Greece, 2019, 95 min, West Coast Premiere

Writer(s): Katerina Kaklamani, Rinio Dragasaki
Producer(s): Fenia Cossovitsa
Cast: Maria Kitsou, Maya Pipera
Anna, an eccentric supermarket cashier, lives in Athens, alone in her parent’s big apartment. One day she will be forced to take in the 10-year old girl, from next door, after her father goes missing. At the same time, she will be confronted with her possible dismissal and the overwhelming scenario of a workplace romance. […]
Greece, 2019, 100 min, West Coast Premiere

Writer(s): Zacharias Mavroeidis
Producer(s): Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Kostas Kefalas
Cast: Mihalis Sarantis, Thanasis Papageorgiou, Yota Festa, Alexandros Mavropoulos, Yiannis Niarros, Akis Sakelariou, Xenia Kalogeropoulou
Following financial ruin, thirty-something bachelor Aris moves into his late grandfather’s house, Aristides, a Greek Army veteran. As Aris reunites with old friends, life in conservative Papagou, the suburb of Army Generals, turns into a wishful new beginning. While rebooting his business and settling in, he inadvertently steps into his grandfather’s “slippers” and old family […]
Greece/UK, 2019, 89 min, Available for Streaming in the USA Only

Writer(s): John de Holland, Minos Nikolakakis
Producer(s): Minos Nikolakakis, Lilette Botassi
Cast: Prometheus Aleifer, Anastasia-Rafaela Konidi, Kostas Laskos
City doctor Panos relocates to a remote village in order to offer his services to the community. It’s love at first sight when he sets eyes on Danae, who lives in isolation, with a mysterious skin condition. Determined to cure her, Panos will soon discover Danae is not the helpless princess he thought she was […]
Greece, 2019, 110 min, North American Premiere

Writer(s): Vassilis Mazomenos
Producer(s): Vassilis Mazomenos, Vassilis Alatas
Cast: Stephen Kakavoulis, Dimitris Siganos, Angeliki Karistinou, Katerina Tsasi, Panos Boras
Aris, despairing and desperate, attempts to leave Greece on a barely sea-worthy boat. After being rescued from drowning by the Coast Guard, he now returns as a foreigner in his own ruined country. There he experiences every kind of transgression as an outcast of the system. He steals; he becomes a slave and kills. He […]
Greece, 2019, 96 min, West Coast Premiere

Writer(s): Alexis Kardaras
Producer(s): Konstantinos Moriatis, Eleni Kossyfidou
Cast: Rena Morfi, Stelios Mainas, Yannis Stankoglou, Vicky Papadopoulou, Andreas Natsios, Anna Kalaitzidou, Giannis Dalianis, Kallirhoe Miriagkou
Greece, October 1993. Greek Socialist party has just won the elections, television is dominated by trashy entertainment shows, and every night you can escape reality, or display your wealth in bouzouki clubs singing pop hits. Fotini, a young talented singer arrives in Athens to work in an old bouzouki club. The lives of the three […]
Greece, 2019, 123 min, LA Premiere, Available for streaming in North America Only

Writer(s): Katerina Bei
Producer(s): Dionyssis Samiotis
Cast: Karyofyllia Karampeti, Katia Goulioni, Pygmalion Dadakarides, Dina Michailidou, Thanos Tokakis
Inspired by the life of the most prolific Greek female poet and lyricist, Eftihia Papagiannopoulou; an extraordinary woman and artist who has created a massive volume of timeless and popular songs. She traveled from Smyrna to Greece. She lived every day of her life as if it were her last. She wrote incessantly on any […]
Greece, 2019, 100 min, West Coast Premiere

Writer(s): Giorgos Georgopoulos, Maria Fakinou
Producer(s): Antonis Kotzias, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Giorgos Georgopoulos, Sotiris Tsafoulias
Cast: Omiros Poulakis, Vangelis Mourikis, Kora Karvouni, Sissy Toumasi, Vicky Papadopoulou
Combining the elements of a road movie and a black comedy, Unpleasant tells the story of a very successful sales manager, Aris, who is going through the most crucial week of his life. Starting from a random blood donation, womanizer Aris finds out he’s carrying a rapidly spread sexually transmitted virus that is lethal for […]
Greece/Cyprus, 2019, 83 min, LA Premiere, Available for Streaming in the USA Only

Writer(s): Stavros Pamballis
Producer(s): Panos Papahadzis, Simos Manganis
Cast: Constantine Markoulakis, Daphne Alexander, Akilas Karazisis, Niovi Charalampous
Austerity took everything but the roof over their heads, and today it will come for that too. But today, they will finally fight back, like a family with nothing left to lose… 2019, Thessaloniki International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize, PEKK Prize (Greek Federation of Film Critics), FISCHER People’s Choice Award ( Michael Cacoyannis ERT […]
Greece/Germany/Netherlands/Sweden, 2019, 121 min, West Coast Premiere, Available for Streaming in the USA Only

Writer(s): Youla Boudali, Syllas Tzoumerkas
Producer(s): Maria Drandaki
Cast: Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Youla Boudali
In a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece, two women live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. Elisabeth is a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens ten years ago and now living a joyless, hung-over life; Rita is the quiet, mysterious sister of a lounge singer in the local disco. When […]
Greece, 2019, 98 min, North American Premiere

Writer(s): Stefanos Sitaras
Producer(s): Stefanos Sitaras
Cast: Aris Mavropoulos, Stathis Arfariotis, Anne-Marie Lezineau, Mariety Papatheodorou
After being called a liar for years, Stathis is forced to gather all his friends and take them to a “top-secret location,” to prove the existence of a supposed rocket (that only he knows about). If he doesn’t show the rocket, he will lose all his friends. Shot entirely with non-actors over four years, the […]
Greece, 2019, 88 min, North American Premiere

Writer(s): Alexandros Voulgaris (aka The Boy)
Producer(s): Eleni Bertes
Cast: Iro Bezou, Anthi Efstratiadou, Sofia Kokkali, Daphne Patakia
It appears as if it is an ordinary outing to a remote beach: four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun and the coolness of the sea. None of them is ‘Winona’. The day gives way to silly games, girl talk, song, and dance. Laughter is punctuated by tears. The tears washed away by […]
Greece, 2019, 92 min, West Coast Premiere

Writer(s): Vardis Marinakis, Spyros Kribalis
Producer(s): Konstantinos Vasilaros
Cast: Dimitris Xanthopoulos, Pinelopi Tsilika, August Lambrou- Negrepontis
After nine-year-old Jason is abandoned by his mother at a folk festival, he takes refuge in a cabin in the middle of the forest belonging to a mute loner named Minas. Although at first, the man won’t take him in, a series of circumstances eventually lead them to form a family – something both of […]