Two strangers meet in an apartment. The front door was left ajar. Anyone could enter. Neither of them wants to reveal their identity to the other so they engage in a role-playing game. Who is the righteous and who is the thief?
A short film (12min.) written and directed by Matteo Pizzocaro.
With: Penelope Tsilika, Dimosthenis Xylardistos, Elissaios Vlachos.
Heraclitus was born gifted. He has a high level of intellect and tremendous memory, he is extremely imaginative and emotionally mature. His first year at school was a big disappointment. However Heraclitus doesn’t give up. He learns to fall and rise again. At the age of six, he has two weapons: his sense of humor and his adorable audacity.
A 26 minutes documentary by Elissavet Laloudaki and Massimo Pizzocaro.
Anna is waiting in a hospital hall. She is excited but also troubled. Her brother just woke up from an 11-month coma and she has to tell him that she has fallen in love with Sofia, his fiancée. Suddenly nothing makes sense anymore. Can just a thought give away her secret?
A short film (15min.) written and directed by Matteo Pizzocaro.
With: Nefeli Kouri, Georgina Liossi, Melachrinos Velentzas, Giorgos Drivas, Maria Psarologou, Enzo Navarra, Katerina Christaki.
Perah Istar is a 60 minutes documentary about the complicated relationship between people and pigeons in modern cities.
In ancient times, it was considered the bird of fertility and love (perah Istar, the Semitic word for dove, means the bird of Aphrodite). The three main monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – venerate it. In the Middle Ages it became the symbol of peace…
So how on earth did they end up being considered a ‘rat with wings’ or a city parasite? What happened to this small domestic bird, highly esteemed for its virtues and long admired for its beauty? Why so many people hate pigeons or are terrified of them, although others love them and are even obsessed with them?
The indisputable fact is that urban residents are forced to co-exist with pigeons. “Perah Istar’ chronicles this interesting cohabitation.
In Eastern Peloponnese, in a remote region in the shadow of Mt Parnon, live the Tsakonians, a stubborn group of native Greeks.
For 3,000 years now, they have been speaking an ancient dialect, the only surviving representative of the Doric language. They never abandoned it, not even when the Attic-based Koine (from which Modern Greek derives) became the first common dialect of all Greeks and the lingua franca of the entire Mediterranean.
