Yannis Tsortekis

Yannis Tsortekis

Birth : , Athens, Greece

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Yannis Tsortekis
Yannis Tsortekis
Yannis Tsortekis
Yannis Tsortekis

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Murderess
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
The Chaos She Left Behind
Dimitris
Anna, in her late twenties, feels like her life is sliding away from her hands. A ticket to a prestigious music school in Paris might be the perfect last chance to pursue her dream career in piano. Success seems not so elusive unless her manipulative, self-destructive alcoholic father stands in her way.
Not Tomorrow
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.
Dimitris
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?
Green Sea
Roula
Anna has lost her memory but she hasn’t forgotten how to cook. One night she shows up in a working-class neighborhood. There she meets Roula and gets a job as a cook and a place to stay at his shabby seaside tavern. In the kitchen, amidst the scents of spices and old forgotten recipes, Anna struggles to rebuild her past. Her simple but delicious food awakens memories for the regulars who in turn help her to reconnect with herself. The story takes an unexpected turn when Roula suddenly stumbles upon the Green Sea and discovers Anna’s true identity.
Soul Food
Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.
Iro /he.roː/
Today is Tuesday but Iro is not at school. Instead she's at home and she's ready to set off on a Journey with her mom and a Super Hero towards Lake Stymphalia.
Ballad for a Pierced Heart
Iraklis
In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets with greed money, dead bodies start pilling up and "Sleeping Beauty" Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of.
37 Days
Stelios
When Maria, a young pregnant woman is fired, she goes on a birth strike.
Entropy
It's Eleni's birthday. Friends and relatives are gathering together. Their relationships are going to be tested.
Mum, I'm Back
A woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother.
USSAK…years later
In a suffering country somewhere in the near future, a community of misfits who live in a state of decadence and paranoia, tries to claim a decent life, fighting against an authoritarian oppressive regime.
Suntan
Takis
Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.
Spring Awakening
Kostas
Contemporary Athens: A gang of teenage thieves and romantic anarchists test the limits of their youthful rebellion and play out their own tragic spring awakening against the backdrop of a dying city.
Cruiser
It’s just another night at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of Athens. Vlassis starts his night shift. Stephanos, a middle-aged truck driver, ends up at the gas station on the same night. The two of them confide their thoughts and dreams in one another, trapped in the Athens night.
At Home
Markos
For many years, Nadja has worked as a housekeeper for an upper class Greek couple and their daughter. She’s allowed to feel like part of the family. When she’s diagnosed with a serious illness, and the man of the house runs into financial difficulties due to the economic crisis, Nadja loses her job. Yet she shows no external sign of how these two traumatic events have affected her.
II
Guide
An old groom walks in the open horizon towards a bride waiting for him. They meet but the distance between them starts to grow once again.
Stratos
Giorgos
At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day during a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life. Stratos never forgot this. A free man now, Stratos works the night shift at a bakery workshop, a far cry from the killing contracts he executes by day. He gives away all his money to spring Leonidas out of prison, funding an escape plan managed by Leo’s brother, Yorgos. The fulfillment of his debt is the only thing that matters to Stratos, everything else is indifferent and he lives detached, surrounded by ghosts and fallacies. The day of the escape, the most important day of his life, is near…
45 Degrees
Taxi Driver
Athens, August 2012. 45 degrees. The fridge is empty. The situation is very tense. A father changes under the burden of the economic crisis. It's getting dark and its still boiling hot. A capital at the border of exploding.
J.A.C.E.
Thomas Tepelenis
Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where violent loss seems to be his only destiny. The movie follows Jace's inverted Odyssey in a dark universe of abuse, murder and fear, as he desperately (and silently) seeks for a "family" of his own or, at least, for a sense of belonging
Dad, Lenin and Freddy
During the 80's, in Athens, a nine-year old girl gradually loses touch with her workaholic communist father. She fantasizes that Vladimir Lenin wants to harm him. Things get worse when the American movie maniac Freddy Krueger joins forces with the Russian.
Harisma
Mihalis
Ismini is in her early 30s. She is cultivated, delicate, sensitive and... emotionally handicapped. She has developed a simplistic system of defense to protect her emotions: no one is to come near. It is exactly the moment when this collapses that unsophisticated, simple, impolite, aggressive and greatly passionate Haris appears in her life.
13½
Aphrodite is thirteen and a half. Her friends call her Tin-Tin. Aphrodite is in love with Lou. Aphrodite wants to grow up...
Save Me
Anna faces everyday problems in her Greek life. Her previous "man" left her debts, the new guy approved not to be the right one, in addition to these she loses her job and indeed needs somebody to rescue her!