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Happy Beginning (Country: Greece; Year: 1954; Director: Dinos Dimopoulos; Writer: Asimakis Gialamas, Giorgos Economidis, Costas Pretederis; Stars: Giorgos Economidis, Katia Linda, Vasilis Avlonitis, Margarita Papageorgiou, Georgia Vasileiadou, Nikos Rizos, Stavros Xenidis, Hristos Tsaganeas, Nitsa Tsaganea, Nikos Fermas, Dinos Iliopoulos, Rena Stratigou, Yorgos Damasiotis, Margarita Labrinou, Linda Alma)
Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their way.
Out of Service (Εκτός υπηρεσίας) (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Kostis Maraveyas; Writer: Kostis Maraveyas; Stars: Nikos Koukas, Manolis Mavromatakis, Jenny Botsi, Eleni McDonald)
Good Friday, north of Athens.
Rembetiko (Ρεμπέτικο) (Country: Greece; Year: 1983; Director: Costas Ferris; Writer: Sotiria Leonardou, Costas Ferris; Stars: Sotiria Leonardou, Michalis Maniatis, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Viky Vanita, Spyros Mavidis, Nikos Dimitratos, Themis Bazaka, Dimitris Poulikakos, Yorgos Zormpas, Lina Bampatsia, Vaso Alexandridou, Katerina Ferri, Nikos Birmpilis, Kostas Tsigkos)
The life of the rembetiko singer Marika Ninou, from her birth in Smyrna in 1919 up to her death in Athens in 1955.
Sea Of Glass (Country: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Serbia; Year: 2026; Director: Alexis Alexiou; Stars: Christiana Matelska Toka, Dimitris Tzoumakis, Evangelia Andreadaki, Michalis Iatropoulos, Nikos Georgakis, Thanos Tokakis)
After experiencing immense family turmoil in the wake of her husband’s death, a woman seeks solace in a quiet seaside town. There, she forms an unexpected bond with a young woman.
Full Review See: Greek gothic noir Sea Of Glass turns the tables on two mainstream classics
The Shadow of the Kalikantzaros (Η σκιά του καλικάντζαρου) (Country: Greece; Year: 2025; Director: Spyridon Siakas; Writer: Spyridon Siakas, Stathis Nikitopoulos; Stars: Panagiotis Spiliopoulos, Spyros Ntzouropanos, Eleni Arazouzou, Spyros Kavathas, Panagiotis Poulos, Frixos Kalantonis, Labrini Trivella, Aristeidis Chatzistavrou)
While adults in a remote Greek village stage a kitsch online Christmas dance based on the myth of the Kallikantzari, the village children, together with children from the Greek diaspora, create their own “offline”…
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