Best Greek animation movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch animation films from Greece, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)
The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)
In this mesmerizing experimental film, a Stephen King television movie is compressed and transformed through hypnotic black and white collage animation that meticulously reconstructs and reshapes its supernatural drama to an eerie and profound effect.
Karagiozis: The Movie (2022)
Karagiozis: The Movie (2022)
The village Governor decides to appoint a public secretary to serve the citizens, as his employees are forced to neglect their work to serve their illiterate fellow citizens in their written communication. Hatziavatis undertakes to find the right person for the position, until he meets Karagiozis who impresses him with the grammatical knowledge he says he has and the search ends! After a hilarious meeting with the Governor, Karagiozis becomes the Grammar of the village and, full of appetite and empty of knowledge, grabs a pencil and paper.
The boy and the tree (2009)
The boy and the tree (2009)
One evening close to Christmas, the tree, having seen the splendidly trimmed Christmas trees standing in the windows of nearby houses, and longing to be as beautiful as they are, begs the boy to trim it too. But the boy has neither ornaments nor money to buy any, in fact he has nothing. How can he make this withered, shriveled tree look beautiful, there in the middle of a filthy, freezing pavement? And yet this night will prove to be a very different night from every other. It will be a night when dreams come true, a night of enchantment and magic.
A Night at the Cemetery (2022)
A Night at the Cemetery (2022)
In the Mediterranean island of Crete, Maria heads to the cemetery every Friday to tend her beloved husband's grave. When the bus that picks her up breaks down, she will be forced to spend the night among the tombstones.
Erma (2024)
Erma (2024)
A haunting experimental stop-motion animation that reveals the violence of heteronormativity, gender and patriarchy on trans bodies. Erma, neutral: Principles or motives that guide one's behavior or actions. A film about gender, the body and all their intertwining moments in between. Through an abstract stop-motion / body horror narrative point of view it attempts to highlight the continuous process and struggle of the construction of gender subjectivity against the oppressive power of heteronormativity. From birth to death the error in the code of patriarchy is subjugated and resisted, emerging but also trapped by the erinyes of the social. With an ironic and critical mood and intense religious symbolism, Erma highlights the contradictions of gender composition both in the field of solitary subjectivity and in the dominant heteronormative narrative. Gender identity is a war waged in the trenches of the body.
Trixes (2022)
Trixes (2022)
It’s raining. You are trapped in a hair salon. Are you going to cut your hair or not?
The Law of The Sea (2016)
How to Bring a Wretched Boy Back to Life (2024)
Aenigma (2016)
Aenigma (2016)
A surreal journey inspired from the paintings of the acclaimed artist Theodore Pantaleon. Aenigma is a a 3D requiem to form, feminine-goddess, eternal eve, art. From idealization and sacred worship to delectation and insemination, to transformation and reproduction, to deterioration and decay, to desecration and vandalizing, to condemnation and subjugation, to the fall into timeless erebus. To the dream of regeneration.
The Bug (2013)
The Bug (2013)
A "normal" bug, in a black and white world , becomes purple because of a horrible accident, a turn of events that cost it all of its friends since they don't approve its new color.
Violent Equation (2019)
Violent Equation (2019)
Dare not to be different. A totalitarian society forces unequal things to become equal. Ignorance creates fear and envy brings violence. The average person's weak mentality rules by any means. Inspired by Costis Georgiou's art.
192 Nausikaa (0)
192 Nausikaa (0)
In Homer's Odyssey, the Phaeacian princess Nausicaa and her friends are the first figures in world literature to play with a ball. According to one version, the Goddess Athena altered the course of the ball to guide Nausicaa onto Odysseus. After 3217 years, Diego Armando Maradona declared that the same thing happened to him, in the goal that went down in history as "The hand of God".
The Village (2010)
The Village (2010)
A doctor mysteriously discovers that he is required urgently at the village to offer his services. He arrives there after a long and difficult journey, only to discover that the village is empty.
There Was Once... (2022)
There Was Once... (2022)
There was once a donkey that no one needed anymore, a dog that was the disgrace of his master, a cat who had no hope for the future and a rooster that lost everything. They met, joined forces and took their lives into their own hands.
Land (2019)
Land (2019)
An island at night becomes the scene where different characters meet. A militant young girl is rescued unintentionally by a drunken man, somewhere between fantasy and reality.
Dodeca – the womb (2024)
Dodeca – the womb (2024)
In the distant future, the last humanoid robot on the planet needs to recharge its battery. However, in this world, recharging, and thus survival, can only be done with the help of a “womb”, which contains some other unborn robot, placing the protagonist in an agonising, moral dilemma.
Tourist (2022)
Tourist (2022)
Charlie, returns to the Greek island, in which years ago, he had the most traumatic experience of his life. His son drowned in the sea. Ηis personal trauma mixes with the collective trauma of the refugee crisis.
Hansel and Gretel (2020)
Hansel and Gretel (2020)
After the death of their mother, Hansel and Gretel find themselves lost in the woods.
The Fountain of Youth (2011)
The Fountain of Youth (2011)
Many years ago, somewhere in the mountains of Japan, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. They were very old and had no children. Every day the man went alone to the forest to cut wood, while his wife stayed at home to weave. But one day, the man went much further than usual...
How Are You Today? (2018)
How Are You Today? (2018)
In a fucked-up world, two opposite characters meet.
1,2 Million Children (2010)
1,2 Million Children (2010)
A third world child pursues the dream of freedom but becomes a victim of exploitation.
I Lost the Way (2022)
I Lost the Way (2022)
The poet Miltos Sachtouris in different phases of his life. The questions he asks are not philosophical declarations or logical findings, but images. Images that seem to come from a dream and end up in his poetic iconography.
Lost and Found (2021)
Lost and Found (2021)
A suitcase arrives at the airport with its owners and all is ready for boarding. But what happens when the suitcase is naughty and wants to be free?
Sevarambes (2020)
Sevarambes (2020)
In the city of Sevarambes, where giant machine hands impose the law, any artistic expression by the human workers is pursued and terminated. When Er is seized while attempting to play music, he manages to escape inside the apparatus of a sinister machine. Until he realizes that he is not alone.
Next life (2020)
Next life (2020)
Why is there something instead of nothing? Prochaine Vie is about the memories of a soul that's born three times. In the course of these life times the soul is searching to find out the reason it exists.
Duce Narrates... (1945)
Duce Narrates... (1945)
The first Greek animated film was shot by the cartoonist Stamatis Polenakis (1908-1997) with the title "The Duce tells...". The seven-minute "Mickey-Mouse-style" film, as its creator mentions in the credits, satirizes the Italian invasion of Greece on October 28, 1940, and especially Mussolini, who recounts his exploits, but reality constantly contradicts him. Stamatis Polenakis, one of the leading Greek cartoonists of the 20th century and a pioneer of animation in our country, began drawing the sketches for the film in 1942 in his hometown, Sifnos, where he had taken refuge during the Occupation. He worked under the boot of the Italian conqueror, risking arrest. The film was lost during the Civil War and it was not until 1980 that a negative was found and restored.
The Classmate (2021)
The Classmate (2021)
The story revolves around a teenage girl who is dealing with life via her diary entries. She observes and analyzes a classmate’s bad behavior because it symbolizes everything that she does not want to be. As the girl grows up the memories of her classmate become the version of herself that she doesn’t want to face.
IS, or: A Beautiful, Tiny, Reddish Hair, as Thin as Fiber (2023)
IS, or: A Beautiful, Tiny, Reddish Hair, as Thin as Fiber (2023)
On the top of a human head, a common, humble little hair has only a lifetime to struggle against scissors and combs claiming her diversity.