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Silent short film, set on the Greek Cycladic island of Tenos. A woman in black is mourning inside a simple house. Reality blends with dreamy imagination, and tradition with insidious desires.

The Greek pirate who turned businessman, Ioannis Varvakis, made his fortune selling caviar in Russia and all over the world. Varvakis strives all his life for freedom for himself and then for his country.

Mary, Marianna, Maria, the Unsung Greek Years of Maria Callas.

Four seemingly random women meet in a lawyers office when they learn that they are the inherits of the will of a stranger. Is this a common mistake or a deeper and darker plan?

The untold story of the life and perils of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, in six chapters. The past and the present of a city, meet and converge at its cracks.

The struggles of Orfeas, the first gay prime minister of Greece, against a history of oppression in the "land of heroes." The first queer opera in Greek is a post-modern sci-fi experimental work, oscillating between baroque melodrama, DIY collage, post-internet and VR/AI aesthetics. The film is dedicated to the memory of activist Zackie Oh!

Vivika Zaharouli, sick and tired of the goings-on of her womanizer husband, welcomes in Athens her godchild, who comes to live in their house. She doesn't know, however, that this is not her godchild but an impostor.

When he was four years old, Maria Callas took him into her arms and danced with him. At the age of twenty, long after she had departed, he began to discover her work and grew fascinated by her. He never went on holiday; every cent he made was put aside to buy recordings, books, photos, posters, and programs related to her, and money was always short. As he grew older, as he worked two jobs to make ends meet, with his misfortunes, romantic disappointments, jealous friends, and an accident that led to ten surgeries and disability, his collection grew bigger. Haunted by the two women in his life - his mother who died too young and the Diva, his constant reference and reverence - he grew and found fulfillment along with his collection. Now he feels serene, enjoying many joys and memories of his life, dreaming of the afternoon his mother will knock on his door, to share a cup of coffee. He would sacrifice everything for that moment; even his own collection.

ETERNITY is a study of an area in flux, but also a meditation on our experiences and perceptions of the world, and how these are shaped - not only by objective reality, but also through our own subjective and imaginary lenses.

A dramatic monologue for mezzo-soprano, narrator, clarinet, viola and guitar, The Lady in the Moonlight (1977) is, from both the technical and the expressive point of view, one of the greatest achievements in the invaluable oeuvre of Yorgo Sicilianos(1920-2005), undoubtedly one of the most serious representatives of the Greek post-war musical avant-garde. Based on the poem The Moonlight Sonata from Yannis Ritsos' collection The Fourth Dimension, The Lady in the Moonlight consists of the "useless confession" of an aged woman, dressed in black, addressed to a silent, callous young man in an old room flooded with moonlight - as well as a shattering treatment of the passage of time, of decay, desire and narcissistic fantasy. At the apex of his aesthetic and intellectual maturity, Sicilianos poetically transmutes Ritsos' text into a rigorously worked out fusion of melodic lyricism and speech-like enunciation, combining the arsenal of serial music with a deep, brooding romanticism - and also, in the background, the discreet (though theatrically irresistible) recollection of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Using the original title of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata ("Sonata quasi una fantasia") as a starting point, Costas Athousakis' direction and Calliope Bredologou's script follow the structure of Sicilianos' work and the heartrending, often delirious monologue of Ritsos' heroine, using the tools of cinema to capture the memories, unrequited desires and fantasies of the Woman in Black. The film's wager is a mix of naturalistic observation and absurdism, using as setting the exterior of a dilapidated villa by the sea in full daylight. There, the heroine engages in "introspection exercises" with the cooperation of six dancers, inviting the viewer to sort out the images flooding her discourse "in the manner of a fantasy". An intimate confession, an account of a life lived away from life, with an echoing phrase as its refrain: "Let me come with you...".

The documentary That Day showcases how the 2021 catastrophic wildfires in Northern Evia interweave with the rejuvenation of the land, and its collective memory with the creation of a music theatre performance that resulted from the Greek National Opera's artistic workshops with members of the local community. A filmic essay on the relationship between the human and non-human world.