Lefteris Xanthopoulos Movies

The history of the ancient neighborhood of Colonus in Athens, by a novelist and script writer who lives in modern-day Kolonos.

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

Greek internal migrants in Athens, after the Greek Civil War colonize the tops of the Tourkovounia hills.

Frieda Liappa in this short film casts an alternative gaze on the notion of historicity. Loukia is a teenager currently staying at her cousin’s...

Shadow puppetry is not only part of the heritage of East Asia; Greece had its own traditional form of this popular art. In this leisurely drama, set...

Documentary about the Greek culture on its cinema.

The Greek guest workers -gästarbeiter- in the industrially developed central and northern Europe in the mid 70s.

The story of a successful Greek immigrant, the restaurant owner Giorgos Kozompolis, who emigrated in the mid 1960’s from the poor village of...