Giorgos Arvanitis Movies

As Pelopidas is going around hungry, trying to find something to eat, a misunderstanding makes him seem like a thief. In order to escape his...

Antoine Santana - Issues of class, gender roles and parenting bubble to the surface in this 19th-century tale about a shepherd girl (Isild Le Besco)...

Belgium, 1980. On the banks of the Meuse river, against the background of a steel-producing city, factories close down one after another and lay off...

Pierre, a young man of Brussels, has lost his job. Unbeknowst to Barbara, the woman he lives with, he has become a pickpocket to survive. He works in...

Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is an honest working man who has to support his sister’s family as well, as Maria’s husband is only interested...

After the death of her father a young woman who was a student in Germany suffers a nervous breakdown and withdraws inside herself. Her younger...

A young French actor, Matthieu comes to Greece. He meets a pregnant Greek woman, Xenia, who leaves for Andalusia to give birth there. Car breakdowns,...

Theophilus Palios, owns a small traditional publishing house. He man madly falls in love with Sia, that is doing vocals on the show of a known...

A man who survives an earthquake is convinced that there is another man still stuck in the debris.

The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One,...

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his...

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film

Paris. The year is 1969. Andreas Baader on the run from the law in Germany hides out in the apartment of the political intellectual Régis...

Director Abdoulaye Ascofare's drama follows Zamiatou (Aminata Ousmane), a mother who struggles to support her family in the wake of her husband's...

By the 14th century, the Byzantine Empire was, if not on the verge of actual collapse, at least seriously decadent and clearly on its last legs. The...

Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players...

A music composer tries to deposit money in his bank one morning, and is accused of counterfeiting. Harassed by the police, the gang of counterfeiters...

A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act.

During the Second World War, in 1943, Anne Frendo, a young dreamer and artist, living alone with her father in Tunisia, discovers, by chance, the...