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- Anna, a young art historian is preparing a retrospective of the work of the famous painter, Maria Dimou. She is assisted by Angelos, an old friend of the painter. Dimou was found dead several years ago. Her death is not clear: suicide or murder ? Angelos will help Anna solve this mystery but Angelos has many things to hide...
- Two political trials and executions have left an indelible mark on post-conflict Greece. The trial of Nikos Belogiannis and the trial of Nikos Ploumpidis. Ploumpidis, however, died alone, slandered by enemies and friends, dishonored. Personal drama and collective destiny co-shape this Promethean hero, who seems straight out of an ancient tragedy.
- 21 October 1929. During a voyage from Trieste to the United States of America aboard the ocean liner Saturnia, two great poets crossed paths: Fernando Pessoa and C.P. Cavafy.
- The Mountain Tears' follows the odyssey of a guild of stonemasons during the troublesome first years of the twentieth century. Far from their homeland, hunted, cut off by war and battles, slowly or quickly, they will perish one by one, and only Markos, the master builder, like another Ulysses, will continue his wandering.
- The search for a missing woman gives an Athenian lawyer, Manos - who is suffocating in his marriage to Kynthia - the opportunity to travel to Epirus. Leaving his familiar surroundings, he gradually enters another world, unknown and mysterious. His journey resembles the descent to Hades, and his visit to the supposed entrance to the underworld is revelatory. In Epirus he discovers that Evanthia, the woman he is searching for and whose disappearance twenty years ago provoked a major inheritance issue, has, in the meantime, married a Greek refugee from Albania, Fanis. Circumstances oblige Fanis to return to Albania, but Evanthia goes in his stead. Manos discovers Fanis hiding in an isolated hut and learns that Evanthia has been in Albania for quite some time. He decides to cross the border, finds Evanthia and brings her back. This is a film about loss and searching, both external and internal. An introspective meditation on life inspired by the social disorder of the Balkans in the mid '90s.
- A journey through the poetry of Giorgos Seferis and the discovery of his way of thinking and living.
- Between 1947 and 1950, more than 80 000 Greek citizens were imprisoned on the isle of Makronisos (Greece) in reeducation camps created to 'fight the spread of communism'. Among these exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Livaditis. Despite the deprivation and torture, these prisoners succeeded in composing poems, which describe their struggle for survival in this world of internment. These texts, some of them buried in the camps, were later found. «Like Lions of stone at the gateway of night» blends these poetic writings with the reeducation propaganda constantly piped through the camps' loudspeakers. Long tracking shots take us on a trance-like journey through the camp ruins, interrupted along the way by segments from photographic archives. A cinematic essay, which revives the memory of forgotten ruins and a battle lost.
- The students came closer with each other, which did not have the opportunity to live through the competitive educational system. That was when they felt love for their school.
- A documentary about the work of the late famous Greek painter Yiannis Moralis shows footage of the artist talking about his life and works.
- The history of Sinasos village in Kappadokia, where Greeks and Turks lived together for centuries, up to the Asia Minor Disaster
- Europe, the Dream' a documentary about three adolescents who are/were living in Patras, Greece: Andreas, a young Greek, Ali Reza, a refugee from Afghanistan and Abdulla, a refugee from Syria; they are each dreaming of a great journey to Europe, and, with all their hopes and fears, they are struggling to make this happen as they see it as the only solution for their lives.They don't consider Greece as Europe! The two refugees have in fact managed to reach their destinations: Ali Reza in Sweden and Abdulla in Austria.Andreas is still in Greece. He wants to study and work but his family has day to day problems which have been heightened by the Greek financial crisis. Will these three young men be able to realize their dreams or these dreams will be thwarted by the difficulties and complexities that exist in today's Europe.