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GREEK SHORTS SUMMER 2020
INDEX NOTE
The first part of this catalogue includes short films that were produced in the second semester of 2019 and the first of 2020 and have been financed by the Greek Film Centre in the framework of its funding pro-grammes and/or its inter-national film festivals’ promotion and support programme. Some of the films were just completed and seek for festival premiere.
The second part of the catalogue includes short films in progress financed by the Greek Film Centre in the frame-work of its funding programmes and they will be completed in 2020 or early 2021. At this stage they are seeking for post-production support and for world/international pre-miere in film festivals.
Films supported by GFC in the framework of the provided promotional schemes
Films financed by GFC in the framework of the provided funding programs
Just Completed Films
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ALL THE FIRES THE FIRE 6Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis
ALPHA MALE 7Christos Dimolikas
ANNA AND PHAEDRA 8Elina Panik
AZAN 9Georgia Marangouli
BASIL 10Vangelis Serfas
BELLA 11Thelyia Petraki
THE CAR MECHANIC 12Alexandros Tsadilas
CLOUD 13Michael Demetrius
THE DUDE 14Alexandros Kakaniaris
ECDYSIS 15Pavlos Sifakis
ELECTRIC SWAN 16Κonstantina Κotzamani
ESCAPING THE FRAGILE PLANET 17Thanasis Tsimpinis
F 18Eftychia Iosifidou
FROM THE BALCONY 19Aris Kaplanidis
GOADS 20Iris Baglanea
ΗΑΜΑΜ 21Barbara Dukas
HANSEL 22Vivian Papageorgiou
IDENTITY 23Panos Pappas & Despina Charalampous
MARE NOSTRUM 24Dimitris Anagnostou
MARIE 25Panayotis Kravvaris
THE MEANING OF AUGUST 26Manos Papadakis
THE MECHANIC 27Dimitris Kotselis
MOM’S MOVIE 28Stella Kyriakopoulos
MOTORWAY 65 29Evanthia Kalogiropoulou
POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD 30Konstantinos Antonopoulos
PREMIER AMOUR 31Haris Raftogiannis
ROUGE 32Kostis Theodosopoulos
ROUTE-3 33Thanasis Neofotistos
SAD GIRL WEEKEND 34Dimitris Tsakaleas & Lida Vartzioti
SON 35Kostas Tataroglou
ALASKA 38Michalis Giakgounidis
APALLOU 39Nikos Avgoustidis
BABUSHKA 40Michael Kimonas
ΤHE GIRAFFE 41Connie Zikou
HAPPY MOMENTS 42Alexandros Zarbis
HORSEPOWER 43Spyros Skandalos
IN HER STEPS 44Anastasia Kratidi
A NIGHT AT THE CEMETARY 45Stelios Polychronakis
OLD WEST 46Despina Kourti
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ALL THE FIRES THE FIREEfthimis Kosemund Sanidis
ALPHA MALEChristos Dimolikas
ANNA AND PHAEDRAElina Panik
AZANGeorgia Marangouli
BASILVangelis Serfas
BELLAThelyia Petraki
THE CAR MECHANICAlexandros Tsadilas
CLOUDMichael Demetrius
THE DUDEAlexandros Kakaniaris
ECDYSISPavlos Sifakis
ELECTRIC SWANΚonstantina Κotzamani
ESCAPING THE FRAGILE PLANETThanasis Tsimpinis
FEftychia Iosifidou
FROM THE BALCONYAris Kaplanidis
GOADSIris Baglanea
ΗΑΜΑΜBarbara Dukas
HANSELVivian Papageorgiou
IDENTITYPanos Pappas & Despina Charalampou
MARE NOSTRUMDimitris Anagnostou
MARIEPanayotis Kravvaris
THE MEANING OF AUGUSTManos Papadakis
THE MECHANICDimitris Kotselis
MOM’S MOVIEStella Kyriakopoulos
MOTORWAY 65Evanthia Kalogiropoulou
POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF THE WORLDKonstantinos Antonopoulos
PREMIER AMOURHaris Raftogiannis
ROUGEKostis Theodosopoulos
ROUTE-3Thanasis Neofotistos
SAD GIRL WEEKENDDimitris Tsakaleas & Lida Vartzioti
SONKostas Tataroglou
| 72ND LOCARNO FF – PARDI DI DOMANI
| REYKJAVÍK IFF
| ZINEBI| WINTERTHUR
| CURTA CINEMA| CLERMONT FERRAND
– SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
ALL THE FIRES THE FIREBy Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis
DIRECTION: Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis
SCREENPLAY: Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis
CAST: Nikos Georgakis, Dimitris
Xanthopoulos, Thanasis Bratos,
Vaggelis Tsimpogiannis
PRODUCER: Michalis Alexakis,
Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis
PRODUCTION: FOSS Productions
(Greece), fossproductions.gr,
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Some Shorts,
Wouter Jansen, [email protected],
someshorts.com
DRAMA • GREECE • 2019 • 25΄ • Greek
Men set birds free on the mountains. Two grie
ving, estranged brothers try their marksman
ship together with their sons. It’s the hunting
season. Can a bird’ s heart stop in the sky with
no bullets coming through its body?
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| DIVERSIONS ISFF| DRAMA ISFF
DIRECTION: Christos Dimolikas
SCREENPLAY: Christos Dimolikas
CAST: Thanasis Dovris, Alex Hassani,
Anastasia Hatzara, Marina Viliou
PRODUCER: Marni Films,
Christos Dimolikas
PRODUCTION: Marni Films (Greece),
[email protected], marnifilms.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Marni Films
ALPHA MALEBy Christos Dimolikas
DRAMA • GREECE • 2019 • 17΄ • Greek
A middleaged man oscillates between the ob
ligations of family life & his need for selfful
filment.
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| DRAMA ISFF| VILNIUS ISFF
ANNA AND PHAEDRABy Elina Panik
DIRECTION: Elina Panik
SCREENPLAY: Elina Panik
CAST: Effi Rabsilber, Romanna Lobach
PRODUCER: Giorgos Karnavas, Konstan
tinos Kontovrakis, Gabija Siurbyte
PRODUCTION: Heretic (Greece),
[email protected], heretic.gr
COPRODUCTION: Dansu Films
(Lithuania)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Heretic
(Greece), [email protected], heretic.gr
DRAMA • GREECE, LITHUANIA • 2019 • 20΄ • Greek
Anna is a 30yearold actress who strives to be
looked at, while Phaedra is a woman of similar
age who doesn’t know what it means to look or
to be looked at, as she was born blind. When
they will meet for the needs of a theatre role,
their encounter will catapult them in a com
plex web of tension, dynamics and, ultimately,
recon ciliation.
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| DRAMA ISFF| TANGIER IFF| GLOBAL MIGRATION FF
| EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS – BEST STUDENT DIRECTOR
| CANADIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS – BEST SOUND, BEST STUDENT
FILM
DIRECTION: Georgia Marangouli
SCREENPLAY: Georgia Marangouli
CAST: Stella Fyrogeni, Leoni Xerovasila,
Ieronymos Kaletsanos
PRODUCER: Georgia Marangouli
PRODUCTION: Georgia Marangouli
(Greece), [email protected]
COPRODUCTION: MARNI FILMS
(Greece), [email protected]
INTERNATIONAL SALES: MARNI FILMS
(Greece), [email protected]
AZANBy Georgia Marangouli
1st FILM • DRAMA • GREECE • 2019 • 23΄ • Greek,
English, Arabic
Angelos, an eighteen year old soldier, disap
pears the night before at the GreekTurkish
borders. After his mother travels up there in a
desperate mood and everybody denies infor
mation about him, she sets on a quest at the
actual borders. The meeting with a woman
from Syria would help her to understand what
happened the night her son disappeared.
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| DRAMA ISFF | TANGIERS MEDITERRANEAN SFF
BASILBy Vangelis Serfas
DIRECTION: Vangelis Serfas
SCREENPLAY: Vangelis Serfas
CAST: Andreas Konstantinou,
Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Elena Mavridou
PRODUCER: Yorgos Paterakis
PRODUCTION: Post Room (Greece),
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Post Room
(Greece)
DRAMA • GREECE • 2019 • 18΄ • Greek
A man returns to his birthplace for his mother’s
funeral. She has left a pot of basil for him to
take care of. During the time he spends there
he confronts his past.
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| VISIONS DU REEL 2020 – SPECIAL MENTION
| OBERHAUSEN FF 2020 – E-FLUX PRIZE
DIRECTION: Thelyia Petraki
SCREENPLAY: Thelyia Petraki
CAST: Elena Topalidou,
Nikos Kouris, Eleni Megreli
PRODUCER: Kostas Tagalakis
PRODUCTION: Topspot (Greece),
[email protected], topspot.gr
COPRODUCTION: ERT (Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Topspot
(Greece)
BELLABy Thelyia Petraki
HYBRID FICTION, DOCUMENTARY • GREECE
2020 • 24΄ • Greek
Greece 19861987, just at the end of the Cold
War. Anthi’s major priorities are human ideals.
While she handles the practical daytoday
problems, she misses Christos who is away to
Moscow. But Greece is changing, the world is
changing and with them Christos seems to be
changing as well.
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THE CAR MECHANICBy Alexandros Tsadilas
DIRECTION: Alexandros Tsadilas
SCREENPLAY: Alexandros Tsadilas
CAST: Stelios Iakovidis
PRODUCER: Ioanna Soultani
PRODUCTION: Soul Productions
(Greece), [email protected],
soulproductions.gr
COPRODUCTION: Authorwave (Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Soul
Productions (Greece)
DRAMA • GREECE • 2019 • 15΄ • Greek
A car mechanic, locked in his own world,
spends his life repairing cars but he commu
nicates with them emotionally... as if they were
alive.
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| DRAMA ISFF
DIRECTION: Michael Demetrius
SCREENPLAY: Michael Demetrius
CAST: Argyris Xafis, Stefania Kalomoiri,
Xaris Markou, Nicholas Vlachakis,
PRODUCER: Michael Demetrius
PRODUCTION: Michael Demetrius
(Greece), [email protected],
michaeldemetrius.com
COPRODUCTION: ARCTOS Films SA
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Michael
Demetrius (Greece)
CLOUDBy Michael Demetrius
DRAMA • GREECE • 2019 • 20΄ • Greek
Paul is a veteran rock musician. His daughter,
Anna, is secretly a phonesex worker. Drugs,
alcohol, sex, ephemeral relationships, meaning
less lives, rock n’ roll: an allegorical reflection
of Athens today, and a raw depiction of a fami
ly drama between father and daughter. Two
hopeless people, two common lives, countless
clouds.
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| DRAMA ISFF
DIRECTION: Alexandros Kakaniaris
SCREENPLAY: Alexandros Kakaniaris
CAST: Dimitris Antoniou, Giorgos
Souxes, Menelaos Hazarakis,
Simeon Tsakiris
PRODUCER: Andromachi Arvaniti
PRODUCTION: ARTemis Productions
(Greece), Cooperative of Greek Cinema
& TV Technicians (Greece),
artemisproductions.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: ARTemis
Productions (Greece)
THE DUDEBy Alexandros Kakaniaris
FICTION • GREECE • 2019 • 17΄ • Greek
Stratis is a 12yearold Gypsy boy who tries to
escape the reality of poverty, crime and racial
prejudice, by becoming a sailor. He also wants
to be the toughest kid around and calls him
self “The Dude”. He spends his days at the port,
where he becomes friend with a couple of sailors
who promise to take him along when he is old
enough. Until one day he gets involved in a
drug deal that goes horribly wrong.
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ECDYSISBy Pavlos Sifakis
DIRECTION: Pavlos Sifakis
SCREENPLAY: Pavlos Sifakis
CAST: Elena Topalidou, Jeo Pakitsas,
Michael Ikonomou, Eva Angelopoulou
PRODUCER: Ioanna Soultani
PRODUCTION: Soul Productions
(Greece), [email protected],
soulproductions.gr
COPRODUCTION: Authorwave
(Greece), [email protected],
authorwave.com, Artcut (Greece),
[email protected], artcut.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Soul
Productions (Greece)
HORROR • GREECE • 2020 • 17΄ • Greek
Lena carries her infected son, Ares, to a retired
doctor hoping he will be able to cure him. But
Ares’s infection proves extremely aggressive
and Lena’s love for her son is tested as she
watches him transforming into a different being.
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| VENICE IFF 2019 | REYKJAVIK IFF| NOUVEAU CINEMA
| VALDIVIA IFF| UPPSALA IFF| TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FF
| ISTANBUL IFF| CLERMONT FERRAND
ELECTRIC SWANBy Κonstantina Κotzamani
DIRECTION: Konstantina Kotzamani
SCREENPLAY: Konstantina Kotzamani
CAST: Carlos Aduviri, Nelly Prince,
Elisa Massino, Nikita Zuckerberg
PRODUCER: Emmanuel Chaumet,
Caroline Demopoulos
PRODUCTION: Ecce Films (France),
[email protected], eccefilms.fr
COPRODUCTION: Un Puma
(Argentina), Homemade Films (Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Ecce
Films (France)
DRAMA • FRANCE, ARGENTINA, GREECE
2019 • 40΄ • Spanish
Buildings are not supposed to move. But on
Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves
and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nau
sea that devours its residents. Those who live
on the top are afraid they’ll fall the ones who
live beneath are afraid they’ll drown.
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DIRECTION: Thanasis Tsimpinis
SCREENPLAY: Thanasis Tsimpinis
CAST: Michael Tabakakis, Nikos Lekakis
PRODUCER: Phaedra Vokali, Mina Dreki
PRODUCTION: Marni Films (Greece),
[email protected], marnifilms.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Marni
Films (Greece)
ESCAPING THE FRAGILE PLANETBy Thanasis Tsimpinis
DRAMA, SCIF • GREECE • 2020 • 17΄ • Greek
A few hours before the world ends, two men
have an unexpected encounter, while a strange
pink fog is spreading throughout the city. There
is neither past nor future for them, only the
space in between, where they just decide to
live, despite the violent touch of time.
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FBy Eftychia Iosifidou
DIRECTION: Eftychia Iosifidou
SCREENPLAY: Eftychia Iosifidou
CAST: Panos Kranidiotis,
Elena Mengreli
PRODUCER: Nancy Kokolaki,
Nikos Moustakas, Eftychia Iosifidou
PRODUCTION: Bad Crowd, (Greece),
[email protected], badcrowd.eu
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Bad Crowd
IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA • GREECE
2020 • 11΄ • Greek
Next to the sea, two people talk. A male voice,
a female voice. What are their words? It doesn’t
matter. Whatever they say, exists only between
them. Their adventure to become the charac
ters of a story, while they narrate it this is their
story.
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DIRECTION: Aris Kaplanidis
SCREENPLAY: Aris Kaplanidis,
Ilias Roumeliotis
VOICE: Giorgos Ninios,
Zoi Rigopoulou, Maria Diakopanagioti,
Konstantina Georganta
PRODUCER: Ioanna Soultani
PRODUCTION: Soul Productions
(Greece), [email protected],
soulproductions.gr
COPRODUCTION: Authorwave
(Greece), [email protected],
authorwave.com
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Soul
Productions (Greece)
FROM THE BALCONYBy Aris Kaplanidis
ΑΝΙΜΑΤΙΟΝ • GREECE • 2020 • 12΄ • Greek
A middleaged lady observes the world of an
Athenian neighborhood from her balcony with
mixed reactions from those she constantly
watches. Until she is no longer there & that
world changes forever.
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DIRECTION: Iris Baglanea
SCREENPLAY: Iris Baglanea
CAST: Christos Passalis,
Matina Kartsiouna
PRODUCER: Maria Repousi
PRODUCTION: Wholewave (Greece),
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Zen Movie
(Italy), zenmovie.it ,
GOADSBy Iris Baglanea
1st FILM • SOCIAL DRAMA • GREECE • 2020 • 15΄
Greek, German
She remembered that light. It was the one try
ing to enter the dark through the window and
the curtain. It was as if something was whis
pering at Ira’s ears, but its sound she knew not.
Neither she imagined that one day, she would
dare to stand in front of it, to defend it.
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ΗΑΜΑΜBy Barbara Dukas
DIRECTION: Barbara Dukas
SCREENPLAY: Barbara Dukas
CAST: Zacharias Rochas, Fay Ksila, Kos
tas Bibis, Nikos Arvanitis
PRODUCER: Ioanna Soultani
PRODUCTION: Soul Productions
(Greece), [email protected],
soulproductions.gr
COPRODUCTION: Authorwave
(Greece), [email protected],
authorwave.com, Artcut (Greece),
[email protected], artcut.gr, Playground
(Greece), The J. F. Costopoulos Foun
dation (Greece), European Investment
Group LTD (Greece).
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Soul
Productions (Greece)
DRAMA • GREECE • 2020 • 20΄ • Greek
History of modern Greece, so full of adventures:
division, national turmoil, disaster, occupation
and dictatorship together with the everyday
stories of two families and the persons around
them, their desires and destinies, through the
eyes of a painting that changes hands and
owners οver the years.
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| SCREAMFEST, LA, USA, OCTOBER 2020 – OFFICIAL SELECTION
DIRECTION: Vivian Papageorgiou
SCREENPLAY: Vivian Papageorgiou
CAST: Aggelos Karaminas, Andromachie
Makridou, Nestoras Kopsidas
PRODUCER: Mina Dreki
PRODUCTION: Marni Films (Greece),
[email protected], marnifilms.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Mina Dreki
(Greece), [email protected],
marnifilms.gr
HANSELBy Vivian Papageorgiou
FICTION (DARK FAIRY TALE) • GREECE • 2020 • 17΄
Greek
A young boy is trapped in a Gingerbread House
which underneath hides a gloomy world, while
his mother is desperately trying to find the gate
that will take him out of there.
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| DRAMA ISFF| BERLIN SCI-FI FILMFEST
| MONTEVIDEO FANTASTICO 12| BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL
FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL
| LONDON GREEK FILM FESTIVAL| BALTICON 54
IDENTITYBy Panos Pappas & Despina Charalampous
DIRECTION: Panos Pappas &
Despina Charalampous
SCREENPLAY: Despina Charalampous
CAST: Elena Mavridou, Ektoras Liatsos,
Vassilis Koukalani, Sophia Georgiadou
PRODUCER: Nancy Kokolaki,
Nikos Moustakas
PRODUCTION: Bad Crowd (Greece),
[email protected], badcrowd.eu
COPRODUCTION: Two Times
Filmmaking (Greece), Les Films à la
Carte (Romania), Eyelandarts (USA)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Bad
Crowd (Greece)
FANTASY • GREECE, ROMANIA • 2019 • 14΄ • Greek
In the passport control area of an airport, a
woman travelling transit realizes that her face
has changed during the flight. Since no one
can believe this, Adriana is arrested for illegal
entry in the country and is driven to the police
station. Bad luck for the authorities, the face of
Andriana is still changing every day.
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| VIENNA SHORTS 2020
DIRECTION: Dimitris Anagnostou
SCREENPLAY: Dimitris Anagnostou
CAST: Thanasis Dovris, Drosos
Skotis, Aris Balis, Pinelopi Darsakli,
Katerina Giannouli
PRODUCER: Antigoni Rota, Yorgos Zois,
Christina Tsironi
PRODUCTION: Squared Square
(Greece), [email protected]
COPRODUCTION: Mild productions
(Greece), [email protected]
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Lights On
(Italy), [email protected],
lightsonfilm.com
MARE NOSTRUMBy Dimitris Anagnostou
1st FILM • HISTORICAL DRAMA • GREECE • 2020
25΄ • Greek, French
Nineteenthcentury, in a vast and desolate
coast, a group of humanist tourists are seeking
Arcadia and the ancient ruins, symbols of an
emerging Greek and European identity. More
than a century later, an unidentified corpse lies
on the same coast. Motionless, almost para
lyzed, an anonymous crowd stands numb and
stares…
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| EXGROUND FILMFEST
MARIEBy Panayotis Kravvaris
DIRECTION: Panayotis Kravvaris
SCREENPLAY: Panayotis Kravvaris
CAST: Konstantinos Gogoulos, Marie
Kanama, Lamine Kabe, Thanos Tokakis
PRODUCER: Lilette Botassi
PRODUCTION: Inkas Films Productions
(Greece), [email protected],
inkasfilms.com
COPRODUCTION: Cekta (Greece),
Dimitris Stamboulis (Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Inkas Films
Productions (Greece)
DRAMA • GREECE • 2019 • 14΄ • Greek
Michalis, a young lonely student moves into a
terrace loft in downtown Athens. Marie, a young
African woman lives in the same building, and
in the eyes of the young man she represents
everything he hates: she’s lazy, vulgar, stupid,
foreigner. The more reasons he finds to hate
her, the more attracted he gets to her confident
and carefree manners. When Marie finds her
self in a dangerous situation, Michalis faces the
dilemma whether to act or remain an observer.
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THE MEANING OF AUGUSTBy Manos Papadakis
DIRECTION: Manos Papadakis
SCREENPLAY: Manos Papadakis
CAST: Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Vassilis
Vassilakis, Nikolakis Zeginoglou,
Mary Mina
PRODUCER: Yorgos Paterakis
PRODUCTION: Post room (Greece),
[email protected], ERT (Greece)
COPRODUCTION: White Balance,
(Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: c/o Post Room
(Greece)
1st FILM • DRAMA • GREECE • 2020 • 27΄ • Greek
Andreas has to take care of the boss’s house
and dog. The dog is mad. The house is luxuri
ous. His coworkers are jealous. The neighbor is
stalking close by. The dog is called Leben. The
dog has its own plans.
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| ATHENS IFF
DIRECTION: Dimitris Kotselis
SCREENPLAY: Dimitris Kotselis
CAST: Aggelos Skasilas,
Yiorgos Glynos, Thanasis Dovris
PRODUCER: Konstantinos Vassilaros
PRODUCTION: StudioBauhaus
(Greece), [email protected],
studiobauhaus.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: StudioBauhaus
THE MECHANICBy Dimitris Kotselis
FANTASY • GREECE • 2019 • 12΄ • Greek
Two old friends meet in a café, where they re
minisce its operation as a garage, where a bi
zarre occurrence took place.
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| LOCARNO FF – PARDI DI DOMANI
| LEEDS IFF
| GIJÓN IFF| BOGOSHORTS BOGOTA ISFF
MOM’S MOVIEBy Stella Kyriakopoulos
DIRECTION: Stella Kyriakopoulos
SCREENPLAY: Stella Kyriakopoulos,
Marisha Triantafyllidou
CAST: Maria Filini, Sofia Koroni
PRODUCER: Fani Skartouli
PRODUCTION: Either/Or Productions
(Greece), [email protected],
eitherorproductions.com
COPRODUCTION: La Aventura
Audiovisual (Spain)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Origine Films
(France) [email protected],
originefilms.fr
BLACK COMEDY • GREECE, SPAIN
2019 • 13΄ • Greek
While proudly filming her 2yearold daugh
ter’s accomplishments in her backyard pool,
Maria runs into technical difficulties.
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| CANNES OFFICIAL SELECTION 2020 – SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
MOTORWAY 65 By Evanthia Kalogiropoulou
1st FILM • IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA
GREECE • 2019 • 14΄ • Greek
The movie describes the relationship between
two siblings living in the industrial zone of Elef
sina, an area near Athens. Their neighbourhood
is connected by a bridge, motorway 65, to
an adjacent area, which has more diverse de
mographics. The two areas, coexist in tension
because of conflicts which reflect cultural dif
ferences between the two communities. The
hostility is also present in the strong sports
culture of the area, further sparking the mutual
antagonism.
DIRECTION: Evanthia Kalogiropoulou
SCREENPLAY: Evanthia Kalogiropoulou
CAST: Elli Tringou, Argyris Pandazaras,
Ksenia Dania, Stathis Papadopoulos
PRODUCER: Evanthia Kalogiropoulou
PRODUCTION/CONTACT: Evanthia
Kalogiropoulou (Greece),
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| SARAJEVO IFF| TAMPERE IFF| NAMUR IFF
– SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY
| ASPEN SHORTSFEST – BEST COMEDY AWARD
| REGARD SAGUENAY ISFF – JURY PRIZE
| WINTERTHUR SFF – AUDIENCE AWARD
| MINIMALEN SHORT FF – HONORABLE MENTION
| ATHENS IFF – BEST DIRECTING
AWARD
DIRECTION: Konstantinos Antonopoulos
SCREENPLAY: Konstantinos Antonopoulos
CAST: Giorgos Gallos, Aggeliki
Dimitrakopoulou
PRODUCER: Fani Skartouli
PRODUCTION: Either/Or Productions
(Greece), [email protected],
eitherorproductions.com
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Premium Films
(France), contact@premiumfilms.com,
Martina Fiorellino,
mf@premiumfilms.com,
premiumfilms.com/en
POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF THE WORLDBy Konstantinos Antonopoulos
DRAMA, COMEDY • GREECE • 2019
23΄ • Greek, English, French
Dimitra and Dimitris try to endure the rest of
their vacation with their two daughters, in a
remote Greek island. Following an alarming in
terruption of telecommunications, the couple
is looking for a way to leave the island. An ab
surd comedy about a collapsing relationship in
a collapsing world.
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| CLERMONT FERRAND
PREMIER AMOURBy Haris Raftogiannis
DIRECTION: Haris Raftogiannis
SCREENPLAY: Haris Raftogiannis
CAST: Vaggelio Andreadaki,
Kostas Koronaios
PRODUCER: Eleni Kossyfidou
PRODUCTION: Blackbird production,
COPRODUCTION: Filmo2
(France), filmo2.com
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Manifest
(France), Anais Colpin,
manifest.pictures
DARK COMEDY • GREECE, FRANCE • 2020 • 15΄
Greek
Two loners meet for the first time. Their dogs
interact. Perhaps they do too.
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| ROTTERDAM IFF| DRAMA ISFF| ATHENS IFF
DIRECTION: Kostis Theodosopoulos
SCREENPLAY: Kostis Theodosopoulos
CAST: Sofia Kokkali, Sissy Toumasi,
Romana Lobach, Panos Koronis
PRODUCER: Phaedra Vokali
PRODUCTION: Marni Films (Greece),
[email protected], marnifilms.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Marni
Films (Greece)
ROUGEBy Kostis Theodosopoulos
DRAMA • GREECE • 2019 • 17΄ • Greek
Three young feminist activists question the
boundaries of their friendship when they get
caught in an incident of sexist violence. Torn
between theory and practice, they find that
killing the patriarchy is easier said than done,
and have scars to show for it.
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| TORONTO IFF| CLERMONT FERRAND
| WE ARE ONE GLOBAL FF
ROUTE-3By Thanasis Neofotistos
DIRECTION: Thanasis Neofotistos
SCREENPLAY: Marina Symeou
CAST: Enes Kozličić, Lazar
Dragojević, Simonida Mandić
PRODUCER: Dimitris Tsakaleas,
Armin Hadzic
PRODUCTION: Obala Art Center (Bosnia
& Herzegovina) [email protected], sff.ba
CO PRODUCTION: Imagina SA Pictures
(Greece), DNA Lab (Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Radiator IP
Sales (Belgium), Ben Vandendaele,
[email protected], radiatorsales.eu
COMING OF AGE COMEDY • BOSNIA & HERZEGOVI
NA, GREECE • 2019 • 13΄ • Bosnian
In a tram on Route3, the Old Lady in the leo
pard dress treats the passengers with juicy
oran ges during a hot day in the centre of Sara
jevo. Nadja, the princessteen in her pink hijab;
Luka, the virgin bully and many more ordinary
people in this tram have nothing in common,
but a juicy slice of orange. All except a shy, yet
horny, teenager named Amar.
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| SARAJEVO IFF | DRAMA ISFF| ATHENS IFF
| KARLOVY VARY IFF – FUTURE FRAMES
| TRIESTE IFF
| MANAKI BROTHERS INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHERS’ FF
| SHORT WAVES IFF
DIRECTION: Dimitris Tsakaleas
& Lida Vartzioti
SCREENPLAY: Dimitris Tsakaleas
& Lida Vartzioti
CAST: Elsa Lekakou, Georgina
Liossi, Natasa Exidaveloni
PRODUCER: Iro Aidoni, Dimitris
Tsakaleas, Maria Laskaridou,
Sotiris Petridis
PRODUCTION: Marni Films (Greece),
[email protected], marnifilms.gr
COPRODUCTION: Artcut Moving Image
Productions (Greece), [email protected],
artcut.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Marni
Films (Greece)
SAD GIRL WEEKENDBy Dimitris Tsakaleas & Lida Vartzioti
COMING OF AGE DRAMA • GREECE
2019 • 15΄ • Greek
Elli, Natasa, and Jo, three best friends from col
lege, are spending their last weekend together
on a getaway on Elli’s summerhouse. Natasha
and Jo are leaving to study abroad, something
that makes Elli feel that she is left behind. The
tension between the three friends is high and
sooner or later, they will realize that goodbyes
are hard.
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SONBy Kostas Tataroglou
DIRECTION: Kostas Tataroglou
SCREENPLAY: Yiannis Zafeiris
CAST: Lambros Konstaneas, Evangelia
Adreadaki, Costas Xikominos
PRODUCER: Vassilis Mazomenos,
Panos Papadopoulos
PRODUCTION: Horme Pictures (Greece),
hormepictures.wordpress.com
COPRODUCTION: Prosenghisi, (Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Horme
Pictures (Greece)
DRAMA • GREECE • 2019 • 10΄ • Greek
In a modern Greek province, a young man after
burying his father, leaves his mother and his
home in search of work.
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02ALASKAMichalis Giakgounidis
APALLOUNikos Avgoustidis
BABUSHKAMichael Kimonas
ΤHE GIRAFFEConnie Zikou
HAPPY MOMENTSAlexandros Zarbis
HORSEPOWERSpyros Skandalos
IN HER STEPSAnastasia Kratidi
A NIGHT AT THE CEMETARYStelios Polychronakis
OLD WESTDespina Kourti
ALASKABy Michalis Giakgounidis
2nd FILM • IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA
MUSICAL • GREECE • 2020 • 17΄ • Greek
Katerina, Alkis and their Grandpa. Their parents
have moved to Alaska in search of a better life.
Katerina gets into a fight, shoplifts from the
minimarket, makes sandwich(s). But when
Grandpa falls and does not seem to be getting
up again, the going gets tough. Luckily, there is
always the dance.
DIRECTION: Michalis Giakgounidis
SCREENPLAY: Michalis Giakgounidis
CAST: Foulis Bountouroglou
PRODUCER: Anna Monogiou
PRODUCTION: Artcut (Greece),
[email protected], artcut.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Anna Monogiou
(Greece), [email protected]
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APALLOUBy Nikos Avgoustidis
2nd FILM • IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA,
FANTASY • GREECE, FRANCE • 2020 • 24΄ • Greek
Stelios relocated from America to spend this
winter at his grandfather’s village in Greece.
One night, when he arrives at the village café
where he frequents, an otherworldly visitor his
dead grandfather is waiting for him, disturbing
the daily life of the whole village.
*APALLOU in Greek means from otherwhere
DIRECTION: Nikos Avgoustidis
SCREENPLAY: Nikos Avgoustidis
CAST: Mikes Glykas, Stelios Makrias,
Yannis Kokiasmenos
PRODUCER: Konstantinos Baliotis
PRODUCTION: 2D2R (Greece),
[email protected], 2d2r.net
COPRODUCTION: FILMO2 (France)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Manifest
(France), Anaïs Colpin,
manifest.pictures/
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DIRECTION: Michael Kimonas
SCREENPLAY: Michael Kimonas
CAST: Andreas Kartsatos,
Sofia Simoni, Spiros Kounadis,
Anna Danai Raptopoulou
PRODUCER: Phaedra Vokali
PRODUCTION: Marni Films (Greece),
[email protected], marnifilms.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Marni
Films (Greece)
BABUSHKABy Michael Kimonas
IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA • GREECE
2020 • 11΄ • Greek
Husbands and wives are being immured in a
strange apartment by an urban storm. Alcohol
and anger, fear and chocolate. Humanity is still
only in its teens.
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ΤHE GIRAFFEBy Connie Zikou
DIRECTION: Connie Zikou
SCREENPLAY: Connie Zikou
CAST: Michele Valley, Yorgos
Pirpassopoulos, Stavros Psyllakis,
Dimitris Passas
PRODUCER: Marina Danezi
PRODUCTION: Laika Productions
(Greece), [email protected],
laikaproductions.gr
COPRODUCTION: Smoking Dogs (UK)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Laika
Productions (Greece)
1st FILM • IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA
GREECE, UK • 2020 • 16΄ • Greek
M is a woman Who lives alone. She suffers from
insomnia and She cannot sleep alone at night.
The process is the following: She finds different
people to sleep with each time.it is just what
she needs so she can shut her eyes. The next
day is a new day. Struggling with insomnia.
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DIRECTION: Alexandros Zarbis
SCREENPLAY: Alexandros Zarbis
CAST: Orestis Tziovas, Christina
Xeila Fameli
PRODUCER: Kostas Sfakianakis
PRODUCTION: PLAYGROUND (Greece),
HAPPY MOMENTSBy Alexandros Zarbis
IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA, BLACK COMEDY
GREECE • 2020 • 14΄ • Greek
When Greece was occupied by Germans in the
second world war, young Loukas lives the vio
lence of the times, the only thing that makes
him happy it’s the kindness and the hugs that
gets from his teacher in the school.
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HORSEPOWERBy Spyros Skandalos
DIRECTION: Spyros Skandalos
SCREENPLAY: Spyros Skandalos,
Thomas Tsiftelis
CAST: Ioanna Kolliopoulou,
Alexandros Vardaxoglou,
Kostas Nikouli, Alexandra Hasani
PRODUCER: Antigoni Rota,
Alexis Anastasiadis
PRODUCTION: Squared Square
(Greece), [email protected]
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Squared
Square (Greece)
IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA • GREECE
2020 • 14΄ • Greek
Max, a young visual artist who questions her
sexuality, is a member of a gang of pranksters.
Her attempts to dominate the group will drive
the last prank onto her.
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IN HER STEPSBy Anastasia Kratidi
IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA • GREECE
2020 • 24΄ • Greek
The search of a mother in a Greek minors rural
jail.
DIRECTION: Anastasia Kratidi
SCREENPLAY: Anastasia Kratidi
CAST: Manto Giannikou, Michail
Tabakakis, Iason Faroukos
PRODUCER: Thanos Anastopoulos
PRODUCTION: Fantasia Audiovisual Ltd
(Greece), [email protected],
fantasiafilmworks.com
CO PRODUCTION: ERT (Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Fantasia
Audiovisual Ltd (Greece)
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A NIGHT AT THE CEMETARYBy Stelios Polychronakis
IN POST PRODUCTION • ANIMATION • GREECE
2020 • 10 • Greek
Maria lives in Crete. She heads to the ceme
tery every week, to tend her beloved husband’s
grave. Yanni was a grumpy caveman of a hus
band, but Maria visits regularly and performs
her duty with love and care. When she is forced
to spend the night among the tombstones, she
will finally be rewarded for all her years of dedi
cation.
DIRECTION: Stelios Polychronakis
SCREENPLAY: Stelios Polychronakis
VOICE: Marina Vlachaki, Evaggelos
Metocharakis, Myron Kalogerakis
PRODUCER: Konstantinos Vassilaros
PRODUCTION: StudioBauhaus (Greece),
[email protected], studiobahaus.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: StudioBauhaus
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OLD WESTBy Despina Kourti
DIRECTION: Despina Kourti
SCREENPLAY: Vangelis Serfas
CAST: Yiorgos Kendros, Youla Boudali
PRODUCER: Maria Drandaki
PRODUCTION: Homemade Films
(Greece), [email protected],
homemadefilms.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Homemade
Films (Greece)
2nd FILM • IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA
GREECE • 2020 • 18΄ • Greek
Argyris is an elderly man in the first stage of de
mentia. When his symptoms worsen, he decides
with his daughter, Sophie, to enter a nursing
home. The last days of his freedom, Argyris
wanders around the city, meeting old friends
while having a secret plan. He wants to get a
revolver.
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