Sam Roma: We Are Gypsies

A man in his forties, afflicted with amnesia, crosses paths with a woman who was once his first love. Though no memories of her resurface, he is carried away by a feeling that runs deeper than the boundaries of his memory.

On a winter morning in 1997, a father unintentionally leads his two children on an unnatural journey into the future, while struggling with his addictions.

A documentary that chronicles the 90 years of history of the Greek sports club PAOK, not only in athletic but also in social and historical terms.

Greece, 1977. A proposed law brings gay men and “transvestites” together in a historic event and sparks the creation of the first Greek LGBT movement. For the next 13 years, AKOE and its magazine Amfi, would define the way LGBT Greeks think about themselves. This film celebrates their story and legacy.

Eva, a middle-aged painter and eccentric performer, teeters between madness and human comedy, love and the fear of death. Besides, she suffers from “Albertine Syndrome,” forever falling in love with the heroine of her own work. This passion pushes her to the brink of madness. In daily life, she struggles with caring for her schizophrenic mother and facing a serious illness. Can art become her salvation?

A camera in a prison. The inmate. An everyday discussion with the outside world. In the confines of a prison, Walls delves deep into the introspection of an inmate's journey, exploring dreams, hope, and the harsh truths of existence.

An aged, above suspicion, bourgeois man known as ‘The Master’ lives isolated in a luxurious beachfront villa with his teenage daughter. In reality, however, he is involved in an illicit trade in antiquities, acts as a loan shark, and trades antiquities on the black market. The ‘Master’ has two henchmen, Mercury and John, who both commit fatal mistakes. Mercury falls for the daughter of ‘Master’, while John becomes obsessed with a prostitute. Both of them, as ‘sentimentalists’, must be eliminated.

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.

A psychedelic docu-essay, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s visionary poem Une Saison en Enfer, in which the poet’s ghost travels through history, encountering revolutionary figures and queer ‘freaks’ such as Emma Goldman, David Wojnarowicz, and Marsha P. Johnson. These encounters form a multilayered collage that interrogates identity, the meaning of revolution, and the role of the artist in shaping radical histories and collective imaginaries.

The Evangelical Parable of an eleven-year-old Son who, with the blessings of his Father, is compelled at the eleventh hour, during his school play, to exchange the role of the Rooster for that of Christ before a newly affluent and insatiable audience.

Maria, who lives on an island, discovers she is pregnant when she visits her religious sister in Athens for their mother’s memorial service. The unexpected pregnancy at forty and an unexpected encounter make her realize that only by coming to terms with her choices can she “laugh, no matter what the world says.”

Poetic, dramatic, funny, MTV kids growing up on the Greek island of Corfu, Kore. Ydro. conquered the Greek indie pop/rock scene like only a few bands did, receiving both adoration and derision. The documentary follows their journey, focusing not only on the two core members but also on the importance of being special, without feeling ashamed.

Easter Week, April 1944, rural Greece. Six-year-old Anastasia befriends a Resistance prisoner while gathering flowers for Orthodox rituals. As Holy Thursday unfolds, childhood innocence collides with war, sacrifice, and an approaching, unspoken tragedy.

Who are the people who clean the roads of the world? Why are the majority of them women and immigrants? The well-traveled show “Clean City” of the Onassis Foundation Stegi becomes a hybrid film. Four separate directors follow the tour of the show to four cities - Skopje, Sarajevo, Montpellier, Istanbul. Immigrant cleaners, stars of the show but also of their real lives, talk about their experiences, touch on the subject of racism in terms of what is “pure”, the danger of fascism, female immigration and sexual abuse. An anthology film somewhere between documentary and fiction, having as its starting point the filmed theatre play by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris.

In 1976, four young friends from Athens form the band "The 4 Levels of Existence". They compose, rehearse in improvised music studios, and record their first and only album, realizing their own musical "revolution". In the ensuing years this "revolution" was gradually forgotten, as normality and the everyday obligations of adult life took over. Their album, however, followed a unique and remarkable course: from the shelves of a few Athenian record stores it reached collectors from all over the world, as well as the ears of music producers in the US. In 2009, representatives from the record company of renowned American rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z contacted Athanasios Alatas, member of the band and composer of several songs of the album, asking him for permission to use part of a song from the "4 Levels of Existence" record.