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A woman and some thoughts make a young man to get a boat and go to the sea where he is shipwrecked. He wakes up in a cave where three strangers narrate their stories.

The past and the present coexist in a place spoiled by modern industry but which long ago hosted the Eleusinian Mysteries, the secret ceremonies that initiated the ancient Greeks into the miracles of life, death and the afterlife.

Nicolas is a shepherd. He is around twenty years old, thin and spirited. Constantina is eighteen years old. Constantina fell in love with Nikolas the very first time she saw him with his lyre at the bull sacrifice ritual. She entered the whirlpool of ecstasy and became his lover. Their relationship was clearly physical, all other things were setting them apart. Constantina decides that they should break up. "We come from different places and head in different directions", she says. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she does not tell Nikolas...

In Armatoliko, a mountain village in Trikala Province, high in the Tzoumerka mountain range, on the banks of the Acheloos, the 89-year-old Mrs Dimitra lives alone. She is the beloved grandmother of director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos, who visits her with a small crew of friends. The result of the visit is Hercules, Acheloos and My Granny, one of the most iconic Greek documentaries of recent decades. Through the unforgettable, laughing, down-to-earth figure of his grandmother, Koutsiabasakos' lens captures the rugged and indomitable, inexpressibly tender and loving spirit of the Greek countryside, as well as the dark and turbulent history of the 20th century, the wounds of which are inscribed on the old woman's body. Wounds which not only still gape, but on which new wounds are being piled up, as Armatoliko is shortly to be flooded by the waters of the Acheloos, due to the controversial dam being built in the area. Rarely has a short film captured the spirit of a place, and of a century, so vividly, bursting with emotion and love.

Lucia Rikakis documentary looks inside the world of hearing impaired people. The unpretentious labour of love lets this overlooked group address the world. In an interview the mother from a deaf family tells of shocking her doctor by being relieved that her newborn was also deaf. Later a young man chuckles to peoples surprise when he and his deaf friends ride their beloved motorcycles. Particularly memorable is the star of the film, the dynamic young Lemonia Gamalia. She and her deaf mother articulately express two generations fight to be heard. The film is based on strong stories with important emotional value as told by deaf people in sign language. The films pace and rhythm refers to the pace of sign language- a fast expressive vivid language full of beauty and energy.

In this rundown barren island three have remained, a love-struck adolescent, his little brother who is locked in and a recluse monk all quest for the meaning of connections with those not seen anymore.

Why didn't Vicky go get her passport sooner? Will Haris text her? When will her hypochondriac neighbor see her again? None of these questions will be answered. Vicky is leaving tomorrow and she just wants to have fun.

An apartment building in Athens. A frustrated young mother; A pissed off student; A strange young man with an unusual obsession for dolls. Moments in a single day, which end up changing nothing at all.

During an elevator ride in a skyscraper, seven people of differing social and economic standing are trapped. What ensues can only be described as a dark comedy where annoyance escalates quickly to a dangerous situation.