Dimitris Athanitis
Directing
Known For

Aris, a 38-year-old worker in a factory is fired without any warning. He is shocked. As his attempts to be re-hired fail, he gradually becomes obsessed with the idea of taking justice into his own hands. He buys a gun with the last of his money. He is ready to proceed with his goal when his ex-wife dumps their six-year-old son on him.
Invisible

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.
An All-Weather Man

In the early 70s Greek cinema entered in a period of crisis. One of its aspects was said "crisis of issues" and one of the exits heard in the name "erotic cinema". The genre was already acquaintance from the abundance of foreigner films, that was distributed in the grindhouses under the "adults only" motto and its Greek version had a lot of variants.
Naked Cinema

In order to shoot his first film, Alex decides to follow his agent's advice. Carrying his ambitious script, Alex arrives in Athens planning to meet an eccentric producer, but a couple of gangsters confuses him with "the man" they have been waiting from Berlin.
Addio Berlin

A hybrid film, part-documentary, part-fiction, on the history of Greek radical music.
Songs of Revolution

As New Year's Eve approaches at the end of 2000, eight lonely, alienated city dwellers struggle to connect with other human beings.
2000 + 1 Shots

Documentary on the Thriller, Noir, Fantasy, Science Fiction genders in the Greek cinema for the last 50 years. It is a collage of authentic scenes and trailers of 50 films as presented by 4 girls, bearing the name of the gender they represent. 50 years (1959-2009), 50 films, 45 directors, script writers, authors, critics, producers.
Strangers in a Strange Land: 50 Greek Mystery & Fantastic Movies

In the heart of Athens, there is another city. A hidden city. Α city breathing for almost more than a century under the artificial light. A documentary about the labyrinth of the arcades and the people living, working, and creating there for three generations. But in these arcades, Labyrinth discovers also a metaphor of cinema itself.
Labyrinth

A modern version of Orpheus and Eurydice. A romance in extremes set at a dystopian future by the acclaimed Greek director Dimitri Athanitis. Provocative, already a cult film. After being released from prison, Eurydice gets a job as a waitress but also as a naked model for a mysterious photographer who blackmails her. Orpheus, a cashier at a super market meets her by chance and falls for her at once. When he loses her, he shall travel all the way to hell, to get her back. Dimitri Athanitis's take on the "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth is stylish and sexy. Lena Kitsipoulou is totally magnetic for her fellow characters and the viewer.
No Sympathy for the Devil

In summer Athens, shortly before the start of the Olympic Games arrive with basic occasion of the most important sporting appointment, people from every corner of the Earth. Among them a couple from the country of the rising sun, which aims to unite the bonds of marriage, a French artist of the lens and a amerikanidoula who fall in love under the hot sun, an east returning years later to the place he met his big love, mingle with the locals characters you see forming before them something new.
Planet Athens

"The Gaze Adventure" is simultaneously an essay film and a fiction film. that approaches the multiple function of the gaze as a main element of the cinematic world, and as a carrier of the cinematic journey.
The Gaze Adventure

Medea, Jason, and their two children live as refugees in the Greek city of Corinth. When Jason abandons her to marry the king's daughter, Medea is forced to leave the country, on penalty of death.
Medea

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Radio Moscow

A documentrary portrait of some of Greece’s underground music artists, and their songs of resistance and anger.
Songs of the Underground

The everyday life of three young women in the decaying Athens.
Three Days Happiness

An Italian cinematographer finds himself in the midst of the Greek socio-political crisis. He returns home to Milano to his ex-wife and daughter, only to be drawn back to Athens, where an Australian TV producer hires his services as a maverick cinematographer.