Meat (2024)

Premiering at the 24th Toronto International Film Festival, Meat marks the feature debut of newcomer Dimitris Nakos. Set in a Greek countryside village, the film revolves around a patriarchal family and a fateful act of violence. As Takis prepares to open his new butcher shop, his son Pavlos kills a neighbor in a land dispute. The only witness is Christos, a young Albanian man who has worked for Takis since childhood. Featuring a renowned Greek cast, this modern tragedy echoes ancient Greek drama as Takis faces an impossible decision about who will take responsibility.

Director: Dimitris Nakos
Cast: Akyllas Karazisis, Kostas Nikouli, Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Maria Kallimani, Yorgos Simeonidis, Natalia Swift
Language: Greek
IMDB rating: 6.8/10
Production country: Greece
Where to watch: Cinobo Opera, Danaos, Aigli, Village cinemas, Trianon, Cinemax (Nana), Sporting digital cinema, Anoixi art cinema, Lampros Konstantaras movie theater, WestCity cinema, Zea cinema, Municipal cinema Oneiro Rentis, Artemis (Markopoulo)

September 5 (2024)

Swiss director Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 is a tense newsroom thriller that earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 97th Academy Awards. The film follows the sports crew of an American TV network as they unexpectedly become the sole journalists covering the harrowing events of September 5, 1972, when the Palestinian Black September group took 11 Israeli hostages during the Munich Olympics.

Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch
Language: English, German
IMDB rating: 7.1/10
Production country: Germany
Where to watch: Cinobo Opera, Elli cinema, Athinaion, Danaos, Aigli, Village cinemas, Tria Asteria, Aello, Trianon, Nana, Sporting digital cinema, Anoixi art cinema, Lampros Konstantaras movie theater, WestCity cinema, Foivos digital cinema

Panellinion (2024)

Greek directors Spyros Mantzavinos and Kostas Antarachas take us inside Panellinion, a legendary Athenian café that has long been a haven for devoted chess players. This documentary tells the stories of an eclectic crowd—scientists, pensioners, and artists—who gather in this refuge, revealing tales of obsession, solitude, and the struggle to adapt to modern life.

Directors: Spyros Mantzavinos, Kostas Antarachas
Cast: N/A
Language: Greek
IMDB rating: 8.8/10
Production country: Greece
Where to watch: Cinobo Patission

Armand (2024)

After winning the Camera d’Or award (Best First Feature Film) at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024, Norwegian director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s Armand lands in Greek cinemas. Starring Renate Reinsve, known for her breakout role in 2021’s drama The Worst Person in The world, Elisabeth, the mother of a six year-old student, gets called to appear before a panel of school teachers. There she gets informed that her son, Armand, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school.

Director: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Cast: Renate Reinsve, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Endre Hellestveit, Thea Lambrechts Vaulen
Language: Norwegian
IMDB rating: 6.2/10
Production countries: Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
Where to watch: Cinobo Opera, The Greek Film Archive, Galaxias cinema, Anoixi art cinema, Varkiza cinema

Mickey 17

Three-time Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) returns with Mickey 17, a darkly humorous dystopian sci-fi film. Robert Pattinson leads a star-studded cast (including Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Ackie, and Toni Collette) as Mickey, an expendable worker on a mission to colonize an ice planet. Capable of being reprinted upon death, Mickey soon finds himself in trouble when one of his presumed-dead clones returns to reclaim his place.

Director: Bong Joon-ho
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo
Language: English
IMDB rating: 7.3 /10
Production countries: South Korea, United States
Where to watch: Cinobo Opera, Mikrokosmos, Athinaion, Aigli, Kifissia Cinemax, Village cinemas, Tria Asteria, Aello, Elize, Nana, Sporting digital cinema,Lampros Konstantaras movie theater, Foivos digital cinema, WestCity cinemas, Options Cinemas, Cineac

The River (2024, To Potami)

In this Greek romantic comedy by Haris Raftogiannis, two worlds collide. Makis comes from the modern world; Maria lives in a forgotten one. What he sees as “progress,” she views as a threat. A car accident brings them together, and the taste of nuggets brings them even closer—but will that be enough?

Director: Haris Raftogiannis
Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Stephania Sotiropoulou, Haris Fragoulis
Language: Greek
IMDB rating: 6.5 /10
Production country: Greece
Where to watch: Astor cinema

In The Lost Lands (2024)

In this fantasy adventure, a powerful queen sends the feared sorceress Gray Alys on a treacherous journey into the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands to retrieve a magical power. Alongside her guide, the drifter Boyce, Alys must outwit and battle both man and demon to fulfill her quest.

Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
Cast: Dave Bautista, Milla Jovovich, Arly Jover
Language: English
IMDB rating: 5.4/10
Production countries: United States, Poland, Germany
Where to watch: Village cinemas, Aello, Nana, Options cinemas