Manos Makrigiannakis

On their last night on a Greek party island, a restless young man abandons his childhood friends to sail with a solitary fisherman—seeking freedom in the open sea, only to find himself truly alone.

During a break in the course of a regular day, a middle-aged man is on the phone with his mother. A stranger appears and breaks in the horrible news that will change both him and his perception of reality in a tragicomic way.

Six tragicomic stories of obsession and madness, centered on the paradox of love.

A man, a decision, a half-cooked meal, and the realisation that, eventually, everything can be oddly insignificant and quite funny.

While his father is working abroad, Nestoras spends his days trying to learn how to ride a bicycle without training wheels. As he struggles with falls, fear, and persistence, his quiet determination hints at a deeper, unspoken longing.

Forty years after the invasion, Zehra, a Turkish Cypriot woman, visits her beloved Greek Cypriot neighbour, Maroula, in the southern part of Cyprus. She hopes to thank Maroula’s son, who saved their lives during the events of 1974, and to find out where her own son is buried. Although her questions remain unanswered, the truths that emerge about their shared losses bring the two women closer than ever.

In an attempt at social and economic liberation, against an establishment that with insecurity and violence deprives any form of hope for the future, a group of friends dance on the edge of moral irregularity and walk the fine line between legality and illegality. Will the reverberations of their choices light their way?

A flyer boy offers to help a female co-worker. When inside an apartment complex, he reluctantly does the same for a middle-aged woman. Soon, he'll have to fight for much more than a day's labor.