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AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGOR AGO AG A DOLPHIN MAN (Documentary, 2017) Dolphin Man tells the life story of Jacques Mayol, the greatest free-diver in recorded history, whose life became the inspiration for Luc Besson’s cult-movie Le Grand Bleu. It draws us into Mayol’s world, capturing his compelling journey from Japan to Europe, North America and India, while immersing viewers into the sensory and transformative experience of free-diving. Mayol was the first diver to reach 100 metres below the sea and revolutionized free-diving by introducing yoga and Zen techniques. He traveled across the world, promoting an urgent vision of our need to reconnect with nature. The film weaves together stunning contemporary underwater photography of the world’s leading free-divers with intimate testimonies of Mayol’s closest friends and family and rare film archive. Director Lefteris Charitos Director’s CV Lefteris Charitos studied film at the Royal College of Arts, London and has directed 5 fiction and non-fiction series for Greek television, including the highly acclaimed history 1821, Journey of Food and Zone Defence fiction series. He ran the Let’s Cinema initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Education, introducing cinema to schools and currently coordinated the Digital Film Production BA at the SAE Creative Media College, Athens. Producer Rea Apostolides Director: Lefteris Charitos Writers: Yuri Averof, Lefteris Charitos Production Company: Anemon Productions, Les Films Du Balibari, Storyline Entertainment, Impleo Producers: Rea Apostolides, Yuri Averof, Estelle Robin, Ed Barreveld, Seiko Kato Languages: English, Greek, French, Japanese, Italian Running time: 87’ Total budget: €720.000 Key partners: Arte, CNC, Greek Film Centre, WOWOW, ERT, Knowledge, TVO, Canal Z, SVT, Region Pays de la Loire World Sales: Films Transit Stage: Post-production Looking for: Final funding and theatrical distribution partners Countries of production: Greece, France, Canada, Japan, Italy Contact: T: +30 210 7211 073 E: [email protected] W: www.anemon.gr Synopsis THESSALONIKI GOES TO CANNES 23–05 14.00-16.00 WORKS IN PROGRESS AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA AGORA ORA GORA AGORA AGORA AGORA Palais K, Level 4, Palais des Festivals WORKS IN PROGRESS THESSALONIKI GOES TO CANNES 23–05 14.00-16.00 THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Λ.Π. (Documentary, 2017) Λ.Π is a documentary about Lena Platonos, one of Greece’s most idiosyncratic musicians and one of the world’s forerunners in electronic music. Born on 21.10.1951 under the sign of Libra, she was trained as a classical pianist in Vienna and Berlin but eventually got involved with electronic music when synthesizers became accessible to musicians. However, Lena didn’t receive the international recognition she deserved. 30 years later, the release of her works by the American label Dark Entries in 2015 under critical acclaim gave us the perfect excuse to ask musicians from a wide range of contemporary music to experiment with her music, while interviewing her and all the people who were involved in the making of her records in the ’80s. Director’s CV Cristo studied cinema in Athens and through his career has worked extensively for TV, com- mercials and theatre. He has directed two awarded short films (MEAT & P.E.O.Z.) that travelled to festivals around the world including Venice, Berlinale, & Tokyo FF. Besides working on LP, he is in preproduction of his first feature film. Director/Writer: Cristo Petrou Production Company: Heretic Producer: Giorgos Karnavas, Ioanna Stais Languages: Greek/English Running time: approx. 70’ Total budget: €100.000 Key partners: Greek Film Center, ERT S.A World Sales: Heretic Outreach Stage: Editing Looking for: Finishing funding, Festival premier Countries of production: Greece Contact: T: +30 210 600 5260 E: [email protected] W: www.heretic.gr Synopsis Director Cristo Petrou Producer Giorgos Karnavas Producer Ioanna Stais

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DOLPHIN MAN (Documentary, 2017)

Dolphin Man tells the life story of Jacques Mayol, the greatest free-diver in recorded history, whose life became the inspiration for Luc Besson’s cult-movie Le Grand Bleu. It draws us into Mayol’s world, capturing his compelling journey from Japan to Europe, North America and India, while immersing viewers into the sensory and transformative experience of free-diving. Mayol was the fi rst

diver to reach 100 metres below the sea and revolutionized free-diving by introducing yoga and Zen techniques. He traveled across the world, promoting an urgent vision of our need to reconnect with nature. The fi lm weaves together stunning contemporary underwater photography of the world’s leading free-divers with intimate testimonies of Mayol’s closest friends and family and rare fi lm archive.

DirectorLefteris Charitos

Director’s CVLefteris Charitos studied fi lm at the Royal College of Arts, London and has directed 5 fi ction and non-fi ction series for Greek television, including the highly acclaimed history 1821, Journey of Food and Zone Defence fi ction series. He ran the Let’s Cinema initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Education, introducing cinema to schools and currently coordinated the Digital Film Production BA at the SAE Creative Media College, Athens.

ProducerRea Apostolides

Director: Lefteris CharitosWriters: Yuri Averof, Lefteris CharitosProduction Company: Anemon Productions, Les Films Du Balibari, Storyline Entertainment, ImpleoProducers: Rea Apostolides, Yuri Averof, Estelle Robin, Ed Barreveld, Seiko KatoLanguages: English, Greek, French, Japanese, ItalianRunning time: 87’Total budget: €720.000Key partners: Arte, CNC, Greek Film Centre, WOWOW, ERT, Knowledge, TVO, Canal Z, SVT, Region Pays de la Loire World Sales: Films TransitStage: Post-production

Looking for: Final funding and theatrical distribution partners

Countries of production: Greece, France, Canada, Japan, Italy

Contact:T: +30 210 7211 073E: [email protected]: www.anemon.gr

Synopsis

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

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THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Λ.Π. (Documentary, 2017)

Λ.Π is a documentary about Lena Platonos, one of Greece’s most idiosyncratic musicians and one of the world’s forerunners in electronic music. Born on 21.10.1951 under the sign of Libra, she was trained as a classical pianist in Vienna and Berlin but eventually got involved with electronic music when synthesizers became accessible to musicians. However, Lena didn’t receive the international recognition

she deserved. 30 years later, the release of her works by the American label Dark Entries in 2015 under critical acclaim gave us the perfect excuse to ask musicians from a wide range of contemporary music to experiment with her music, while interviewing her and all the people who were involved in the making of her records in the ’80s.

Director’s CVCristo studied cinema in Athens and through his career has worked extensively for TV, com-mercials and theatre. He has directed two awarded short fi lms (MEAT & P.E.O.Z.) that travelled to festivals around the world including Venice, Berlinale, & Tokyo FF. Besides working on LP, he is in preproduction of his fi rst feature fi lm.

Director/Writer: Cristo PetrouProduction Company: HereticProducer: Giorgos Karnavas, Ioanna StaisLanguages: Greek/EnglishRunning time: approx. 70’Total budget: €100.000Key partners: Greek Film Center, ERT S.AWorld Sales: Heretic OutreachStage: Editing

Looking for: Finishing funding, Festival premier

Countries of production: Greece

Contact:T: +30 210 600 5260E: [email protected]: www.heretic.gr

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DirectorCristo Petrou

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ProducerIoanna Stais

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ProducerIoanna Petinaraki

POLYXENI (Fiction, 2017)

In 1955 a couple of prominent Greek Istan-bulites adopt an orphan Greek girl from the town of their origin. They offer her a pow-erful family name and ensure her devotion. Twelve-year-old Polyxeni is separated from her younger brother. She embarks on a new

life and a future that looks bright. She re-ceives an education, comes of age and falls in love. She has a lust for life, while unsuspi-cious of the devious plan of annihilation that others are weaving behind her back, target-ing her large inheritance.

DirectorDora Masklavanou

Director’s CVDora Masklavanou is a director, writer and actress. Her first feature Tomorrow is Another Day was a critical success and the second one Coming as a Friend brought her more atten-tion and made a career in festivals. Dora’s latest credits include the screenplay of Filippos Tsitos’ latest film Unfair World, which was presented at the Official Competition of San Se-bastian Film Festival 2011. POLYXENI is her third feature film.

Director/Writer: Dora MasklavanouProduction Company: Blonde S.AProducer: Fenia CossovitsaLanguages: Greek - TurkishRunning time: 100’Total budget: €450.000Key partners: Greek Film Centre – ERT S.A. - NovaStage: Post-production

Looking for: Sales agent – festivals

Countries of production: Greece

Contact:Fenia CossovitsaT: +306979306255E: [email protected]: www.blonde.gr

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VIRUS (Fiction, 2017)

Anna and Petros are a young Greek couple that moved recently to a remote Siberian town for Petros’ new job. Their lives are disrupted by Anna’s pregnancy that seems to have no explanation, as they haven’t had sex since they moved to Russia. The questions raised by the mysterious event are relentless; was she

cheating? Is she the victim of a conspiracy? Or maybe a Saint? As Petros is desperately looking for a rational answer and Anna resorts to religion to make sense of her situation, two opposing worlds, faith and reason, come to a violent clash.

DirectorAngelos Frantzis

Director’s CVAngelos Frantzis was born in 1970 in Athens and studied film directing in in Brussels (IN-SAS). He has directed in total 6 short films and 4 feature films (Polaroid, A Dog’s Dream, In the Woods, Symptom). His films have been awarded and selected in various international film festivals (Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Torino, Munich, Buenos Aires, Lisbon and more).

Director: Angelos FrantzisProduction Company: HereticProducers: Giorgos Karnavas, Konstantinos KontovrakisCo-producer: Mathieu Bompoint (Mezzanine Films)Languages: Greek, English, RussianRunning time: 120’Total budget: €932.000Key partners: Greek Film Centre, ERT S.A., CNC, Latvian National Film Centre, Blonde S.A., Alatas Films, 235Stage: Post-production

Looking for: Gap financing, sales agent, distributors, festivals

Countries of production: Greece, France, Latvia

Contact:Konstantinos Kontovrakis: E: [email protected]: +30 2106005260W: www.heretic.gr

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ProducerKonstantinos Kontovrakis

ProducerFenia Cossovitsa

HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Fiction, 2017)

When George runs out of the police riot bus and sees his daughter among the demon-strators facing him, he and his wife decide

that father and daughter should go to their country home for a few days, to keep her safe and see if they can salvage their relationship.

Co-ProducerMartin Hampel

Director’s CVChristos Georgiou was born in London U.K. in 1966. He did his basic education in Cyprus and further studies in England at the University of Warwick (Film and Literature BA Joint Hons), the Northern Film and TV School in Leeds (MA Film Production), and in Poland at the National Film TV and Theatre School in Lodz (EU Tempus scholarship – Film Writing and Direction). Director and producer for fiction feature films, documentaries, commercials and TV drama series for ARTE, ZDF, Al Jazeera, the BBC, as well as several Greek TV channels.Under the Stars his first fiction feature film won 6 International awards including the prestigious, Prix de Montreal, (Best First Feature Film) at the Montreal International Film Festival 2001. Small Crime his second fiction feature film was selected for competition at several film festivals including Palm Spring and Karlovy Vary, and was a box office hit in Germany in the summer of 2009. Happy Birthday an official selection at Berlinale Co Production Market 02/2014 is his third fiction feature film.

Director/Writer: Christos GeorgiouProduction Company: View Master Films, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH, Manny Films, Lychnari Productions Limited, Pallas FilmProducer: Costas Lambropoulos, Thanassis KarathanosCo-producers: Birgit Kemner, Christos Georgiou, Martin HampelLanguages: GreekRunning time: 85’Total budget: € 886.105Key partners: Greek Film Center, Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animeé, Cultural Services - Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus (Advisory Film Committee), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, FFA - German Federal Film Board, ERT and Eurimages – Council of EuropeStage: Almost completed

Looking for: Sales agents, distributors, festivals

Countries of production: Greece, France, Cyprus, Germany

Contact:Martin HampelT: +49 30 612 817 50E: [email protected]: www.twentytwentyvision.eu

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DirectorChristos Georgiou

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