Greek Short Stories In Competition III
Τρένα / Trains
Διάρκεια / Duration: 5’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Alexandros Skouras
A man and a woman. Together and separately, as the trains keep passing.
Διανοούμενοι Αλήτες / Intellectual Tramps
Διάρκεια / Duration: 9’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Stefanos Gekas
It's time. Locked up and facing death, a man will be judged for his crimes in an interrogation room. What will he do to avoid the death penalty?
Δεν Πρόλαβα / Not on Time
Διάρκεια / Duration: 19’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Andi Grabocka
70s, a Greek immigrant returning home. Before his return, he sends letter to his wife. When he arrives home, however, it is too late for John. The only thing he finds in the village is a sealed letter.
Αιγαίο ή η Κωλοτρυπίδα του Θανάτου / The Aegean or the Anus of Death
Διάρκεια / Duration: 7’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Eleni Gioti
A mysterious man appears at locations in Athens where racist attacks have taken place. Why is he giving life jacket instructions? Who is he trying to save from the anus of death? A film-poem jabbing at the current spread of ordinary fascism in Greece.
Υμηττού 109 / Imitou 109
Διάρκεια / Duration: 15’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Dimitris Ampatzis
Imitou 109, Paggrati, Athens. Palas (Palace) is the oldest living cinema in Greece. The movie follows the history of the cinema and its elderly owner, Mattheos Potagas, who has given his whole being to preserve his Palace.
Ράγες / Rails
Διάρκεια / Duration: 9’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Panagiotis Charamis
“Rails” tells the story of Dimitris, a long-term unemployed and seriously ill man in his late 50s, who is pushed to his limit in the heavily crisis-stricken small town of Drama, in Northern Greece.
Σβήσε το Φως / Turn Out the Light
Διάρκεια / Duration: 8’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Aggeliki Giannopoulou
An obsessed electrician has devoted his life to building the perfect lamp. He builds it and seems to have the time of his life with it, but not for long. Soon he finds out this lamp is not what he really needs.
Prince of the Hill / Prince of the Hill
Διάρκεια / Duration: 28’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Paris Grigorakis
When Alexander goes through a rough time in his life and his attempts to find a job fail, he finally shuts everyone and everything out. But Marco will show him how to really see the world around him again the way a child sees it, full of imagination.