Movies by Hristos Valavanidis

Loafing and Camouflage
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly ...

Beatitudes
A retiring man in rioting Athens faces ghosts and memories from the past to make choices about the present.

The Photograph
A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding regarding the photograph sets off a series of dramatic misunderstandings which trap him in a vicious circle of lies and fantasies.
Eleni
When Helen is bored, horrible things happen around her.

Τα Καμάκια
This comedy takes place during a hot summer at a Greek island. We meet Stathis and his company and we watch as they try to get the attention of all kinds of beautiful foreign girls.

Τα ντερέκια

Patris, listeia, oikogeneia
A paranoid state organises bank robberies to save its crumbling economy.

I Loved a Pontian
The feelings of a young lady for a Pontian Greek, whom his fellow countrymen call "the disgrace of Pontus", is obvious to everyone. Kostikas, however, doesn't notice her feelings because his mind is elsewhere. He is trying to become the president of the football team of New Pontus, in order to take the place of Giorikas, who happens to be in love with the lady in question.

Η Γυναικάρα Απ' Το Κιλκίς
Fed up with her unbearable and good-for-nothing husband, a proud Pontian-Greek woman from Kilkis decides to try her luck in the bustling city of Athens in search of a better future. But, can she make it big all alone?