The city of Athens is in turmoil. Most Universities in Greece are taken over by students. There are protest marches and violence everywhere. The government is adamant on its plans for the privatization of universities. Meanwhile, a love story develops within this political and social unrest and chaos: A young hooligan falls in love with…
A bus station, a video-club, a swimming-pool. A series of random meetings will become the occasion for a “Boy Story” to unroll. Will the hero manage to overcome the inhibitions which victimize him since childhood? Will he manage to attract Irene to ask him what is the music he listens to? Time: 7:00 pm Directed By: Thanassis Angelopoulos…
A man is raised with his eyes kept firmly shut. To open up and blossom he first needs to discover the subtleties of love; the “hows”, “whats” and “ifs” of true lust. The only guide in this quest of his, are his memories… Inspired by the Oedipus myth. Time: 7:45 pm Directed By: Diamantis Karanastasis Drama (2012): 86 min…
Athanasios, a mischievous, 21 year old Greek American, lives and works with his grandfather, a Greek immigrant, in the family shoe repair store. Athanasios takes his Greek heritage for granted, and more importantly, the significance of his name and what it means. It is through the telling of his grandfather’s survival of the Kalavryta Massacre…
Kypseli, August 2012. temperatures 40 c. A young couple has left the city due to professional commitments. The girl loses the expensive cell phone that has valuable data of her work. An extensive search of the heavily populated area of Athens will begin. Time: 7:015 pm Directed By: Yannis Katsaboulas Short (2012): 16 min
Cyprus 1974. A family flees advancing troops and takes refuge in an abandoned Ottoman-era palace in the Cypriot capital Nicosia. When a young conscript soldier comes face to face with the family in hiding, he is forced to confront the brutal reality of war and his role in it. Time: 7:00 pm Written and Directed By: Anthony Maras…
Rembetiko music is a Greek form of urban blues performed in low-class joints where the social misfits of the twenties known as “rembetes” gathered. The film tells the story of a great singer of rembetiko songs from her birth in Smyrna in 1917 to her death in Athens in 1955. Time: 7:15 pm Directed By: Kostas Ferris…
A little boy is forced to leave his country, Greece! Time: 7:00 pm Writer/Director/Editor/Composer/Producer: Kostas Chaliasas Short (2012): 3 min
A bitter, political satire for the Greece of the early years of the Dictatorship era. The old fashioned school master, shows the new teacher around in a remote village and eagerly awaits his son’s return “the one with the curly hair”, after years of postgraduate study abroad. The arrival of his son’s bald head is…
The date is April 27th 1941. The German military is entering Athens. A detachment under the orders of Captain Jacob and Lieutenant Elsnits headed to the Acropolis to take down the Greek flag and raise the swastika. A young man, Konstantinos Koukidis, refuses to surrender the Greek flag and carried it to his death, diving from…
