Best Greek animation movies

A sociopolitical metaphor of the world as a formal dinner that takes an unexpected turn when there's no more food to be served.

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.

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.

Marina, after a nervous breakdown, comes face-to-face with herself and explores all the things she could have become. The short film is the second part of "House at the End of the World".

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.

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.

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.

It’s raining. You are trapped in a hair salon. Are you going to cut your hair or not?

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.

An incredibly insightful animation provides a personal telling of a very important story from an often unheard perspective of the refugee crisis.

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.

Ioannina, Souther Balkans, 1808.
What can a humble florist in love do to win the heart of a Pasha's favourite? An ancient Ottoman fairy tale tells the story of a forbidden love, made of patience, silence and the help of a heron.

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...

Two ghosts, the girl and the woman.

Sylvia finds a dead boy on her ground floor and tries to resurrect him to keep her company.

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".

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.

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 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.

In a fucked-up world, two opposite characters meet.

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.

A third world child pursues the dream of freedom but becomes a victim of exploitation.

Dimitris Pistiolas, a retired employee for the Greek Post Office, is the owner of the largest cinema museum in the world. In two tiny venues in Athens lies his renowned by the Guinness World Records collection. Now, 90 years old, Dimitris recounts his past, hidden in his machines, hoping that his memories are not going to be lost forever.

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.

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.

A drawing line explores the life and death of my Grandfather.

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.

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.

“Drag Me” is a wandering through the sleazy, dark backstreets of Metropolis – which is Athens here, but it could be as well anything from New York to… Gotham – under the disturbingly dirty and distorted sounds of “the You and What Army fACTION”, that seem to derive directly from the filthy guts of the city. In this wandering we follow the main character – a deadly girl with a violent and disturbed response to the emotional paranoia and alienation that the “concrete jungle” can generate. The lumpen characters and the rest “strays of the streets” that she runs into, the street art and the trash, become part of the set, composing a haunted picture of the modern “ghost town”.

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.

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.

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.

A film that tries to analyse a very big question, why is the red mullet red. A violent, action packed film, set in the bottoms of the sea.

The life cycle of a man from childhood to death.

Eleanor and Sarah are an eighteenth-century couple situated in Antilia. They live isolated in the forest, but soon the outside world will take notice of them.

Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

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.

Once upon a time, the Time of the World had a problem. But no one took notice, because everybody was part of the World, of Time and its problem.

Amina is living in the big city, working from home. When adult life pressures reach an all time high, her house comes alive in strange and unusual ways, forcing her to face an invisible enemy to save her work day.

Although the glaciers keep melting, we still whistle without any interest. Forests are burned to be turned to pastures, factories and arbitrary buildings. The cities we live in are crushing us. We cannot breathe, but since habit is the greatest scam, we carry on with broken brakes driving off the cliff. Until technology has overtaken us.

Tells the story of the Holy Chicken a magnificent beast, worshiped and exploited, in a tale of love and regret, art and science, Life and Music.

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?

A bloodthirsty virgin cocktail.

Daedalus escapes from the Labyrinth to find the ideal state, but soon he falls into tragic moments of history.

In a nightmarish world, dominated by the decline and degradation of Man , Christ resurrected wandering, across three different eras of human history.

A satirical, revealing and entertaining film that unmasks modern Greeks and their vices but always by sweetening the pill. The film dips into the cultural and artistic heritage of Greece with the use of historical figures and everyday common characters.

The film was shot during the period of the dictatorship and is an attempt to criticize in a veiled, suggestive way, for understandable reasons, the American model of life.

A hermit decides to leave his underground sanctuary and returns to the surface, only to find out that the world is a cruel place and people misunderstand things easily. Even if you have the best of intentions...

An alien with good intentions arrives in his spaceship on Earth.

In America, 100 years before the moon landing of Apollo 11, the bellicose bemoan their fates because the federal War is over and they all have fallen into inaction. They are reminiscent of the glorious past and feeling uncomfortable with the mournful clothes remaining unused in the closets and the green grass and the cotton growing back in the fields, as Verne writes characteristically! At that exact moment, the president of the Gun Club, Impey Barbicane, provided the solution by announcing that he has a plan to fire a cannonball to the Moon, an act that also constitutes the first substantial contact of man with the satellite of the Earth and will glorify the 36 United States of America all over the world.

A boastful elf and his prank-happy orc brother must learn to work together to stop a fiendish orc gang from retrieving a magical stone that will give them the power to take over the world.