The Cistern

Autumn 2015. Profoundly affected by the picture of a little boy who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, lifeguards Oscar and Gerard travel to Lesbos (Greece). Once there, the reality is horrific: thousands of people risk their lives every day, crossing the sea in precarious boats and fleeing from armed conflicts. But nobody bothers to rescue them. With Esther, Nico and other members of the team, they will fight to do what they came to do, helping those who need it. For all of them, this initiation voyage will become a life-changing odyssey. Mediterráneo is the struggle to survive in the sea, an often hostile medium where every life counts.

fantastical human story

Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.

Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.

Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she was arrested for the first time, her rich father managed to set her free, and she fell in love with a young doctor who took care of her injuries following torture. A little before the withdrawal of the Germans, she participated in the blowing up of a train that was transporting ammunition, and she was arrested again, but this time no one could save her. She was executed at the Chaïdari camp, along with forty-nine other prisoners.

During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos’ girlfriend who allows him to sleep next to her feeling her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome Yorgos’ jealousy as well as the ups and downs of their own affair. Since they all seem to be suffering, they form a trio and manage to live together in harmony for some time but then a well-hidden secret from the men’s political activism in the past is about to hit them like a new earthquake.

A taxi driver gets involved in illegal business while falling in love with a Swedish tourist.

Two sisters have lost their father during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. When they learn that there are chances he might be still alive, they travel to Turkey to search for him.

Eleana is a prostitute who appears to have been abused when she was younger. During her daily encounters with various clients, she meets a young labourer called Christos whom she momentarily tries to develop a normal relationship with. Old habits die hard and she soon hits the streets again but it's too late, Christos has become infatuated with Eleana and plans to marry her. Gradually, the pressure and stress of the situation starts to take it's toll on Eleana's sanity and leads to a surreal, nightmarish climax!

A 30-something failed businessman moves into his grandpa's house, the defunct WW2 veteran. His quest to live up to his legacy, will redefine both the family hero and himself.

Between heaven and earth, between theories about the creation of the world and an advanced pregnancy, a couple takes a walk in the National Garden. The woman lies down, closes her eyes and the adventure begins. How will she give birth? Will the man have time to attend the birth? Life is full of adversities and everyday life poses obstacles, sometimes logical and sometimes irrational. And there is no respite - only for a short while: In the Garden!

An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural life in Smyrna before World War I. In a trip to Izmir his girlfriend Rita, he finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained with blood and an old photograph that send him on a journey to bridge the past with the present.

A singer, who goes to America hoping to make a career, finds himself involved in a drug trafficking case. He refuses to join this ring, and in his effort he is supported by a girl supports him in his efforts. The young man manages, with great difficulty and the help of a ruthless and self-serving manager, to make a career for himself and become rich. However, when threats from the mafia are added to the exploitation by his manager, the now successful singer abandons everything to return to Greece.

A woman (Tasso Kavvadia), the scion of a wealthy family, returns to Greece after many years and claims her son (George Marinos) from her ex-husband (Dimitris Myrat). She wants to make her son a director in her companies and marry him to a girl (Elli Fotiou), whom she has chosen herself.

A social drama covering fifty years of Greece’s recent history, using the statue of the Delphi charioteer as a symbolic image, with the young hero embodied in a modern counterpart.

The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence.

In this wry retelling of the ancient Medusa myth, strange, clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece. Only Perseus, a leader of a gang of modern Athenian thieves, with a strange childhood, holds the answer to the mystery--and it has something to do with beautiful, long-haired women in black. One night his group breaks into the house of one such creature. Filled with low-key humor and suspense, Medusa unfolds in a simple and tantalizing way

Menios is an unrepentant womanizer with countless victories on his resume. Eventually he decides to settle down and marry Sula. Paradoxically, although his friends called him small "Gkomenio" for obvious reasons, fails to demonstrate the capabilities of the Gannet, which remains unblemished even after the honeymoon. On the one disappointment Menios and the other pressures of mother-who wants grandchild, lead him to the monastery of his uncle, where they stylite monk. There by the grace of God, meets various women that seek a "blessing" of ...

Two vagabond friends become lovers of the same beautiful girl, but when their third friend and leader comes out of prison, he has other plans for all of them.

Against the backdrop of a monotonous life, two friends find their golden opportunity in the person of a rich woman who enlists their help in an easy job that will set them up for life. However, can they escape from the crafty Circe's net?

Johnny Maniatis (Anthony Kafetzopoulos) is a successful advertiser and ... womanizer. Georgia (Fay Kokkinopoulou), currently the woman of his life, wants urgently to make a child. His mother, Aspasia (Jenny Roussea) is absent. His faithful secretary, Herse (Yota Festa) is tired of the irresponsible behavior, but tries to help him. His daughter Artemis (Eleni Apostolopoulos) is arrested aain for stealing the eve of her trial, while the former wife Martha (Mania Papadimitriou) is throwing him all the blame ...

After Elizabeth and Nikiforos lose their beloved family—Achilles, Natalia, and little Elizabeth—to a permanent move to the United States, Nikiforos’ desperate attempt to stop them lands him under six months of house arrest. Frustrated by their wives’ restrictions and their own mid-life crises—Mimi’s heart condition, Pavlos and Maria’s new parenthood, and Eirini’s turn to monasticism—the trio of men make up a plan: they take over their favorite tavern, hold their (ex-)wives hostage, and throw one epic, liberating feast.

The trainee Orthopedic Doctor George Spyrou began his career in the fictional General Orthopedic Hospital "All Saints', somewhere on the outskirts of Athens. There you will discover that the hospital population, by physicians, administrators and nurses, to patients, they are all forced to confront dancing a grotesque dance routine. With humor and humanity within a social landscape so angry George Spyratos trying to balance between the warring parties these microcosms. The gradual evolution from inexperienced trainee to experienced editor will be done through the encounter with the absurd environment. Something that would transform from naive young man who initially stands speechless in front of modern Greek chaos, a mature man who will ultimately make a thoughtful account of choice, but persevere, continue to work on public health.

A group of resistance fighters during the Occupation, collaborates with a lieutenant who comes to Greece from the headquarters of the Middle East, aiming to blow up a German ship.

Open-minded wife Melina believes one man is not enough for her. So, what stops her from having a second lover or even a third?

In a provincial town, a group of men, beset by numerous financial problems, decide to solve them in an original way. Desperation leads a café owner, a taxi driver, a municipal employee, a baker, and a student to become strippers! Their paradoxical choice to earn money by dancing naked disrupts their lives, the small town where they live, and their wives...

Louisa's father does not approve her young painter lover because he is poor.

Professor Algeras becomes the target of foreign agents working for major powers, who use every legitimate and illegitimate means at their disposal to try to get hold of his scientific discovery. The most ruthless and unscrupulous foreign agent, who ultimately traps Algeras, is Milko, who comes from the countries behind the Iron Curtain. It eventually transpires that Milko, who has been brainwashed, was the professor's only son, lost during the communist child abductions.

Two itinerant actress, the Vlakometros and Poniridis, arrive at Adira, a city of ancient Greece groaning under the despotic rule of the tyrant Hippias, to give a performance. Because Vlakometros is identical to Hippias, the dissident intellectuals will try to use it to overthrow the tyrant. A series of incredible comedic misunderstandings and unexpected will follow in this brilliant political satire, which had experienced serious problems with censorship when the Junta was.