greek weird wave

A cycle of Greek films emerging during the country's financial crisis, united by absurdist premises, deadpan performances, and hermetic domestic spaces that double as allegories for a society under pressure. Named by Steve Rose in The Guardian (2011) after a cluster of festival successes — Lanthimos's Dogtooth, Tsangari's Attenberg, Avranas's Miss Violence — that shared a sensibility without sharing a manifesto.

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Shares the deadpan register and enclosed settings of Slow Cinema but is more aggressive and narratively driven. The absurdism overlaps with Surrealist Cinema but is rooted in social allegory — family and institution as microcosm — rather than dream logic or the unconscious.

Films here also carry Moral Ambiguity, Coming of Age, Loneliness & Isolation, Psychological Horror, Psychological Unraveling.