A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.
The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl who carries a curse. Ever since her first boyriend mysteriously drowned in the river, men around her are dying in most bizarre ways. The plot thickens when stubborn policeman Maane who doesn't believe in 'village tales' tries to investigate whether Zorica is a serial killer or a girl looking for love.
In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.
Michalis or MJ is obsessed with fame, wealth and Michael Jordan. He is a trap rapper. "I am destined for greatness! I am already Number One! But why don't they love me?"
The brief but intense encounter of a Greek police officer and a Syrian refugee changes the way the two see this world.
Every year, in July, the Pelion Festival gathers students and high-profile teachers of classical music from all over the world. Seminars are organized and concerts are given in one of Greece’s most picturesque landscapes: Mount Pelion and Zagora village. This invaluable event is run thanks to the devotion of a five-member family, without any financial support whatsoever from the official state. This is a film featuring skillful musicians, plenty of food and lots of cellos!
Yiannis Boutaris – one of Greece’s leading winemakers and a former alcoholic, a prominent member of civil society and an honored environmental activist – is, at 68, the unconventional independent mayoral candidate for Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, in the 2010 municipal elections. With the country caught in the spiral of the financial crisis, Boutaris struggles against visible and invisible opponents. One Step Ahead is a 10-week-long documentary-odyssey that tries to explore, among things, what love’s got to do with it.
