Yorgos Tsourgiannis

Burning Days

With the mayoral election approaching, the newly-appointed state prosecutor of a small town suffering from a water supply crisis gradually descends into trouble after a young local woman is raped.

All the Pretty Little Horses

In the wake of a disaster, Alice and her husband Petros take their young son Panagiotis to a provincial seaside town, seeking refuge. Working temporary jobs, Alice and Petros try to put their lives back together so they can return home to Athens. When Alice begins to realise the plan is not working – or worse, that it may not even exist – the distance between her and Petros begins to grow.

A Tale of Three Sisters

A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.

Zagros

Zagros (26) is a shepherd who lives in a Kurdish village with his pregnant wife Havin and their daughter. His father tells him that people gossip about Havin: there are rumours of her having an affair. Zagros brushes his father’s concerns away as he trusts his wife and refuses to give credit to the rumours. Later, while Zagros tends to his sheep, he learns that his family have accused Havin of adultery and locked her up. Zagros returns to his village but finds his wife and daughter gone. Havin has fled to the west with their daughter and unborn child. Zagros, believing his wife’s innocence and opposing his father, travels to Istanbul and meets a smuggler who can take him to the west…

Unbuilt Light

Time strung together by recollections, encounters and dreams. A farewell over the three last months of a man before his final transformation.

II

An old groom walks in the open horizon towards a bride waiting for him. They meet but the distance between them starts to grow once again.

Norway

In 1984, photophobic Zano arrives in Athens and quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city.

Dogtooth

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

Rattlesnakes

Nadja is a former human rights activist who now works as an assistant to Milanka, the director of Magnolia. This large corporation buys the factory of a former giant of the metalworking industry in a consortium with foreign investors, in order to turn it into arable land. Boris, Nadja's ex-boyfriend of many years and colleague from the research organization, returns from Italy to Serbia and starts working for Savić, a businessman with political ambitions. After Nadja and Boris are connected again by business, they fall into a vortex of personal, corporate and state interests, and the fate and future of a large number of people will depend on the decisions of a few.