Giorgos Valsamis

Movies

Light of Light
Director of Photography
Before his death in 1932, a monk created his own camera in one of the most isolated places in the world. 90 years later, a filmmaker discovers and reconstructs the found footage.
Not Tomorrow
Director of Photography
Michalis has barely 24 hours to redefine his life and make up for his close ones. That same night he meets a girl. He only wishes that the morning never comes.
11.20 a.m.
Director of Photography
Olga, a domestic worker originally from Albania, finds herself in a house she works in downtown Athens, at the right time. Or at the wrong one?
American Girl
Director of Photography
When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.
In Her Steps
Cinematography
While attending a reintegration programme, Lena finds a job that gives her access to the rural jail for minors, where her son is serving his sentence. Last time she saw him, he was five years old.
Old West
Cinematography
Argyris 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.
The Distance Between Us and the Sky
Director of Photography
Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22 euros he needs to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.
Cedar Wolf
Director of Photography
Zohair, a 14 year old refugee from Afghanistan, finds himself trapped in legal limbo in Greece. While wandering around Athens, he recollects his hometown. His life gradually brightens through the work in an old sawmill and his relationship with an old carpenter and his son.
Entropy
Cinematography
It's Eleni's birthday. Friends and relatives are gathering together. Their relationships are going to be tested.
The Silence of the Dying Fish
Director of Photography
Makis works at a fish farm. One morning, as he goes to work, he's told he’s dead… since the day before. After trying in vain to prove he's very much alive, all that remains is to accept the situation and find someone who will take care of his canaries before the funeral.
Zero Star Hotel
Cinematography
Two men are talking inside a car. One of them is dead.
Riviera
Director of Photography
A glamorous Athenian Riviera spot booming from its wealthy regulars is suddenly shaken by a shocking water ski accident. For Alkistis, now 17, not a single day has passed without worshiping her dad. The water-skier was her father. Apart from his ski legacy and trophies, Alkistis and her widowed mother Anna were left with the family hostel they have to look after. When Anna sells the villa everyone starts abandoning it. Alkistis tries hard to squeeze all her love for her father in boxes and convince Anna not to sell the villa. Alkistis spends one last night in the Athens Riviera. Despite the palm trees now dead, notwithstanding having a home, now that the end has come, she has nothing to lose.