Maria Filini

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Maria Filini

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Spiti
0h 25m
Movie 2024

Spiti

[/spiti/ (noun): Greek for house, ] Alex is dealing with two losses; her father's sudden death, and the impending sale of her family house, that he had built as an architect. Trying to cope with this new reality, she starts forming a curious relationship with the house itself, and she unexpectedly falls in love with a girl. A personal guide on love and loss, set in the heat of the Greek summer, and narrated in parallel by the real people who lived in the house.

The City and the City
1h 27m
Movie 2022

The City and the City

Six chapters describe the lives and perils of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community which was almost entirely exterminated by the Nazis in 1943. Past and present become an echo chamber in which the viewer experiences, aghast, the madness of humanity.

Phélia
0h 17m
Movie 2020

Phélia

An Athenian security guard seeks to escape the crushing routine of her night shift. Playing table football or listening to love advice on the radio just doesn't cut it, so she introduces a more intimate relationship into her life. Intensely visual work, full of surreal shots of empty meeting rooms, shabby elevators and peeking security cameras.

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea
2h 0m
Movie 2019

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea

Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.

Her Job
1h 29m
Movie 2019

Her Job

A devoted but underappreciated housewife's brief taste of autonomy as a mall cleaner (where she is a popular, model employee) is threatened by pending layoffs.