Known for Acting
The life of an obsessive anti-social chef Sotiria "Sote" Vokakis gets mixed up like a salad when she is forced to return to Greece to take the role of the judge in a provocative cooking reality show. The recipe is explosive: Sote's relationship with television is reminiscent of an allergic reaction, while the producer of the show is her daughter, with whom she hasn't spoken for over ten years. And the dessert? She has to star in a cooking show, and in the last few weeks she has completely lost... her taste!
When Eva, a little Greek-Romanian girl with a speech impediment, loses both her parents on the same day in an accident, Loukas, her reclusive, racist grandfather who has never met her is the only Greek relative who can take custody of her, yet he stubbornly refuses. The unknown fate of Eva is now assigned to Marina, a social worker from a broken home, who decides to fight alongside Loukas against his past, thus forcing both him and herself to work towards their own salvation for the first time.
Follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos.
Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which the viewer experiences, aghast, the madness of humanity.
Katerina grew up with the idea that she would die young. This made her hypochondriac. Now, at the age of 33, she learns from Alexandros, a neurologist, that she has only six months. But instead of collapsing, she feels free.
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.
A rainy morning by the sea. A talking house. A car that returns. When the inside and the outside alternate. When the familiar and the unfamiliar coincide.
The youngest of the Antonopoulou family, the eight-year-old Angelos and storyteller, will travel with us in the late 60's, when television was slowly entering the family living rooms, in "Our Best Years".
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.
A series of murders alarm the police authorities, as strange symbolisms are traced to every crime scene. The eccentric professor of criminology Dimitris Lainis is asked to shed some light on the mystery.
A random explosion connects three stories, where strangers are trying to find some way to live on the edge of legality.
