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The Classic Masterpiece (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Renos Haralambidis; Writer: Renos Haralambidis; Stars: Renos Haralambidis)
At the twilight of his career, a film critic unexpectedly gets the chance to direct the only screenplay he ever wrote – conceived in his youth, when he still believed he would become a great filmmaker, before reality forced him to abandon that dream. There is only one condition from the producers: the film must be a classic masterpiece. He accepts.
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.
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.
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