Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos

Escaping from a chicken farm, a hen 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.

Lena is a 20 year old woman who lives in Athens, works at a local supermarket and lives with her family.What if keeping her baby is the only way to keep her job?

The late 1970s, somewhere in the Mediterranean: Marcos Timoleon, a tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia on his exclusive private island. The party is a perfect excuse for various people in his life to approach him with their own agendas.

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

A railway crossing in the middle of nowhere. Two guards: solitary Yiannis who never leaves his post and cool Antonis who goes with the rhythm of the landscape. Every once in a while, a voice announces the passing of a train. The two guards manually lower the bars. Nothing seems to stir their daily routine until love charges in, crushing all certainties.

When mysterious creatures invade a Greek seaside port, a misfit band of musicians, tourists, bodybuilders, and grannies unite to save the city in this quirky action-comedy.

A young couple employed by a pet crematorium finds fulfilment in respectfully removing cadavers. Their love blossoms in an environment where the boundaries between human and animal are fading. When they hit a stray dog, their relationship starts to derail.

In a suffering country somewhere in the near future, a community of misfits who live in a state of decadence and paranoia, tries to claim a decent life, fighting against an authoritarian oppressive regime.

When Jonny visits his father Nikitas in his cabin in the woods after 20 years, the hermit ignores him. But to prevent the muddy ground from being pulled out from under their feet for reasons of profit, father and son must dig deep into it...

Three stories. Three directorial perspectives. A cinematic triptych that navigates between humor, absurdity, and Greek reality. Three different filmmakers join forces in a cinematic triptych that observes contemporary Greek reality through humor, absurdity, and a satirical lens.

When a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.

An ageing Serbian neuroscientist lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded as a paranoid schizophrenic for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. But when, decades later, he is rediscovered by a group of young dreamers who are trying to change the world through his ideas, he decides to quit his medication and join them in their scientific commune, risking his sanity in pursuit of a higher goal.

An elementary music teacher living in a secluded town in the mountains with his dog, longs to escape the cold in favour of a warmer life by the beach. When his dog disappears, his sanity comes into question, as ringings of the afterlife begin to bring forth visions that shake up his world.

Thomas Alexopoulos is a businessman drowning in debt, watching the walls close in around him. Cornered by a threatening loan shark and with only a few days left to save his home, he sets a seemingly flawless plan in motion.

A ragman meets a mysterious young woman living under a bridge. His attempt to save her appears as a chance to escape from the underworld of his memory reflected in the dark side of Athens.

How do we understand cult cinema and which films shaped the term in Greece? "Latreia" explores the cult phenomenon mainly through: "Tsiou" by Makis Papadimitratou, "Spirtokouto" by Yannis Oikonomidis, "Let the Women Wait" by Stavros Tsioulis and the episode "Vietnam" from "Everything is a Road" by Pantelis Voulgaris, gathering testimonies from creators and contributors, as well as people from the journalistic and artistic world.

Art, crime and infidelity take center stage in this hilarious madcap adventure that proves that sometimes changing your life for the better means turning it around 180 degrees.

All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again.

A small group of World War I soldiers getting out of the dreary trenches. Their constant fear of the bombs steps aside for a brief moment of time, while brotherhood along with violence, steps in.

During a break in the course of a regular day, a middle-aged man is on the phone with his mother. A stranger appears and breaks in the horrible news that will change both him and his perception of reality in a tragicomic way.

This short film follows the wandering of a homeless blind man through the streets of Athens, his only companion is a glass bowl of goldfish. The only thing that feels like it belongs to him or at least that’s what he believes.

Apart from one chicken in a freezer, a trumpet teacher, keeps also the corpse of his mother. Is there life after death?

Athens, February 1981. Motivated by their shared love for the so-called Ninth Art, a group of people introduces Greek readers to the culture of comic books that are not just for kids. This is the story of the legendary Greek comics magazine Babel and the international comics festivals it organized.

Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.

A foreign assignment leads private detective Hartwig Seeler to the wildly romantic coast of the Peloponnese peninsula - and into the maelstrom of a mysterious case that confronts him with his own vulnerability.

It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.

A junkie tries to sell a leather jacket to Mr. Nikos, an experienced shoplifter.

A professional smuggler tries to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war.

Summer in a small Greek island. Amelia discovers her mother's illicit affair, refusing to believe what she saw. She will run away from home with Epaminondas, her first love. They will live an adventure, testing themselves and whoever they encounter along their way, ending up at the end of the night as children again in the hands of their parents.

Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in a windy autumn, matching the less-than-pleasant occasion: Yannis has been called to identify the victim of a tragic accident at the hospital of the small town. When the local policeman informs them that the victim’s vehicle had plunged over the parapet of a stone bridge and leads them to the morgue, Katerina sees her worst suspicions confirmed. Together with Yannis, but also on her own nightly excursions to a mysterious, rustic beach bar called Arcadia, they begin to put the pieces of the puzzle together, revealing a haunting story of love, loss, acceptance and letting go.

“But let’s go back about two thousand years, to Nazareth in 0001 AD, and let’s watch, perhaps, the most important case of naming in human history. When Christ was born, some say on December 25, he was not called Christ, he was simply called “baby”. Joseph and Mary had not decided, or rather, had not agreed on what name to give the little one… Jesus was a possibility, but Joseph considered it quite a flowery one. Of course… He didn’t even think about it… The child was a stranger… We all know whose… Huh?”

It is a movie following the coming-of-age for a boy; the story begins in the mid-60s, continues all through the 70s, and finishes in 1981. He is a creative young man facing the troubles of the first pangs of love and we observe the way he tries to handle them within his social surroundings, his family, and environment.

A taxi driver is taken hostage by a man, at gunpoint, when he refuses to drive him where he wants. On a ride where everything goes awry and no one is what they seem, a girl will change their path; yet the path will remain a riddle, even to the film’s heroes.

Eva (11) lives with her mother, Alexandra (35), homeless and unbound by rules. By day, they get by through petty theft; at night, they sleep peacefully in their car, living in a utopia of their own—until the limits of that world are put to the test.

In the barren stretch of the motorway, Jimmy’s family diner is on the verge of extinction—until a botched drug deal drops a bag of cash into his lap. Now, Jimmy must navigate the dangerous underworld of gangsters, shady cops, and his own treacherous staff to save the business he’s clung to his entire life. With a mix of crime, thriller, and dark comedy, Jimmy and his eccentric crew—Mara, Nicko, and Abi—must outsmart the criminals closing in, all while struggling with their own growing desires for the cash. It’s a game of survival, where no one plays fair.

Following a tragedy at sea, the lives of two orphaned refugees and an Australian aid worker are inextricably woven together in this bracing, humanistic drama.

A man and a woman meet at a karaoke bar. He stands awkwardly on stage. She rushes in to save him. Just as suddenly as she entered his life, she disappeared. Forever. Now he is left to cope with her loss while carrying on with his work—he runs a funeral home.

Set in the world of Greece's urban-folk music scene of the 90s, the film depicts the fatal relationship between a young singer and an elder songwriter and her mentor.

Lakis, a private investigator, believes his life is metaphysically linked to Andreas Papandreou and PASOK. One night, he locks Kostakis in his office, trying to convince him not to sell the rooftop cinema, owned by his family, to a multinational corporation.

Five people gather in a house, totally unable to decide about the burial of their friend who just passed away. Their microcosm resembles the city outside, bursting with chaos and disorder.

On his 40th birthday, Nikos, a solitary truck driver, arrives on a remote beach. He’s there to meet his former military buddy Christos, whom he hasn't seen for many years.

A middle-aged man living in the countryside is trapped in an elusive business plan, gradually losing touch with people. A festival will give hime a chance to realize that maybe it is not too late to reconnect with reality.

The silent struggle and systematic hate between Greek natives and refugees will lead to their brutal confrontation over the course of one night

An allegorical film about the existence or nonexistence of Man. Confronted with the need and will of Man to live, a question is raised: Does the instinct of survival finally lead us to survival or does it inevitably lead us to our complete destruction? Is conflict unavoidable? Is the need for alliance and for a meeting of minds an illusion? And who will prevail in the end? Human nature or Nature?

703AD, Byzantium. A peaceful farmer is accused of heresy and sentenced to 24 hours of mandatory prayer, locked in a medieval pillory. Due to an invasion in the area, the officials forget to release him. Alone in the middle of nowhere and unable to move, the farmer seeks help from a set of passers-by: a conservative family, an injured invader, a burning flock of sheep, a gang of children. As chances of survival become slimmer, the farmer needs to make peace with his impending death.

A teacher is set to do his daily routine classroom at the school he works, during one of the most difficult days to teach.