Content from Oxymoron Films

Two brothers, the honest Michalis and the swindler Nontas, are forced to resort to bank robberies in order to pay off the latter's entanglements with the mafia. Michalis' love for a secret police officer, a strange couple of her colleagues and Nontas' greed will make things even more complicated.

Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.

East German Stasi officer Fritz travels to Cuba with orders to thwart a suspected CIA operation against Fidel Castro. In Havana he meets Lola, a young woman who will both endanger his mission, and change the course of his life dramatically.

A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?

For many years, Nadja has worked as a housekeeper for an upper class Greek couple and their daughter. She’s allowed to feel like part of the family. When she’s diagnosed with a serious illness, and the man of the house runs into financial difficulties due to the economic crisis, Nadja loses her job. Yet she shows no external sign of how these two traumatic events have affected her.

The father is unemployed. His son is sick. It is cold outside.

In a typically mixed Baghdadi neighbourhood in 2006, a community of ordinary people try to live their everyday lives amidst the threat of unpredictable violence. At the heart of these intersecting stories we find Sara, a single mother and novelist, who regains her will to write after witnessing the forced exile of her Christian neighbour and best friend Sabiha. With the news of Saddam Hussein's sudden execution shortly before the New Year, Sara and her neighbours brace themselves for an uncertain future. Yet, like a miracle, each is able to sustain a fragile sense of hope.

According to the director: “The film deals with the corrosive effect, on a relatively advanced life, of what psychologists may call ‘the repressed’, while I prefer to concentrate on the beautiful Greek word ‘kaemos’ [καημός, translated as longing, unfulfilled desire]. The most ‘realistic’ and most synoptic… synopsis I can give for the fiction of the film is: ‘A man comes face to face with himself’, but this wording (and here comes the fantasy element) must be read literally.”

Three days in the life of a young man in Athens, jobless, without a girlfriend, and without food. His only companion is his canary, and he will share anything he has with it. A modern adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s classic 1890 novel Hunger.

A couple on a bed. A short film by Argyris Papadimitropoulos.

Nikos, Christine, Homer, George, Regina, Dimitris, Jim, Margaret, Elias, Monika and Haris return from their summer holidays.

Phainie Xydis stares at the lens and smokes a cigarette. Phainie Xydis talks and lights up another one. Phainie Xydis loves her friends, boys and girls; she loves life, Themos, and ashtrays full of cigarette butts.

Joanna descends to the Port daily to find love. Inspired by an urban myth, one woman's story, could be a country's tale.

Out of the heart of a favela in Rio de Janeiro up to the Statue of Christ the Redeemer, the art of theatre spreads the wings of a group of children for a free flight over their fears, their dreams, and the extreme contradictions of their home city where guns and drums are beating on the same frenzied rhythm.