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The Hellenic Cultural Society’s Film Program celebrates and promotes the work and talent of established and emerging Greek, Cypriot and Greek/Cypriot Heritage filmmakers.
At the South Florida Greek Film Festival and at Film Nights, screenings of full-length films, documentaries, shorts, discussions, provide opportunities to connect, to inspire, to entertain and to share the richness of the Greek culture. All screenings have English subtitles.
Click on each title for more information. Tickets are $10 and available at link above.
1:30PM
ALWAYS SOMETHING MISSING
DIRECTOR: Elena Housni | 2025 | WITH: Parthenopi Armenaki, Despina Kaila, Philipos Tzeretas | RUNNING TIME: 41 Mins
Set against the Greek island of Samos, the film follows Parthenopi, a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral home after years abroad. Haunted by unresolved feelings toward her late father, she embarks on a journey of memory, ritual, and confrontation. At its core, Always Something Missing is a meditation on reconciliation: not with the living, but with the absence that lingers after death.
Q+A with Producer/Cinematographer
- US Premiere
2:45PM
ATHENS MIDNIGHT RADIO
DIRECTOR: Renos Haralambidis | 2024 | WITH: Renos Haralambidis, Eleftheria Stamou | RUNNING TIME: 75 Mins
A veteran late-night radio producer, turning 50, realizes with unease that he no longer belongs among the youth. While he unravels his life on air and messages from a distant past are transmitted from a forgotten answering machine, an old love affair left in limbo comes back to haunt him. The army services at the National Guard Evzones, the silent nocturnal audience, a midnight marathon, the dimly lit Athenian antiquities and the nocturnal landscape, all mingle nostalgically and dreamily with the radio waves…
A film from a veteran filmmaker and actor, considered one of the pioneer directors of the modern Greek Indie cinema with his first films “No Budget Story” and “Cheap Smokes”. A tribute to night radio and the analog world that the new century has banished.
5:00PM
PIRATELAND
DIRECTOR: Stavros Petropoulos | 2025 | WITH: Kostas Koronaios, Asteris Rimagmos, Marianthi Pantelopoulou | RUNNING TIME: 28 Mins
As the winter season begins in Creta, an overly touristic Greek island, a family of locals, owners of a small struggling bed & breakfast, get an unexpected visit from a Nordic family of tourists looking for a tour into the piratic past of the area. The relationship between Manos, the Greek father and Tassos, his son, is being tested as they are struggling to meet the increasingly challenging demands of the tourists looking to live the authentic pirate experience.
- Official Selection 2025 Tribeca International Film Festival
KYUKA: BEFORE SUMMER’S END
DIRECTOR: Kostis Charamountanis | 2024 | WITH: Simeon Tsakiris, Elsa Lekakou, Konstantinos Georgopoulos | RUNNING TIME: 103 Mins
Summertime. A family of three, a single father, Babis, and his twin children on the verge of adulthood, Konstantinos and Elsa, sail to the island of Poros on the family boat for their holidays. In the midst of swimming, sunbathing and making new friends, Konstantinos and Elsa meet unbeknownst to them, their birth mother Anna who abandoned them when they were babies. This encounter will stir up long-held feelings of resentment in Babis, resulting in a sun-kissed, bittersweet coming-of-age journey for everyone involved.
- Acid Cannes 2024 Film D’ Ouverture
- LA Greek Film Festival Winner Best Feature Fiction 2025 Special Jury Recognition
