Yannis Kokiasmenos

The Odyssey

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.

Hen

Escaping from a chicken farm, a hen finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.

Flickering Souls Set Alight

Greece, 2017. The inability to financially support Aris (who suffers from ALS), has his wife, Persefoni, come up against human existential limits. How many years do you need to travel in order to get “home”?

Smac

Eleni is diagnosed with cancer. After the initial shock she tries to get her life back together.

Marathon

Why does a polar bear feel sleepy come fall? Why does she lose her appetite? Why does she avoid fights? It' 's not easy to find out the secrets of the polar bear.

Strella

Yiorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young trans sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love.

A Song Not Enough

In the winter of 72 a young actress and divorced mother, is arrested and goes at Korydallos for resistance activities. But the nine-year daughter, Olga, who now has to live with her father will not ever forgive the abandonment and keep the "trauma" even as adult

Ursa Minor

Ιn a cheap by-the-hour hotel, a man is being arrested while the unconscious body of a woman is being transported to the hospital. In the back seat of the patrol car, on his way to the police station, the man recalls the past few months and tries to figure out what went wrong.

Thursday Night Sorbet

Four sets of passengers and their romantic antics make the night shift of a rideshare driver one to remember.

The Summer with Carmen

While having a day-long swim at Athens’ queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas’ feature debut.

Hannibal Before the Gates

The scrappy 18-year-old daughter of a small-town prostitute storms the bastion of the rich and powerful in this drama set in the elite world of horse trials and show jumping. Sheer talent and an unbreakable bond with a temperamental thoroughbred may not be enough for Chara, who aspires to rise from stable hand to champion.. I

The Attack of the Giant Mousaka

Around the year 2000, a terrible occurence shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how, for what reason? But no one can give an answer...

Paper Bird Flying

When the wind blows, everything acquires a strange power

Apallou

A grandson returns to his ancestors’ village for the winter. A grandfather returns from death to see his grandson for one last time. A village unable to cope with the returns that occurred out of love.

Dakar

1978, on his birthday, Stavros was set to get engaged to Matula. Instead, he was forced to embark on his first big journey. 2020, on his birthday, Stavros wanders around the city alone. It is the day that he doesn’t like to talk. It is the day that he reflects on his past considering how things would have been if he had made other decisions.

Success Story

In a country in deep crisis, two worlds collide: the bourgeois milieu of an intellectual psychiatrist, and the humbler, but no less ambitious world of a beautiful working class actress. They fall in love, but they will soon have to face reality.

The Elements

A sex assault survivor who cannot heal from the trauma joins group therapy as a last resort, only to realize that there may be in fact one more thing that can help, with far more reaching consequences, dragging along other group members in the process.

Listen...

After twenty years of happy marriage, a devoted housewife is determined to get something off her chest.

BASTARDS

The Bastards have left the city behind. Their house in the countryside smells of nothing but summer. Five girls and five boys living in the moment, for the moment. No outsider comes around here, and all the insiders take turns standing guard, kissing each other, playing dead. They are still kids. They are your kids. They are our Bastards.

Purgatory

A monk leads a procession. A girl is rescued from prostitution. Two college students become perpetrators of violent crimes. An elderly man falls victim to a police officer. A couple tries to repair their relationship. A woman expresses her anger to a civil servant. A man kidnaps his best friend. Seven different stories about love in modern Greece, from people who seek it, find it, lose it.

Bäckström

Murder investigator Evert Bäckström is convinced that crimes have been committed when a women's cranium is found on an island in the archipelago. But his investigation is countered by the police chief and when the woman's identity is clarified, the entire investigation is turned upside down.

Malice

A charming tutor infiltrates a wealthy family's life, revealing a sinister agenda.

Εκτός Υπηρεσίας

A quiet village in the middle of nowhere, where crime is an unknown word, is thrown into turmoil when a notice comes from police headquarters that their Police Station must be closed due to inactivity and that its officers will be transferred, unknown to where.