Despoina

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Despoina is delighted to make her feature length debut with The Butterfly Queen, as Ash, local Butterfly Junction expert. Life comes at you fast-like a speeding train of character development! If you met yourself mid transformation, would you recognize them? D is a big fan of fantasy storytelling and analyzing the details of wordbuilding and lore. They couldn’t be prouder to share a glimpse of the inside of Ash’s mind with you and hope you enjoy the film!

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The Butterfly Queen 2022 (5)

Casey (a nonbinary sheep farmer/cartoonist) and Robin (basically a vagabond) are lost in a magical forest, struggling to find Casey’s sketchbook so they can get the heck back home. Unfortunately, The Butterfly Queen wants the sketchbook too, and A) she’s clever, B) she’s desperate and C) she makes the rules.
Despoina Karvela

Despoina Karvela

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The Wretches Are Still Singing 1979 (7.2)

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years, the other comes from a series of "accidental" murders, another leaves his wife and kids, the fourth one is a wonderer, and the last one, the girl of the gang, comes from a lunatic asylum where she has been hiding for years... All of them are outcasts, tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved friends and betrayed by the politics of their times. They hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in his own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.
Despoina Tsintsifou

Despoina Tsintsifou

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Aphetiria 2021

Vicious circles, mind games and black shadows. A young girl stands alone in front of a white canvas. Anxieties and fears spread across the canvas. Lost in space and time, she is looking for her way back, but in reality every journey ends where it started. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.
Despoina Gounaropoulou

Despoina Gounaropoulou

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Dracula and Company 1959 (6.7)

Comedy where Athanassios inherits a castle supposedly inhabited by Count Dracula, and decides to settle the question.
Despoina Giannouli

Despoina Giannouli

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Pledge 2014

A man lives isolated on an island. His only companion is a young woman with whom he has made an unnatural agreement: She pretends to be his deceased wife. What happens when the pledge is broken?
Despoina Makedona

Despoina Makedona

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Welcome to the Club 2022 (2)

One night a couple leaves a reception in a bad way. The nervous and extroverted wife blames her husband for a lot of things. Mainly for infidelity, as she attributes to him countless extramarital affairs, possible and improbable. On the other hand, the husband passively accepts her aggressive behavior without speaking. She thinks about their surroundings, the friends and relatives who influence her. The free throw will be given by a stranger, hitchhiking in the middle of the road.
Despoina Triantafyllidou

Despoina Triantafyllidou

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A Box Made of Wood 2014

Constantine lives free with an identity of his choice. Vasilis returns at the family home for a new beginning. A box made of wood hides a past between two brothers whose mother dissociated. The box opens. Vassilis resists his mother's obsessions. He wants to know his brother for a second time.
Despoina Fryliggou

Despoina Fryliggou

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Alps 2011 (6.2)

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.
Despoina Pavlidou

Despoina Pavlidou

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TOGETHER 2020

Two people start their new life by moving into their new house. But what happens when they stop creating new memories? An optimistic look at a pessimistic love story.
Despoina Amparzoglou

Despoina Amparzoglou

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John the Violent 1973 (6.5)

The story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
Despoina Tagari

Despoina Tagari

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Turtle 2021

A group of third year high school students on Halloween night. A cowboy, a zombie, a mobster, a ninja and a vampire will be in Turtle, their hangout that has a carnival party. The night will find the cowboy and the ninja to fight, while at the same time the zombie and the mobster win the party dance competition.
Despoina Varelidou

Despoina Varelidou

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Alps 2011 (6.2)

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.
Despoina Stavroulaki

Despoina Stavroulaki

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Seven Years of Marriage 1972 (5)

Having been married for seven years, a tourist office director and his well-known television presenter wife, Alekos and Efi Fotiou go through a crucial phase. Dedicated to their careers, they rarely meet, and when thy actually achieve it they always end up quarreling. The only family they have, their uncles, suggest they have a baby. She finds it a good idea, but Alekos thinks that they won't be able to raise a baby properly. This dispute brings them one step closer to divorce, which now seems the only solution, especially when Efi starts to believe that Alekos is flirting with Tzouli, and Alekos suspects that his wife is having an affair with Dimitris. When it is finally proved that none of this is true, and, actually, Tzouli is planning to marry Dimitris and Efi's aunt Dimitris' uncle, they all get reasonable, the couple gets over its crisis and they live happily ever after, together with their newborn child.
Despoina Karvelam

Despoina Karvelam

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@thens Blogs 2007

Anthology film by: Despoina Karvelam, Giorgos Karypidis, Alexandros Papailiou, Thanasis Skroubelos, Lena Voudouri
Despoina Ladi

Despoina Ladi

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Paradise 2019

Ana and Lars are spending their summer holiday on an island in the Adriatic sea. It seems like paradise, until an unexpected encounter puts their relationship to the test, forcing them to re-evaluate what they really want from each other.
Despoina Tsitou

Despoina Tsitou

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Tate Modern 2021

A pilot tour of the Tate Modern, London. An Experimental trip at Tate Modern, London. A journey of emotions, a storm of intense images, colors, a testimony of fear, violence, pain.
Despoina Navrozidou

Despoina Navrozidou

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Attenberg 2010 (6.2)

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."
Despoina Stylopoulou

Despoina Stylopoulou

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Nutmeg 2021

Angeliki is a young girl who works as an answering machine in a small company in the city center. Through her work develops a special relationship with an elderly woman, Sophie. Inside from Sophie's fantastic stories, Angeliki will review some situations of her life.
Despoina Vaxevani

Despoina Vaxevani

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Thirst 2020

A young plumber gets lost in his work. Many others have perished like this.
Despoina Athanasiadi

Despoina Athanasiadi

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The City. Loneliness. And You 2021

The young Michalis returns to his father's house. He feels isolated from everyone and everything, but he tries to get back into his old everyday life. Returning to his city seems difficult and Michalis faces moments of intense loneliness and confusion due to a recent breakup. Everything in his mind is disturbed by his return to the city as his concerns increase and he comes to the conclusion that he must turn to himself. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.