Greek Weird Wave 2 (The 2nd wave)
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- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsEvangelia RandouAris ServetalisCostas XikominosAt a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chamber maid, a man obsessed with BMWs, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly reenacted struggles between a man and a woman.
- DirectorSyllas TzoumerkasStarsAngeliki PapouliaYoula BoudaliChristos PassalisIn a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece, two women live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. Elisabeth is a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens ten years ago and now living a joyless, hung-over life; Rita is the quiet, mysterious sister of a lounge singer in the local disco. When a sudden death upsets the town and turns the local community upside-down, the two women who had been ignoring each other's existence begin drifting towards each other. As the secrets hidden in the swamps begin to surface, they will have a chance to become each other's saviours.
- DirectorTonia MishialiStarsStella FyrogeniAndreas VasileiouPopi AvraamTrapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence. Soon, reality and fantasy start to blur.
- DirectorGiorgos GeorgopoulosStarsOmiros PoulakisVangelis MourikisKora KarvouniWomanizer Aris finds out he is a carrier of a sexually transmitted virus, lethal only for women. But he is also the only hope for a curing vaccine if he finds which one of his ex girlfriends had the first viral strain.
- DirectorElina PsykouStarsVictor KhomutValery TscheplanowaThanasis PapageorgiouAthens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn't know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsAlexandra AidiniKostas BerikopoulosKonstantinos BibisA movie about what is fake and what is real, that flutters between documentary and fiction. About flying and falling, the human need to fly, fear of heights, vertigo, utopia, Gods and man. Inspired by the ancient Greek comedy "Ornithes" by Aristophanes and the homonymous theatrical performance by Nikos Karathanos and Onassis Stegi .
- DirectorJanis RafailidouStarsPenelope TsilikaDimitris LalosMichele ValleyIn a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsOlivia ColmanEmma StoneRachel WeiszIn early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsMatt DillonDaphné PatakiaSusan ElleA professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway, which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
- DirectorAthina Rachel TsangariStarsAriane LabedClémence PoésyIsolda DychaukSeven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.
- DirectorDimitris KatsimirisStarsChrisothemis AmanatidiLena KitsopoulouA YouTuber and her partner are planning to direct the raping of a girl by two black guys. Their goal is to get more subscribers on their YouTube channel. However, on the day of the shooting things don't go as planned.
- DirectorAriane LabedStarsRomanna LobachGrégoire TachnakianJenny BellayOLLA answers an ad on a dating website for Eastern European women. Shortly thereafter, she moves in with Pierre who lives with his elderly mother and things don't go as expected.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsJessica HoareMia JenkinsCallum May5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.
- DirectorEirini VianelliBased on the book Scenes by Efthymis Filippou, 14 short vignettes illustrate human existence ranging from the mundane to the absurd through a dark comedy lens.
- DirectorChristos NikouStarsEvi SaoulidouAris ServetalisA man. A woman. In a car. Fastened. Immobile. Blood. Silence.
- DirectorSteve KrikrisStarsAris ServetalisGiannis StankoglouAlexandros MavropoulosRenos, a lonely professional waiter, sees his well-organized life routine changing after an unexpected series of events.
- DirectorAraceli LemosStarsAbigael LomaHasmine KillipEirini InglesiA young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition and her faraway mother's healing powers.
- DirectorAthina Rachel TsangariStarsEvangelia RandouA pair of film projectors discuss their impending obsolescence in this elegiac homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt.
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsAndreas KonstantinouAlexandra K.Aggelos SkasilasOn his way to work, a lonely fish-farm worker learns he died the day before. Oblivious to his preposterous condition, he spends his last day on Earth trying to verify his existence. What will become of his poor canaries?
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsVasilis KekatosAn epidemic has hit mankind. People from all ends of the Earth are asleep, and no one knows when they'll wake.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsDespoina KapoulitsaA maturation trip, the childish nightmare of K. In a wooden house, she revives her childhood's fears and desires and experiences her sexual awakening. A dreamy wandering constructed by the tale of three little pigs, a distorted view of her own family.
- DirectorMinos NikolakakisStarsPrometheus AleiferAnastasia Rafaella KonidiKostas LaskosA village doctor uncovers the dark secret of an isolated woman who lives with a mysterious skin condition.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsJuan Carlos AduviriNelly PrinceElisa MassinoOn Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they'll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they'll drown.
- DirectorDimitris KatsimirisStarsChrisothemis AmanatidiThomas ChavianidisArietta MoutousiMarios, a young man with cerebral palsy, is waiting for his uncle, with his mother at home, to celebrate together his 22nd birthday. But the arrival of his uncle, with his new girlfriend, will upset the family and create a suffocating atmosphere in the place.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsKostas BerikopoulosKostas FilippoglouNur MohammedAn escape artist trying to escape.