Η Παραλία

It’s the hunting season. Two grieving, estranged brothers try their marksmanship together with their sons. Can a bird’s heart stop in the sky with no bullets coming through its body?

Kostis has just made his first big professional step opening their own barbershop with his best friend Thanos in the heart of Athens. Every night a sweet melody is heard from the neighborhood. Kostis believes it's a mysterious girl you can fall in love with, by the sound of her voice. The story becomes even more intriguing when Kostis finds a chocolate bar with a hidden message on the Barber's door.

In the early 20th century, a brilliant Italian Woman, entranced by classical Greek culture, falls in love with a ship owner and moves to a thriving Greek island, throwing herself into a vortex of passion, emancipation and self-destruction.

In a tale rooted in ancient Greek tragedy, a patriarch must decide the fate of his son and the boy he raised when a long-standing unneighbourly feud turns to murder.

Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in a windy autumn, matching the less-than-pleasant occasion: Yannis has been called to identify the victim of a tragic accident at the hospital of the small town. When the local policeman informs them that the victim’s vehicle had plunged over the parapet of a stone bridge and leads them to the morgue, Katerina sees her worst suspicions confirmed. Together with Yannis, but also on her own nightly excursions to a mysterious, rustic beach bar called Arcadia, they begin to put the pieces of the puzzle together, revealing a haunting story of love, loss, acceptance and letting go.

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.

Alexis is an office worker who hates his job. However, his dull daily routine suddenly takes a turn when a family debt brings him face-to-face with organized crime and a mobster who demands repayment. That's when Alexis orchestrates a complicated heist, hoping that nothing will go wrong. But in the end, everything goes wrong—and his life changes forever.

On a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, a Swedish teenager falls in love with a young member of the crew.

Two brothers return to their childhood island, long-buried secrets force them to confront a dark past that binds them together.

Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever; go through life like a game, free of society's rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is: you may escape the rules but you can't escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.

For the terminally ill Izzet, time is nearly up. Doctors have given up, prayers and rituals offer little help, and his family's future is now in God's hands. So Izzet spends his time in virtual reality, roaming through the astonishing and otherworldly places of the virtual cosmos. He even meets his girlfriend there…

From the music of Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla, Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou crafts a story inspired by the Pleiades, seven sisters who are nymphs who were turned into stars. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.