Dimos Avdeliodis

An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, testimonies of his collaborators and relatives and analyses of his symbolic role in the post-war modern Greek reality. Thanasis Vengos, for more than fifty years, was one of the most important actors in Greece. His films and lines are written in history, raising more than three generations of Greeks.

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.

The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.

The friendship between two young boys during the summertime in 60's Chios Island.

Dimos Avdeliodis pays homage to Charles Chaplin and all his favorite silent heroes. This is the first film he directed.

The daily routine, alienation, and conventionality of the lives of a group of actors and filmmakers.

This film takes place at a small village at the greek island of Chios, sometime around 1960. When the local field watchman dies, the agronomist must assign a new field watchman to be responsible for this village. We watch as four different people take this job and fail one after the other...

A blacksmith and a car mechanic, harboring a hostile relationship they inherited from their grandfathers, must come to terms with a new way of dealing with each other, when the blacksmith faces economic struggle and the mechanic offers to buy him out.

A farmer's wife is baking a cake for the feast of Saint Fanourios. Her little girl is playing under the table. But suddenly, the irrational bursts into the story, and all sorts of things happen during the feast.