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To keep his home out of a loan shark's clutches, a businessman sets a seemingly flawless plan in motion - and a sequence of events that will ultimately lead to an unthinkable family tragedy.

A terrorist attack connects three stories, each involving characters whose actions may mean the difference between life and death as well as their own journeys into seeking redemption from their past, their guilt, their loneliness.

In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets with greed money, dead bodies start pilling up and "Sleeping Beauty" Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of.

Following his father's death, Nikos leaves the provinces to work in Athens guarding his brutish uncle's dogs. Nikos finds the dynamic of his relationship with his uncle changing when his uncle's wife draws closer to him.

Trapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence. Soon, reality and fantasy start to blur.

The story of the Cyprus' turbulent recent history using the device of a desperate man, Evagoras (Costas Timvios), who returns to the island after years of absence to look for his wife and son. His family disappeared while they were visiting his native village on Cyprus, just when the Turkish army invaded (1974). As Evagoras goes out on his search each day with a friendly taxi driver, flashbacks illustrate the recent history of the Greek Cypriots, and the normally quiet Evagoras heads closer and closer to a militant stance.

Theoharis, an elderly and lonely man, takes refuge every evening in the hospital to spend the night on the benches and chairs of the outpatients' wing. Every morning he returns to his house, where his only companion is his cat and his memories. One night he is discovered by a young nurse, Evgenia, who tries to learn more about him. Theoharis is initially skeptical and refuses to give her any information. Gradually, however, a relationship of trust between the two begins to build.

Who killed Zaharias? Awesome Officer Leonidas will find out, even if he has to question all the island.

Aliki and Andreas, a couple in their thirties, try to have a baby a year after the death of their 4-year old daughter. Marios, a man in his late twenties living with his mother Demetra, tries to satisfy his sexual needs by having casual encounters with men in the park. Aliki develops an interest in miracles when she hears in the news about an icon of Virgin Mary who is believed to weep and perform miracles. Meanwhile Marios is getting interested in a young man he meets at the swimming pool while Demetra is constantly concerned about her son. One day, while visiting her husband's grave Demetra sees Aliki in front of her daughter's grave and is intrigued.

Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money.

Nina, daughter of a Greek woman who left Egypt in 1956, goes for the first time to Alexandria, discovers the city and the longing of her mother to tell her an old love story that she had years ago with a French. but the mother doesn't tell her the truth, who knows why.

George and Sophia are trying hard to cope with their financial problems and the needs of their two children. The grandfather helps them out with his pension since the family business, a small grocery store, does not provide them with enough income. When suddenly the grandfather dies in his sleep, they decide to keep it a secret for as long as they can so as to continue collecting the money from his pension. But things become more complicated when officers from the social security department start looking for grandfather.

When Cleo - born on a very auspicious day in the Chinese calendar - turns 18, she finds out that the Chinese mafia murdered her father. Outraged, she goes to Athens' Chinatown to confront the killers but soon realizes that in order to take her revenge she first has to face her own dark destiny.

Longing for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they return home, the pair open a night club. However, their past catches up with them.

Two sisters have lost their father during the Turkish invasion in Cyprus 1974 but they find out that he seems to be alive and go to Turkey to search for him.

A hard working Cypriot immigrant in London finally opens his very own chip shop. But his dream turns into a nightmare, as he seems to have overlooked one small detail: Cyprus just isn't London.

When George sees his daughter Margarita facing him through the teargas, he and his wife decide that father and daughter should leave in an attempt to protect their daughter and to salvage whatever might be left from their relationship.

Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery.

Alexandra and Orestes, a handsome young couple, arrive from Athens, to spend the summer holidays with Orestes' family at a beautiful picture-perfect seaside town on Cyprus.

The loss of loved ones and the tragic present become entangled with memories of the past. Hope and the struggle for survival alternate with despair and hopelessness. In the turmoil of the war and occupation, a young Turkish girl, Yasmin, refuses to stop searching for her great love, the Greek-Cypriot Telemachos, who has been taken prisoner by the Turkish occupying forces.

Phoebe takes Loukas from free Cyprus to occupied Cyprus to see his village after years. While both of their parents were victims of the invasion, he refuses to get over it, while she even smuggles with the Turks to survive.

Two stories unfold simultaneously with Lea at the center of both. One story takes place in Lefkosia, Cyprus, the other in Montevideo, Uruguay. Lea's disappeared brother is the catalyst for both: while in Lefkosia a group of DNA scientists is trying to reveal the identities of persons missing, in Montevideo, Lea sees her brother in a photograph together with an older tango singer. Are the two stories a game of parallel times? Does one of them belong to a different dimension? Or is Lea's character stolen from a J.L.Borges novel where his heroes are able to make more than one choice. The answer is securely hidden until the end of the film since between the two cities, the two stories there is...a BAR.

This Greek-Bulgarian-Cypriot co-production depicts the plight of Albanian illegals in Athens and its Piraeus port. Greek intellectual Christos (Akis Sakellariou) unintentionally falls in with a streetwise group of manipulative Albanian scam artists, including Victor (Armando Dauti) Omer (Laert Vasili) and Fuad (Muzafer Et' Hem Zifla). Minus papers, they are nevertheless successfully able to get by in Greece. Eventually, Christos takes a trip to the Albanian village where the duo grew up amid murderous blood feuds. Shown at the 1997 Thessaloniki Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Cyprus, early 90's. A woman finds freedom behind the wheel of her taxi. Despite feeling trapped in a life where she has no control over her decisions, she discovers a glimmer of hope that one day she can break free from societal pressures and expectations. As she navigates the streets of her city, Soulla grapples with the weight of her responsibilities to her life and society, but her taxi becomes a sanctuary where she can imagine a different life for herself. Will Soulla take action and pursue the life she dreams of, or will she remain trapped in her current reality?

FETINE is a Muslim woman from Cyprus who was forced to marry a Palestinian at age of 14, in 1936 and leave her home to Palestine, never to be seen again. FETINE shared the same fate a large number of young women in Cyprus had during the British Colonial Period at a time where many families were living in extreme poverty (between the 1920's-1950'). Many of these young women were never seen again by their families and never returned to Cyprus. After several decades this issue has only recently been brought to light raising many questions namely why so many were never sought after and if indeed the marriage was a sale? Pembe Mentesh, an Australian-born Cypriot, upon moving to Cyprus, decides to break the decades long silence regarding FETINE's marriage and begins an investigation to locate her. Pembe's work in human rights and activism ignites her need to search for her great aunt and she travels throughout Cyprus and the Middle East to find out why this chapter of Cypriot history remained in the dark for so long and what actually happened to Missing FETINE.