Eleni Karaindrou

Bomb: A Love Story (2018)

It's 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often b ...

Enclave (2015)

Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo. ...

Sleepless in New York (2014)

Heartbreak affects us all. Oscar-nominated director Christian Frei teams with famed anthropologist Helen Fisher to examine the power and resilience of love despite it all. ...

Those Who Go Those Who Stay (2013)

Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories - leads that Ruth Beckermann follows across Europe and the Mediterranean. Nigeri ...

Sei Venezia (2012)

What is the "feeling" of a city? Is it the roads, the light that illuminates them, the people that live there and their stories? It's all these things, but also something else, something requiring time and attention to be understood. The film goes in searc ...

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher (2009)

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the music label ECM. On this journey we are meeting musicians and composers, but also people and places whic ...

The Dust of Time (2008)

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century. ...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state ...

The Weeping Meadow (2004)

The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, personal lives intersect with Greece's major historical transformations. Space and time are in constant flux, wh ...

War Photographer (2001)

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever. ...

The End of an Eternity (2000)

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and ac ...

Eternity and a Day (1998)

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and enc ...

Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more. ...

The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago. ...

The African Woman (1990)

A dying woman, who stole her best friend's lover, is convinced that a spell has been cast on her, so she orchestrates her former friend's return from a self-imposed exile in Africa in the hopes of breaking the spell. ...

The signs of the night (1990)

Landscape in the Mist (1988)

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany. ...

Modest Gods (1987)

The Beekeeper (1986)

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self ...

Happy Homecoming, Comrades (1986)

Eighteen hundred Greek political refugees and their children return to Greece after 35 years of exile in the village of Beloiannisz, built near Budapest in 1950. ...

On Course (1985)

A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War. ...

Voyage to Cythera (1984)

An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things. ...

The Price of Love (1984)

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis Tsopanellis) wants to marry her eldest daughter (Anny Loulou) and t ...

Roza (1982)

In an inn in Trieste, Kyveli, wife of a political prisoner of the junta, falls in love with an old student of her husband, who has been distinguished for his activities against the dictatorship. But he will be forced to run away, along with his lover, as t ...

Καλή σου Νύχτα Κυρ-Αλέξανδρε (1981)

Wandering (1979)

A lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Greek-Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a relative of his. Through a rich tapestry of characters, Christofis creates an ode to the Hellenic Diaspora. ...

Memories of a Sunday (1975)

This film narrates six different stories in a very lyrical way: a coachman wanders around town; two elderly people go to the park every Sunday; a man leaves flowers in various neighbourhoods in memory of a friend who was killed during the war; a boy narrat ...

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher (2009)

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the music label ECM. On this journey we are meeting musicians and composers, but also people and places whic ...

Synaulia Eleni Karaindrou (2003)

Eleni Karaindrou Music Concert in Prespa. ...

The End of an Eternity (2000)

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and ac ...