The laboratory has produced the following documentary films
 

Supported the production of the documentary Transfer (2020) of Elias Giannakakis
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13678710/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co

 

Institute for Mediterranean Studies: A Presentation (2019)
Direction: Michalis Felanis

 

The Secret, 1993

Duration: 59'

• Script-Direction: Stavros Psillakis
• Scientific Collaborators: Giorgos Amargianakis, Giorgos Nikolakakis, Nikos Dionysopoulos
• Cinematography: Kostas Papanastasatos - Stavros Psillakis
• Sound:  Nikos Dionysopoulos
• Film Editing: Giorgos Triantafyllou
• Narrator: Apostolis Asimakis
• Executive Producer: Stavros Psillakis

Story

Manolis Stagakis, an 80-year-old craftsman, and his 40-year-old son Mihalis make Cretan lyres in their workshop in Rethimno. The life trajectories of the two men and the differences between them suggest a battle between the old and the new. In parallel with the making of lyres, this battle leads to the secret of what makes the lyres, as the old-craftsman says, to sing.

 

The Brothers, 1994

Duration: 62'

• Based on an idea of Giorgos Nikolakakis
• Script-Direction-Text: Stavros Psillakis
• Scientific Collaborators: Giorgos Nikolakakis, Nikos Dionysopoulos
• Cinematography: Philippos Koutsaftis, Dimitris Katsaitis
• Sound supervision: Marinos Athanasopoulos
• Sound recording: Vaggelis Papadopoulos, Epameinondas Chatzinikolis
• Film Editing: Despoina Maroulakou
• Narrators: Apostolis Asimakis, Kostis Giourgos
• Executive Producer: Stavros Psillakis

Story

The film depicts a rare encounter between shepherds of Eastern and Western Crete--of men so close but also so far away from each other...

In 1985, in a cave on Mount Psiloritis, the area's shepherds find some human bones, which are believed to be those of Daskalogiannis' fighters, who escaped Turkish imprisonment during the upheaval of the 1770s. Finding these bones brought together three mountain communities of Crete: Gergeri and Nyvritos (where the bones were found) and Anopolis of Sfakia (the homeland of the dead men).

Since then, every year, when the shepherds of Philoritis celebrate their Saint close to the cave, their Sfakian brothers of the White Mountain join them to commemorate their ancestors. A feast among 'friends and brothers' follows.

 

To gliki ear tis Argyroupolis/The Sweet Spring of Argiroupolis 

Duration: 49'

Director: Thodoros Chatzipantazis
Collaboration: :  Stavros Psillakis
Cinematography: Philippos Koutsaftis & Stavros Psillakis
Sound Supervision: N. Dionysopoulos & L. Spiliopoulos
Film Editing: Despoina Maroulakou 
The lyre played by: Stelios Iliakis
«Oh! My Sweet Spring» hymn sung by: Manolis Chatzimarkos
Production: Institute for Mediterranean Studies. Co-financed by The General Secretariat of the Region of Crete (in the framework of the development programs of The European Union)

 

Dominicos Theotokopoulos 

Duration: 120'

Direction: Theodoros Chatzipantazis, Greek version

 

El Greco: Pieces of an Artistic Puzzle (English version)

Duration: 120'

A Diptych by Theodore Hadjipantazis
Collaborating Art Historian: Nicos Hadjinicolaou
Director of Photography: Philippos Koutsaftis
Production Manager: Stavros Psyllakis
Sound Engineer: Nikos Dionyssopoulos
Editor: Manolis Chiladakis
Produced by the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (F.O.R.T.H.) in collaboration with the Secretariat General of the District of Crete

Part One: The Flight
Part Two: The Return

 

Heraklion: A Palimpsest City 

Duration: 1:27'

Direction: Theodoros Chatzipantazis