Overview of articles
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Park
Tense combination of coming-of-age drama and social realism paints a portrait of out-of-control Greek teenagers in the now decaying former Olympic vilPublished on: -
The Seaweed in Your Hair
Diary entries from the hollow shell of post-referendum Athens. A city in crisis, yet hopeful, melancholy and happy. The film shows beauty can be foundPublished on: -
Blackhearts
In Norway, the birthplace of black metal, the genre went from being vilified to a tourist attraction in a little over 25 years. This mildly…Published on: -
Chevalier
Six men on a pleasure craft enter the fray. The game is “who does it best”. Notebooks are taken out in order to keep track…Published on: -
Suntan
Parties, sex, dancing, drinking and sleeping it off on the beach: a typical young people’s holiday. In Suntan, the doctor on a tourist Greek island…Published on: -
Forever
An ode to cinema as a sensation. A train thunders through a tunnel, seagulls screech above the water. An empty station, a bleak harbour and…Published on: -
Impressions of a Drowned Man
A man who doesn’t know who he is meets his former love. She tells him he is a famous poet, Kostas Karyotakis, who killed himself…Published on: -
Return to Aeolus Street
Kourkouta lyrically evokes the Greek soul through fragments of popular films from the 1950s and ’60s. A melancholy piano sets the tone.Published on: -
A Blast
Maria, a caring mother and loving wife in crisis-hit Greece, decides to completely change her life. Which perhaps wasn’t as firmly on the rails as…Published on: -
Eleni’s Olives
Poetic and nostalgic film about a girl from Cyprus who finds solace by an olive tree.Published on: