
Acting
Despina Kourti
Acting credits
8.0Sofia and Eleni and Petros and Alexandros and Despina and Daphne. Familiar, people-next-door types with their obsessions, weaknesses, hang-ups. People who make the daily rounds in search of communication. Sofia, fragile and with no defenses, searches for the scent of life. Eleni tries to combine career and child, making the mistakes she blames her mother Despina for making. Alexandros, a full-fledged adolescent strives to be loved. Petros goes after lost relationships. Characters and the absences of characters. Relationships that are articulated and disarticulated. Through tender glances and open wounds. With an invitation open to all as an antidote. One that we have extended dozens of times while we wait and hope. So... let's go for an ouzo.
Let's Go for an Ouzo
2002
5.8Two friends, Lou and Lena... An agreement for this all night walk.
Lou & Lena
2003
4.91654, Ottoman Empire, Greece. A Turkish Warrior arrives heavily wounded at a remote Christian female monastery and is nursed by Anthi, a young nun under the oath of silence. They fall in love against all odds. But Anthi is tormented by a dark secret. The two lovers escape in the nearby forest, where Anthi's secret is revealed.
Black Field
2009
5.9In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.
End of an Era
1994
7.0Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it's stolen from him, he cannot return to his previous life of anonymity, leading to a downward spiral from which there is no return.
The Overcoat
1997
3.0Athens, today. Three siblings face the prospect of selling their family home. The potential buyers will tear it down and erect a modern building in its place.
Gold Dust
2009
5.8Centres on two brothers, Stelios and Yannis. The impulsive Stelios skips their small town, deserts from the army, and is thought dead, until Yannis, now a city cop, recognizes his name on the papers of an illegal immigrant seaman. He begins a search for his lost brother, a search that takes him across many borders: between past and present, between Greece and its neighbouring countries, between one identity and another.
Borderline
1994
7.5An adaptation of Alexandros Papadiamantis's short story. Passion for a woman and some desperate thoughts push a young man to secretly take a stranger's boat and set sail. The wind carries him away and he is shipwrecked. He comes to in a cave, near the deserted shores, among three eccentric people who, each for their own reasons, live on the margins of society. He listens to them recount their personal stories with humour and self-deprecation. But behind their seemingly ill-fated romances, he discerns true love.
Shores of Twilight
1998
Behind the camera
7.0Maria is caught between childhood and adolescence. After the sudden death of her classmate, she is once again confronted with loss. As she attempts to cope with this absence, Maria tries to find her own way to bid her loved one farewell.
numb
2024
7.0Maria is caught between childhood and adolescence. After the sudden death of her classmate, she is once again confronted with loss. As she attempts to cope with this absence, Maria tries to find her own way to bid her loved one farewell.
numb
2024
NROurania is a middle aged woman who has neglected herself. The appearance of a young man will help her regain her long lost woman nature.
Uranya
2017
NROurania is a middle aged woman who has neglected herself. The appearance of a young man will help her regain her long lost woman nature.
Uranya
2017
5.0Argyris is an elderly man in the first stage of dementia. When his symptoms worsen, he decides with his daughter, Sophie, to enter a nursing home. The last days of his freedom, Argyris wanders around the city, meeting old friends while having a secret plan. He wants to get a revolver.
Old West
2020