Generator

If there weren’t any buses, would there be films? In March 2020, the window of my gaze narrowed down. City life almost ceased. Non-essential movements were prohibited, and cinemas closed. I don’t know what I miss the most, cinema or a non-essential movement.

When Maria, a young pregnant woman is fired, she goes on a birth strike.

A man gets out of prison. Like a modern Ulysses he will undertake a homeless journey into contemporary Athens peopled by migrants, homeless, and other marginalized persons of the society. On his way he will meet a woman and a little girl. Are the three of them members of a disrupted family or just persecutors and victims of a violent and conflict driven society that prevents them from living together?

Jenny and John make a funny couple. She’s 29 and he is 14. They are walking to a street fiesta at the outskirts of Athens when Jenny decides to take a detour and derail their evening. A coming of age tale that unravels on the road.

Marpissa is a village in the Aegean Sea that celebrates Easter in its own unique way: On Good Friday, all daily routines come to a halt as eleven scenes from the Passion of Christ are brought to life by villagers portraying figures such as Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Pontius Pilate. It’s not only a religious act; it is also the expression of pride in creating a spectacle.

A man's return to his homeland signals the violence that "equilibrium" requires.