English satellites who conduct research from space discover large oil deposits in the area of the old mines in Cyprus. A big part of the area belongs to Costantas Rizites (he has bought half of it from his Turkish Cypriot colleague Ahmet Beyoglu) who has retired there with his wife Ellou. The outbreak of a big economic crisis leads the two sons of the family to bankruptcy forci...
“Sharp, insightful…leaves no sacred cow unscathed.”
—Cleo Cacoulidis, Bright Lights Film Journal
In one of the funniest and most bitingly satirical Greek films in years, director Kapakas (PEPPERMINT) tackles subjects ranging from a sad-sack husband’s broken heart to the Greek financial crisis. One night of refuge in a hot-sheets motel propels nave cuckold Aristidis to the eye-...
Chantal is a young female cat that grew up on a touristic seaside village. The end of the tourist season turns her birth town into a ghost town. Along with a clowder of other strays, Chantal embarks on an odyssey across the small island in search of a peculiar monk, who she believes is destined to be her foster parent.
Dan Holland, an American secret service agent, goes to Greece to find an hydrogen bomb that was stolen from a NATO base in Turkey. There is the risk that foreign agents will activate the bomb to hit the 6th Fleet flagship while it is anchored outside the port of Piraeus, and thus start a 3rd World War. Dan Holland starts his research with not much information: an antique coin f...
Niki when she was still a child she had a gift. A stuffed parrot that brought her luck. Thanks to that her father and his friends were able to win in gambling in order to make a living. One day though a friend of her's steals the parrot and as a result her father goes bankrupt and ends in prison. Niki as an adult she has to fight back her old friend in a poker tournament. Thing...
On New Years eve of the year 2000, the paths of eight persons cross in an unexpectable and dramatic way. A businessman, who weavers between his wife and his mistress, faces an extortion of extremes. An unemployed man, becomes a hired killer to escape from his misery. A child wanders the streets alone, trying to survive. Is the dawning of the millennium the beginning of a new ep...
Ali Ozgenturk’s Ciplak (Nude) is one of the strangest films ever made by a Turkish director. Ozgenturk’s main theme has always been the collision of traditionalism with the modern world, and on the surface, this film seems to follow that path as well: It’s an exploration of two marriages that threaten to become unhinged when the loutish husbands discover that their wives have b...