Efi Gousi

A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?

Katerina, who was always afraid of death, when she finds out that she has only six months to live, immediately overcomes her inhibitions and self-limitations and finally begins to enjoy life.

Filio Williams, an elderly Greek-American woman, rushes to Mytilene with her granddaughter Helen to offer support to Syrian refugees. No one knows her background; no one knows that her grandmother—Filio Baltatzi, a native of Smyrna—had once found herself on that very same island, a persecuted refugee. A small notebook containing the recipes of her namesake grandmother unfolds the turbulent history of the cosmopolitan Baltatzi family, a story shaped by the tragic international events that determined the fate of entire nations. Across time and space, different generations of women from the same family are united by the threads of history. Past and present merge into one.

Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.

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The events of this film, spanning from the very first moments after the Occupation until the first years of the 1980s. In those years, which are crucial for Greek History, the adventurous path of a poor family is illustrated, that’s slowly going to end up filthy rich. The members of the aforesaid family found out the hard way, that money cannot buy happiness.

Katerina, who was always afraid of death, when she finds out that she has only six months to live, immediately overcomes her inhibitions and self-limitations and finally begins to enjoy life.

Filio Williams, an elderly Greek-American woman, rushes to Mytilene with her granddaughter Helen to offer support to Syrian refugees. No one knows her background; no one knows that her grandmother—Filio Baltatzi, a native of Smyrna—had once found herself on that very same island, a persecuted refugee. A small notebook containing the recipes of her namesake grandmother unfolds the turbulent history of the cosmopolitan Baltatzi family, a story shaped by the tragic international events that determined the fate of entire nations. Across time and space, different generations of women from the same family are united by the threads of history. Past and present merge into one.

In 1950, an Academy of Erotic Anatomy was established in France. Young girls would learn how to give the first kiss. And they did, in the most macabre and mesmerizing way.

In 1950, an Academy of Erotic Anatomy was established in France. Young girls would learn how to give the first kiss. And they did, in the most macabre and mesmerizing way.