EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY
In a world where time changes arbitrarily, a couple’s relationship is tested as their individual and shared recollections of the past, present and future change unremittingly.
Genre: Fiction
DETACHED HOUSE
An aspiring thief enters a detached house only to discover that he fell into a rabbit hole of sex, violence and absurdity.
Animal
Under the hot Greek sun, the animateurs at an all-inclusive island resort prepare for the busy touristic season. “Nonna” Kalia is the leader of the pack. Paper decors, glossy costumes, characters reminiscent of famous pop personas and dance shows fill the hotel’s stage. As summer intensifies and the pressure of their everyday grind builds up, Kalia’s nights turn violent and her wild summer story is revealed in the darkness. But when the spotlights are turned on again, her show must go on.
THE UNFAIR LIFE OF VASSILIA BELOUSI
Vassilia has lost contact with the world for some years. When her daughters reunite to organise her fancy 80th birthday party, the youngest one has a plan: to leave Vasilia to her sisters and finally continue with her life. Along with all the differences and traumas of the past, there comes “the elephant in the room”: who is going to take responsibility for their demented mother now?
MARICEL
A Filipino domestic worker is called upon to help an elderly couple in a mountain village in Cyprus, something that seems a quite easy task, but at the end of the day it will become obvious that it wasn’t that easy.
Snow White Dies at the End
Shown through three different threads, the film is a tale of three groups of humans, one fly, one piglet, one toilet bowl and one city, whose paths cross and impact one another. A story about how tremendously difficult it is to remain honest and true to your own values in a morally corrupt environment.
BELLE ETOILE
An elderly schizophrenic who has spent most of her life in a mental institution, sensing that the end of her life is nearing, devises an escape plan in order to return to her past. Her destination is the house she grew up in, in order to find her disabled sister, whom she holds responsible for her unhappiness. She wants to demand an apology from her and admit that the fatal car accident that left her disabled and took the lives of their parents happened because she was driving that fateful night, not her as everyone believes. She manages to escape and after an adventurous journey in a fantasy world unknown to her, after meeting very different people, some of whom will try to harm her and others to help her, she arrives where she wants. But her sister is in a coma. She then enlists her magical “arsenal” to bring her back. These are the sweets of a bonbonniere, which she believes contain supernatural powers.
NALA AND STELLA
Nala is an 18-year-old African asylum seeker just released from the shelter for unaccompanied minors. Stella is a local recovering drug addict fighting to get her child back. When these two women form an unlikely bond, together they will discover an unexpected twist on the meaning of love and family.
MY NAME IS LILY
Lily, an intersex woman, has to face her traumatic past to prevent history from repeating itself, when her intersex niece is forced into corrective surgery.
COMMON GOOD
A fifteen-year-old boy is trying to survive in a world without love. Adults are absent and his peers are threatening. As his immediate environment crumbles, young Grigoris tries to stand up and face his surrounding environment, with his teenage innocence and courage being his only weapons.
