Theodora Tzimou

Middle August in Athens. Three families, living in a three storey building, leave for their summer vacations. Everyone is wishing for a miracle to happen this summer. In the meantime, a drifter breaks into their apartments and rummages their personal belongings, thus unfolding hidden secrets. (imdb)

Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers hostage and demands a ransom of half and million euro, and safe passage to his homeland of Albania. Surrounded by police, the bus trundles towards the Albanian border and the tension mounts until the final harrowing conclusion. (imdb)

Alex and Kate separated after their son's death and have not seen each other for some time. They meet again for the first time on board a huge tanker of which Alex is captain. The same day as they reconvene, Alex rescues thirty young Africans when he discovers their boat drifting disabled at sea. The shipping company can't afford delays and so he decides to hand over the refugees to an aid agency in Lagos. But once they are in Nigeria Kate finds out that the middle-man is far from honest. (Berlinale)

The touching, tragi-comic story of Sotiris, a policeman with a deep sense of ethics who always lets off those criminals who are victims of an unfair world. His obsession with justice will be put to the test when he kills a man and falls in love with a woman. A moral fable told with minimalist humour. (mubi.com)

Thodorakis, the film's hero, has a happy go-lucky attitude about life and women, but this all changes when he is forced by his uncle to train as a chef. He soon becomes a top chef and is so impressive that he enters a 'secret society' for chefs, who battle it out to see which one is the best. To his detriment he becomes so obsessive that the women in his life find him obnoxious and nothing seems likely to save him until the news of his patron's death slaps him in the face like a cold fish. In th