故事背景设定在一个虚构的近未来社会，居民的婚恋受到严格控制管理。根据规定，单身者要被集中移送到一个酒店里，他们必须要在45天之内找到一个匹配的伴侣，失败者会被转化为一种自选的动物，并被流放到森林中。为了延长45天的期限，酒店里的单身者们还会到森林里狩猎其他逃亡的单身者。
本片的主人公大卫（柯林·法瑞尔 Colin Farrell 饰）与一批单身者一同被送到酒店，他忍受着这里的各种严苛规定，同时也积极在酒店提供的各式各样的相亲场合中寻找伴侣。眼看期限将至，大卫还没有找到合适的伴侣。尝试和一个女人配对失败后，他逃到了酒店外面的森林，逃亡的单身者居住的地方。然而，在这个单身者反抗酒店制度的栖息地里，又有着另一套截然不同的制度……

本片讲述了一个与世隔绝的奇怪家庭。家庭成员由一对父母和大儿子、两个女儿组成，一家五口终日生活在一座隐秘的大宅子里。三个孩子自小被父亲隔离于此，他们不能接触除父母外的人，对高墙之外的世界几乎一无所知。父亲上班后，他们就与母亲在屋子里学习、玩耍。他们所有的知识都由父母教导，父亲告诉他们，外面的世界极其危险，而孩子们如果想要出去，必须等到“狗牙”脱落。
父亲是唯一可以驾车到外面去的人，他有一份正常的工作，会为孩子们带回生活必需品以及奖赏，他有时也会带回公司里一个女员工——克里斯蒂安，她是受雇来满足大儿子的性需求的。而她的几次到来，正在悄悄地改变这个家庭……

外科医生史蒂文与拥有痛苦经历的少年，男孩的行为愈发疯狂，史蒂文的理想生活也慢慢消逝。

故事围绕一个名叫“阿尔卑斯”的另类公司展开，由医生、护士、体操选手及其教练四人组成，他们接受来自不同死者亲人、朋友、同事的委托，成为亡灵的替身，以缓解死亡对他们带来的悲伤情绪。

一位大提琴家在地铁上的遭遇，而这对他的人生产生了意想不到的深远影响。据悉本片旨在提出关于身份、感知、关系和循环的问题。

Kinetta, a Greek desolate resort town, inhabited during the off-season by migrant workers. Lanthimos studies the cryptic activities of an inscrutable trio (a policeman, a photographer and a hotel maid) who barely speak and who pass the time by staging re-enactments of murders.
The policeman with a passion for automobiles, tape recorders and Russian women, investigates a series of recent murders in the area. He enlists the help of a photo-store clerk, a loner who is a part-time videographer, and a young hotel maid, who will be performing the role of the female victims. This oddball trio engages in a succession of murder re-enactments, directed by the cop with exhaustive attention to detail but questionable scientific purpose…
We know nothing more of these people. Not even their names. They will disappear in the first flood of summer vacationers...

欧格斯·兰斯莫斯([宠儿])将自编自导新片[小镇人口1280](Pop. 1280，暂译)。影片改编自吉姆·汤普森撰写的同名犯罪小说，该小说于1964年出版，讲述一个小镇腐败警长以他独有的方式操纵小镇人民，以赢得下一次选举。该小说曾于1981年被法国导演贝特朗·塔维涅改编为影片[政变]，菲利普·努瓦雷、伊莎贝尔·于佩尔主演，并提名奥斯卡最佳外语片奖。

5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.

BLEAT
Yorgos Lanthimos
World Premiere
The Artist on the Composer
A GNO and NEON co-production
6, 7, 8 May 2022 | Starts at: 18.00, 20.00, 22.00
Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera – SNFCC
Producer, scriptwriter, director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring Emma Stone and Damien Bonnard
The Artist on the Composer programme curators: Giorgos Koumendakis (GNO Artistic Director) – Elina Kountouri (ΝΕΟΝ Director)
Yorgos Lanthimos’ highly anticipated new film, Bleat –the second work to be commissioned as part of the GNO and NEON programme The Artist on the Composer– is to have its world-first premieres accompanied by live music ensembles on 6, 7 and 8 May 2022 inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall at the SNFCC. The Greek National Opera’s participation in the co-production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) [
] to enhance the GNO’s artistic outreach.
The award-winning Greek filmmaker accepted the invitation extended by GNO Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis and NEON Director Elina Kountouri to produce, write, and direct the short film Bleat, shot on the Greek island of Tinos in February 2020, and starring Oscar-winning American actor Emma Stone and acclaimed French actor Damien Bonnard.
The Artist on the Composer programme –run by the Greek National Opera and NEON [
]– connects pioneering contemporary artists and filmmakers/producers with orchestral music performed live. Through works that spring from the programme’s new commissions, each artist responds to, and enters into dialogue with pieces by classical composers, free from every standard operatic convention, trope and storyline, in the hope of reaching audiences who may never have connected with opera before.
Following on from The Artist on the Composer’s first commission –a 2019 installation by Nikos Navridis– the gifted and internationally renowned Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos takes on the programme’s second commission to create a new cinematic work that will always be presented with the live accompaniment of music ensembles. The work’s music script consists of pieces by J. S. Bach / Knut Nystedt and Toshio Hosokawa, performed live inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall by the soloists Angelina Tkatcheva (cimbalom) and Wu Wei (sheng), the “Maria Callas” quartet, and the Chorus of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.
Visual Arts Programme • New production • World premiere
Music and Visual Arts Cycle • A GNO and NEON co-production
The Artist on the Composer
The Artist on the Composer programme curators: Giorgos Koumendakis (GNO Artistic Director) – Elina Kountouri (ΝΕΟΝ Director)
Second Commission Yorgos Lanthimos: Bleat
6, 7, 8 May 2022
Start times: 18.00, 20.00, 22.00
Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera – SNFCC
Producer, scriptwriter, director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Emma Stone, Damien Bonnard
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach / Knut Nystedt, Toshio Hosokawa
Cimbalom: Angelina Tkatcheva
Sheng: Wu Wei
Chorus master: Agathangelos Georgakatos
With the participation of the “Maria Callas” quartet and the Chorus of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
Set designer: Anna Georgiadou
Costume designer: Angelos Mentis
Choreographer: Christos Papadopoulos
Director of photography: Thodoros Mihopoulos
Film editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Executive producer: Rebecca Skinner
Producer: Eleni Kossyfidou

影片由三段寓言故事组成，分别讲述：一个没有选择权的男人（杰西·普莱蒙 Jesse Plemons 饰），试图掌控自己的人生；一名警察（杰西·普莱蒙 Jesse Plemons 饰）惊见失踪已久的妻子（艾玛·斯通 Emma Stone 饰）突然回归，但性格似乎截然不同；一位女士（艾玛·斯通 Emma Stone 饰）决心找到一位有特殊能力的人，相信此人注定成为伟大的精神领袖。