Utopia

Andreas, a 45-year-old widower and architect, tells the coroner of events leading to his young daughter's death.

After 11-year-old Petros loses his father in a car accident in Melbourne, Australia, his mother decides to move the family to her homeland, Greece. Petros has been planning to run away from home ever since the big move. After persuading his classmate, Adonis, to join him, the two boys decide to make the journey to Australia together. Their parents look for the children all over Greece to no avail. The only one who knows the boys' whereabouts is their best friend, whom nobody believes. Petros and Adonis' pictures are published all over the press, but no one comes forward with any information. Meanwhile, the boys continue on their journey...

A music composer tries to deposit money in his bank one morning, and is accused of counterfeiting. Harassed by the police, the gang of counterfeiters and a stranger, he becomes panic-stricken. The unjust charge brought against him ignites his deeper feelings of guilt which stem from his sterile existence and, mainly, from his inability to produce creative work. Then he flees and begins wandering in an unfamiliar "country" where his painful adventures will finally prove redeeming. The film is an existential drama in the form of a "dreamlike" thriller.

In late-1950s Athens, a big sister and her twin brothers sneak in their grandfather's distillery to perform a strange rite. But, how important is the last drop of the rare "Dead Liqueur" to the experimenting adolescents' budding sexuality?

During his summer vacation in Mytilene, a young and lonely small-time clerk, Kostas, becomes bewitched by a femme fatale, Anna Parisi, a thirty-five-year-old German woman married to a wealthy local businessman.

The Kreuzberg district of West Berlin is home to foreign workers - Greeks and Turks who are struggling for a better future, while trying to maintain their national identity. The lives, problems and collective political action of the Gastarbeiters are explored in this great documentary by Giorgos Karypidis, who for a while had also lived and worked as a director in Berlin for the public television SFB.