On This Wondrous Sea

The dull life of a retired tailor completely changes when a filmmaker comes to make a documentary about him.

“I present the world with a very different approach, not as it was taught to us at school or in the army. I believe that each one has the right to see the society he lives in with his own particular view. I am, personally, more interested in Devil than God”- Elias Petropoulos. A restless and inquisitive spirit, a foe of academics and the status-quo, Petropoulos was the first folklorist in Greece, who dealt with social outcasts and described people and situations ignored by his country’s official history. Petropoulos takes us on a journey to unknown landscapes of our tradition and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground and who dominate his books. Rebetika musicians, bums, spivs, whores and homosexuals, people tormented and Greek-ness and acquaints us with all those people who belong to our social underground.

Α documentary about the Mobile Mental Health Units in the Cyclades islands. The meetings of the therapists with their patients and their efforts – with the help of the community – for their cure. The film listens to the “closed” societies that create the appropriate conditions so that people with mental illnesses can live in them.

The rare film material discovered in the basement of the well-known photographer Takis Tloupas in Larissa, was a real treasure. This gave the director the motive to look for the man and his work. Guided by his daughter Vania, the crew record his artistic course, while at the same time forming an anthropogeography of Thessaly of the last century.

A filmmaker spends a year in the national garden of Athens, Greece and discovers the secret life of this place, by following several characters who seek refuge in its serene setting.

85-year-old journalist and Washington resident Elias Dimitrakopoulos recounts his adventurous career to director and writer Robiros Manthouli, which brought him into conflict with Constantine Karamanlis, the Greek junta, and the Richard Nixon administration.