26th of September 1999. Alekos is dead. His teenage granddaughter, Margarita, refuses to attend his funeral and takes advantage of her parents’ absence to throw a small party at home. Three days earlier, unaware that this would be his last night, Alekos attends a reunion of old friends to celebrate the birthday of Lula, his first love, who now suffers from dementia.
Α rhythmic gymnastics champion lives far from her glorious past crushed by everyday life. Ιn her dreams all her nightmares return in the form of a waterfall that calls her forward.
Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in a windy autumn, matching the less-than-pleasant occasion: Yannis has been called to identify the victim of a tragic accident at the hospital of the small town. When the local policeman informs them that the victim’s vehicle had plunged over the parapet of a stone bridge and leads them to the morgue, Katerina sees her worst suspicions confirmed. Together with Yannis, but also on her own nightly excursions to a mysterious, rustic beach bar called Arcadia, they begin to put the pieces of the puzzle together, revealing a haunting story of love, loss, acceptance and letting go.
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.
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, on an underlit stretch of highway, Mary will come face to face with the man who broke her heart and will do everything she can to win him back.
Sandy is a drama school graduate and has asthma. Tonight she will be performing at the theatre. Before that, she has to teach a yoga class, work as a clown and go to an audition. In this equation, she somehow has to try and fit in Spiros, her boyfriend.
The new drama series "An August Night", which is a continuation of "The Island" takes us back to the 50s. Spinalonga closes and a feast follows in the village. The healthy meet the newly cured and all together celebrate freedom from fear and disease. But everything freezes with the murder of a woman by her husband, when he learns that his best friend had a lover.
Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.
Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and she must return home to Athens to care for him. Resentful of the tasking as she grew up estranged from her father, she becomes reacquainted with him over one emotional summer, learning the secret as to why their relationship was stifled when she finds out Jacob, Paris' friend, who's been always around from her childhood, was actually her dad's lover.
Elena Topalidou was born in Athens. She studied dance at the State School of Orchestral Art and piano at the National Conservatory of Athens. As a dancer she was a key member of the OKTANA dance theater from 1993 to 2005 and participated in all its productions. She also collaborated with Dimitris Papaioannou and the Ground Team, the National Theatre, the State Theater of Northern Greece, the Rootless root group, etc. As an actor, she collaborated with the National Theatre, KTHBE, the Athens Festival, the House of Letters and Arts, etc. directed by Michael Marmarinou, Nikos Karathanos, Lefteris Vogiatzis, Lydias Koniordou, Kostantin Bogomolov, Akylla Karazisi, etc. In the cinema, she participated in Greek short and feature films. In 1999, she was awarded the prize for the best female performance for the performance The Lady with the Camellias, choreographed by Kostantinos Rigos. In 2020, she won the first female performance award for the short film Bella by Thelgia Petrakis. In 2022, she received the first female performance award at the Iris Awards of the Cinema Academy for the film Magnetic Fields by George Gousis. She has been teaching classical ballet at the National Opera School since 2011.
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