Leandros Ntounis

Welcome to the murky world of digital ad fraud, organized crime’s biggest source of income after drug trafficking. A former industry executive pulls the curtain to expose how it’s done, who the victims are, and what role Google and Facebook play in the game.

As the era of psychiatric asylums in Europe draws to an end, Ladies in Waiting opens a window to its past. Through the unique perspectives of caregivers from the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica - the last remaining one in Greece - and the lives of care-receivers, we take a peek inside the taboo world of mental illness.

A real Noah’s Ark, where the last true natives of one of the most cosmopolitan islands in the world seek shelter, along with their animals, from the relentless wave of development that threatens to swallow them whole.

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.

In today’s Tirana, Agim and Gëzim, two inseparable deaf-mute identical twin brothers in their forties, live under the same roof. Ana, Gëzim’s girlfriend, a young high-spirited woman in her thirties, visits them quite often. One evening, Agim is driving back home with Gëzim, when his sight gets blurred and a fatal accident nearly occurs. At the ophthalmologist, a few days later, the two brothers discover that due to a genetic and rare disease, they will separately, but progressively and irreversibly go blind. Slowly immersing into an unbearable silenced darkness, not being able to see the world and each other anymore, only Ana by their side, the two brothers have to make a strong decision around a cup of coffee with new shoes on.

Andreas is on the verge of retirement. His weathered body has taken a beating from all of the years that he has spent at sea. This is his last journey. He will be forced to confront both his fears as well as his hidden desires.

Jinxi is a violinist, about to fulfill her dream of moving to Vienna to continue with her music studies. While trying to settle her affairs before departing, her encounter with Panos, a Greek architect newly arrived to Shanghai, will have a disrupting effect on her life. During the course of one day, their relationship will go through ups and downs and bring them in front of life-changing dilemmas.

Two sisters, Anna and Melina spend the last days of the summer in their vacation house outside of Athens. Anna is having a party to celebrate her birthday and her passage to adulthood. Soon she will be off to college leaving her little sister behind. She has invited Maria, her crush, to spend the day with her by the pool and organise the party. Melina obsessively loves and admires her older sister and wants badly to be part of her world. She is not invited to the party. But she sets her mind to it, making this night for her sister a bloody night to remember.

그리스 북쪽의 외딴 숲속에 사는 니키타스에게 20년 동안 떨어져 지낸 아들이 찾아온다. 숲의 수호자로서, 환경을 파괴하는 기업에 힘겹게 맞서온 그는 자기 지분의 재산을 요구하는 아들과 또 다른 싸움을 벌여야 한다.

원인 모를 단기 기억상실증 유행병에 걸린 ‘알리스’에게 유일하게 남은 기억은 이름도 집 주소도 아닌 한 입 베어 문 사과의 맛. 며칠이 지나도 그를 찾아오는 가족이 나타나지 않자 무연고 환자로 분류된 ‘알리스’에게 병원에서는 새로운 경험들로 기억을 만들어내는 ‘인생 배우기’ 프로그램을 제안한다. 그러던 어느 날 ‘알리스’는 자신처럼 이 프로그램에 참여하고 있는 ‘안나’를 만난다.

이야기를 나누고, 생활하고, 사색하는 모습을 통해 5대륙 10개국 주인공들의 생각, 아이디어, 경험, 그리고 꿈이 펼쳐진다. 이 집합적 이야기들은 아르헨티나 작가 호르헤 루이스 보르헤스가 “상상할 수 없는 우주”라 부른 것과의 관련 속에서 퍼즐의 조각들로서 기능한다.

이야기를 나누고, 생활하고, 사색하는 모습을 통해 5대륙 10개국 주인공들의 생각, 아이디어, 경험, 그리고 꿈이 펼쳐진다. 이 집합적 이야기들은 아르헨티나 작가 호르헤 루이스 보르헤스가 “상상할 수 없는 우주”라 부른 것과의 관련 속에서 퍼즐의 조각들로서 기능한다.

Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.

Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.

Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.

It’s the hunting season. Two grieving, estranged brothers try their marksmanship together with their sons. Can a bird’s heart stop in the sky with no bullets coming through its body?

It’s the hunting season. Two grieving, estranged brothers try their marksmanship together with their sons. Can a bird’s heart stop in the sky with no bullets coming through its body?

One year after the death of her mother, Elena, a young French woman of Greek origin, returns to her holiday home on the island of Lesbos. She is accompanied by her friends Nassim and Sekou, two young suburbanites more used to the benches of the city than the paradisiac beaches.

일상에서 혹은 영화에서 경험하는 감정들이란 과연 얼마나 진실에 가까운 것일까. 침대 끝에 걸터앉아 오열하는 한 남자가 있다. 아내가 혼수상태가 된 이후 이웃과 동료가 건네는 동정의 말 한마디는 어느덧 일상의 원동력이 되고, 급기야 남자는 타인의 동정을 더욱 탐욕스럽게 갈구하기에 이른다. 감정과 좌절, 소통과 고독의 미묘한 관계를 건조한 시선으로 관찰하는 "동정에 중독된 남자"는 요르고스 란티모스를 필두로 주목받고 있는 현대 ‘그리스 코미디’의 흐름을 잘 보여주는 작품이다.

Shot over the course of six weeks on 16mm film by Greek cinematographer, Thimios Bakatakis (The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer), the new rag & bone Films short coincides with the launch of the rag & bone Fall 2018 collection. The film was shot in New York and Los Angeles and features Kate Mara, Boyd Holbrook, Pom Klementieff, Lakeith Stanfield, Reed Morano, Lake Bell, Jon Hamm and Emma Roberts. To capture the spirit of cinema verité, each character was shot by Bakatakis through a handheld approach and using available lighting.

New Year’s Eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no-one: while walking on a desert, she gets to know that she is sick. She pretends she does not care. Has she lost heart?

A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.

Jay wakes up in Manila, yet he dreamed of Athens. He has a nightmare, during which he has a special quest: to save his two daughters from a dangerous surgery. In his attempt to rescue them, he roams around Athens’ cityscape, seeing things under a very different light.

On a very hot day in Athens, Stephanos, the eldest brother, is working out while his mother is planning a day out. After another intense argument, Stephanos is left alone to take care of his two younger siblings as well as Lucy, the family's sick dog. The day is spent pleasantly between summery laziness, pizzas, teenage flirting and phone calls that remain unanswered.

A deserted, snow-covered landscape. An unknown place and time. An anonymous, timeless man slides into a devastated industrial building. He is enclosed by ruins and rust, witnesses of time. He advances among shadows and debris, following a ritual as precise as it is cryptic. Polyphony of materials. The past resonates at every step. Echoes of a presence. A solitary figure fluctuates on an abyss.

A deserted, snow-covered landscape. An unknown place and time. An anonymous, timeless man slides into a devastated industrial building. He is enclosed by ruins and rust, witnesses of time. He advances among shadows and debris, following a ritual as precise as it is cryptic. Polyphony of materials. The past resonates at every step. Echoes of a presence. A solitary figure fluctuates on an abyss.

A deserted, snow-covered landscape. An unknown place and time. An anonymous, timeless man slides into a devastated industrial building. He is enclosed by ruins and rust, witnesses of time. He advances among shadows and debris, following a ritual as precise as it is cryptic. Polyphony of materials. The past resonates at every step. Echoes of a presence. A solitary figure fluctuates on an abyss.

In 1991, after more than four decades of oppression and isolation, the totalitarian communist regime in Albania falls, leaving its people exposed to the new world. The refugee crisis spread across Europe in Germany, Italy and Greece. Some succeeded in creating a new life, others not. Shpetim and Fatbardha were together. They decided to walk the distance between Albania and Greece to live their love. 25 years later, their son walks the same distance, this time from Greece to Albania.

젊음에 도취된 남자, 치명적인 선을 넘다 쫓기듯 섬마을에 의사로 오게 된 중년의 남자 ‘코스티스는 무료한 생활을 이어가던 중 친구들과 섬에 휴가 온 소녀 ‘안나’를 병원에서 만난다. 젊고 도발적인 ‘안나’에게 끌리면서 코스티스는 안나를 관음하기 시작한다. 아슬아슬하고 자유로운 그들과 어울리며 활기를 찾고 처음으로 젊음을 느끼지만, 안나를 향한 사랑과 집착으로 멈출 수 없는 선을 넘게 되는데…

Nesrin is an urban, middle-class woman recovering from a divorce. She’s quit her office job, abandoned her house in Istanbul, and come to the village house of her deceased grandmother to finish a novel and live out her childhood dream of being a writer. When her conservative and increasingly unhinged mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin’s writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter as the two are forced to confront the darker corners of each other’s inner worlds.

Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.

A true story of a 17 going on 18 year-old boy called Modris. He’s a guy who goes to school, has a girlfriend and some good friends. He has a small gambling addiction, which makes his relationship with his mother difficult. It’s also hard because the two of them live alone and the mother doesn’t miss a chance to remind him that his father is in prison and that Modris has a bad gene. Their relationship boils over when, in the middle of a Nordic winter, Modris pawns his mother’s electric heater in trying to squeeze a win from a slot machine. She betrays him to the police and Modris is sentenced to two years’ probation. That is when his adventures with the Latvian justice system begin and he sets a new goal: to find the father he has never met.

Petros is a gay archaeologist who experiences the naked Greek paranoia in the center of Athens. Either by choice or coincidence, he comes into contact with people who are "different": An Arab immigrant, who comes to Greece, a land of "infidels", determined to conquer it by any means; A Greek-French cello player, who is burdened by the agony of her alcoholic mother; A young Albanian pianist, who carries the curse of his own personal genius and divinity; A Greek immigrant, who was repatriated but now has nowhere to call home; A bank director, who believes everything can be bought, even love; A patrolman, who creates his own version of socio-political reality. Petros' contact with these people is in fact a traumatic experience. For each encounter he has to pay a price. Sometimes the price is material, while other times it's emotional. At times it is both. Will the experience gained make up for the loss?

Washingtonia starts when the giraffe's heart can no longer be heard. Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree whose heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because its heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.

A great video directed by the award winning director Athina Rachel Tsangari and narrated by Willem Dafoe about the history and the importance of the Museum Benaki.

5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.

This short piece by Athina Rachel Tsangari, commissioned for the seventieth edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2013, draws on Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" and functions as a meditation on the state of cinema, depicting two film projectors contemplating the uncertainty of their future.

She is alone. The land of the living is far away, while the world of the dead smells like chamomile.

Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.

간호사, 체조선수, 그의 코치 등이 결성한 ‘알프스’라는 이름의 조직이 있다. 이 조직은 유족들의 돈을 받고 그들의 딸, 아내, 애인 등 죽은 자들의 빈 자리를 대신 채워주는 일을 한다. 현대 사회 속 개인의 고독과 필요를 개성 있게 다룬 수작.

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."

높은 담장으로 둘러 쌓인 넒은 정원과 수영장이 딸린 도시 근교 한 저택에 아이들 세 명을 세상과 완전히 단절시킨 채 양육하는 부모가 있다. 그들은 바깥 세상과는 철저히 단절되어 있으며 유일하게 아버지만이 외부로 나갈 수 있다. 아버지는 아들의 성적인 욕구를 채워주기 위해 가끔 회사 경비인 크리스티나를 들이고, 마당에 나타난 고양이는 무서운 침입자로 교육시킨다. 이들의 등장과 자그마한 틈새 사이로 순종적이기만 했던 큰 딸은 바깥 세상에 대한 호기심을 가지기 시작한다. 송곳니가 빠져야만 어른이 되어 세상으로 나갈 수 있다는 아버지. 바깥 세상에 대한 궁금증이 커져만 가던 큰 딸은 충격적인 계획을 실행에 옮기게 되는데...

A man loses his wife. A woman finds her husband. A mother sees her children.