Known for Acting
Manolis Mavromatakis is a Greek actor.
1949, towards the end of the Greek Civil War. Yannis, the son of a rebel, is torn from his village and deported to the Childcare Cities where his ideas and desires are manipulated. Nightmares and dark feelings for his father slowly inhabit his heart. Only when he reaches adulthood does he redefine his existence, so he decides to go and meet the man.
Takes place twenty years after the events of “L’Auberge Espanole,” and follows Tom and Mia, the children of the film’s protagonists Xavier and Wendy, as they spend time in Athens.
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.
Thierry is convinced that the best is behind him. When Claire, his wife, tired of «it was better before», announced that she is leaving him, Thierry, devastated, decided to go back to Greece where they spend their best family holidays 20 years ago. Officially, he wants to spend one last week with their children before announcing their separation. Unofficially, he hopes to win back his wife... By trying to rekindle the flame of his couple, Thierry may well set his family on fire...
In a small greek island, Prokopis is the only employee of the local airport.
Bored soldiers, hard-ass commandos, dirty boots, guard duties, a Greek mommy, an influencer, a plastic surgeon, a gambling-addicted secretary and a caravan parked right outside! Two adjoining camps in the greek border. Two commanders in the middle of a "battle" that started years ago for a woman and now erupts for the position of brigadier general. One is old-school, cold-blooded militarist and the other lenient and caring. Goulas and Skordas. Sworn enemies!
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.
In a few days Minas is going to participate in a TV show called "Talent of the year". A TV crew follows him in his everyday life interviewing him and his closest people, until the big day of the show. Minas must win to fulfill his dream. What is his talent? He is a cowboy. In Athens.
A divorced Greek mother of two children meets a divorced Turkish father of two children. They soon fall in love and end up moving in together along with all the children, big mistake because both sides don't get along.
Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)
Savvas, a fifty-five-year old man, witnesses the gradual collapse of everything that he has been building his whole life. Why did things go so wrong? What can be done now? People around his shop are constantly changing. He worries about his daughter’s future. “As long as we’ are alive and well, you have nothing to fear.”
