, a remnant of the first contact with an alien civilization. Phil’s arm is not the only thing that gives him problems; his brain too appears to have a few blackouts of its own. He brings the band to Big Depression on the wrong day, when no concert is going to take place. As soon as he realizes this, Phil throws his arm at the monolith, leaving his band clueless as to how to keep playing music without their great drummer, now short of one arm.

A riot policeman encounters a demented old woman who attempts to spoon-feed him.

In 19th century Romania, Costandin, a policeman of that time and his son travel through the country in search of a fugitive Gypsy slave.

How can you discover the heart of a man under the skin? What about his muscles? Herbert, an ex-boxer, a trainer and an outcast, is suddenly confronted with a turning point in his life and decides that he only has one chance to fix his past mistakes. In his first feature, Thomas Stuber films in an accurate, crystal clear manner the challenges, personal struggles and inner landscapes of his characters.

A life journey of 60 years with images and memories from the magical world of Greek Television and Cinema. A journey with beloved people, actors, directors, technicians and other artists. A creative journey full of joy, sadness, anguish and love. He begins his career as an intern at Finos Film Studios at the age of 15. His father was Yorgos Kavoukidis, one of the pioneers of Greek cinema, along with his close friend Filopimin Finos. Following the vision of his spiritual father, Finos, and his teacher in cinematography and editing, Dinos Katsouridis, he became at the age of 20 a well-known director of photography and editor of dozens of films of Greek cinema. During those 60 years, cinema and television became his home. He became a producer and a director. He designed the lighting for dozens of stage performances. His co-workers are his family.

A river roars. The sun burns your eyes. A woman loses her mind. A girl sings in a honky tonk. A Chinese man on opium dreams. Running after a child through the jungle. Lightning. A marriage without love. A veil of sadness. Boundless joy. You will not have Nina. A young girl walks to the end of the night. Black sun. A father cries out his love. An outcast. An empty rowboat wobbles in the storm. Humid palm trees glisten. A dead man. Mosquitoes. A telluric film. A tragic story, like all Greek tragedies that never age. A tale as old as the world. A story as young as the world. Of love and folly. Of impossible dreams.

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayakis– pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen, he reluctantly accepts. But Tokue proves to have magic in her hands when it comes to making “an”. Thanks to her secret recipe, the little business soon flourishes... And with time, Sentaro and Tokue will open their hearts to reveal old wounds.

The film uses the term apodemy (migration) referring to immigration, confinement and stagnation of a force that leads to motion, creation and to migration as salvation but not as escape. This film took the Lumen 2013 award, one of the highest international distinctions in the world of the digital arts.

Using a moving line, the director looks into the life and death of his grandfather.

In Portugal – a European country in crisis – a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he takes the coward’s way out and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage so as not to bore the king with sad stories of this country. As the nights go by, restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment! Thus, Scheherazade organizes the stories she tells the king in three volumes. She begins like this: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries...”

In Portugal – a European country in crisis – a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he takes the coward’s way out and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage so as not to bore the king with sad stories of this country. As the nights go by, restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment! Thus, Scheherazade organizes the stories she tells the king in three volumes. She begins like this: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries...”

In Portugal – a European country in crisis – a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he takes the coward’s way out and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage so as not to bore the king with sad stories of this country. As the nights go by, restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment! Thus, Scheherazade organizes the stories she tells the king in three volumes. She begins like this: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries...”

On a night of April 1957. Albertine, a brilliant, 19-year-old rebel, jumps from the wall of the prison where she’s serving a sentence for a hold up. In her fall, a bone from her ankle breaks: the astragal. She is rescued by Julien, a fugitive, and a burning passion is born between them. He takes her to Paris and hides her. But while he leads his gangster life here and there, the young woman struggles for her freedom and against the wounds caused by Julien’s absence. Out of desperation to be with him, she creates beautiful poetry.