Christina Lazaridi

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.

Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and making plans to turn her property into a boarding house. When she discovers the bank is about to take away her house, she breaks all the rules to hold onto her home and her freedom.

Nico é um ator argentino de relativo sucesso que foi tentar a sua sorte em Nova York, mas que é “loiro demais para fazer papel de latino, e tem sotaque forte demais para um papel de gringo”. Ele sobrevive com trabalhos ocasionais e é babá do bebê da sua amiga Andrea. Sua vida não é o postal sacrificado do imigrante ilegal, mas vamos descobrindo que ele tem muito pouco – material, social e emocionalmente – e que precisa “atuar” para sustentar esse pouco que tem. Sua relação com o bebê parece ser o único elo autêntico em sua vida, sua âncora afetiva. Quando um velho amor vem visitá-lo, a sua vida de simulação se desmorona e ele é obrigado a encarar os verdadeiros motivos da sua fuga.

Thirteen year old Julija and her mother flee their abusive household to find refuge on an idyllic Croatian island where Julija grew up. Emotionally scarred, Julija is desperate to reconnect with her best friend, Ana. But Ana is in love with a boy and Julija is no longer a priority.

An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural life in Smyrna before World War I. In a trip to Izmir his girlfriend Rita, he finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained with blood and an old photograph that send him on a journey to bridge the past with the present.

A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and bouts of depression.

One Day Crossing is a 2001 Hungarian short film directed by Joan Stein. In the middle of the Holocaust, a Hungarian Jewish girl, posing as a Christian, tries to save her family from the Nazis. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Shot in Naples, Vienna, and New York, Some Chance Operations explores the notion of an archival form, in this instance film, as an unstable memory receptacle that can vanish. History and how it is made is meditated upon as one of many chance operations. The filmmaker Elvira Notari, who had a film production company in Naples from 1906 to 1930, plays a significant role as an impetus for Some Chance Operations. Despite the fact that she was a prolific filmmaker, producing over sixty feature films, only three remain intact.