the Greek Weird Wave

乔治是从监狱释放后14对一宗谋杀案，他在他的小村庄致力于希腊监禁多年。他花了在雅典市中心的廉价旅馆里的第一个晚上。在那里，他会见斯特雷拉，一位年轻的变性妓女。他们一起过夜，不久便坠入爱河。但是，过去已经赶上乔治。随着斯特雷拉在他身边，他将不得不寻找新的出路

One of the bright lights of contemporary cinema, Athina Rachel Tsangari won worldwide acclaim for her second feature Attenberg — which left a lasting impression at the Festival in 2010 and produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Academy Award®–nominated Dogtooth as well as his latest mind-bender, Alps. In addition to her film work, the versatile and fiercely original Tsangari is a successful visual artist noted for her work in large-scale projections.
In her new film The Capsule, Tsangari delights in the fantasy of high fashion (including that of Montreal avant-garde designer Ying Gao), forging a work that bears her signature stamp but also sees her experimenting like never before. Commissioned by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, for whom fashion counts as fine art (and why shouldn’t it always?), The Capsule features an ensemble of first-rate (and drop-dead gorgeous) young actresses — including Ariane Lebed from Attenberg and Alps, Aurore Marion from Chantal Akerman’s La folie Almayer, Isolda Dychauk from Alexander Sokurov’s Faust, and Clémence Poésy from the Harry Potter series — in a twisted fairy tale shot in an eighteenth-century mansion on the breathtaking island of Hydra. Inspired by the Goya-like drawings of acclaimed Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska (who co-wrote the film), The Capsule is a "Greek Gothic" female romance, a Cycladic distortion of the three "Bs": Brontë, Bataille, and Buñuel.

入夜，斯彻特斯在面包厂工作，但是白天，他是一名职业杀手。斯彻特斯需要筹钱从狱中救出列奥尼达兹，他在坐牢时，列奥尼达兹曾救过他的命，对斯彻特斯来说，这是信誉问题。不知道斯彻特斯他究竟杀过多少人，但他却又良知未泯，他周到地照看邻居的孩子——八岁的卡特琳娜，也会帮助她的妈妈和舅舅。最终，列奥尼达兹越狱成功似乎有了希望，不料，斯彻特斯却陷入了一个卑鄙的圈套。（豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组）

2015 film by Athina Rachel Tsangari

BLEAT
Yorgos Lanthimos
World Premiere
The Artist on the Composer
A GNO and NEON co-production
6, 7, 8 May 2022 | Starts at: 18.00, 20.00, 22.00
Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera – SNFCC
Producer, scriptwriter, director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring Emma Stone and Damien Bonnard
The Artist on the Composer programme curators: Giorgos Koumendakis (GNO Artistic Director) – Elina Kountouri (ΝΕΟΝ Director)
Yorgos Lanthimos’ highly anticipated new film, Bleat –the second work to be commissioned as part of the GNO and NEON programme The Artist on the Composer– is to have its world-first premieres accompanied by live music ensembles on 6, 7 and 8 May 2022 inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall at the SNFCC. The Greek National Opera’s participation in the co-production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) [
] to enhance the GNO’s artistic outreach.
The award-winning Greek filmmaker accepted the invitation extended by GNO Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis and NEON Director Elina Kountouri to produce, write, and direct the short film Bleat, shot on the Greek island of Tinos in February 2020, and starring Oscar-winning American actor Emma Stone and acclaimed French actor Damien Bonnard.
The Artist on the Composer programme –run by the Greek National Opera and NEON [
]– connects pioneering contemporary artists and filmmakers/producers with orchestral music performed live. Through works that spring from the programme’s new commissions, each artist responds to, and enters into dialogue with pieces by classical composers, free from every standard operatic convention, trope and storyline, in the hope of reaching audiences who may never have connected with opera before.
Following on from The Artist on the Composer’s first commission –a 2019 installation by Nikos Navridis– the gifted and internationally renowned Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos takes on the programme’s second commission to create a new cinematic work that will always be presented with the live accompaniment of music ensembles. The work’s music script consists of pieces by J. S. Bach / Knut Nystedt and Toshio Hosokawa, performed live inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall by the soloists Angelina Tkatcheva (cimbalom) and Wu Wei (sheng), the “Maria Callas” quartet, and the Chorus of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.
Visual Arts Programme • New production • World premiere
Music and Visual Arts Cycle • A GNO and NEON co-production
The Artist on the Composer
The Artist on the Composer programme curators: Giorgos Koumendakis (GNO Artistic Director) – Elina Kountouri (ΝΕΟΝ Director)
Second Commission Yorgos Lanthimos: Bleat
6, 7, 8 May 2022
Start times: 18.00, 20.00, 22.00
Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera – SNFCC
Producer, scriptwriter, director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Emma Stone, Damien Bonnard
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach / Knut Nystedt, Toshio Hosokawa
Cimbalom: Angelina Tkatcheva
Sheng: Wu Wei
Chorus master: Agathangelos Georgakatos
With the participation of the “Maria Callas” quartet and the Chorus of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
Set designer: Anna Georgiadou
Costume designer: Angelos Mentis
Choreographer: Christos Papadopoulos
Director of photography: Thodoros Mihopoulos
Film editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Executive producer: Rebecca Skinner
Producer: Eleni Kossyfidou

A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.

5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.

A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

2018 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

2017 film by Yorgos Lanthimos

Antonis arrives at a hotel resort by the sea. It is wintertime, the hotel is closed and Antonis drifts around alone. He has a lot of time to kill. Until television announces the disappearance of the famous TV host Antonis Paraskevas…

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."

2010 film by Yannis Economides

A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the third-class voyagers. But along the way, she meets a young American photographer who is returning from the Middle East where he was snapping shots of the war in Smyrna, 1922. Her honesty, pride, and beauty attract the attention of the American who falls in love with her. Tribulations abound during the voyage, following the dramas of several unfortunate young women upon whom nasty characters preyed, as Nikki struggles with her feelings for the photographer.

多梅尼科斯·西奥托科普洛斯是一位毫不妥协的艺术家和自由斗士，被世界称为“格列柯”。

故事发生于20世纪30年代的希腊，天真美丽的欧莎（佩内洛普·忒西莉卡 Pinelopi Tsilika 饰）爱上了英俊帅气的海军中尉斯皮罗斯（Andreas Constantinou 饰）。可是，斯皮罗斯有任务在身，即将远航，于是，两人许下了爱的约定，欧莎决定在小岛上静静等候爱人的归来。
然而，欧莎的母亲擅自决定将自己的女儿嫁给了一个名为尼克斯（Maximos Moumouris 饰）的船长，只因为后者有着雄厚的经济条件。虽然感到万分的不情愿，但母命难违，欧莎只得就范，可是内心里，她从没有忘记过对于斯皮罗斯的感情。一天，欧莎收到了一个令她崩溃的消息，自己的妹妹订婚了，而未婚夫不是别人，正是斯皮罗斯。

2011 film