
Giorgos Panousopoulos
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Biography
Giorgos Panousopoulos (Greek: Γιώργος Πανουσόπουλος) (February 3, 1942 – March 10, 2026) was a Greek cinematographer, film director and screenwriter. He worked on 37 films between 1964 and 2004. His 1985 film Mania was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1988 film Love Me Not? was entered into the 46th Venice International Film Festival.
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A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.
Loafing and Camouflage

It is on Ascension Day that Zoe, a brilliant computer analyst, visits the National Park in the center of Athens with her daughter, Katerina. That afternoon in the park, Zoe experiences an overwhelming array of instinctive compulsions and transforms into an ancient Maenad in ecstatic frenzy, even capable of murder. Instincts and animals get loose and panic takes over.
Mania

On the morning of the World Cup final, Karamanos, an employee of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (TOE), connects his commander's personal computer to a devilishly complex and explosive device. He threatens to blow up the floor and the satellite dishes above if he is not allowed to appear on the national network 10 minutes before the football match to denounce all the wrongs that plague the lives of Greek citizens and make them victims of a partisan and corrupt state.
Living Dangerously

Bob and Ches are two bachelors on the make. They are hired by Geraldine to guard her and her daughter, Christine. It seems Christine is psychic, and knows all the details of a political murder.
Death Has Blue Eyes

Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in the ocean, naked, as he and Zaharoula are out walking on the beach. Taken up in the spirit of the moment, she joins him among the waves. The results, however, are not what they expected.
Honeymoon

Reluctantly, an otherwise honest paterfamilias accepts his shady friend's proposition to start a career in crime. Now, his daughter is in love with the son of a wealthy target. Will the kind robber renounce his former self for her sake?
A Thief with Philotimo

Dimitris Lazarou is an incurable storyteller. He works as a ground attendant for Olympic Airways, but his big dream is to become a pilot. With his cousin, who is considered the best pilot in the company, as his role model, he never fails to reap the rewards of his cousin's achievements. However, this habit of his will soon get him into trouble...
The Storyteller

In Occupied Athens, a German woman, the wife of a Greek officer, falls in love with a teenage Jewish ice vendor. Love becomes fate: the woman dies and is reborn, living two lives in a world that is rapidly changing.
Crystal Nights

Seven years after the incident on the Pitta islet, the team leaves the Aegean and goes ashore to help Stavrakomathiakakis find little Noori, who is about to be deported.
Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens at Land

Peter, the hero, aged 20, finds himself on a deserted Greek island with no other men in sight. The women of the island, regardless of age harass him sexually. What starts off as a typical male sexual fantasy turns out into a nightmare
Testosterone

Euridice in Hades, code number ΒΑ 2037, is waiting for Orpheus to free her and lead her to the Upper World. She’s waiting for orders that will allow her to move out of her prison/home. Her destination is not mentioned. A voice from a computer orders her to move out.
Euridice BA 2037

The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother...
A Foolish Love

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Olga is a young pharmacist whο lives in the country in Chania, Crete in a confine and claustrophobic environment. Married and the mother of a child she will one day fir herself face to face with her childhood sweetheart, Lefteris who has returned to his place of birth after a long absence, full of ambitions... They both share a tragic sec without, however, confessing, it to each other: they are brother and sister from a different mother. It was the reason they had broken up when they were in love. But now it is not just Olga who goes after Lefteris but Vicky, a young woman who is the complete opposite of his old love. What would love be if it couldn't waste a man!
Love Knot

A gruff highlander leaves his village and heads to the town and harbor where he will embark for Australia. We follow his descent to the sea through three stories
Until the Ship Sails

In the summer of 2021, a research group scouting for viable sites for development arrives at Armenaki Island, where people live with their own laws and their own moral values, having found happiness in a completely different way of life.
In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry

Short film about a pickpocket. A police officer catches a pickpocket after some illegal activity on a bus, but is willing to hear what led him to the crime.
The Thief

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead.
Happy Day

A Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and author from Greece. He is famous for creating controversial characters in his films that have a rebellious attitude towards the social and political status quo. He illustrates a dark and pessimistic present and future, but also providing ambiguous hope for the end when his heroes find their escape in death. His films are shocking and contentious, raising questions during times when political visions start to fade away. His filming was poetic, dynamic and aesthetically beautiful in order to present situations on edge and elicit his audience's feelings. The aim of this project is to transfer his dynamics in a documentary that will convey some of his messages and create a platform for exchanging opinions among filmmakers from all over the world, in an effort to decipher his universe and his symbols as reflections of his unique and rare personality.
Directing Hell

"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.