2022 | 95 minutes | New York Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Iosif Gavrielatos (Mihalis), Nikos Zeginoglou (Ilias), Anastasis Loulakos (Stelios), Klelia Andriolatou (Marina), Maria Skoula (Ilias’ mother), Dimitris Lalos (Professor)

In a working-class neighborhood of Athens, amid the economic crisis, the resurgence of fascism and Covid-19, a racist group of 18-year-old students persecute immigrants, gays, and anyone who is just different. A classmate who does not hide his disdain for their action, quickly becomes their target in this powerful coming-of-age drama.

JF Costopoulos Foundation Award, Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Nominated for two Hellenic Film Academy Awards (Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Maria Skoula)

2020 | 95 minutes | World Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Ian Stratis (Yannis); Gerasimos Gennatas (commander); Maria Konstadaki (lieutenant); Dimitris Makalias (sergeant); Mariella Savvides (Fofo); Loukas Kyriazis (Syllas); Tasos Palantzidis (grocer); Giorgos Giannopoulos (taxi driver)

A baby boy is left at the front gate of the army camp where the father is serving. The soldiers welcome the disruption in their daily routines, take shifts babysitting, and conspire to hide the baby from their commanding officers. Things get complicated when the baby lands across the Turkish border in a hammam bath and the father has to bring him back. This comedy is having its world premiere in this year’s New York Greek Film Expo.

2021 | 95 minutes | New York Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Andreas Konstantinou (Father), Dimitris Kitsos (Dimitris), Nikos Zeginoglou (Nick), Antonia Charalampous (Andi), Anna Yiagiozi (director of hostel)

Young Dimitris, on the verge of manhood yet very much a child, has romanticized his imprisoned father to mythic proportions. When his father is released from prison after ten years, Dimitris can’t wait to finally get to know him and make up for lost time. Once the boy realizes his father’s evil nature, however, he must decide whether his sense of right from wrong is stronger than his love for his father.

Youth Jury Award, Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2021),
Best Cypriot Film Award, Best Director Award in a Cypriot Film, Honorary
Distinction, International Film Festival Cyprus Film Days (2022)

Co-presented by New York Women in Film & Television

1956 | 89 minutes
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Georgia Vasileiadou (Kalliopi), Mimis Fotopoulos (Spyros Tsardis), Vasilis Avlonitis (Nikitas)

Aided and abetted by a financially strapped cohort, a laundress poses as a fortune teller, reading the coffee cups of clients who want to learn about what their future holds. It doesn’t take long for chaos to ensue. Considered one of the great Finos Film comedy classics, The Fortune Teller, originally released in 1956, will be shown in a newly digitized print.

2022 / 1:21
In English/Greek/German, with English subtitles

In the summer of 2004, the Greek National Soccer Team, which had previously never even scored a goal in a major tournament, defied 300-1 odds to win the Euro Cup. King Otto tells the improbable story of one of the biggest underdog triumphs of all time, led by legendary German coach ‘King’ Otto Rehhagel who, after major success in his own country, made the bold decision to work with the underachieving Greek National Team in a language he didn’t speak, in a country he couldn’t understand. Besides the on-field drama, this is an intimate and inspirational human story about achieving greatness by celebrating each other’s differences and finding a way to work together. The filmis set to take its place in the pantheon of inspiring sports dramas alongside Miracle, Hoosiers, and Cool Runnings. The BBC calls King Otto “a beautiful, beautiful film.”

2020 | 83 minutes | US Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Panos Kokoris (Nikos), Christos Moustakas (Aris), Dimitris Piatas (Argyris), Anna Psara (refugee), and Katerina Stanisi

A young Athenian shop owner with dreams of a prosperous life faces financial ruin and moral collapse, rendering him dependent on food banks to survive. He blames the decline of his business on street vendors and refugees. But when a homeless man throws him the “lifebelt” that helps him find a way out of his predicament and help him rediscover the values he once had, it is a refugee who contributes to his salvation.

2022 | 78 minutes | New York Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Elena Topalidou (Elena), Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos (Antonis), Nikos Spanidis (gravedigger)

This love story centers on the magnetic attraction between two strangers who meet by chance on the island of Kefalonia. She is a former dancer running away from her life. He is a man with a mission: to bury a metallic box containing the ashes of his aunt.

Winner of five 2022 Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including
Best Film, Best First-Time Director, and Best Actress (Topalidou)

Official Greek submission for Best International Feature in the 2023 Oscars

2019 / 123 mins
In Greek, with English subtitles

Cast: Karyofyllia Karampeti (older Eftyhia); Katia Goulioni (younger Eftyhia), Pigmalion Dadakarides (Giorgos Papagiannopoulos), Dina Michailidou (Marioga), Thanos Tokakis (Loukas)

This award-winning biographical drama, starring Katia Goulioni, in another mesmerizing performance, tells the story of the indomitable Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou, who escaped the burning of Smyrna and went to Athens where she became a seminal figure in Greek popular music, the beloved lyricist of Greece. One of the biggest box office hits in Greek film history.

Winner of eight 2020 Hellenic Film Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Actor (Dadakarides), Best Supporting Actress (Goulioni), and Best Supporting Actor (Tokakis).

2022 | 94 minutes | New York Premiere
In English and Greek with English subtitles

My People is the directorial debut of Anna Rezan, who uncovers the inspiring story of Greek Jews during the Holocaust. In this hymn to love, unity, and courage, a young woman of the millennial generation explores her Greek Jewish family’s history and unveils the fierce resistance and the role of the Greek Orthodox Church during the Axis occupation of Greece. Co-produced by Academy Award winners Mitchell Block and Kim Magnusson.

Chicago Jewish Film Festival winner| Sweden Film Awards winner: Best Documentary

2021 | 113 minutes | New York Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Dimitris Lalos (Thanasis), Aris Servetalis (Apostolis), Giannis Vasilottos (Sotiris), Lefteris Polychronis (Paradisis), Giorgos Valais (Stelios), Vivi Petsi (Georgia)

Businessmen in a remote Greek town join forces to strike a better deal with the local loan shark who has lent them money. When not all debtors see things the same way, the balance of power between prey and predator begins to shift as toxic masculinity sets in.

Winner of Hellenic Academy Award, Best Supporting Actor (Aris Servetalis) and nine nominations including Best Film.

2021 | 87 minutes | New York Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Angeliki Papoulia (Chara), Stella Fyrogeni (Christie), Joy Rieger (Melina), Andreas C. Tselepos (Andreas)

Chara loves her family, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. This provocative drama explores the sources of female contentment and fulfillment, as a young mother is haunted by her ambivalent feelings about motherhood. She befriends her boss’s daughter who helps her confront both the inner turmoil she carries and the broken relationship with her own mother.

Winner Best Film, Athens Panorama of European Cinema

Co-presented by New York Women in Film & Television

2020 / 100 minutes
In Greek, with English subtitles

Cast: Dimitris Imellos (Nikos); Tamila Koulieva (Olga); Thanasis Papageorgiou (Thanasis); Stathis Stamoulakatos (Kostas); Dafni Michopoulou (Victoria)

Changing trends in men’s fashion bring hard times to a master tailor. When the bank threatens to repossess his shop and his father is taken ill, he takes action with a wondrously strange tailor shop on wheels. Determined to survive, he reluctantly turns to sewing for women and manages to reinvent himself while bringing style to the brides of Athens.

Winner of two Hellenic Film Academy Awards and three Thessaloniki Film Festival Awards, including the ERT Award, the FIPRESCI Prize, and the Youth Jury Award.