Eléni Karaḯndrou

It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. ‘Bomb, A Love Story’ shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.

Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.

Heartbreak affects us all. Oscar-nominated director Christian Frei teams with famed anthropologist Helen Fisher to examine the power and resilience of love despite it all.

Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories - leads that Ruth Beckermann follows across Europe and the Mediterranean. Nigerian asylum seekers in Sicily, an Arab musician in Galilee, nationalists drunk on beer in Vienna, the Capitoline Wolf, and three veiled young women trying for minutes to cross a busy road in Alexandria. Threads, cloth and textiles pop up like book marks in a fabric of movement, of traveling or seeking refuge.

What is the "feeling" of a city? Is it the roads, the light that illuminates them, the people that live there and their stories? It's all these things, but also something else, something requiring time and attention to be understood. The film goes in search of this feeling exploring the city of Venice and its lagoon, prying into its less-known corners and listening to the stories of six citizens: a hotel waitress, an old archaeologist, a pensioner from Mestre, a painter/fisherman, an apartment burglar and a young boy.

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the music label ECM. On this journey we are meeting musicians and composers, but also people and places which are connected with him and with each other. We are encountering stories, landscapes, cities, disputes and hugs, tranquillity, hectic pace, work, self-doubt, joy, passion.

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the music label ECM. On this journey we are meeting musicians and composers, but also people and places which are connected with him and with each other. We are encountering stories, landscapes, cities, disputes and hugs, tranquillity, hectic pace, work, self-doubt, joy, passion.

그리스계 미국인인 영화감독 A는 자신의 가족사를 영화로 만든다. 그의 가족사는 또한 20세기 후반의 50년을 아우르는 역사이기도 하다. 전세계에 걸친 엘레니의 여행을 따라가는 형식의 이 영화는 혼란스러운 기억에 관한 보고서이며 그 기억이 어떻게 현재에 나타나는지 보여주고 있다.

칸영화제 60주년을 기념하여 조직위원장 질 자콥이 직접 제작과 편집을 맡고, ‘영화관(館)’ 하면 떠오르는 느낌을 주제로 역대 황금종려상 수상 감독 35명이 3분짜리 스케치 33편을 찍어 완성된 영화. 거장들의 개성 넘치는 작품 속에 그들만의 영화관(觀)이 엿보인다.

Two Greek refugees fall in love, but their relationship is devastated by dictatorship and war.

Mousikh Synaulia Eleni Karaindrou stis Prespes

2001 아카데미 다큐멘터리 후보작. 지난 20년 간 전 세계에서 일어난 모든 분쟁과 전쟁 지역을 단 하나도 빠뜨리지 않고 직접 뛰어다니면서, 생생한 전투 장면은 물론 전쟁이 남긴 혼란과 슬픔의 비극적 상흔을 필름에 담아 온 미국 사진작가 제임스 나츠웨이의 치열한 삶과 내면세계를 다룬 다큐멘터리. 영화는 사진작가의 카메라에 소형 특수 마이크로 카메라를 장착하여, 작가가 포착하고 있는 장면과 셔터를 누르는 순간을 관객이 직접 느낄 수 있게 하였다. 1948년 미국에서 태어난 제임스 나츠웨이는 젊은 시절에 겪은 베트남전과 미국민권운동에 깊은 영향을 받아 사진작가가 되기로 결심하였으며, 사색적이고 내성적인 성격의 소유자이지만 현장에서는 누구보다 냉정하고 용감하여, 동시대의 많은 사람들에 의해 오늘날 가장 뛰어난 전쟁 사진작가로서 평가받고 있다.

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and actors.

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and actors.

비가 내리는 어느 일요일, 죽음을 앞둔 시인 알렉산더는 삶을 마무리하기 위한 마지막 여행길에 오른다. 하지만 딸을 찾아간 시인은 기르던 개를 돌봐줄 것을 부탁하지만 거절당하고, 사위에게서는 죽은 아내와의 추억이 깃든 집을 팔았다는 소식을 듣게 된다. 이제 그에겐 못다 바친 시 연구에 대한 후회와 죽은 아내가 남긴 편지가 남아있을 뿐이다. 그러나 어느 일요일 알렉산더는 우연히 한 알바니아 소년을 길에서 구해주게 된다. 알렉산더는 마피아에 의해 관리되는 수천 명의 불법 이민 소년들 중에 한 명인 이 소년을 알바니아의 고향으로 되돌려 보내기로 한다.

"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist?

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

Serious, logical Martha (Barbara Sukowa) and dreamy, superstitious Anna (Stefania Sandrelli) have been best friends. That is, until Martha's lover Victor (Sami Frey) decides he'd rather be Anna's lover. Mortified, Martha flees to Africa, leaving the field clear for her ex-friend. When Anna comes down with cancer, she pleads with Victor to get her to come back and somehow put this rupture in their friendship behind them. Curiously, Martha does come back, and after some understandable tension and a few bitter words, they manage to reestablish their friendship, though it is now on a different basis.

엄마와 함께 살고 있는 불라와 알렉산더 남매는 얼굴도 본 적이 없는 아빠를 찾아 무작정 북쪽으로 가는 기차에 승차한다. 기차에서 내려 정처없이 걸어서 여행을 계속하다가 트럭을 얻어타는 두 남매. 전날 밤 레스토랑의 종업원에게 추근거리다가 무안을 당한 트럭 운전사에 의해 어린 소녀 불라는 트럭 안에서 강간을 당한다. 결혼식 날 슬피 우는 신부와 거리에서 사람들의 무관심 속에 죽어가는 말, 공연장이 없어 뿔뿔이 흩어지는 유랑극단 등 슬프고 우수에 찬 그리스의 현실들이 두 남매의 여정을 스쳐간다. 유랑극단에서 일하고 있는 청년, 오레스테스를 향한 첫사랑의 벅찬 감정을 경험한 어린 소녀 불라는 강간의 상처와 첫사랑의 애틋함 사이에서 고통스러워한다. 그러다 오레스테스가 동성연애자임을 알게 된 불라는 절망하면서 그의 곁을 떠나간다. 그들을 뒤쫓아온 오레스테스의 가슴에 안겨 흐느껴 울면서 첫사랑과 가슴아픈 이별을 한 불라와 알렉산더는 아빠를 찾기 위한 여행을 계속하는데..

Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to take up the occupation of his ancestors as a beekeeper. Over the course of his road trip he visits the sites and friends of his childhood, hoping to gather the pollen of his past, but instead meets and becomes obsessed with a young hitchhiker who represents the empty hedonism of the present.

Eighteen hundred Greek political refugees and their children return to Greece after 35 years of exile in the village of Beloiannisz, built near Budapest in 1950.

A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War.

자신의 직업 안에 내재하는 환상에 지쳐있는 영화감독은 한 노인과 친구가 된다. 노인은 소련에서 망명생활을 하다 돌아온 이후 과거를 상징하는 자신이 새 시대의 그리스와 뭔가 맞지 않는다는 것을 깨닫게 된다. 마치 신화 속의 오디세우스처럼 그는 이타카로 돌아와 자신의 부인과 다시 만나지만, 그러나 오디세우스와는 달리 그것은 여정의 끝이 아니라 새로운 여정의 시작이다.

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis Tsopanellis) wants to marry her eldest daughter (Anny Loulou) and take advantage of the family's meager earnings. He kidnaps the not-unwilling girl, and argues with her mother about the dowry. But the girl refuses to marry him when she wakes up to the fact that he is only looking out for his own interests. She then decides to start working in order to earn money to raise the child she is expecting. The film is an adaptation of the novel 'For Honor and Money' by Konstantinos Theotokis.

Greek drama

A lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Greek-Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a relative of his. Through a rich tapestry of characters, Christofis creates an ode to the Hellenic Diaspora.

This film narrates six different stories in a very lyrical way: a coachman wanders around town; two elderly people go to the park every Sunday; a man leaves flowers in various neighbourhoods in memory of a friend who was killed during the war; a boy narrates how they celebrated his father’s name-day; a member of the resistance lives his last moments; a woman keeps waiting for a letter which never arrives. (Greek Film Archive)

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film