Yannis Kokiasmenos

« With great power comes great responsibility » — but what if the hero is just a hen? Escaping from a chicken farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.

The Bastards have left the city behind. Their house in the countryside smells of nothing but summer. Five girls and five boys living in the moment, for the moment. No outsider comes around here, and all the insiders take turns standing guard, kissing each other, playing dead. They are still kids. They are your kids. They are our Bastards.

While having a day-long swim at Athens’ queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas’ feature debut.

A monk leads a procession. A girl is rescued from prostitution. Two college students become perpetrators of violent crimes. An elderly man falls victim to a police officer. A couple tries to repair their relationship. A woman expresses her anger to a civil servant. A man kidnaps his best friend. Seven different stories about love in modern Greece, from people who seek it, find it, lose it.

Four sets of passengers and their romantic antics make the night shift of a rideshare driver one to remember.

A sex assault survivor who cannot heal from the trauma joins group therapy as a last resort, only to realize that there may be in fact one more thing that can help, with far more reaching consequences, dragging along other group members in the process.

A grandson returns to his ancestors’ village for the winter. A grandfather returns from death to see his grandson for one last time. A village unable to cope with the returns that occurred out of love.

1978, on his birthday, Stavros was set to get engaged to Matula. Instead, he was forced to embark on his first big journey. 2020, on his birthday, Stavros wanders around the city alone. It is the day that he doesn’t like to talk. It is the day that he reflects on his past considering how things would have been if he had made other decisions.

Greece, 2017. The inability to financially support Aris (who suffers from ALS), has his wife, Persefoni, come up against human existential limits. How many years do you need to travel in order to get “home”?

In a country in deep crisis, two worlds collide: the bourgeois milieu of an intellectual psychiatrist, and the humbler, but no less ambitious world of a beautiful working class actress. They fall in love, but they will soon have to face reality.