Thanos Tokakis

I Was a Stranger

A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.

Last Visit

Last Visit is a tribute to Lefteris Voyatzis (1945 - 2013), an indisputable milestone in the modern history of Greek theater that defined people, projects, and our theatrical perception. He defined and was defined by the Theater of Odou Kykladon. At this place he left work, memories, and senses that still intensively exist. Through this strange dreamy visit he returns to favourable theatrical place for a proper farewell to his friends and colleagues.

Adults in the Room

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

Homo Perfectus

Athens, 2021. Johnny, the first android robot of the market is ready, and will operate as the perfect partner of influencer Youla. After the wedding, Youla progressively finds herself seeking of functions that Johnny is not programmed to offer.

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Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever; go through life like a game, free of society's rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is: you may escape the rules but you can't escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.

Murphy’s Law

After an accident that puts her in a coma, Maria Aliki, a struggling actress in search of major roles, enters a reality where she must play out all the possible roles life could have given her. Through this journey, she must discover who she truly is in order to return to life.

Little Things That Went Wrong

Fanis, after the glory as a TV celebrity, is gone downhill for good. All he needs now, is a divine sign to make it again. Pavlos, has built the perfect world for himself. Yet, what keeps him away from his career and the ideal family life is reality. Their lives get tangled together now that Muffin the dog is dead.

Hellas 3.0

Three stories. Three directorial perspectives. A cinematic triptych that navigates between humor, absurdity, and Greek reality. Three different filmmakers join forces in a cinematic triptych that observes contemporary Greek reality through humor, absurdity, and a satirical lens.

I Was a Stranger

A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.

Last Visit

Last Visit is a tribute to Lefteris Voyatzis (1945 - 2013), an indisputable milestone in the modern history of Greek theater that defined people, projects, and our theatrical perception. He defined and was defined by the Theater of Odou Kykladon. At this place he left work, memories, and senses that still intensively exist. Through this strange dreamy visit he returns to favourable theatrical place for a proper farewell to his friends and colleagues.

Adults in the Room

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

Homo Perfectus

Athens, 2021. Johnny, the first android robot of the market is ready, and will operate as the perfect partner of influencer Youla. After the wedding, Youla progressively finds herself seeking of functions that Johnny is not programmed to offer.

Play

Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever; go through life like a game, free of society's rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is: you may escape the rules but you can't escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.

Murphy’s Law

After an accident that puts her in a coma, Maria Aliki, a struggling actress in search of major roles, enters a reality where she must play out all the possible roles life could have given her. Through this journey, she must discover who she truly is in order to return to life.

Little Things That Went Wrong

Fanis, after the glory as a TV celebrity, is gone downhill for good. All he needs now, is a divine sign to make it again. Pavlos, has built the perfect world for himself. Yet, what keeps him away from his career and the ideal family life is reality. Their lives get tangled together now that Muffin the dog is dead.

Hellas 3.0

Three stories. Three directorial perspectives. A cinematic triptych that navigates between humor, absurdity, and Greek reality. Three different filmmakers join forces in a cinematic triptych that observes contemporary Greek reality through humor, absurdity, and a satirical lens.

Echoes of the Past

A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.

My Name is Eftihia

A young girl, recently married, is traveling from Aidini to Greece with her mother and her two daughters. On board the ship she decides not to let life pass her by, but to live her own way. And she goes ahead! She writes endlessly wherever she can, on napkins and cigarette boxes, to bills. She smokes, she passionately falls in love, casually gambles in luxurious salons, but also in illegal basements. A teacher who becomes an actress and plays in streets and in theaters, a poet who becomes the greatest Greek folk songwriter. She collaborates with all the famous music personalities of the country, from Vassilis Tsitsanis and Apostolos Kaldaras to Manolis Ηiotis, Antonis Repanis and Manos Hadjidakis, bravely asserting herself to a cruel and typically male-dominated world.

Dust to Dust

Kosmas, a cemetery worker, has set up a lucrative “grief business” with Father Argyris. The money flows freely until Kosmas’s greed leads him face-to-face with his own Nemesis.

Hopepunk

Rebellious driver Andi and a restless zombie named Pina are driving through the city with a dark secret in the trunk. Their destination is HOPEPUNK, a queer zombie squat at the edge of town where they set a trap for a gang of nationalist taxi drivers that has spread its filthy tentacles across the dead-zone metropolitan highways, controlling the streets of Athens.

Tokakis or What's My Name

Thanos Tokakis begins a stand up comedy tour in the providence in order to prove everyone the great actor he is. On his journey he is confronts the audience which is not able to let go his TV performance, but mostly himself who pushes him to the limits to reach success. Through the end.

Cowboy

In a few days Minas is going to participate in a TV show called "Talent of the year". A TV crew follows him in his everyday life interviewing him and his closest people, until the big day of the show. Minas must win to fulfill his dream. What is his talent? He is a cowboy. In Athens.

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea

Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.

The Fool on the Hill

Maxwell lives with his cat Eleanor Cumpene and is secretly in love with Johnny. Michel is a hypochondriac and suicidal art critic, who is obsessed with Lucy, the girl who abandoned him.

The Rhapsodist

When a rhapsodist begins to tell his tale, the worlds of fact and fiction fold together until the only truth left is the story itself and the rest is just life.

Entropy

It's Eleni's birthday. Friends and relatives are gathering together. Their relationships are going to be tested.

Aerolin

Sandy is a drama school graduate and has asthma. Tonight she will be performing at the theatre. Before that, she has to teach a yoga class, work as a clown and go to an audition. In this equation, she somehow has to try and fit in Spiros, her boyfriend.

Sea of Glass

65-year-old Vangelio decides to go on holiday after her husband's death. In a run-down off-season seaside resort she meets Vicky, a young woman caring for her alcoholic father. When Vangelio protects Vicky from her father's violence, chaos erupts in their seaside town.

The Other Me

A series of murders alarm the police authorities, as strange symbolisms are traced to every crime scene. The eccentric professor of criminology Dimitris Lainis is asked to shed some light on the mystery.

Fifty Fifty (50-50)

Thou Shalt Not Kill

The main theme of the series is the way in which a person is led to murder while each story in the series combines elements of drama, social stories and thrillers. The duration of each episode is 45 minutes and is in the form of a psychograph. While the stories in the series are based on real events that have preoccupied public opinion, their dramatization has undergone some changes.

Se Eida...

The lives of young people living in Athens. Lives full of color, laughter, music, funny faces, fiery hearts, but also… canceled dates. Stories that show us all that happens in life but is missing from television. Stories morning and evening. Stories in the city center. Stories at the University and at the office. Stories with their common axis of flirting and erotic play and the search for them through advertisements. The city tells its stories. Everyday stories, familiar, but also distant, those that we have lived, that we would like to live, or that we would like to avoid. Stories that reveal the nuances of modern life. The image of the city and human relationships. People who meet through a newspaper column and come closer.

Lies

Marina,a teacher in high school gets a divorce after many years of marriage.She agrees though to go on a date with Andreas,a succesfull doctor and father one of her students.

Ο 3ος Νόμος

Every action causes a reaction. Newton's 3rd law does not only explain the relationship between bodies and "momentum" in classical mechanics, but also human relationships and the "momentum" that characterizes them, in general. Relationships with others and with ourselves. The relationship between the present and the past. The relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. Family dramas, love affairs of loyalty and infidelity, serial killers, crimes of honor, passion, revenge, punishment, necessity.

17 Threads

The series is based on real events. It takes us to Kythera from 1906 to 1909 and chronicles one of the largest mass murders the country has ever known. There, we meet the central figure of the story, Antonis, a peaceful shoemaker. A lovable young man, until he is unjustly slandered. The outcry of the local community forces him to leave. He makes a new start in Piraeus. Again, however, his attempt to escape falls on deaf ears. History repeats itself in the big city, filling Antonis with bitterness and anger. Now, there is only one way left for him: Revenge.

The Bridge

A corpse symbolically placed on the border line of the bridge that connects Greece with Turkey, forces the Greek police officer Sofia Bakalis and the Turkish Kenan Karaman to undertake the case of the unusual murder. Very quickly, the two police officers realize that things are not so simple. Unsuspecting of the political forces involved and trying to solve the case, Sophia and Kenan will be in mortal danger, as the perpetrators do everything to hide an explosive secret. However, the price of the truth is much higher than they imagine, with its revelation threatening to lead even to a Greek-Turkish conflict. In the end, Sophia and Kenan will be asked to decide what matters most: their task or their life.