2024 | 99 mins | NY Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Vangelis Mourikis (Yannis), Angeliki Papoulia (Katerina), Nikolas Papagiannis (Petros), Elena Topalidou (Vicky), Vangelis Evangelinos (Policeman), Vangelio Andreadaki (Despina), Asterios Rimagmos Rigas (Nikos), Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos (Ectoras), Elena Mavridou (Klea), Flomaria Papadaki (Danai), Giorgos Biniaris (Tasos)

The body of a car accident victim awaits identification in the morgue of a remote coastal resort. As it unravels the series of events that led to the accident, the drama enters the realm of the uncanny, slowly revealing its mysteries, unfolding a compelling story of loss, acceptance and moving on.

Variety calls it “compelling” and says, “Zois is among a promising generation of emerging Greek filmmakers that have stepped out of the long shadow cast by the so-called Weird Wave to nurture their own distinctive, idiosyncratic voices.”

Mature audiences only – nudity, adult situations.

Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2025: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay

Arcadia is Greece’s submission to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars) for Best International Feature Film.

Followed by audience Q&A with lead actress Angeliki Papoulia and director Yorgos Zois.

2024 | 105 mins
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Simeon Tsakiris (Babis), Elsa Lekakou (Elsa), Konstantinos Georgopoulos (Konstantinos), Elena Topalidou (Anna), Afroditi Kapokaki (Artemis), Stathis Apostolou (Dimitris)

A single father takes his young adult twin son and daughter on a boating holiday to Poros, secretly planning for them to meet their birth mother who abandoned them when they were very young. The languid summer days, bright sun and calming island colors reveal nothing of the dramatic tension to come. When the reunion takes place, a show of toxic masculinity shifts the focus from the twins to the father, exposing the family’s emotional state and everyone’s need to move on.

Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2025: Best Actress (Elsa Lekakou), Best First-time Director (Kostis Charamountanis)

Official selection of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival ACID section

Official selection in New Directors/New Films program presented by The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center in April 2025.

2024 | 99 mins | NY Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Akyllas Karazisis (Takis), Kostas Nikouli (Christos), Pavlos Iordanopoulos (Pavlos), Maria Kallimani (Eleni), Yorgos Symeonidis (Yorgos), Natalia Swift (Marilena), Dimitris Xanthopoulos (Kyriakos), Yiannis Anastasakis (Nikos)

In a village in the Greek countryside, Takis prepares the opening of his new butcher shop. The day before, his son Pavlos kills the neighbor who claims part of their land. The only witness is Christos, a young man from Albania, who has worked for Takis since his childhood. Takis has to decide who will take the responsibility.

Mature audiences only – nudity, adult situations.

Hellenic Film Academy: Best Actor (Kostas Nikouli)
Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Greek Critics Award
Berlin Greek Film Festival: Best Feature Film

October 3 screening will be followed by audience Q&A with director Dimitris Nakos.

Opening Night Screening

2024 | 129 mins | US Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Katia Goulioni (Mary Alice), Andreas Konstantinou (Dimitris), Victoria Elizabeth Bitouni (Victoria), Thanos Tokakis (Sad Man), Constantine Makroulakis (Director|Grave Digger), Vangelio Andreadaki (Psychologist), Daphne Alexander (Anna), Nikos Kouros (Himself)

In a bravura performance, Katia Goulioni plays a failed, deeply conflicted, actress longing for major roles. A serious accident on her 40th birthday thrusts her into an alternate reality where she must play the parts that could have been hers had she made different choices in life. Termed by its producers as a “psychoanalytic screwball comedy,” the film, with its frantic pace and mixing of genres and tones, is as unpredictable as it is flamboyantly original.

Followed by audience Q&A with actors Katia Goulioni and Andreas Konstantinou, and director Angelos Frantzis.

Watch the interview with Katia Goulioni
Watch the interview with Andreas Konstantinou

2025 | 62 mins | NY Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

This documentary tells the inspiring journey of a former nightclub owner who gave up everything to rescue stray dogs in Crete. Beginning with a few abandoned dogs, his sanctuary now cares for over 400. Despite challenges, Takis has transformed local attitudes and inspired global support in tackling Greece’s stray dog crisis.

Followed by audience Q&A with members of the production team.

Takis. was produced in association with Skai Group.

Prior to the feature film, we will present this short film:

GREENHOUSE
ΘΕΡΜΟΚΗΠΙΟ
Direction, screenplay: Giorgos Georgakopoulos

2023 | 18 mins

A hardworking young Albanian immigrant must overcome a series of hurdles to make his dream of a career in professional soccer come true.

2024 | 78 mins | US Premiere
In Greek and English with English subtitles

Cast: Andreas Konstantinou (Sotiris), Makis Papadimitriou (Yiannis), Goran Bogdan (Timur), Katerina Mavrogiorgi (Sofia), Panos Koronis (Manager)

As topical as today’s headlines, this compelling drama focuses on anti-migration sentiment and social conflict. Discrimination manifests in various ways, from small biases to overt hostility. Here, two friends voice opposing positions on the subject, but ingrained hate will prevail and lead to a brutal confrontation during the course of one night.

Followed by audience Q&A with actor Andreas Konstantinou and director Vladimir Subotic.

Prior to the feature film, we presented this short film:

AGAPI
Direction: Julia D. Speropoulos

2025 | 10 mins

This hand-drawn animated film follows 13-year-old Agapi and her family on a “death march” in 1921 that was meant to exterminate Pontian Greeks.

2024 | 123 mins | NY Premiere
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Giannis Karampampas (Kostas), Konstadinos Avarikiotis (Nontas), Alexandra Sakellaropoulou (Despoina), Garoufalina Kontozou (Niki), Eleni Mavridou (Niki’s mother), Thalia Papacosta (Stella), Mirto Alikaki (Dr. Vasileiou), Nikolas Papagiannis (Tassos)

When his brother dies unexpectedly, a financially strapped hospital security guard is forced to care for his young niece. As expenses pile up and ownership of the house he shares with his mother is threatened, he becomes involved in a medical scam that would have him give false testimony against a dedicated doctor in exchange for money. Theater actor Giannis Karampampas, in his first leading film role, gives a mesmerizing performance and proves himself a screen actor to watch.

Winner Thessaloniki Film Festival 2024 Audience Award

Followed by audience Q&A with director Penny Panayotopoulou.

Co-presented with NYWIFT, New York Women in Film & Television.