Greece

  • Constantine Giannaris  – Jean Genet Is Dead (1989)

    Queer Cinema(s)1981-1990Constantine GiannarisDramaGreeceShort Film
    Jean Genet Is Dead (1989)
    Jean Genet Is Dead (1989)

    SYNOPSIS
    A collage of images, a metaphor for love in the time of AIDS, a personal reading of Jean Genet’s influence on gay culture and queer aesthetics. Put together like a palimpsest of images and sounds, the film brings Genet’s words to the foreground…Read More »

  • Constantine Giannaris – Apo tin akri tis polis AKA From the Edge of the City (1998)

    Constantine Giannaris1991-2000CrimeDramaGreeceQueer Cinema(s)
    Apo tin akri tis polis (1998)
    Apo tin akri tis polis (1998)

    A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city’s repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.Read More »

  • Nikos Panayotopoulos – Delivery (2004)

    Nikos Panayotopoulos2001-2010DramaGreece
    Delivery (2004)
    Delivery (2004)

    Young man arrives in Athens to seek his fortune. Vainly.Read More »

  • Nikos Kornilios – To athoo soma AKA Desert Sky (1997)

    1991-2000ArthouseGreeceNikos KorniliosSci-Fi
    To athoo soma (1997)
    To athoo soma (1997)

    Synopsis
    The few survivors of a deserted city, sometime in the near future, are left with no water or food but somehow manage to survive. In a hospital, a lonely scientist, Foteini, is helping a patient with amnesia to recover. She also meets an actor named Aias (Ajax) – who often visits his sick sister – and becomes romantically involved with him. Foteini is swept away by love; Aias, however, is unprepared for such strong emotions. Their separation brings Foteini to the house of the amnesiac, and he takes care of her, up to the moment that she discovers a photo of hers among his things. In the meantime, Aias brings his sister back home from the hospital. While it is getting darker, with clouds gathering in the sky, Foteini and Aias wander the city and meet in the rain.
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  • Frieda Liappa – Mia zoi se thymamai na fevgeis (1977)

    Frieda Liappa1971-1980ArthouseDramaGreece
    Mia zoi se thymamai na fevgeis (1977)
    Mia zoi se thymamai na fevgeis (1977)

    “A love story, set in Athens of 1977, between a female, left-wing journalist and a stage actor who has abandoned the theatre. The film borrows its title from a hit by singer Mitropanos, “I remember you leaving, all my life”. Politics, the Left, artistic impasses of a creator, theatre, the relations between a man and a woman; with the man always abandoning the girl , as the title of the film (and the song) suggests.

    The director from Messina, depicts in detailed relief and sharply, a specific generation and a specific point in time: that of the regime change (metapolitefsi).”Read More »

  • Panagiotis Maroulis – Prin to telos tou kosmou AKA Before the End of the World (1996)

    1991-2000GreecePanagiotis MaroulisSci-Fi
    Prin to telos tou kosmou (1996)
    Prin to telos tou kosmou (1996)

    The universe is a unified and indivisible entity. There are nο independent parts. There is just the WHOLE, the ΟΝΕ. One of the laws that forms its framework is that of compensation. If some occurrence or some action οn some organizational level of the universe disrupts the order, then compensatory mechanisms are activated that re-establish the balance. The direction in which our civilization appears to be headed threatens to disrupt the balance in this corner of the universe. The Law is activated in the form of «Pressures» οn a group of scientists that endanger not only their minds but even their very lives…Read More »

  • Stavros Tsiolis – As perimenoun oi gynaikes! AKA Let the Women Wait! (1998)

    Stavros Tsiolis1991-2000ComedyGreece
    As perimenoun oi gynaikes! (1998)
    As perimenoun oi gynaikes! (1998)

    Three guys related from marrying three sisters (Batzanakides) meet in Northern Greece at Lake Volvi. The two of them (Panos and Michalis) have as have as destination the Thasos Island whilst the third guy (Antonis) comes to see what is happening with other two falling behind. Panos was struck with the view of a beautiful accompanied girl during the route. Antonis will fall in love too (with the one of the two nurses of Panos) Two old ladies (Sultana and Arhontoula) sitting nearby will act as DJ using a CD player offering very good popular music that suits to the evolution of the movie. Antonis will go to Porto Carras Hotel at Halkidiki with the two nurses for casino playing and will use the number that fails for Panos and Michalis. The movie turns into a study on how men perceive marriage and the impact economics have on their life.Read More »

  • Dimitris Athanitis – Kamia sympatheia gia ton Diavolo AKA No Sympathy for the Devil (1997)

    Arthouse1991-2000CultDimitris AthanitisGreece
    Kamia sympatheia gia ton Diavolo (1997)
    Kamia sympatheia gia ton Diavolo (1997)

    Synopsis:
    A modern version of Orpheus and Eurydice. A romance in extremes set at a dystopian future by the acclaimed Greek director Dimitri Athanitis. Provocative, already a cult film.

    After being released from prison, Eurydice gets a job as a waitress but also as a naked model for a mysterious photographer who blackmails her. Orpheus, a cashier at a super market meets her by chance and falls for her at once. When he loses her, he shall travel all the way to hell, to get her back.

    Dimitri Athanitis’s take on the “Orpheus and Eurydice” myth is stylish and sexy. Lena Kitsipoulou is totally magnetic for her fellow characters and the viewer.Read More »

  • Spiros Stathoulopoulos – Metéora (2012)

    Spiros Stathoulopoulos2011-2020DramaGreece
    Metéora (2012)
    Metéora (2012)

    Quote:
    In the plains of central Greece, Byzantine monasteries are perched atop sandstone pillars, suspended between heaven and earth. A young Greek monk and a Russian nun have devoted their lives to the strict rituals and practices of their community, but a growing affection for one another puts their monastic life under question. Torn between spiritual devotion and their human desire, they must decide which path to follow.Read More »

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