Queer Greek Cinema

Without any cheap moralizing, this respectful portrait of Betty, a well-known Athenian transsexual, gives a much-needed voice to the gay community at a time when it was totally marginalized.

Ten drag performers find solace in each other as they rebel against their oppressive reality and those who control it.

Five girls, five boys seclude themselves in countryside home. Taking turns on guard duty, they kiss, play-act death. Still kids, isolated, living in the moment. Outsiders unwelcome in their summer refuge.

A diaristic chronicle around the injured body, pain, mourning, obsessive thoughts and the inability to communicate. Veronique and Filtig build a complex relational drama where family trauma meets post-apocalyptic despair.

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

The film follows Alon's journey to Wonderland.

Eleanor and Sarah are an eighteenth-century couple situated in Antilia. They live isolated in the forest, but soon the outside world will take notice of them.

A scientist sets up another garden of Eden where he imprisons his creations and unleashes his dark fantasies on them.

Maria murders her husband and then tries to claim the life she hasn't experienced up to this point.

The film consists of 6 stories, starting with an animal abuser and a serial killer targeting women in the same area. The Greek system and society don't seem willing to deliver justice, so the victims have to take matters into their own hands.

Abram starts his journey into the world but finds himself trapped in every place he goes.

Roux's grandma has trouble accepting her, and that creates a volatile situation in their relationship. A short film based on the Red Riding Hood tale.

The documentary chronicles about four decades in a small farming village of Eressos on the island of Lesbos, where lesbian women from around the world have been gathering since the late '70s.

A woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother.

Maria is struggling with a newborn desire.

The life of a young Greek man who has contracted AIDS is shown through a series of short vignettes.

A handsome young Athenian attempts to escape his abusive alcoholic father and the grinding poverty of his daily life by falling in love with a macho sailor who promises him a better life.

A night stroll in Athens through the eyes of Betty Vakalidou, Eva Koumarianou, and Paola Revenioti.

A pioneer Greek queer activist and her filmmaking team Paola Team Documentaries present their first feature documentary about "Kaliarda," the secret language of the gay community in Greece, from the 40s until the country's regime change in the early 70s. Paola became acquainted with Kaliarda towards the end of its use, in the 80s. The team started out aiming to record the history of Kaliarda, but realized they were recording the history of the queer community's life in Greece during the 20th century. Themes start emerging, such as love, sexuality, hang-outs, the problems faced by gays at the time and how conditions gradually changed until today. In the documentary, we encounter academics and people from the street, who had a first-hand experience of our subject.

A journey in the island of Lesvos, in the official hot spots, as well as in unofficial refugee camps, during the first week of January 2016. Refugees, local residents, members of NGOs and independent groups share their experiences.

A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.

Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.

Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young transsexual sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with Yorgos.

Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.

Around the year 2000, a terrible incident shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how? But no one can give an answer.