Christos Giannakopoulos

Two African brothers have been separated during their escape to Europe. Joel is stranded in Greece, and his older brother is in Italy. We learn what we know about them from the older brother's voicemail messages, which occasionally make themselves known during the stream of images, with both good and bad news, as Joel wanders around aimlessly in the new and unfamiliar world.

Anna arrives in a remote area on the city border. A public telephone booth stands there as the last totem on earth. This is the official city limit. Anna plans to escape. But when the well-trained phone operator at the end of the line grows suspicious of her, Anna realises that the clock is ticking at her expense.

Margarita and her father, returning to Pylos, they will be confronted with the rapid tourist transformation of the place. Margarita will become the cause for those old friends of his to mingle again and claim a spot, in the shade of the plane tree, taken over by tourists.

A woman, her doctor, a piano student, a man, his wife and a cat. What connects these people? What separates them? Who is Helga? Where is Lund?

What remains today of the Rite of Spring? An intimate and political portrait of a choreography/er that takes us on a journey through a world where the body becomes an uprising.

Mohamed, a six year old refugee, finds himself alone in a crowded Aegean beach. He is hiding behind a rock, watching the tourists bathing and waiting for his mother to come back. He lost her in the sea and now he needs to find her again, in order to keep up with the great trip to the West.

Ektoras, recently released from prison, has two jobs. During the day he is a pest control technician and during the night he stays awake. His social worker wants to know why.

Revenge murmurs in his ear: Αt what temperature does blood boil in the snow? When the older brother is killed by his favourite horse, the younger one has to decide -through nightmares and visions- whether to avenge the blood or forgive.

Leta has not been able to pay the rent for several months. When she and her one-year-old son are thrown out of their apartment, they move in with Sophie, an old woman confined to bed, whose daughter has just employed Leta as a caretaker. In order to keep her job and a roof over their head, Leta has to keep Sophie alive at any cost.

Missing her, will take him to a journey. He will cross by foot the place they met and lived, so that in a way he can see her again.

On the eve of the biggest show of her career, a young pop singer struggles with her sense of control over her art and her mind. But fate has other plans for her.

A railway crossing in the middle of nowhere. Two guards: solitary Yiannis who never leaves his post and cool Antonis who goes with the rhythm of the landscape. Every once in a while, a voice announces the passing of a train. The two guards manually lower the bars. Nothing seems to stir their daily routine until love charges in, crushing all certainties.

A veterinarian is called in to treat a mysterious disease in a remote farm. He examines the first victim of this disease, a ram, and he advises the owner to put down all his livestock as a precautionary measure. A freak storm, though, forces him to spend the night at the farm.

In 1991, after more than four decades of oppression and isolation, the totalitarian communist regime in Albania falls, leaving its people exposed to the new world. The refugee crisis spread across Europe in Germany, Italy and Greece. Some succeeded in creating a new life, others not. Shpetim and Fatbardha were together. They decided to walk the distance between Albania and Greece to live their love. 25 years later, their son walks the same distance, this time from Greece to Albania.

After a major surgery Maria returns to her family home to recover, living with her mother, her sister, and a newborn baby. While her body starts healing, an innermost desire emerges.

Greece, Russia, USA, Brazil, China, Senegal. Meeting young people in these countries we heard a ‘Rumble’ foretelling an impending explosion. The fall of communism, crisis of capitalism, ecological catastrophes, migration waves, globalization. The new generation is at the forefront, exposed, helpless without being able to envision a more optimistic future. This ‘Rumble’ comes from this young generation. Their words, images, sounds and music compose the notes of an audio-visual symphony entitled: ‘The Rumble of the World’.

A teenage girl, in an every day routine, takes the same old bus from her house to the beach and back again, on her back she carries a small container in which she collects fresh sea water. When she comes back in the house the door closes behind her, leaving us confronted with the closed door. During the movie we will witness this daily route, we wont have a glimpse of what's going on inside the house, not until the last moment.

She is alone. The land of the living is far away, while the world of the dead smells like chamomile.

Daniel, a German teenager, is sent to a juvenile offender community in Greece, to serve his sentence. There, in an abandoned village of Evros river region, near the border with Turkey, he experiences never-felt-before emotions and is called to solve difficult dilemmas... His final decision will surprise everyone.

In 2006 the Trikala Prison closes after 110 years of operation. Seven people who were strongly associated with the prison, return to it to reconstruct its past, illuminating with their personal narratives different aspects of the history of modern Greece.

Alice, a young woman living in Northern France. finds mysterious tapes with people narrating their nightmares. As she is looking for the sender the limits between dreams and reality get obscured.

1949, towards the end of the Greek Civil War. Yannis, the son of a rebel, is torn from his village and deported to the Childcare Cities where his ideas and desires are manipulated. Nightmares and dark feelings for his father slowly inhabit his heart. Only when he reaches adulthood does he redefine his existence, so he decides to go and meet the man.

Two siblings live in the industrial town of Elefsina. A bridge connects their neighborhood, inhabited mostly by Black-Sea Greeks, to an area inhabited by immigrants varied background. Social divisions give rise to hostility, reflected in the local sports scene and two siblings’ relationship.

A woman who cannot stop running. A mysterious man who knows everything about her life. A turtle pin. An unexpected encounter in the elevator that goes up to the 54th floor – but takes us all elsewhere.