Planets

Independence Day in Athens. A girl lights a small fire and tells a small lie about a boy. Small racist lies easily get out of control. So do small racist fires.

14-year-old Anti jumps out of a moving vehicle. She runs, she is hunted, she fights back: all of which she records on the stolen mobile phone of her trafficker. This recording might be her only evidence.

Mila likes to skate. Mila hasn't spoken to her alcoholic dad for over five years. Mila means "speak" in Greek. Mila visits her sick dad at the hospital. Mila means "beloved" in Polish. Mila likes to skate.

A group of high school students meet to participate in the national parade with their school. A student, is bullied by the teacher because of her nationality. They react, defend her and the conflict becomes intense. To avoid the consequences, they decide to run away. They settle on the top of a nearby hill and spend the rest of the day there, as an act of escapism. Up there, they seem to have forgotten their anxieties and problems, as if they were in another world.

A girl argues with her father. 80 km/h. A boy drives drunk. 100 km/h. A boy is hanging by the window. 120 km/h. A girl is flirting. 140 km/h. A boy is handing out pills. 160 km/h. A boy has epileptic seizure. 180 km/h.

Skopelitis is a very special boat. It has a face and a soul; a very lively personality. As we travel on its deck, we enter the marine life of the Small Cyclades, we figure out how do sailors live on board, and discover the life of the inhabitants of this barren islands. The sea gives space to the land, and the dance of the waves leads to festive ecstasy, wherein a love song leads to the sea storm. Music is a composition of recorded sounds from the boat and the nature of this unique island complex.

Alexandra is at the luncheon after her mother’s funeral. There, she will announce to her relatives what she used to dread: that she is a woman. This is a story about the rebirth of a trans daughter on the day of her mother’s death.

Going off on an inner quest to Tinos island in the Cyclades, the filmmaker attempts to define herself and her position in the world. She keeps shifting between two gardens and two father figures, while trying to deal with a personal loss, the defeat of a social movement, and a cinematic failure. What remains reads like a letter to the ever-missing father.