Movies: Stavros Psyllakis

  • 2011
    Alps

    Alps (2011)

    Alps

    6.22011HD

    A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process....

    Alps
  • 2000
    Backdoor

    Backdoor (2000)

    Backdoor

    5.92000HD

    Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he feels ready, he has to claim his mother back from an up-and-comin...

    Backdoor
  • 2021
    The Giraffe

    The Giraffe (2021)

    The Giraffe

    02021HD

    M is a woman Who lives alone. She suffers from insomnia and she needs someone to sleep with her. The process is the following: she finds different people to sleep with each time. She wants the touch of another body in her bed....

    The Giraffe
  • 2018
    In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry

    In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry (2018)

    In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry

    6.72018HD

    In the summer of 2021, a research group scouting for viable sites for development arrives at Armenaki Island, where people live with their own laws and their own moral values, having found happiness in a completely different way of life....

    In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
  • 2012
    METAXA: listening to time

    METAXA: listening to time (2012)

    METAXA: listening to time

    02012HD

    Starting with doctors and staff of the Metaxa anti-cancer hospital who suffer from cancer themselves, we follow this special group of people as they continue to work in the hospital. From the shock of the first time one hears it, to the experience of...

    METAXA: listening to time
  • 2021
    Debt

    Debt (2021)

    Debt

    02021HD

    ‘Each person we meet in the course of our life is a journey and we often feel the need to travel with them first class or without luggage and empty pockets’. Alekos Zoukas is a darling man, fun-loving and at the same time a deep thinker. A man you ca...

    Debt
  • 2022
    FAREWELL – The memory of the place

    FAREWELL – The memory of the place (2022)

    FAREWELL – The memory of the place

    02022HD

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    FAREWELL – The memory of the place
  • 2019
    FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis

    FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis (2019)

    FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis

    02019HD

    Yorgos Maniatis (1939–2018), a legionnaire in Algeria at the age of 18, an author and later a musician, defines himself as a “public menace.” This film is not a biopic, but it rather seeks to explore the adventure of his soul: an inflammatory conscie...

    FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos Maniatis
  • 2020
    My photograph

    My photograph (2020)

    My photograph

    02020HD

    In "Spaces #1", 8 beloved Greek directors shot, after commissioning by the Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book "Species of Spaces" by the French novel...

    My photograph
  • 2009
    There Was No Other Way

    There Was No Other Way (2009)

    There Was No Other Way

    02009HD

    Even after the Civil War had ended in the rest of Greece, a small rump of the Democratic Army, six men and two women, remained in hiding for 14 years in Chania, Crete, where they continued to take part in illegal political activity. In 1962, six of t...

    There Was No Other Way
  • 2014
    Short Gypsy Stories

    Short Gypsy Stories (2014)

    Short Gypsy Stories

    02014HD

    Athanasia, Theodoros, George and Chrysoula live and move around Zefyri, Menidi and the wider region. They no longer live in chattels and camps, but in a modern urban environment, each according to what they can afford. Their children and grandchildre...

    Short Gypsy Stories
  • 2016
    The Light Inside

    The Light Inside (2016)

    The Light Inside

    02016HD

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    The Light Inside
  • 2015
    Olympia

    Olympia (2015)

    Olympia

    02015HD

    Olympia, a 33-year old woman, is already three months pregnant when she finds out that she has lung cancer. After enough thought, she decides to keep the baby. Four months after giving birth to a healthy baby and while her cancer progresses fast, at ...

    Olympia
  • 1969
    Dilemma

    Dilemma (1969)

    Dilemma

    01969HD

    Yannis Behrakis and Lefteris Pitarakis have recorded with their cameras notable war events and moments that marked humanity. Dilemma focuses on photojournalism’s importance and the ethical issues that arise during war or extreme violence. A single e...

    Dilemma
  • 1969
    Milonogianni 120, Chania

    Milonogianni 120, Chania (1969)

    Milonogianni 120, Chania

    01969HD

    “In 1981 I started working with Nikos on this job. 30 years have passed so fast. I really enjoy socializing here with people, and having fun together. We didn't make money, but it was beautiful”. Nikos and Thodoris have a repair shop for Vespas in Ch...

    Milonogianni 120, Chania
  • 2002
    ABEA the congealed time

    ABEA the congealed time (2002)

    ABEA the congealed time

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    ABEA the congealed time
  • 2000
    The Man Who Disturbed the Universe

    The Man Who Disturbed the Universe (2000)

    The Man Who Disturbed the Universe

    02000HD

    A documentary focusing on two groups of mental patients. The first is located in the Mental Hospital of Chania and the daily life of patients is presented, their relationships, and their contact with reality. The second group, former patients, travel...

    The Man Who Disturbed the Universe