“Digger” by Georgis Grigorakis is a contemporary Western about a native farmer who lives and works alone in a farmhouse in the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. For years he has been battling with an expanding industrial Mons…
As an unpredictable, sweeping pandemic causes people in Apples, the Greek nomination for the Oscars, to develop sudden amnesia, a man finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help him build a new life. His treatment consists of perfor…
Born in Chania, Crete in 1954, Stavros Psillakis is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens in Electrical Engineering. He studied film direction at the Hadjikou Film School (Athens) and anthropological documentary filmmaking at the…
If life is about getting back on the horse, in “Tailor”’s case it’s about getting on a coach and trying to make a (new) living. “Tailor” by Sonia Liza Kenterman is a “coming-of-old-age story set against…
Iris Baglanea photo credit: Roberto dell‘Orco
How do we understand and how do we approach life and its challenges? Isn’t our response to what we feel filtered through the set of experiences that form us as individuals? That is the case w…
In "Iro /he.ro:/", a short film directed by Alexis Koukias – Pantelis, Iro, an 8 year old girl, is ready to take off on a short road trip with her mom and a strange superhero towards Lake Stymphalia. A car malfunction and a bus drivers strike w…
Is there a limit to desire or the ability to define one’s own destiny? Despina Kourti addresses that question with her films “Ourania” and “Old West”, which is her latest, focusing on a middle-aged woman and an elderly m…
On the occasion of the 14th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival that was opened on October 1 by the Secretary General for Public Diplomacy and Greeks Abroad, John Chrysoulakis, Aris Katopodis, Artistic and Festival Director of the Los Angeles Greek Film…
Greece 1986-1987, a little before the fall of State Socialism and just at the end of the Cold War. Idealist Anthi, a working mother, is taking care of her family as her husband Christos is away on business in the USSR. Greece is changing before Anth…
There is something captivating in the story of two grieving, estranged brothers that go hunting together with their sons in “All The Fires the Fire”, the latest film by Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis. Born with dual Greek/German nationality in…
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