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.

Никитас долгое время живет отшельником в хижине у подножия лесистого склона. После череды проливных дождей на его дом сходит оползень. Когда в лесу появляется Джонни, сын Никитаса, с которым он не общался 20 лет, земля окончательно уходит из-под ног отшельника. Джонни сообщает, что через лес, где живет Никитас, фирма-застройщик планирует проложить автодорогу. Отец и сын должны забыть обиды и объединиться, чтобы не допустить строительства.

В Афинах разгорается необычная эпидемия, люди внезапно теряют память. Жертвой становится и Арис – его находят на остановке автобуса без документов. В реабилитационном центре Арис узнает, что восстановить память невозможно. Взамен ему предлагают программу по созданию новой личности.

Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives, experiences, stories and musings of protagonists spanning ten countries and five continents.

Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives, experiences, stories and musings of protagonists spanning ten countries and five continents.

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.

В картинах грубого мужского мира греческих охотников просвечивают мифологические сюжеты. Эфтимис Косемунд Санидис сочетает внимательность к фактуре жизни с верой в архетипы (здесь брат враждует с братом, мужчины соревнуются в силе и в количестве убитых птиц) и небесные знамения. Но знамения ли это? Как в прозе Хулио Кортасара, из которой заимствовано название, действие таинственных сил за фасадом повседневности остается только смутно различимым.

В картинах грубого мужского мира греческих охотников просвечивают мифологические сюжеты. Эфтимис Косемунд Санидис сочетает внимательность к фактуре жизни с верой в архетипы (здесь брат враждует с братом, мужчины соревнуются в силе и в количестве убитых птиц) и небесные знамения. Но знамения ли это? Как в прозе Хулио Кортасара, из которой заимствовано название, действие таинственных сил за фасадом повседневности остается только смутно различимым.

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.

Герой переживает не лучшие времена. Его жена лежит в коме, он подавлен, каждый день начинается со слёз. Но несмотря на переполняющую его грусть, мужчина счастлив. Его жалеют окружающие: секретарша, уборщик, сосед... Но всё меняется, когда жена начинает идти на поправку.

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.

Джей просыпается в Маниле, но во сне он видел Афины. Ему снился кошмар: он должен был спасти своих дочерей от опасной хирургической операции. В поисках девочек он бродит по закоулкам Афин, где все предстает перед ним в непривычном свете.

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.

Уже немолодой Костис назначен врачом на небольшой остров, где и проводит скучную зиму. Однако с наступлением лета все кругом оживает, пляжи заполняются отдыхающими, нудистами, безумными вечеринками. Костис по уши влюбляется в молодую кокетливую Анну и во что бы то ни стало хочет произвести на нее впечатление. Теперь почти все время он тратит на пьянки и вечеринки. Приключение, начавшееся как возврат к давно ушедшей молодости, перерастает в навязчивую идею, и Костис уже на все готов, лишь бы удержать Анну.

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.

Это история о ночной сиделке госпиталя, которая оказывает особенные услуги семьям, потерявшим близких. Она состоит в группе, называющейся «Альпы», участники которой предлагают, за определенную плату, заменять собой недавно умерших во время визитов их скорбящих родственников…

23-летняя Марина живет с отцом-архитектором в типичном промышленном городке на берегу моря. Находя людей странными и отталкивающими, она держится от них подальше, и исследует окружающий мир через песни о суициде и «Жизнь млекопитающих» Дэвида Аттенборо. Заполнить пробелы в сексуальном образовании ей помогает ее единственная подруга Белла. Но однажды незнакомец предлагает девушке сразиться в настольный футбол… Тем временем ее отец начинает ритуальные приготовления к уходу из 20-го века, который считает «переоцененным». Разрываясь между двумя мужчинами и подругой, Марина продолжает свое исследование загадок человеческой фауны.

В доме на окраине города живут мать, отец и трое детей. Дом окружён высоким забором, за который дети никогда не выходили. Они растут, развлекаются, учатся и играют так, как считают нужным их родители, не испытывая никакого влияния со стороны. Они верят, что самолёты, пролетающие над ними, игрушечные, а «зомби» – это название желтого цветочка. Войти в дом из внешнего мира может только Кристина. В компании главы семейства она работает охранником. Её приглашают для того, чтобы сын с её помощью удовлетворял свои сексуальные потребности. Взрослые дети знают главный закон семьи: «нельзя покинуть дом, до тех пор, пока у тебя не выпадет правый клык».

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