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A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.

An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives.

In 2010, Abu Eyad and other young Palestinian men from the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon traveled with smugglers through Syria and Turkey into Greece. Like so many other migrants, they came looking for a way into Europe but found themselves trapped in a country undergoing economic, political, and social collapse.

Deserted landscapes, ancient ruins and abandoned shipwrecks at sea. Elefsina Notre Amour is a short sci-fi silent essay, filmed on 16mm color Kodak. It was commissioned for the group exhibition 'Elefsina Mon Amour: In Search of the Third Paradise', curated by Katerina Gregos for the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture.

A conversation between two friends about the effectiveness and implications of publicly supporting the cultural boycott of Israel. One friend is wracked with worry having signed a petition asking Radiohead not to play Tel Aviv, the other is more sanguine. Their conversation offers a glimpse of what it is to be a Palestinian in today's world.

Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators, he is forced to make compromises merely to survive; his life of exile grows one day longer.

Love in the midst of chaos.

Hamoudi & Emil, two young boys, watch the girl of their dreams from a window. Through lotion-rubbing fantasies, lost footballs, borrowed lawnmowers, the large usage of a pair of binoculars, prayer to Mecca and an odd spot of air-rifle sniping, the two friends hatch numerous plots to convince the red-headed beauty that two twelve-year-old boys can be smooth characters enough to please her.

A sociological meditation on the different exits that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.

A mock documentary of the findings of two American anthropologists who visited a small village in 1960s rural Ireland.

Jess is alone in an abandoned building, absorbing sounds of disturbance from outside. She hears a man, Mark, being attacked and taking cover in her building. Without ever seeing each other, they begin a silent cat and mouse chase until he corners her and she traps him in a room. Mark's assailants track him with dogs, Jess goes for help too late, hiding while they tear him limb from limb. Alone again, she confronts the blood on the floor, trying to process what has happened.