GREEK SHORTS

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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

CONTENTSSH

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,

michael.alexakis@fossproductions.gr

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Some Shorts,

Wouter Jansen, info@someshorts.com,

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),

info@marnifilms.gr, marnifilms.gr

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Marni Films

ALPHA MALEBy Christos Dimolikas

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),

info@heretic.gr, heretic.gr

COPRODUCTION: Dansu Films

(Lithuania)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Heretic

(Greece), info@heretic.gr, 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

DIRECTION: Georgia Marangouli

SCREENPLAY: Georgia Marangouli

CAST: Stella Fyrogeni, Leoni Xerovasila,

Ieronymos Kaletsanos

PRODUCER: Georgia Marangouli

PRODUCTION: Georgia Marangouli

(Greece), georgiamrgl@gmail.com

COPRODUCTION: MARNI FILMS

(Greece), info@marnifilms.gr

INTERNATIONAL SALES: MARNI FILMS

(Greece), info@marnifilms.gr

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),

yorgospat@tutanota.com

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Post Room

(Greece)

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),

filmtopspot@gmail.com, 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), info@soulproductions.gr,

soulproductions.gr

COPRODUCTION: Authorwave (Greece)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Soul

Productions (Greece)

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), dimitriou.mihalis@gmail.com,

michaeldemetrius.com

COPRODUCTION: ARCTOS Films SA

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Michael

Demetrius (Greece)

CLOUDBy Michael Demetrius

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),

info@artemisproductions.gr,

artemisproductions.gr

INTERNATIONAL SALES: ARTemis

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

soulproductions.gr

COPRODUCTION: Authorwave

(Greece), info@authorwave.com,

authorwave.com, Artcut (Greece),

info@artcut.gr, artcut.gr

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),

distribution@eccefilms.fr, 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

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),

badcrowd@outlook.com, 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

soulproductions.gr

authorwave.com

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),

Repousi.maria@gmail.com

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Zen Movie

(Italy), zenmovie.it ,

Distribuzione.zenmovie@gmail.com

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

soulproductions.gr

authorwave.com, Artcut (Greece),

info@artcut.gr, artcut.gr, Playground

(Greece), The J. F. Costopoulos Foun

dation (Greece), European Investment

Group LTD (Greece).

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

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Mina Dreki

(Greece), info@marnifilms.gr,

marnifilms.gr

HANSELBy Vivian Papageorgiou

FICTION (DARK FAIRY TALE) • GREECE • 2020 • 17΄

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),

badcrowd@outlook.com, 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), antigonirota@gmail.com

COPRODUCTION: Mild productions

(Greece), matsatka@gmail.com

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Lights On

(Italy), lightson@lightsonfilm.org,

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), contact@inkasfilms.com,

inkasfilms.com

COPRODUCTION: Cekta (Greece),

Dimitris Stamboulis (Greece)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Inkas Films

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),

yorgospat@tutanota.com, 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), info@studiobauhaus.gr,

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), fani@eitherorproductions.com,

eitherorproductions.com

COPRODUCTION: La Aventura

Audiovisual (Spain)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Origine Films

(France) chen@originefilms.fr,

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),

evi.kalogir@gmail.com

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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

DIRECTION: Konstantinos Antonopoulos

SCREENPLAY: Konstantinos Antonopoulos

CAST: Giorgos Gallos, Aggeliki

Dimitrakopoulou

PRODUCER: Fani Skartouli

PRODUCTION: Either/Or Productions

(Greece), fani@eitherorproductions.com,

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,

eleni.kossyfidou@gmail.com

COPRODUCTION: Filmo2

(France), filmo2.com

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Manifest

(France), Anais Colpin,

anais@manifest.pictures,

manifest.pictures

DARK COMEDY • GREECE, FRANCE • 2020 • 15΄

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

phaedra@marnifilms.gr,

Films (Greece)

ROUGEBy Kostis Theodosopoulos

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) info@sff.ba, sff.ba

CO PRODUCTION: Imagina SA Pictures

(Greece), DNA Lab (Greece)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Radiator IP

Sales (Belgium), Ben Vandendaele,

ben@radiatorsales.eu, 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

iro@marnifilms.gr, marnifilms.gr

COPRODUCTION: Artcut Moving Image

Productions (Greece), info@artcut.gr,

artcut.gr

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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| DRAMA ISFF

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),

info@hormepictures.com,

hormepictures.wordpress.com

COPRODUCTION: Prosenghisi, (Greece)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Horme

Pictures (Greece)

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),

info@artcut.gr, artcut.gr

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Anna Monogiou

(Greece), monoanna@gmail.com

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),

kdbaliotis@gmail.com, 2d2r.net

COPRODUCTION: FILMO2 (France)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Manifest

(France), Anaïs Colpin,

anais@manifest.pictures,

manifest.pictures/

DIRECTION: Michael Kimonas

SCREENPLAY: Michael Kimonas

CAST: Andreas Kartsatos,

Sofia Simoni, Spiros Kounadis,

Anna Danai Raptopoulou

PRODUCER: Phaedra Vokali

Films (Greece)

BABUSHKABy Michael Kimonas

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.

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), marina@laikaproductions.gr,

laikaproductions.gr

COPRODUCTION: Smoking Dogs (UK)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Laika

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.

DIRECTION: Alexandros Zarbis

SCREENPLAY: Alexandros Zarbis

CAST: Orestis Tziovas, Christina

Xeila Fameli

PRODUCER: Kostas Sfakianakis

PRODUCTION: PLAYGROUND (Greece),

sfakianakiskostas@yahoo.com

HAPPY MOMENTSBy Alexandros Zarbis

IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA, BLACK COMEDY

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.

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), antigonirota@gmail.com

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Squared

Square (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.

IN HER STEPSBy Anastasia Kratidi

2020 • 24΄ • Greek

The search of a mother in a Greek minors rural

DIRECTION: Anastasia Kratidi

SCREENPLAY: Anastasia Kratidi

CAST: Manto Giannikou, Michail

Tabakakis, Iason Faroukos

PRODUCER: Thanos Anastopoulos

PRODUCTION: Fantasia Audiovisual Ltd

(Greece), fanfilmpro@gmail.com,

fantasiafilmworks.com

CO PRODUCTION: ERT (Greece)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Fantasia

Audiovisual Ltd (Greece)

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),

info@studiobauhaus.gr, studiobahaus.gr

INTERNATIONAL SALES: StudioBauhaus

OLD WESTBy Despina Kourti

DIRECTION: Despina Kourti

SCREENPLAY: Vangelis Serfas

CAST: Yiorgos Kendros, Youla Boudali

PRODUCER: Maria Drandaki

PRODUCTION: Homemade Films

(Greece), info@homemadefilms.gr,

homemadefilms.gr

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Homemade

Films (Greece)

2nd FILM • IN POST PRODUCTION • DRAMA

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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