Don't Ever Leave Me

East German Stasi officer Fritz travels to Cuba with orders to thwart a suspected CIA operation against Fidel Castro. In Havana he meets Lola, a young woman who will both endanger his mission, and change the course of his life dramatically.

A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?

Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.

Three days in the life of a young man in Athens, jobless, without a girlfriend, and without food. His only companion is his canary, and he will share anything he has with it. A modern adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s classic 1890 novel Hunger.

Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.

Two brothers, the honest Michalis and the swindler Nontas, are forced to resort to bank robberies in order to pay off the latter's entanglements with the mafia. Michalis' love for a secret police officer, a strange couple of her colleagues and Nontas' greed will make things even more complicated.

The father is unemployed. His son is sick. It is cold outside.

Nikos, Christine, Homer, George, Regina, Dimitris, Jim, Margaret, Elias, Monika and Haris return from their summer holidays.

Electra and Orestes stand accused of murdering their mother. Yet, in present-day Greece, it is not the gods who deliver justice, but mere mortals—seemingly powerless to piece together the truth.

Athena lives an urban family life. She's bored. Elsa lives a lonely post-adolescence. She's bored. In a ghost-Athens, some random everyday events become occasions to unite their gaps, their insecurities, their wants and their cans.

According to the director: “The film deals with the corrosive effect, on a relatively advanced life, of what psychologists may call ‘the repressed’, while I prefer to concentrate on the beautiful Greek word ‘kaemos’ [καημός, translated as longing, unfulfilled desire]. The most ‘realistic’ and most synoptic… synopsis I can give for the fiction of the film is: ‘A man comes face to face with himself’, but this wording (and here comes the fantasy element) must be read literally.”

Phainie Xydis stares at the lens and smokes a cigarette. Phainie Xydis talks and lights up another one. Phainie Xydis loves her friends, boys and girls; she loves life, Themos, and ashtrays full of cigarette butts.