Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos

Maldives

An elementary music teacher living in a secluded town in the mountains with his dog, longs to escape the cold in favour of a warmer life by the beach. When his dog disappears, his sanity comes into question, as ringings of the afterlife begin to bring forth visions that shake up his world.

Arcadia

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.

Fonissa

It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.

Unorthodox

703AD, Byzantium. A peaceful farmer is accused of heresy and sentenced to 24 hours of mandatory prayer, locked in a medieval pillory. Due to an invasion in the area, the officials forget to release him. Alone in the middle of nowhere and unable to move, the farmer seeks help from a set of passers-by: a conservative family, an injured invader, a burning flock of sheep, a gang of children. As chances of survival become slimmer, the farmer needs to make peace with his impending death.

Crossing

A railway crossing in the middle of nowhere. Two guards: solitary Yiannis who never leaves his post and cool Antonis who goes with the rhythm of the landscape. Every once in a while, a voice announces the passing of a train. The two guards manually lower the bars. Nothing seems to stir their daily routine until love charges in, crushing all certainties.

End of August

Summer in a small Greek island. Amelia discovers her mother's illicit affair, refusing to believe what she saw. She will run away from home with Epaminondas, her first love. They will live an adventure, testing themselves and whoever they encounter along their way, ending up at the end of the night as children again in the hands of their parents.

Womb

During a break in the course of a regular day, a middle-aged man is on the phone with his mother. A stranger appears and breaks in the horrible news that will change both him and his perception of reality in a tragicomic way.

Pledging the Sun

A middle-aged man living in the countryside is trapped in an elusive business plan, gradually losing touch with people. A festival will give hime a chance to realize that maybe it is not too late to reconnect with reality.

Hartwig Seeler – Im Labyrinth der Rache

A foreign assignment leads private detective Hartwig Seeler to the wildly romantic coast of the Peloponnese peninsula - and into the maelstrom of a mysterious case that confronts him with his own vulnerability.

5pm Seaside

On his 40th birthday, Nikos, a solitary truck driver, arrives on a remote beach. He’s there to meet his former military buddy Christos, whom he hasn't seen for many years.

Anapafsis

A small group of World War I soldiers getting out of the dreary trenches. Their constant fear of the bombs steps aside for a brief moment of time, while brotherhood along with violence, steps in.

Café 404

A rundown establishment, a retro diner, lies in the middle of nowhere on the MOTORWAY. It's our hero's, Jimmy's, only legacy and connection to his deceased parents. It's where he lived his whole life. Even when the new MOTORWAY blocked access to the diner, Jimmy preferred to stay, holding on to the memories of his family and providing a job to three incompetent but deep-down good-hearted employees: Mara, the rebellious till girl; Nicko, the grumpy handyman who struggles to complete his pension plan; and Abi, a Nigerian immigrant who works there as the cook.

Utopolis

The silent struggle and systematic hate between Greek natives and refugees will lead to their brutal confrontation over the course of one night

Short Draft

A taxi driver is taken hostage by a man, at gunpoint, when he refuses to drive him where he wants. On a ride where everything goes awry and no one is what they seem, a girl will change their path; yet the path will remain a riddle, even to the film’s heroes.

Magnetic Fields

Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.

Digger

When Jonny visits his father Nikitas in his cabin in the woods after 20 years, the hermit ignores him. But to prevent the muddy ground from being pulled out from under their feet for reasons of profit, father and son must dig deep into it...

Under

A ragman meets a mysterious young woman living under a bridge. His attempt to save her appears as a chance to escape from the underworld of his memory reflected in the dark side of Athens.

Kala azar

A young couple employed by a pet crematorium finds fulfilment in respectfully removing cadavers. Their love blossoms in an environment where the boundaries between human and animal are fading. When they hit a stray dog, their relationship starts to derail.

Babel - From Silence to the Explosion

Athens, February 1981. Motivated by their shared love for the so-called Ninth Art, a group of people introduces Greek readers to the culture of comic books that are not just for kids. This is the story of the legendary Greek comics magazine Babel and the international comics festivals it organized.

Cosmic Candy

When a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.

W

A teacher is set to do his daily routine classroom at the school he works, during one of the most difficult days to teach.

The Field Guide to Evil

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

USSAK

In a suffering country somewhere in the near future, a community of misfits who live in a state of decadence and paranoia, tries to claim a decent life, fighting against an authoritarian oppressive regime.

A Buddy Already Dead

Apart from one chicken in a freezer, a trumpet teacher, keeps also the corpse of his mother. Is there life after death?

Ashes

Five people gather in a house, totally unable to decide about the burial of their friend who just passed away. Their microcosm resembles the city outside, bursting with chaos and disorder.

Casus Belli

All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again.

The Birthday Party

The story is set in the late 1970s somewhere in the Mediterranean where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his exclusive private island. The party is a perfect excuse for various people in his life to approach him with their own agendas. But Marcos, who is used to ruthlessly controlling everything and everyone around him at whatever cost, is also secretly plotting a big decision on his daughter’s behalf.

180 Degrees

Art, crime and infidelity take center stage in this hilarious madcap adventure that proves that sometimes changing your life for the better means turning it around 180 degrees.

Shadows of the World

An allegorical film about the existence or nonexistence of Man. Confronted with the need and will of Man to live, a question is raised: Does the instinct of survival finally lead us to survival or does it inevitably lead us to our complete destruction? Is conflict unavoidable? Is the need for alliance and for a meeting of minds an illusion? And who will prevail in the end? Human nature or Nature?

Hen

As we follow the adventurous story of a hen desperate to raise a family, a terrible human tragedy unfolds in the background.

Mythopathy

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.