A tribute to Nikos Kazantzakis, the great writer and thinker. Researchers, university professors, who dealt with the great Cretan and world creator, but also ordinary everyday people, tell stories they lived and heard, outlining his life and work. His relationship with God, travel, love, philosophy, friendship, love, music and dreams are recorded in filming that took place in Crete, Aegina, Thessaloniki and Athens. The tribute is the truth of his personal path, a path that is identified with his life and work.
A person, in the case of "Iphigenia" a girl, sacrifices part or even her whole ego to become a member of a new social ensemble and specifically of the social ensemble of her future husband. The film is inspired by the theater of the absurd and mainly by theatrical texts by Ionesco and Pinter but also by the original myth of Iphigenia which symbolizes sacrifice.
2012. Nikos lives in Athens. He is a film director who teaches film direction at the University of Thessaloniki. Today he will ask his father, Mr. Andrikos, to accompany him to the swearing-in ceremony for his promotion to the higher rank at the University - a father-son train journey, with time running backward.
Nina knows why her grandfather hates her – obviously because she’s a lesbian. Time to come clean. In the weirdest car ride of their lives, Nina and Stathis will have to finally talk to each other whether they like it or not.
When the taps of a remote town stop running, its inhabitants seek salvation in the repetition of an informal sacrifice.
It is a movie following the coming-of-age for a boy; the story begins in the mid-60s, continues all through the 70s, and finishes in 1981. He is a creative young man facing the troubles of the first pangs of love and we observe the way he tries to handle them within his social surroundings, his family, and environment.
He was having his sweetest dream. Blurry images from when he was a boy and his parents were alive. An old song begins to play in the background, giving clear form to the figures of his parents. But he is not dreaming. He is awake. And the music is playing in his head... K. is 40 years old, lives alone. This song is his only chance to remember his parents. Time passes and K. gets more and more lost in his memories, putting his life on the back burner.
Two brothers are fighting on opposite sides during the Greek Civil War.
Artemis finds out that her application for a British university has been accepted. As she prepares to leave, her parents organize a big farewell party at their house. In a crowd full of guests Artemis finds Simos. He proposes to flee the party in order to have a last excursion together. A long journey commences, filled with nature, sea and secluded landscapes. Present, past and future meet for a hike only to decipher the answers for some unresolved questions. What is love? When do we fall in love? What is what makes us fall in love with someone? How do we stop loving someone? Where do all those beautiful sentiments end up to? Who is the culprit when two people must break up, but they don’t want to? A series of questions that will never be addressed and perhaps might never be answered. A starry-eyed story about feelings and their decay throughout time, as well as the heartache we experience when we have to move on and leave behind traces of something that once only mattered.
As Rallou (40) visits her parents at the house, imagination and reality interweave comic-tragic situations that give the protagonist laughter but also strength to face the definitive changes that time brings. she grew up in, fantasy and reality create bittersweet situations that make the protagonist smile and give her strength to face the definite changes brought on by time.