Greek Weird Wave 2 (The 2nd wave)
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- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsEvangelia RandouAris ServetalisCostas XikominosAt a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chamber maid, a man obsessed with BMWs, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly reenacted struggles between a man and a woman.
- DirectorSyllas TzoumerkasStarsAngeliki PapouliaYoula BoudaliChristos PassalisIn a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece, two women live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. Elisabeth is a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens ten years ago and now living a joyless, hung-over life; Rita is the quiet, mysterious sister of a lounge singer in the local disco. When a sudden death upsets the town and turns the local community upside-down, the two women who had been ignoring each other's existence begin drifting towards each other. As the secrets hidden in the swamps begin to surface, they will have a chance to become each other's saviours.
- DirectorTonia MishialiStarsStella FyrogeniAndreas VasileiouPopi AvraamTrapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence. Soon, reality and fantasy start to blur.
- DirectorGiorgos GeorgopoulosStarsOmiros PoulakisVangelis MourikisKora KarvouniWomanizer Aris finds out he is a carrier of a sexually transmitted virus, lethal only for women. But he is also the only hope for a curing vaccine if he finds which one of his ex girlfriends had the first viral strain.
- DirectorElina PsykouStarsVictor KhomutValery TscheplanowaThanasis PapageorgiouAthens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn't know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsAlexandra AidiniKostas BerikopoulosKonstantinos BibisA movie about what is fake and what is real, that flutters between documentary and fiction. About flying and falling, the human need to fly, fear of heights, vertigo, utopia, Gods and man. Inspired by the ancient Greek comedy "Ornithes" by Aristophanes and the homonymous theatrical performance by Nikos Karathanos and Onassis Stegi .
- DirectorJanis RafailidouStarsPenelope TsilikaDimitris LalosMichele ValleyIn a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsOlivia ColmanEmma StoneRachel WeiszIn early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsMatt DillonDaphné PatakiaSusan ElleA professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
- DirectorAthina Rachel TsangariStarsAriane LabedClémence PoésyIsolda DychaukSeven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.
- DirectorDimitris KatsimirisStarsChrisothemis AmanatidiLena KitsopoulouA YouTuber and her partner are planning to direct the raping of a girl by two black guys. Their goal is to get more subscribers on their YouTube channel. However, on the day of the shooting things don't go as planned.
- DirectorAriane LabedStarsRomanna LobachGrégoire TachnakianJenny BellayOLLA answers an ad on a dating website for Eastern European women. Shortly thereafter, she moves in with Pierre who lives with his elderly mother and things don't go as expected.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsJessica HoareMia JenkinsCallum May5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.
- DirectorEirini VianelliBased on the book Scenes by Efthymis Filippou, 14 short vignettes illustrate human existence ranging from the mundane to the absurd through a dark comedy lens.
- DirectorChristos NikouStarsEvi SaoulidouAris ServetalisA man. A woman. In a car. Fastened. Immobile. Blood. Silence.
- DirectorSteve KrikrisStarsAris ServetalisGiannis StankoglouAlexandros MavropoulosRenos, a lonely professional waiter, sees his well-organized life routine changing after an unexpected series of events.
- DirectorAraceli LemosStarsAbigael LomaHasmine KillipEirini InglesiA young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition and her faraway mother's healing powers.
- DirectorAthina Rachel TsangariStarsEvangelia RandouA pair of film projectors discuss their impending obsolescence in this elegiac homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt.
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsAndreas KonstantinouAlexandra K.Aggelos SkasilasOn his way to work, a lonely fish-farm worker learns he died the day before. Oblivious to his preposterous condition, he spends his last day on Earth trying to verify his existence. What will become of his poor canaries?
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsVasilis KekatosAn epidemic has hit mankind. People from all ends of the Earth are asleep, and no one knows when they'll wake.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsDespoina KapoulitsaA maturation trip, the childish nightmare of K. In a wooden house, she revives her childhood's fears and desires and experiences her sexual awakening. A dreamy wandering constructed by the tale of three little pigs, a distorted view of her own family.
- DirectorMinos NikolakakisStarsPrometheus AleiferAnastasia Rafaella KonidiKostas LaskosA village doctor uncovers the dark secret of an isolated woman who lives with a mysterious skin condition.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsJuan Carlos AduviriNelly PrinceElisa MassinoOn Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they'll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they'll drown.
- DirectorDimitris KatsimirisStarsChrisothemis AmanatidiThomas ChavianidisArietta MoutousiMarios, a young man with cerebral palsy, is waiting for his uncle, with his mother at home, to celebrate together his 22nd birthday. But the arrival of his uncle, with his new girlfriend, will upset the family and create a suffocating atmosphere in the place.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsKostas BerikopoulosKostas FilippoglouNur MohammedAn escape artist trying to escape.
- DirectorSiamak EtemadiStarsMelika ForoutanShahbaz NoshirSofia KokkaliThe search of an Iranian mother, Pari, for her missing son in Athens will force her on a journey to the dark corners of the city as well as the hidden depth of her own self.
- DirectorJacqueline LentzouStarsLazaros GeorgakopoulosNikolas HanakoulasKaiti IbrohoriAfter years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father's frail state of health. Discovering her father's well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father in a way she was not able before.
- DirectorNikos PastrasStarsNatalia SwiftZacharias WellaAfroditi KapokakiFive girls, five boys seclude themselves in countryside home. Taking turns on guard duty, they kiss, play-act death. Still kids, isolated, living in the moment. Outsiders unwelcome in their summer refuge.
- DirectorChristos PassalisStarsAngeliki PapouliaChristos PassalisSofia KokkaliAris and Anna meet one evening in a half-abandoned town surrounded by antennas which emit strange sounds and enable the transmission of human voices. In this bizarre, dreamlike world, where things don't seem quite right - including people's behavior - these two solitary souls gradually start to develop feelings for one another.
- DirectorMichalis KimonasStarsAndreas KartsatosSpyros KounadisAnna Danai RaptopoulouFour adolescents are trapped in a narrative about husbands and wives as they slide towards entropy.
- DirectorLia TsaltaStarsEleni VergetiMelina KotselouA lonely woman on a distant planet. A Creature is falling from the sky. A storm is coming.
- DirectorMelina LoukanidouStarsLia BastaNicholas Seymour StathopoulosThere was light and it was brutal. Shadows could not heal. The Boy had fallen into sleep. The Girl was recalling and the sand was everywhere.
- DirectorThanos TokakisStarsThanos TokakisVicky PapadopoulouSyllas TzoumerkasThanos Tokakis begins a stand up comedy tour in the providence in order to prove everyone the great actor he is. On his journey he is confronts the audience which is not able to let go his TV performance, but mostly himself who pushes him to the limits to reach success. Through the end.
- DirectorTonia MishialiStarsNiovi CharalambousAntonis KatsarisFoivos PapakostasDaphne switches from one sexual partner to the next, but does not seem to be satisfied, at least not with what she thought she needed. How far would she go to feel some affection?
- DirectorDimitris KatsimirisStarsThanassis ChalkiasIlektra GennataGiorgos IeronymakisOn the day of their ailing, elderly father's birthday, the reunion of three siblings leads to an intense confrontation after which their lives can no longer remain the same.
- DirectorJacqueline LentzouStarsSofia KokkaliSofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-worldly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.
- DirectorYorgos ZoisStarsPavlos IordanopoulosIn Lesvos island an old abandoned dump lies on a mountain with two big craters. The craters are overflown by thousands of life jackets from the refugee waves. A worker is the only inhabitant in this place that resembles an alien planet or a new continent.
- DirectorChristos MassalasAn unidentified man sits in a dark room and watches an obscure film titled "Flowers and Bottoms".
- DirectorYorgos ZoisStarsDafni AntoniadouAlexandros VardaxoglouIn a distant future world, where water and air are contaminated, and it is prohibited to touch one another, a girl and a boy decide to go to a beach. An erotic sci-fi through these dystopian times.
- DirectorTonia MishialiStarsFivos GeorgiadesElli KiriakidouAlexia CharalambidouThe loss of youth, social and professional activity intensifies the sense of loneliness, the obsessions and the "dead end" in the life of an elderly couple.
- DirectorTonia MishialiStarsAlexia CharalambidouDemas DemosthenousAria GeorgiadeFollowing a mysterious phone call, a woman grabs a kitchen knife and sets out on a journey to an unknown destination, leaving 'her life' behind.
- DirectorTonia MishialiMarch 2020. Lockdown during the pandemic. Homebound. Dreams. Thoughts. Feelings. Fear of death. Having been experiencing sleep paralysis for years, I share a day in my 'isolated' life during the quarantine.
- DirectorTonia MishialiStarsBlueMarch 2020. During the night hours of curfew, a woman is walking her dog. The lack of traffic in the streets intensifies the sounds coming from the surrounding houses, but also her own footsteps.
- DirectorKonstantinos FragkoulisStarsMaria DamasiotiGiorgos KafetzopoulosKorina GougouliAfter an accident, a young woman finds herself on a remote mansion trying to recover her memory with the help of a mysterious caretaker and a gold fish.
- DirectorStergios PaschosStarsKostas KoronaiosKlelia AndriolatouMarisha TriantafyllidouThomas, a taxi driver struggles with his life expectations and literature passions, leading to an erotic obsession after a client's suicide.
- DirectorAlexandros SipsidisStarsIeronymos KaletsanosDimitris BikiropoulosRomanna LobachMark and his father goes for petrol, leaving Mark's daughter in the car on a distant road.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosSet in Los Angeles, the Gucci Spring Summer 2020 campaign stars horses and their human friends in paradoxical scenarios. Of Course a Horse is conceived by Alessandro Michelle, art directed by Christopher Simmonds and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
- DirectorThimios BakatakisMarissa VelezStarsLake BellJon HammBoyd HolbrookTwenty-four hours in the lives of several Hollywood actors - apparently playing themselves. Either they have solitary moments where they deal with common daily routines, other times they react to situations given to them or make some reflective monologue about anything.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsEmma StoneMark RuffaloWillem DafoeAn account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
- DirectorAlexandros AvranasStarsEleni RoussinouChristos LoulisCélestine AposporisA couple hires a migrant to be a surrogate mother on their behalf, and take her to their beautiful home. While he is at work, the two women become more intimate.
- DirectorJacqueline LentzouStarsEmmanuela LiaEmmanuela SfyridiIfigeneia DeligiannidiAn intimate character study of a young teenage girl who tries to make sense of her surroundings by diving in her own world.
- DirectorYorgos ZoisStarsKonstantinos GeorgopoulosMaria KallimaniNasos TemposAlex will do anything he can to keep dancing. Finding himself trapped in a restrictive job, he's suddenly hit by a spark of inspiration.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsMamadou DialloEftychia StefanidouNo cure is known for yellow fever. Hospitalisation is advisable.
- DirectorNikos PastrasExperimental video consisted completely by found footage material.
- DirectorVasilis KatsoupisStarsWillem DafoeGene BervoetsEliza StuyckNemo, a high-end art thief, is trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and ingenuity to survive.
- DirectorYorgos ZoisIn Greece the advertisement in exterior billboards has been forbidden. As a result there are hundreds of empty frames that don't carry any messages. But the empty frames are now the message. And we are out of frame.
- DirectorNikos PastrasStarsDelina VasiliadiDimitris NazirisProdromos TsinikorisA woman finds herself lost wandering in the streets. She remembers nothing. She reaches a hotel. The mystery has begun.An old film reminds her of something. Does she know this hotel? Has she ever been there? Who are these twin men? The things which happen accidentally. Everything is connected. May be not. The confidence in strangers. People's deep darkness. The death of the 50s and the loss of innocence. The search of identity as a means of survival. The end as the beginning. The sound of the theremin...
- DirectorChristos MassalasStarsElsa LekakouPavlos IordanopoulosStathis StamoulakatosThis is the story of Copa-Loca, an abandoned Greek summer resort. Paulina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone - in every possible way.
- DirectorNikos PastrasStarsKatia GoulioniKora KarvouniMaria EglezakiA short story about a great intrusion and an irreversible loss. Do you even know who you are? How often do you change your mind? How much can you trust what you think you know? Caught between memory and nightmare, Margarita is trying to shut the door on her past.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsFelix MargenfeldAggelos NtanosLucjano CaniThe leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them.
- DirectorAlexandros AvranasStarsJim CarreyMarton CsokasCharlotte GainsbourgA murder investigation of a slain businessman turns to clues found in an author's book about an eerily similar crime. Based on the 2008 article "True Crimes - A Postmodern Murder Mystery" by David Grann.