Dimitris Manousiakis

MJ

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?"

Driving Me Crazy

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.

Where The Paper Boats Go

In the wake of a harrowing event, Jake, grapples with his mental health. As he navigates the complex terrains of grief, family dynamics, and the intricacies of friendship, his support network endeavours to ease his journey. Jake has to confront a profound realisation: the mystery of what lies beyond life is a path he must tread alone.

Erma

A haunting experimental stop-motion animation that reveals the violence of heteronormativity, gender and patriarchy on trans bodies. Erma, neutral: Principles or motives that guide one's behavior or actions. A film about gender, the body and all their intertwining moments in between. Through an abstract stop-motion / body horror narrative point of view it attempts to highlight the continuous process and struggle of the construction of gender subjectivity against the oppressive power of heteronormativity. From birth to death the error in the code of patriarchy is subjugated and resisted, emerging but also trapped by the erinyes of the social. With an ironic and critical mood and intense religious symbolism, Erma highlights the contradictions of gender composition both in the field of solitary subjectivity and in the dominant heteronormative narrative. Gender identity is a war waged in the trenches of the body.

Erma

A haunting experimental stop-motion animation that reveals the violence of heteronormativity, gender and patriarchy on trans bodies. Erma, neutral: Principles or motives that guide one's behavior or actions. A film about gender, the body and all their intertwining moments in between. Through an abstract stop-motion / body horror narrative point of view it attempts to highlight the continuous process and struggle of the construction of gender subjectivity against the oppressive power of heteronormativity. From birth to death the error in the code of patriarchy is subjugated and resisted, emerging but also trapped by the erinyes of the social. With an ironic and critical mood and intense religious symbolism, Erma highlights the contradictions of gender composition both in the field of solitary subjectivity and in the dominant heteronormative narrative. Gender identity is a war waged in the trenches of the body.

Roes

Despite their different perspectives on things, three people set up a conspiracy plan to escape from a mental institution.

Avant-Drag!

Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot housewives and Albanian turbo-folk girls – who perform acts as revolutionary as praising abortion and as charming as drawing childish pictures, these artists call for social justice by taking aim at conservatism, patriarchy, patriotism, racism and sexism.

The Chaos She Left Behind

Anna, in her late twenties, feels like her life is sliding away from her hands. A ticket to a music school in Paris might be the last chance to pursue her dream unless her manipulative, self-destructive alcoholic father stands in her way.

Home Fronts

As news of the war in Ukraine breaks, people around the world come together to show their solidarity. This film follows the story of three women in Scotland who, at the wake of the crisis, show their support for the people of Ukraine in small but heartfelt ways. In following their stories, the film shows ordinary people finding meaning and overcoming powerlessness through everyday acts in their local communities. These stories show our deep need to connect and resist and, whether we can change the world or not, are a bittersweet yet hopeful reminder of our common humanity. In the words of Volodymyr Zelenskyy "home is also the front line".

A Night at the Theater

Two hundred years after the Greek Revolution, a coup d’état is underway in Greece. A man named Odysseus hides in a theater for three days. On the third night, a woman named Athena finds him in his shelter. As the night passes by, they slowly transform into the mythological characters of the same name.

Chimera

The Girl follows her simulation on paths between hills, until the sun leaves her. In this poetic monologue she realizes her weaknesses to get away from the cave of herself.

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.

Orfeas2021

A retro-futurist story of utopian politics, ideological conflicts, supernatural leaders and totalitarian spectacle. Cyberpunk queer pirates against rainbow homo-capitalist normies. Revolution vs reformism; logic vs affect. The trappings of post-internet identity politics through a contemporary take of the myth of Orpheus.

The Sound of Violence

Afe lives with his father. There seem to be problems communication at home. Afe plays rugby in a local club. There seem to be communication problems with them his teammates. Afe wants to prove he is good in front of his coach. They seem to exist communication problems between them. Afe is struggling to maintain his composure.

Iphigenia: No more tears

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.

Little Secrets

The film is a portrait of an ordinary family, as each of its members tries to manage their own little secrets.

Fossils

Greek Public Power Corporation’s activities in Eordaea, northern Greece, have transformed the area, making it look alien, unusual; a never-ending process, where man and machine set the stage for an ominous future. Hard work and hope for escape bring a human touch back to this land.

I Still Hide to Smoke

Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.

Inner

A woman, Danae, is in a dead end and is looking for an escape.