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In a working-class neighborhood of Athens, amid the economic crisis, the resurgence of fascism, and Covid-19, a group of 18-year-old students persecute immigrants, queers, anyone who is just different.

Stavros is a somewhat unsuccessful filmmaker who teaches screenwriting at a film school in Athens, the birthplace of philosophy. Philosophizing in his own way as well, he asks the scripts to have a meaning, to have something to say and not just to tell a story. Thus, he has only a few students in his class. He loses his job just as his 19-year-old daughter comes from the island where she lives with her mother to stay with him in Athens to prepare for her university entrance exams. But she is not sure what she wants to do with her life and is searching for some deeper meaning. Stavros decides to write down all his thoughts about deeper meaning in a book. Despite his great financial need, he refuses the offer of a friend of his, a famous actress, to work on her soap opera, in order to concentrate on his philosophical book. Unfortunately, this is of no interest to any serious publisher, as he himself is completely irrelevant to academia. He is forced to pay a petty crook publisher himself to get his book published, because he thinks he has something to say. But it seems that his book is not of interest to readers either, since it remains unclaimed. Debt-ridden, he asks for a job on the soap opera, but they've found another director. Now impoverished, he moves around in deprived areas, full of refugees, where he finds unexpected support from a Moldovan sex worker, a former philosophy student, who was forced to give up her philosophical studies in her country, due to poverty. She seems very interested in his ideas, and thus his book finds its first reader. Still, he has to pay back his debts.

The financial decline of an ambitious Athenian shop owner has is followed by moral collapse. A companion in his new predicament helps him to reconsider his world view and rediscover the values he once had.

Markos, an ambitious young journalist on a provincial television channel is trying to retrieve a gun stolen from his Candid Camera-type show. His search leads him in the dead of winter to his mother's neck of the woods, one of the abandoned villages on the southwestern slopes of Mount Pindos. In his attempt to get the gun back he comes up against Elias, a strange young man who is the son of the guardian of the village. Their clash will have unforeseen results both for the two young men and for the few inhabitants of the village.

Two siblings, one spell, wounded landscapes and an inevitable departure. "Vancouver" is a short chronicle of a disappearing act in the times of the new Depression.

Seven people recall. A place of memory breaks its silence.

Even after the Civil War had ended in the rest of Greece, a small rump of the Democratic Army, six men and two women, remained in hiding for 14 years in Chania, Crete, where they continued to take part in illegal political activity. In 1962, six of the former partisans escaped, via Italy, to Tashkent. The documentary focuses on the three who are still living. The film reveals the "miraculous" endurance of the broken remnants of the Democratic Army and the self-sacrifice of the ordinary people who hid them. It shows that the main protagonists and the unsung heroes of this story are equally exceptional, embodying not just ideology, but a deep dedication to mankind and human dignity.

"A rose is a rose no matter how you call it" . Dimitris lives her life in Skala Skamnias, the conservative Greek fishing village where she was born, misunderstood by family but celebrated by journalists covering the refugee crisis.

Five elderly Greek-Jewish people tell on camera the story of their childhood hardships during the German Occupation in Greece.

Yorgos Maniatis (1939-2018), a legionnaire in Algeria at the age of 18, an author and later a musician, defines himself as a "public menace." This film is not a biopic, but it rather seeks to explore the adventure of his soul: an inflammatory conscience in constant vigilance, which immolates itself. Life changes by those who change their lives, he says.

A strange tradition says the Santa come down from the picture and goes to the celebration, scandalize the people and shame to return to the picture

"Salt and Bread" introduces us to the people of a neighborhood, an ouzo distillery and a shipyard. What they all have in common is their love for what they do. Every summer, the Yannakelos family makes frumenty and the whole neighborhood gathers to make the "chachles", as they used to do in Greek villages once upon a time. They help each other, sharing the work that has to be done and laughing; because that's the way of living they learnt and preserve, passing it on the next generation. Sophia Konstantinelli, the only female distiller in Lesvos, continues the tradition of her family and makes ouzo with grapes and figs from the neighboring villages. Takis Psaradellis keeps on building and repairing wooden boats, despite the increase of plastic ones, that "are not compatible with our sea", as he says. "Salt and Bread", is part of a series shot in Lesvos, during the financial and migrant crisis under the title Silent Path. The series is filmed with a poetic approach, without seeking the classic documentation. It deliberately follows the natural course of the meetings with the characters, without aiming at a pre-determined outcome, leaving space for emotions and the unexpected. The aim of the series is to give a voice to everyday people who live their lives quietly, but know how to share, laugh, create, love, endure and keep on going with dignity, preserving a way of living in harmony with their environment. This is the "intangible cultural heritage" of Greece of Europe, the culture of everyday life of ordinary people with knowledge, practices, and traditions, that are often deeply rooted in time, and to this day still define our collective memory and identity.

Making their own mark - Sappho's Granddaughters presents seven women of Lesvos: Aged but strong in spirit, grounded in the soil and history of the island, recalling life with humor and wisdom. Angeliki throws away the photos of those who have passed away, Myrsini sings a capella an Amanes song in the living room of her country house, a woman in the park caresses her cat, a substitute for her dead husband, the Three Graces remember their youth laughing, and Foto proudly claims that she never cared about marriage, because she wanted to be free. Sappho's Granddaughters ask for nothing except to be recognized as the heroes of their own lives. Sappho's Granddaughters is part of a series shot in Lesvos, during the financial and migrant crisis under the title Silent Path. The series is filmed with a poetic approach, without seeking the classic documentation. It deliberately follows the natural course of the meetings with the characters, without aiming at a pre-determined outcome, leaving space for emotions and the unexpected. The aim of the series is to give a voice to everyday people who live their lives quietly, but know how to share, laugh, create, love, endure and keep on going with dignity, preserving a way of living in harmony with their environment. This is the "intangible cultural heritage" of Greece of Europe, the culture of everyday life of ordinary people with knowledge, practices and traditions, that are often deeply rooted in time, and to this day still define our collective memory and identity.

How the Greek myths remain alive in Lesvos today and enrich present day lives. Through the origins of poetry in the western world the film reflects on the importance of poetry in everyday life.

A tribute to friendship by a sinful angel. "Every person we meet in our lives is a journey and we often feel from the beginning whether we will travel with them first class, or without luggage and with empty pockets". Alekos Zoukas is a much loved man, a reveler and at the same time a deeply thoughtful person. A man you can hardly forget once you meet him. In the film, Alekos's travels with his friends and the film's director in Pyrsogianni alternate with his confessions about his experience with cancer. He is treated as a literary "hero"; this is not a biopic for Alekos.

A documentary remembering Katerina Gogou, Greek poetess and actress, from the perspective of people whose lives she touched.

"The Return of Prometheus" highlights the perils that accompany a modern energy policy in the so-called post-lignite era. At the heart of the research is the concept of energy poverty and the public's inability to access energy resources to meet the population's multifaceted needs. The documentary is enhanced by interviews of experts (professors, technocrats, union members, etc.) as well as field research and shooting.

My grandmother Chrisoula had worked in tobacco fields since childhood. In December 2014 she went along with my brother Chris to watch a play about the history of tobacco in the city of Agrinio. Thus, a recursion is set in order to bring that forgotten era back to memory and make its residents reminisce about the city's past.

An orchestra could consist of a guitar, a piano, keyboards and a voice. Right? Wrong. An orchestra could be solo voices as well. StringLESS. Five women, an acapella vocal group from Thessaloniki, trying to survive adversity and the Greek crisis, creating beautiful and alternative music with female identity.

Europe, the Dream' a documentary about three adolescents who are/were living in Patras, Greece: Andreas, a young Greek, Ali Reza, a refugee from Afghanistan and Abdulla, a refugee from Syria; they are each dreaming of a great journey to Europe, and, with all their hopes and fears, they are struggling to make this happen as they see it as the only solution for their lives.They don't consider Greece as Europe! The two refugees have in fact managed to reach their destinations: Ali Reza in Sweden and Abdulla in Austria.Andreas is still in Greece. He wants to study and work but his family has day to day problems which have been heightened by the Greek financial crisis. Will these three young men be able to realize their dreams or these dreams will be thwarted by the difficulties and complexities that exist in today's Europe.