Movies: Constantine Giannaris

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors....

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 ho...

Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another....

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...

Young men find themselves scattered and defencelessly exposed to a merciless sun. Their gaze moves off searchingly into the distance. Deserted places appear to offer vague promises of refuge. On a prison wall, an explosive image of desire emerges, fu...

Contemporary Athens: A gang of teenage thieves and romantic anarchists test the limits of their youthful rebellion and play out their own tragic spring awakening against the backdrop of a dying city....

A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died....

Caught Looking sees a lonely gay man attempt to explore his sexual fantasies with the help of an interactive computer game, guiding his virtual reality persona through a series of potential encounters (naval rough trade, a moustachioed 'clone', a 50s...

Ilias, a young man of Athens, meets Panagiotis, a new-comer from Albania and falls in love with him. He pays dearly for the relationship....

Alex a captain with sad past saves thirty teens Afghan refugees. With tension constantly increasing, Alex tries to tackle the company's and crew pressures....

Gay and lesbian teenagers interview straight people on the streets of London about their views on homosexuality....

A look at “Greek love” and the reality of homosexuality in Greece in 1991. Leaders of the once-called GLBT movement (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender) or simply people who dared to stand in front of the camera and speak about their lives, paint u...

The Tuntenhaus or "House of Queers" was originally a squat on Mainzer Str. in East Berlin. This gritty verité documentary follows the fortunes of the Tuntenhaus through the days of anarchy and riots that followed German reunification to the sudden in...

A contemporary married couple and their eight-year-old son are exposed to our observation. The husband, around 35, works as a tax specialist for an import-export firm. His 30-year-old wife looks after their child and their home. The man's impending p...

A gay poet heads west from New York City in his convertible. He picks up a muscular sailor who's bisexual; then Jackie, a waitress at a diner, joins them. Jackie is attracted to the poet who rebuffs her romantic gestures; rejection fuels her continue...

A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy....

A collection of 19 unpublished short videos, which the director presented for the first time at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 2011. Divided into 'Travels I (1978-1991)' and 'Travels II (1991-2007)'....

Movie about Pasolini by fellow gay auteur Constantine Giannaris...

Put on your dancing shoes! A documentary about the roots, the tradition, and the impact of disco music; about its “gay gene” and the fever it brought onto the dance floor; and about the way it got its revenge, by inspiring the music of the present an...

Echoing the title of a definitive film in British cinema, A Matter of Life and Death captures an equally definitive reality of British society in the nineties: the scourge of AIDS that cost thousands of people their lives. What’s it like to live and ...