FILM SYNOPSES FOR 2017 GFFC
#NOT ALONE A teenage girl takes a selfie while she is home alone and tries to upload it to her social media account, but soon she realizes that she is #NotAlone ...
Director: Sotiris Petridis & Dimitris Tsakaleas
Producer: Sotiris Petridis & Dimitris Tsakaleas
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:02--6:07pm
BALLROOM BOYS Tensions rise as Lemington and Nejc train for the European Ballroom Championships in Blackpool. Will their relationship survive?
Director: Michael Stylianou
Produce: Michael Stylianou
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:30--6:43pm
BEATBOX AND WINDS- NICOS DIMINAKIS The film documents and exposes the artistic pursuits and music experimentations of Nicos Diminakis in Thessaloniki. On one hand, it focuses on the process of integration and simultaneous implementation of beatbox in a variety of aerophore instruments (i.e. winds), such as the saxophone, the flute, and the didgeridoo. On the other hand, it also shows the attempt to convey his passion for experimentation and creativity both to children and other musicians.
Director: Gina Georgiadou
Producer: Gina Georgiadou
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 4:30--5:24pm
CALDERA A story about life around the beautiful Santorini Harbor. Which was formed from the crater of an ancient volcano.
Director: Kosta Petsas
Producer: Arte Cinenatica
Thursday, Sept 28,, 2017 - 7:06--7:09pm
CHUCKWALLA A Greek island. The unemployed Tassos and his girlfriend Niki must move out of their house. Their house is being torn down to build a new road. They decide to move to Niki’s homeland Bulgaria. They both fear what is to come and cannot part from what they left behind. When they realize how far they have drifted apart, it seems to late.
Director: Korinna Krauss
Producer: University of Television and film & Korinna Krauss
Friday, Sept 29, 2017 - 7:15--7:38pm
CITY OF MY HEART A personal glimpse into Madrid, an experiment urban cityscape, an ode to life to life through dance.
Director: Kostas Petsas
Proucer: Arte Cinematica
Friday, Sept 29, 2017 - 7:40--7:44pm
DIRTY ROSE “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” A story of the refugees from the Arab world.
Director: Petra Terzi
Producer: Petra Terzi
Thursday, Sept 28, 2017 - 7:24--7:30pm
DON'T LOVE ME SO MUCH Alexia and Yiannis are a couple and live in Athens, Greece. Due to the economic crisis, Alexia is unemployed and Yiannis is fired from his job. Yiannis applies for an immigration Visa in Canada and it is approved. Yiannis wants to break up with Alexia without to giving her hope for a common future.
Director: Petra Terzi
Producer: Petra Terzi
Thursday, Sept 28, 2017 - 7:10--7:22pm
FROZEN AMBROSIA ) Few people realize that Greece has a winter season with skiing and snowboarding. Determined to change this perception, filmmaker Constantine Papanicolaou sets out to make a ski movie in Greece. Mr. Papanicolaou’s movie is about his attempts to ski down Mt Olympus – are the God’s with him or not.
Director: Constantine Papanicolaou
Producer: Constantine Papanicolaou
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 7:30--8:28pm
GLABRA The story is about the revelation of the truth, no matter how many years pass by. Steve, finds a map in his grandfathers' belongings and goes on a quest to find out the story behind the map and the name Stavros. Little does he know that his quest will eventually bring closure to a family's 70-year-old enquiry. All under the beautiful flowers of a bougainvillea GLABRA plant.
Director: Alexandar Klimopoulos & Peter Rundle
Produce: Peter Rundle
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 7:30--7:44pm
INTERRUPTON A postmodern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The ambivalence captivates the audience, still not realizing if this is part of the play or not. The play resumes with a main difference that life imitates art and not vice versa.
Director: Yorgos Zois
Producer: Maria Drankaki
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 8:15--9:33pm
INVISIBLE Theodris is a lonely who spends his days at the gym. He meets Vicky a sexy 30yr trainer. He tries to claim attention as he struggles with his shame, image and repressed libido.
Director: Kostas Gerampinis
Producer: Giannis Sotiropoulos
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 5:30--5:59pm
LOULITA ILOPOULOU AND GEORGE COUROUPOS THE GREEN RIDING HOOD
The film documents the preparation efforts for presenting to the public the ecological music tale "Green Riding Hood", written by Loulita lIiopoulou and composed by George Couroupos for orchestra, singers, children's choir, and narrator. Loulita lliopoulou narrates the tale herself and the children cooperate with professional musicians under the supervision of the conductor. At the same time, the film presents the views of the people involved, about this effort, their cooperation and the power of art.
Director: Gina Georgiadou
Producer: Gina Georgiadou
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 7:46--8:13pm
LIGHT THICKENS An aging German, nine artists, six' Crime Scenes', an art exhibition all in a documentary about the power of artistic expression that wants to bring historical facts and lingering feelings in the Light…..a Light that Thickens, burdens, annoys but at the same time is looking for redemption.
Director: Lydia Konsta
Producer: Lydia Konsta
Monday, Oct 2, 2017 - 8:00--9:23pm
MARY'S LULLABY Philip and Mary, are married, and are Hydro-biologists. They live and work in a house by a lake, celebrating while waiting for the birth of their baby. Mary’s unexpected miscarriage and a future of infertility, will redefine Philip and Mary’s relationship.
Director: Dinos Panagokos
Producer: Tilemachos Sarlis, Dinos Panagokos
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 830--8.49pm
MY OWN SON Spiros takes an old lady who has some walking difficulties for a walk in the park. The lady starts talking about her son. Later she wishes she can call him, but can’t find her cell phone and thinks that Spiros take it from her.
Director: Haris Karaoulanis
Producer: Dimitris Karaoulanis
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:45--6:52pm
N.O. S.U.G.A.R. is (perhaps) about a New Order Soundless Undercover Genteel Active Respectable homeless ... Greece ... available "for rent", and/or (hopefully?), about a New Order Solidarity Urgent GREEK (Global?) Arising Revolution
Director: Eirini Polydorou
Producer: Eirini Polydorou
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 7:15--7:28pm
OUR MARBLES A documentary on the sculptures of the Parthenon in the British Museum in London. The film version tells their story from the time of Phidias until 1816 when the British Government, after acquiring the stolen collection from the 7th Earl of Elgin, passed the collection to the Museum.
Director: Nickos Papakostas
Producer: Nickos Papakostas
Monday, Oct 2, 2017 - 7:00--7:57pm
SEEDS OF CHANGE A dance meditation (filmed in the mountains of Topanga, California, USA) upon the nature of the feminine sacred, sensual, and ecstatic.
Director: James Chressanthis
Producer: James Chressanthis & Melanie Kareem
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 5:26--5:29pm
SHELLS A man during a personal crisis, seeks solace in an icy forest where an abandoned horse leads him into a road of multiform sea waves of color.
Director: Vasilios Papaioannu
Producer: Emma Piper-Burket
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 4:00--04:13pm.
SNACK BAR This documentary tells the story about a Greek family that runs a flourishing snack bar wagon on the Greek island of Lesbos. Their best customers are refugees from the war-torn areas of the Middle East.
Director: Eder& Eisenschmidt
Producer: Eder& Eisenschmidt
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 4:15--04:29pm
SONGS OF REVOLUTION A hybrid film, part documentary, part fiction, on the history of Greek radical music, its songs of revolution, resistance, pain, sorrow. Greek musicians Antouan Parinis, Dimitris Poulikakos and Thanos Kois (amongst others) feature in the film, with actors Thodoris Arianoutsos and Marianthi Koliaki (amongst others) in fictional sequences. An eclectic film with different musical styles and different cinematic forms intermingling.
Director: Bill Mousuolis
Producer: Bill & Vicky Mousoulis
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 5:.30--7:26pm
THE CIRCLE, THE SCARECROW, AND THE SILENCE The protagonist wakes up in a strange and indefinable place, in the middle of nowhere he is trying to realize what just happened. A series of random events will urge him to run away to escape from the circle that is chasing him. In a fantasy world, the cruel society, and the human need to is freedom.
Director: Haris Karaoulanis
Producer: Haris Karaoulanis
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:22--7:11pm
THE SPIRITS A group of young people, for just one night, acquires the ability to fulfill the last wishes of a few people who have died and their spirits roam the city streets. In doing this lives of the young people will be changed forever.
Director: Srdjan Milosavljevic
Producer: Srdjan Milosavljevic
Friday, Sept 29, 2017 - 7:45--9:04pm
SWING AWAY Following a suspension, professional golfer Zoe travels to her grandparents’ village in Greece to escape harsh publicity. She meets and mentors a 10-year-old girl. Rediscovering her Greek heritage and her love of the game, she inspires the town in an epic showdown against a greedy American developer.
Director: Michael A. Nickles
Producer: George Elias Stephanopoulos
Thursday, Sept 28, 2017 - 7:30--9:00pm
UNATTENDED ITEM Andy is dodgy, in debt and mourning. Pressure goes up when a loan shark wants in to his vintage shop. The moment he decides to take vigilante action, things get ridiculously out of hand.
Director: Filippos Vokotopoulos
Producer: Carmen Zografou & Filippos Vokotopoulos
Friday, Sept 29, 2017 - 7:00--7:13pm
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE DARK Two homeless disabled partners are wandering with a supermarket cart in an endless road trip.
Director: Thanasis Kafetzis
Producer: Giannis Sotiropoulos
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:10--6:27
Director: Sotiris Petridis & Dimitris Tsakaleas
Producer: Sotiris Petridis & Dimitris Tsakaleas
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:02--6:07pm
BALLROOM BOYS Tensions rise as Lemington and Nejc train for the European Ballroom Championships in Blackpool. Will their relationship survive?
Director: Michael Stylianou
Produce: Michael Stylianou
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:30--6:43pm
BEATBOX AND WINDS- NICOS DIMINAKIS The film documents and exposes the artistic pursuits and music experimentations of Nicos Diminakis in Thessaloniki. On one hand, it focuses on the process of integration and simultaneous implementation of beatbox in a variety of aerophore instruments (i.e. winds), such as the saxophone, the flute, and the didgeridoo. On the other hand, it also shows the attempt to convey his passion for experimentation and creativity both to children and other musicians.
Director: Gina Georgiadou
Producer: Gina Georgiadou
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 4:30--5:24pm
CALDERA A story about life around the beautiful Santorini Harbor. Which was formed from the crater of an ancient volcano.
Director: Kosta Petsas
Producer: Arte Cinenatica
Thursday, Sept 28,, 2017 - 7:06--7:09pm
CHUCKWALLA A Greek island. The unemployed Tassos and his girlfriend Niki must move out of their house. Their house is being torn down to build a new road. They decide to move to Niki’s homeland Bulgaria. They both fear what is to come and cannot part from what they left behind. When they realize how far they have drifted apart, it seems to late.
Director: Korinna Krauss
Producer: University of Television and film & Korinna Krauss
Friday, Sept 29, 2017 - 7:15--7:38pm
CITY OF MY HEART A personal glimpse into Madrid, an experiment urban cityscape, an ode to life to life through dance.
Director: Kostas Petsas
Proucer: Arte Cinematica
Friday, Sept 29, 2017 - 7:40--7:44pm
DIRTY ROSE “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” A story of the refugees from the Arab world.
Director: Petra Terzi
Producer: Petra Terzi
Thursday, Sept 28, 2017 - 7:24--7:30pm
DON'T LOVE ME SO MUCH Alexia and Yiannis are a couple and live in Athens, Greece. Due to the economic crisis, Alexia is unemployed and Yiannis is fired from his job. Yiannis applies for an immigration Visa in Canada and it is approved. Yiannis wants to break up with Alexia without to giving her hope for a common future.
Director: Petra Terzi
Producer: Petra Terzi
Thursday, Sept 28, 2017 - 7:10--7:22pm
FROZEN AMBROSIA ) Few people realize that Greece has a winter season with skiing and snowboarding. Determined to change this perception, filmmaker Constantine Papanicolaou sets out to make a ski movie in Greece. Mr. Papanicolaou’s movie is about his attempts to ski down Mt Olympus – are the God’s with him or not.
Director: Constantine Papanicolaou
Producer: Constantine Papanicolaou
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 7:30--8:28pm
GLABRA The story is about the revelation of the truth, no matter how many years pass by. Steve, finds a map in his grandfathers' belongings and goes on a quest to find out the story behind the map and the name Stavros. Little does he know that his quest will eventually bring closure to a family's 70-year-old enquiry. All under the beautiful flowers of a bougainvillea GLABRA plant.
Director: Alexandar Klimopoulos & Peter Rundle
Produce: Peter Rundle
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 7:30--7:44pm
INTERRUPTON A postmodern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The ambivalence captivates the audience, still not realizing if this is part of the play or not. The play resumes with a main difference that life imitates art and not vice versa.
Director: Yorgos Zois
Producer: Maria Drankaki
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 8:15--9:33pm
INVISIBLE Theodris is a lonely who spends his days at the gym. He meets Vicky a sexy 30yr trainer. He tries to claim attention as he struggles with his shame, image and repressed libido.
Director: Kostas Gerampinis
Producer: Giannis Sotiropoulos
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 5:30--5:59pm
LOULITA ILOPOULOU AND GEORGE COUROUPOS THE GREEN RIDING HOOD
The film documents the preparation efforts for presenting to the public the ecological music tale "Green Riding Hood", written by Loulita lIiopoulou and composed by George Couroupos for orchestra, singers, children's choir, and narrator. Loulita lliopoulou narrates the tale herself and the children cooperate with professional musicians under the supervision of the conductor. At the same time, the film presents the views of the people involved, about this effort, their cooperation and the power of art.
Director: Gina Georgiadou
Producer: Gina Georgiadou
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 7:46--8:13pm
LIGHT THICKENS An aging German, nine artists, six' Crime Scenes', an art exhibition all in a documentary about the power of artistic expression that wants to bring historical facts and lingering feelings in the Light…..a Light that Thickens, burdens, annoys but at the same time is looking for redemption.
Director: Lydia Konsta
Producer: Lydia Konsta
Monday, Oct 2, 2017 - 8:00--9:23pm
MARY'S LULLABY Philip and Mary, are married, and are Hydro-biologists. They live and work in a house by a lake, celebrating while waiting for the birth of their baby. Mary’s unexpected miscarriage and a future of infertility, will redefine Philip and Mary’s relationship.
Director: Dinos Panagokos
Producer: Tilemachos Sarlis, Dinos Panagokos
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 830--8.49pm
MY OWN SON Spiros takes an old lady who has some walking difficulties for a walk in the park. The lady starts talking about her son. Later she wishes she can call him, but can’t find her cell phone and thinks that Spiros take it from her.
Director: Haris Karaoulanis
Producer: Dimitris Karaoulanis
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:45--6:52pm
N.O. S.U.G.A.R. is (perhaps) about a New Order Soundless Undercover Genteel Active Respectable homeless ... Greece ... available "for rent", and/or (hopefully?), about a New Order Solidarity Urgent GREEK (Global?) Arising Revolution
Director: Eirini Polydorou
Producer: Eirini Polydorou
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 7:15--7:28pm
OUR MARBLES A documentary on the sculptures of the Parthenon in the British Museum in London. The film version tells their story from the time of Phidias until 1816 when the British Government, after acquiring the stolen collection from the 7th Earl of Elgin, passed the collection to the Museum.
Director: Nickos Papakostas
Producer: Nickos Papakostas
Monday, Oct 2, 2017 - 7:00--7:57pm
SEEDS OF CHANGE A dance meditation (filmed in the mountains of Topanga, California, USA) upon the nature of the feminine sacred, sensual, and ecstatic.
Director: James Chressanthis
Producer: James Chressanthis & Melanie Kareem
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 5:26--5:29pm
SHELLS A man during a personal crisis, seeks solace in an icy forest where an abandoned horse leads him into a road of multiform sea waves of color.
Director: Vasilios Papaioannu
Producer: Emma Piper-Burket
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 4:00--04:13pm.
SNACK BAR This documentary tells the story about a Greek family that runs a flourishing snack bar wagon on the Greek island of Lesbos. Their best customers are refugees from the war-torn areas of the Middle East.
Director: Eder& Eisenschmidt
Producer: Eder& Eisenschmidt
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 4:15--04:29pm
SONGS OF REVOLUTION A hybrid film, part documentary, part fiction, on the history of Greek radical music, its songs of revolution, resistance, pain, sorrow. Greek musicians Antouan Parinis, Dimitris Poulikakos and Thanos Kois (amongst others) feature in the film, with actors Thodoris Arianoutsos and Marianthi Koliaki (amongst others) in fictional sequences. An eclectic film with different musical styles and different cinematic forms intermingling.
Director: Bill Mousuolis
Producer: Bill & Vicky Mousoulis
Saturday, Sept 30, 2017 - 5:.30--7:26pm
THE CIRCLE, THE SCARECROW, AND THE SILENCE The protagonist wakes up in a strange and indefinable place, in the middle of nowhere he is trying to realize what just happened. A series of random events will urge him to run away to escape from the circle that is chasing him. In a fantasy world, the cruel society, and the human need to is freedom.
Director: Haris Karaoulanis
Producer: Haris Karaoulanis
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:22--7:11pm
THE SPIRITS A group of young people, for just one night, acquires the ability to fulfill the last wishes of a few people who have died and their spirits roam the city streets. In doing this lives of the young people will be changed forever.
Director: Srdjan Milosavljevic
Producer: Srdjan Milosavljevic
Friday, Sept 29, 2017 - 7:45--9:04pm
SWING AWAY Following a suspension, professional golfer Zoe travels to her grandparents’ village in Greece to escape harsh publicity. She meets and mentors a 10-year-old girl. Rediscovering her Greek heritage and her love of the game, she inspires the town in an epic showdown against a greedy American developer.
Director: Michael A. Nickles
Producer: George Elias Stephanopoulos
Thursday, Sept 28, 2017 - 7:30--9:00pm
UNATTENDED ITEM Andy is dodgy, in debt and mourning. Pressure goes up when a loan shark wants in to his vintage shop. The moment he decides to take vigilante action, things get ridiculously out of hand.
Director: Filippos Vokotopoulos
Producer: Carmen Zografou & Filippos Vokotopoulos
Friday, Sept 29, 2017 - 7:00--7:13pm
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE DARK Two homeless disabled partners are wandering with a supermarket cart in an endless road trip.
Director: Thanasis Kafetzis
Producer: Giannis Sotiropoulos
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 - 6:10--6:27