CONTACT IN CANNES - ΑΡΧΙΚΗ - Ελληνικό Κέντρο ... SALES: Les Films du Losange,...
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CONTACT IN CANNESGreek Film Centre Pavilion #135, Village International Riviera, Tel.: +33 492590271Iliana Zakopoulou: [email protected] Liza Linardou: [email protected]
9, Chatzopoulou Str., Psychico, 115 24 Athens, Greece Tel: +30 210 3678500, [email protected], www.gfc.gr
1. DOLPHIN MAN BY LEFTERIS CHARITOS (DOCUMENTARY, 2017)
2. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BY CHRISTOS GEORGIOU (FICTION, 2017)
3. POLYXENI BY DORA MASKLAVANOU (FICTION, 2017)
4. VIRUS BY ANGELOS FRANTZIS (FICTION, 2017)
5. ΛΠ BY CRISTO PETROU (DOCUMENTARY, 2017)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
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DAYBREAK BY GENTIAN KOÇI
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MAY 18TH 9.30 AM
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Official Programme | Special Event DJAM Toni Gadlif 6
Directors’ Fortnight COPA-LOCA Christos Massalas 7
Official Programme | Short Film Competition A DROWNING MAN Mahdi Fleifel 8
FEATURE FICTION AFTERLOV Stergios Paschos 10AMERIKA SQUARE Yannis Sakaridis 11ASHES Stratos Tzitzis 12BLISS Christos Pitharas 13ISTANBUL STORY Fotini Siskopoulou 14KISSING? Yannis Korres 15LINES Vassilis Mazomenos 16ONSLAUGHT Vassilis Vafeas 17PARK Sofia Exarchou 18PEDRO NOULA Karolos Zonaras 19ROZA OF SMYRNA George Kordellas 20SON OF SOFIA Elina Psykou 21THREAD The Boy 22USSAK…YEARS LATER Kyriakos Katzourakis 23 FEATURE FICTION INTERNATIONAL MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONSDAYBREAK Gentian Koci 26GLORY Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov 27I STILL HIDE TO SMOKE Rayhana 28JESUS Fernando Guzzoni 29
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FEATURE FICTION IN PROGRESSAPPROACH Tony Lykouresis 32COSMIC CANDY Rinio Dragassaki 33HAPPY BIRTHDAY Christos Georgiou 34PITY Babis Makridis 35POLYXENI Dora Masklavanou 36SACRILEGE Marsa Makris 37VIRUS Angelos Frantzis 38
FEATURE FICTION INTERNATIONAL MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS IN PROGRESSTHE DELEGATION Bujar Alimani 40THE SECRET INGREDIENT Gjorce Stavreski 41SIDEWAY Tayfun Pirselimoglu 42
DOCUMENTARIESDIALOGUE OF BERLIN Nikos Ligouris 44THE EXTRA MILE Victoria Vellopoulou 45THE GREAT UTOPIA Fotos Lambrinos 46THE GREAT WALK OF ALKI Margarita Manta 47HALCYON DAYS Giorgos Zervas 48SHINGAL, WHERE ARE YOU? Angelos Rallis 49STRINGLESS Angelos Kovotsos 50VIVE LA FUITE Evi Karabatsou 51
DOCUMENTARY INTERNATIONAL MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONSATHENS RHAPSODY Antoine Danis 54
DOCUMENTARY IN PROGRESSDOLPHIN MAN Lefteris Charitos 56ΛΠ Cristo Petrou 57THE NEW PLASTIC ROAD Angelos Tsaousis 58REMEMBRANCES Nikos Kavoukidis 59
Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos to find a rare engine part for their broken boat. There she meets Avril, a young French female, broke and lost, who came to Turkey to work as a humanitarian volunteer. Djam with her generous and unpredictable soul, takes Avril under her wing. From Istanbul to Greece, a musical and free road trip begins.
DIRECTION: Tony GatlifSCREENPLAY: Tony Gatlif CAST: Daphné Patakia, Simon Abkarian, Maryne CayonPRODUCER: Princes ProducitonPRODUCTION: Princes Production, (France), (T) +33 145776809 (Ε) [email protected]: Pyramide Productions, Auvergne-Rhône- Alpes Cinéma, Princes Films (France), Blonde (Greece), Güverte Film (Turkey)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Les Films du Losange, (France), (T) +33 144438736, www.filmsdulosange.fr
DJAM DRAMA FRANCE, GREECE, TURKEY20171H 38’
/ CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2017, OFFICIAL SELECTION, SPECIAL EVENT
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This is the story of Copa-Loca, an abandoned Greek summer resort. Paulina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.
DIRECTION: Christos Massalas SCREENPLAY: Christos Massalas CAST: Elsa Lekakou, Jenny Hiloudaki, Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Talat IqbalPRODUCER: Christos Massalas PRODUCTION: Christos Massalas, +306971908424, [email protected], Greece
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Heretic Outreach, Ioanna Stais, (Ε) [email protected], www.heretic.grhttps://www.facebook.com/CopaLoca.film
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By Christos Massalas
Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.
DIRECTION: Mahdi FleifelSCREENPLAY: Mahdi Fleifel CAST: Atef Alshafei, Jalal Qaniry, Thymios Koukios, Rebih El-SaleousPRODUCERS: Signe Byrge, Patrick Campbell, Mahdi Fleifel, Maria DrandakiPRODUCTION: Final Cut for Real ApS, (T) +45 35 43 60 43(E) [email protected], www.final-cut.dk (Denmark)Nakba Filmworks, (T) +447852 840 462(E) [email protected], www.nakbafilmworks.com (UK)CO-PRODUCTION: Homemade Films, (T) +30 2130415200(E) [email protected], www.homemadefilms.gr (GREECE)CONTACT: Final Cut for Real ApS, (T) +45 35 43 60 43, (E) [email protected], www.final-cut.dk (Denmark)
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/ CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2017, SHORT FILM COMPETITION
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Unable to get over his break-up with Sofia, Nikos invites her over for a few-days holidays in a subur-ban villa he takes care of during the summer. Sofia delightfully accepts not knowing that Nikos’ plans are not as innocent as they seem. Nikos locks him-self up in the house with Sofia and refuses to let her leave until she provides some rationale for the break-up.
DIRECTION: Stergios PaschosSCREENPLAY: Stergios PaschosCAST: Iro Bezou, Haris FragkoulisPRODUCER: Phaedra VokaliPRODUCTION: MARNI FILMS LTD, (E) [email protected], (T) +30 210 3228 860, www.marnifilms.gr, GreeceCO-PRODUCTION: ΕRT, Faliro House, 2I35 (Greece) INTERNATIONAL SALES: Heretic Outreach, Ioanna Stais, [email protected], (T) +30 210 6005260, www.heretic.gr
https://www.facebook.com/AfterlovMovie/?fref=ts
AFTERLOVCOMEDY, DRAMA GREECE201694’
/ LOCARNO IFF, YOUTH JURY AWARD
/ SAO PAOLO IFF
/ SCANORAMA FF
/ THESSALONIKI IFF, BEST ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD & SPECIAL MENTION FOR THE ACTOR HARIS FRAGOULIS
/ FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM D’ AMOUR DE MONS - CINEUROPA PRIZE
/ ANNUAL EUROPEAN UNION FF
/ LUCCA FF EUROPACINEMA
/ ISTANBUL IFF
By Stergios Paschos
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A fast paced triptych revealing the opposing forc-es of humanitarian challenges due to the refugee flood in Athens today. “...one of the best Europe-an films to date on the subject of immigration” - The Hollywood Reporter
DIRECTION: Yannis SakaridisSCREENPLAY: Yannis Tsirbas, Vangelis Mourikis, Yannis Sakaridis CAST: Yannis Stankoglou, Makis Papadimitriou, Vassilis Kukalani, Ksenia DaniaPRODUCER: Yannis Sakaridis PRODUCTION: Ilioupolis Films (Greece), [email protected]: Marblemen Productions (UK), True Motion Pictures (Germany)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting (T) +49 1520 1987294, (E) [email protected], www.patraspanou.com
https://www.facebook.com/americasquare/
AMERIKA SQUAREDRAMA GREECE, UK, GERMANY 2016 86’
/ BUSAN IFF (FLASH FORWARD – AUDIENCE AWARD CANDIDATE)
/ BEIJING IFF (AUDIENCE AWARD)
/ TRIESTE IFF (ERASMUS JURY AWARD)
/ CHICAGO IFF (COMPETITION)
/ KOLKATA IFF (COMPETITION)
/ THESSALONIKI IFF (FIPRESCI AWARD, SPECIAL MENTION BY THE MAIN JURY TO THE ACTOR VASILI KOUKALANI, SPECIAL MENTION BY THE YOUTH JURY AWARDS)
By Yannis Sakaridis
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In a city that bursts with chaos and disorder, five people gather in a house where a very close friend of them died. Trapped in his house they cannot agree on the way of his funeral. The heat makes the situation oppressive but they still insist on their differences. Their relationships are being tested and secrets are revealed. After a while nothing will be the same again.
DIRECTION: Stratos TzitzisSCREENPLAY: Stratos Tzitzis CAST: Nikos Georgakis, Gogo Brebou, Giorgos Hraniotis, Vasiliki Troufakou, Ioanna MavreaPRODUCER: Bad CrowdPRODUCTION / CONTACT: Bad Crowd, (T) +302108213841, (E) [email protected], www.badcrowd.eu, Nancy Kokolaki
www.badcrowd.eu www.facebook.com/HKAYSH/
ASHES FICTION, BLACK COMEDYGREECE 2016 70’
/ MONTREAL WORLD FESTIVAL
/ OTRANTO FILM FUND FESTIVAL
/ THESSALONIKI IFF
/ HELLAS FILMBOX BERLIN 2017
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Anna is under pressure. “Smile”. Anna has a home. “Insomnia”. Anna has a job. “Nine to five, I’m gon-na be late”. Anna has friends. “I’m bored”. Anna’s parents love her. “Open up”. Anna can’t sleep. “I’m so horny”. Anna is scared. “Talk to me. Talk to me.”“BLISS” is a tragicomic glance at the life of a young woman, viewed through a distorted percep-tion of reality.
DIRECTION: Christos PitharasSCREENPLAY: Christos Pitharas CAST: Xanthi Spanou, Themis Bazaka, Dimitris Alexandris, Christos StergioglouPRODUCER: Christos Pitharas, Petros NiamonitakisPRODUCTION: Correct Creative Productionshttp://correctproductions.com, (Τ) +30 210 6896685, (Ε) [email protected]
CONTACT: Christos Pitharas (M)+30 6974 86797, (Ε) [email protected]
www.blissthemovie.com
BLISS PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER GREECE201685’
/ THESSALONIKI IFF
/ BAFICI – BUENOS AIRES IFIF
By Christos Pitharas
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If memory is our gaze on the past and past, a boat sailing away to another country then, Katia’s unex-pected journey to Istanbul traps her in a chain of adventures enacted on the front of her disrupted childhood days. Can she welcome back the crossed out motherland veiled in silence, come to terms with it and regain trust when violently deported in 1965, a child refugee with only a suitcase in mother’s hand?Ironically, during shooting in Assos, 8 miles across Lesbos Island, we rescued an ID in Arabic floating on the Aegean before our very eyes. Past is never dead, not even past. Istanbul Story is not only a story about Istanbul.
DIRECTION: Foteini SiskopouolouSCREENPLAY: Foteini Siskopoulou, Cem Akcali CAST: Myrto Alikaki, Kerem Can Esin Alpogan, Deniz Turkali, Osman Alkas, Sofia Seirli, Kostas GalanakisPRODUCER: Foteini SiskopoulouPRODUCTION: One Way Productions (Greece), (T) 210-7625575 (E) [email protected]: Istanbul Film Productions (IFP)CONTACT: One Way Productions, Josefina Markarian, (E) [email protected]
ISTANBUL STORY MYSTERY, DRAMAGREECE, TURKEY2017 140’
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Just before turning thirty Danny and Stella belong to a generation that has not yet been defined. Danny feels he is too good for this world. Stella thinks the world is not good enough for her. The question remains if they are good for each other.
DIRECTION: Yannis KorresSCREENPLAY: Yannis Korres CAST: Thanassis Petropoulos, Iro Bezou, Omiros PoulakisPRODUCTION: Zero Zero Productions, (Greece) (T) +30 6944763640 (E) [email protected]
CONTACT: Yannis Korres, [email protected]
KISSING? COMEDYGREECE201677’
/ BAFICI - BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT FILM
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Greece nowadays. Seven different stories about seven persons who have already reached their lim-its and finally fall apart. Despite their seemingly obvious connection they are simultaneously con-nected through a common desperate action: the last phone call to the psychological support center called “life line”. It’s their last hope. As no one can really help them, even then, they all remain another part of the contemporary Greek tragedy.
DIRECTION: Vassilis MazomenosSCREENPLAY: Vassilis MazomenosCAST: Themis Panou, Anna Klaitzidou, Thodoros Katsafados, Tassos NoussiasPRODUCER: Lampros Georgopoulos PRODUCTION: Horme Pictures, (T) +30 6978657691, (E) [email protected], www.hormepictures.comCO-PRODUCTION: ERT (Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Slingshot Films (Italy)Manuela Buono, (E) [email protected], www.slingshotfilms.it
https://linesmovie.wordpress.com/
LINES DRAMAGREECE201688’
/ NOMINATED FOR GRAND PRIX IN 20TH BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL (TALLINN)
/ ANKARA IFF- TURKEY
/ FANTASPORTO IFF- PORTUGAL
/ PANORAMA DU CINEMA GREC –PARIS
/ BENGALURU IFF- INDIA
/ BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL-TALLINN (MAIN COMPETITION)
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What Aris is experiencing is a reality or a night-mare? How paranoid are the tragicomic situations at his home? Who pulls the strings in the plots in his work? ? From which woman-of all those that surround him- is he most at risk? And finally, does he have a choice when democracy collapses in the country?
DIRECTION: Vassilis Vafeas SCREENPLAY: Vassilis Vafeas CAST: Nikos Poursanidis, Amalia Arseni, Margarita Panousopoulou, Rita AntonopoulouPRODUCER: Anastasia ChatzistefanouPRODUCTION: Sigma Film (Greece), (T) (+30) 210 3218590, (E) [email protected], www.sigmafilm.grCO-PRODUCTION: ERT, Τonikon (Greece), Kostis Gikas (Greece)
CONTACT: Anastasia Chatzistefanou (T) +30 210 3218 590, (M) 6937 296610
ONSLAUGHT FICTION GREECE201678’
/ THESSALONIKI IFF
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Ten years have passed, and the Olympic Village in Athens, Greece is in decay. Among the abandoned athletic facilities and newmoney tourist resorts nearby, Dimitris(17), Anna(24), a retired athlete, and their friends traverse Greece’s “glorious” past with the decadence of today, creating a portrait of a society unprepared for the brutal fall.
DIRECTION: Sofia ExarchouSCREENPLAY: Sofia ExarchouCAST: Thomas Bo Larsen, Dimitris Kitsos, Dimitra VlagkopoulouPRODUCER: Amanda Livanou, Christos V. KonstantakopoulosPRODUCTION: Neda Film, (Greece) (T) +30 210 3230294, + 306944 757339, (E) [email protected], www.nedafilm.gr,CO-PRODUCTION: Faliro House (Greece), Madants (Poland)
INTERNATIONAL SALES OR CONTACT: Stray Dogs, Nathan Fischer, (T) +33 659941284, (E) [email protected], www.stray-dogs.biz www.facebook.com/PARKthefilm
PARK DRAMAGREECE201694’
By Sofia Exarchou
/ SAN SEBASTIAN IFF - KUTX-ABANK-NEW DIRECTORS AWARD OF THE DONOSTIA / THESSALONIKI IFF BEST ACTRESS AWARD (EX AEQUO) (DIMITRA VLAGKOPOULOU) AND ERT S.A. AWARD
/ BRUSSELS MEDITERRANEAN FILM FESTIVAL 2016 (YOUTH JURY AWARD AND CINEUROPA AWARD)
/ GENEVA IFF TOUS ECRANS (SPECIAL JURY MENTION)
/ BEST NEW DIRECTOR AND BEST SOUND AWARD AT THE HELLENIC FILM AWARDS 2017
/ 39E FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE FILMS DE FEMMES, CRETEIL (SPECIAL MEN-TION) REYKJAVIK IFF, WARSAW IFF, LONDON IFF, CPH PIX, STOCKHOLM IFF, MEDITERRANEAN FILM FESTIVAL OF BRUXELLES, SEOUL INDEP. FF, IFF ROTTERDAM - BRIGHT FUTURE, TORONTO IFF – DISCOVERY, FES-TIVAL D’ ANGERS - PREMIER PLAN
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DIRECTION: Karolos ZonarasSCREENPLAY: Karolos Zonaras, Katerina Bei CAST: Konstantinos Aspiotis, Katia Leclerc O’ Wallis, Pavlos EvangelopoulosPRODUCER: Katia Leclerc PRODUCTION: Zonaras Productions, (Greece) (T) +302103412711, (E) [email protected], www.zonarasproductions.comCO-PRODUCTION: A & G Films Media Entertainment LTD (Greece), (T) +30.210.6985107 (M) +30.6944.686394 www.agfilms.gr, ERT (Greece) (E) [email protected]
CONTACT: Antigoni Gavriatopoulou / A&G Films Media Entertainment LTD, (Greece) (T) +30 210 6985107 (M) + 30.6944.686394 (E) [email protected], www.agfilms.gr
PEDRO NOULA FILM NOIRGREECE2016110’
By Karolos Zonaras
The film narrates the ordeal of a young Greek, who wakes up after a traffic accident not knowing who he is. An Italian passport with his name: Pedro Noula, a broken cell phone, a bank check and the photograph of a woman are the only clues he has. His quest will turn to be a nightmarish adventure, in which he will find himself confronted by his darkest side.
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Smyrna 1922: In her youth, Roza, a descendent of a wealthy family, is married in haste. Athens 1987: Roza lives with her granddaughter, carrying a close-ly guarded secret. A collector discovers in a Turkish antique shop a vintage wedding dress stained with blood that leads him to the enigmatic Roza, and the unveiling of a love story from the tragic past.
DIRECTION: George KordellasSCREENPLAY: Christina Lazaridi based on the novel of Giannis Giannellis-Theodosiadis “ISMAEL AND ROZA”CAST: Tasos Nousias, Leda Protopsalti, Evgenia Dimitropoulou, Yilmaz Gruda PRODUCER: Panos PapahadzisPRODUCTION: Argonauts Productions SA (Greece) (E) [email protected] (T) +30 210 8257177, www.argonautsproductions.grCO-PRODUCTION: COSMOTE TV, Sarmasic Sanatlar-Baran Seyhan, Feelgood Entertainment, ERT
CONTACT: Argonauts Productions SA, (Greece) (E) [email protected] (T) +30 210 8257177, Panos Papahadzis, www.argonautsproductions.gr
ROZA OF SMYRNA ROMANCE, DRAMAGREECE, TURKEY201697’
/ 12TH SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL - LOS ANGELES, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD IN FEATURE FILM
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Athens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn’t know is that there is a fa-ther waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently cata-pulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
DIRECTION: Elina PsykouSCREENPLAY: Elina PsykouCAST: Victor Khomut, Valery Tscheplanowa, Thanassis Papageorgiou, Artemis HavalitsPRODUCER: Giorgos KarnavasPRODUCTION: Heretic, (T) +302106005260, (E) [email protected], www.heretic.gr, GreeceCO-PRODUCTION: Kinoelektron (France), Chouchkov Βrothers (Bulgaria)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Ioanna Stais, Heretic Outreach, (T) +302106005260, (E) [email protected], www.heretic.gr
SON OF SOFIA DRAMA GREECE, BULGARIA, FRANCE 2017105’
/ TRIBECA FF, BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE AWARD
/ JEONJU IFF
/ LES ARCS EUROPEAN FF, CO-PRODUCTION VILLAGE - WORK- IN PROGRESS AWARD
/ BERLINALE RESIDENCY
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By Elina Psykou
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Niki’s commitment to the Resistance gives away her inability to be a mother to her son. Her son inherits a past he does not want. One day, the “thread” that binds them together is cut. The Mother’s political struggle turns into psychological shackles that hold the Boy prisoner; in the end, he has to seek his own redemption.
DIRECTION: The BoySCREENPLAY: The BoyCAST: Sofia KokkaliPRODUCER: Eleni Bertes PRODUCTION: Logline, (T) +302103801442, (E) [email protected], Greece
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Ioanna Stais, Heretic Outreach, (T) +302106005260, (E) [email protected], www.heretic.gr
THREADDRAMA, SCI-FI GREECE2016 94’
/ THESSALONIKI IFF 2016 (WORLD PREMIERE)
/ GOTHENBURG IFF 2017 (INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
/ LUME IFF- BRAZIL
/ LA FILM FESTIVAL (INDEPENDENT)
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In a suffering country, at a point of time in the future a roving ex-performer woman, an enigmatic little girl, an ex-drag showman and a politically conscious dropout intersect trying to stand up and claim a full, good life against a totalitarian re-gime, that oppresses any form of reaction.
DIRECTION: Kyriakos KatzourakisSCREENPLAY: Kyriakos KatzourakisCAST: Yiannis Tsortekis, Nikos Nikas, Theodora TzimouPRODUCER: Giannis SotiropoulosPRODUCTION: Real Eyes Productions (Greece)www.realeyesproductions.gr(E) [email protected] (T) +30 2130 303601 CONTACT: Giannis Sotiropoulos(E) [email protected] (M) +30 697 3070480
USSAK… YEARS LATER
DRAMA, DYSTOPIAN FILMGREECE2017118’
By Kyriakos Katzourakis
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MEDIA SUB PROGRAMMEThe MEDIA sub-programme supports the ability of the EU’s film and audio-visual industries to develop, distribute and promote their work across all platforms. Funding is available in a number of areas including: strengthening innovation and competitiveness testing audience development strategies; training or professional development; developing projects for internation-al audiences; and cross-border co-productions. Finally, the sub-programme helps increase the impact of audiovisual projects by supporting marketing, distribution, branding, exhibitions and film literacy initiatives. Aiming to achieve the stated objectives the Greek MEDIA Desk, which according to the 3905/2010 Law operates under the auspices of Greek Film Centre, has a con-tinues presence as an active partner and cornerstone between the Greek market and the European program. Greek professionals and companies are eligible for financing and encouraged to participate to the different fund-ing schemes to the greatest possible degree. Indicatory for the year 2015, through Creative Europe’s MEDIA sub-programme, €1.872.740 million was in-vested at the Greek audiovisual sector. Specifically:
Audience Development: 2 projectsTV Programming: 1 projectDevelopment: 4 projectsTraining: 1 projectMarkets: 2 projectsFestival: 4 projectsDistribution: 81 projects
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Leta is in a difficult economic situation and has not been able to pay the rent for several months. When she and her one-year-old son are thrown out of their apartment, they move in with Sophie, an old, immobile woman whose daughter has just em-ployed Leta as a caretaker. In order to keep her job and their new roof, Leta has to keep Sophie alive at any cost.
DIRECTION: Gentian KOÇISCREENPLAY: Gentian KOÇI CAST: Ornela Kapetani, Kasem Hoxha, Suzana PriftiPRODUCTION: ARTALB FILM (Τ) +355692321352 (Ε) [email protected]: Graal films - GR
INTERNATIONAL SALES: WIDE (France), (T) +33 1 53 95 04 64, [email protected]
DAY BREAK DRAMA ALBANIA, GREECE2017
/ CINELINK IN SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL
/ EURO- MEDITERREAN CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
/ APULIA FILM COMMISSION IN TARANTO
/ CONNECTING COTTBUS IN COTTBUS FILM FESTIVAL
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Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of leva on the train tracks. He decides to turn the en-tire amount over to the police, for which the state rewards him with a new wristwatch that soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov’s old watch, a family relic. Here starts his desperate struggle to recover both his old watch and his dignity.
DIRECTION: Petar Valchanov, Kristina GrozevaSCREENPLAY: Petar Valchanov, Kristina Grozeva, Decho TaralezhkovCAST: Margita Gosheva, Stefan Denolyubov, Kitodar TodorovPRODUCTION: Abraxas FilmCO-PRODUCTION: Graal Films, Screening Emotions, Aporia Filmworks, Red Carpet International
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Wide, (T) +33 1 53 95 04 64, (F) +33 1 95 04 04 65, (E) [email protected], www.widemanagement.com
GLORY
/ GHENT IFF - SPECIAL MENTION
/ GIJON IFF-BEST SCREENPLAY- FIPRESCI PRIZE, GRAND PRIX ASTURIAS
/ LOCARNO IFF - SPECIAL MENTION
/ KOLKATA IFF- BEST FILM AWARD
/ LES ARCS EUROPEAN FF - CRYSTAL ARROW AWARD, PRESS PRIZE
/ HAMPTONS IFF - BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE AWARD
/ DUBLIN IFF - FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
/ GOLDEN ROSE BULGARIAN FF - GOLDEN ROSE AWARD
/ ISTANBUL IFF/ JAMESON DUBLIN
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/ LUXEMBOURG CITY FF - CRITICS AWARD
/ BOULDER IFF - BEST FEATURE FILM, GRAND PRIZE
/ MINSK IFF - LISTAPAD BRONZE AUDIENCE AWARD
/ SOFIA IFF - BEST BALKAN FILM, FILM CRITICS WITH UBFM AWARD
/ VILNIUS IFF - BEST DIRECTORS AWARD
/ ARRAS FILM FESTI-VAL - GRAND JURY PRIZE
/ CLEVELAND IFF
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DIRECTION: RayhanaSCREENPLAY: Rayhana CAST: Hiam Abbass, Biyouna, Nadia Kaci, Fadila Belkebla, Nassima BenchicouPRODUCTION: KG Productions (T) +33 1 49 72 06 66, (E) [email protected], www.kgproductions.frCO-PRODUCTION: ARTE France, Blonde, Battam Films
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Les Films du Losange, (E) [email protected], www.filmsdulosange.fr
I STILL HIDE TO SMOKE
DRAMAFRANCE GREECE ALGERIA201690’
By Rayhana
/ BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL -ESTONIA
/ ANGERS FESTIVAL -FRANCE
/ GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL - SWEDEN
/ MONS INTERNA-TIONAL LOVE FILM FESTIVAL - BELGIUM
/ CINEMAFRICA FILM FESTIVAL – SWEDEN
/ SHARM EL SHEIKH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL - EGYPT
/ SGUARDI ALTROVE FILM FESTIVAL – ITALY
/ FILMOR FILM FES-TIVAL ISTANBUL - TURKEY
/ 10TH MARCH - WOMEN FILM FES-TIVAL OF CRÉTEIL - FRANCE
/ ALÈS FILM FESTIVAL - FRANCE
/ 21TH MARCH - ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE - FRANCE
/ 25 APRIL - OPEN-ING - FESTIVAL PANORAMA DES CINÉMAS DU MAGHREB ET DU MOYEN- ORIENT - FRANCE
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DRAMAFRANCE, CHILE, GREECE, GERMA-NY, COLOMBIA201685’
DIRECTION: Fernando GuzzoniSCREENPLAY: Fernando GuzzoniCAST: Nicols Duran, Alejandro GoicPRODUCERS: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Giancarlo Nasi PRODUCTION: Abraxas Film (T) +33 1 48 048460, www.jbaproduction.com, (E) [email protected], Rampante Films (Chile)CO-PRODUCTION: Graal Films, Screening Emotions, Aporia Filmworks, Red Carpet International
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Wide, (T) +33 1 53 95 04 64, (F) +33 1 95 04 04 65, (E) [email protected], www.widemanagement.com
JESUS By Fernando Guzzoni
Santiago. Jesus is in search of his identity. He dances with a Korean pop group and likes hanging out in public parks with his friends. He doesn’t go to school or have a job. Since his mother died he lives with his father, Hector, in an apartment where the tv covers up their inability to communicate. One night, Jesús opens up to his father and confesses his involvement in an irreversible event. This shared knowledge forces them to join together for the first time. Hector tries to protect and help his son, but keeping the secret begins to eat away at him. One day he decides to go to pick Jesús up, but not pre-cisely to take him back home…
/AWARDS: SANFIC SANTIAGO
/ TORONTO IFF
/ SAN SEBASTIAN FF
/ FILMFEST HAMBURG
/ CPH PIX
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/ TORINO IFF
/ MAR DEL PLATA IFF
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/ GOLDEN ROSE BULGARIAN FF - GOLDEN ROSE AWARD
/ ISTANBUL IFF
/ JAMESON DUBLIN IFF - BEST SCREENPLAY
/ LUXEMBOURG CITY FF - CRITICS AWARD
/ BOULDER IFF - BEST FEATURE FILM, GRAND PRIZE
/ MINSK IFF - LISTAPAD BRONZE AUDIENCE AWARD
/ SOFIA IFF - BEST BALKAN FILM, FILM CRITICS WITH UBFM AWARD
/ VILNIUS IFF - BEST DIRECTORS AWARD
/ ARRAS FILM FESTIVAL - GRAND JURY PRIZE
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CANNES DIGITAL & WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT THE WORKSHOP
HOSTED BY THE GREEK FILM CENTRE
MAY 24, 16.00 - 17.00 VILLAGE INTERNATIONAL RIVIERA, GREEK FILM CENTRE PAVILION #135
NEW BUSINESS BREAKTHROUGH
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Summer in Athens, late noon. Prompted by a sudden blackout, five different pairs of ordinary people get trapped in five immobilized elevators. During their forced stay, they are driven to un-predictable behaviors. The compulsory contact be-tween them brings to the surface true emotions and reveals a well-hidden self...
DIRECTION: Tonis LykouresisSCREENPLAY: Dimitris Emmanouilidis, Dominiki Mitropoulou, Tonis Lykouresis CAST: Nena Menti, Akis Sakellariou, Christos Loulis, Vasilis KoukalaniPRODUCER: Iraklis Mavroeidis, Angelo VenetisPRODUCTION / CONTACT: Boo Productions (Greece), (T) 210 610 0730, (E) [email protected], www.booproductions.gr
APPROACHDRAMA SOCIAL ISSUES GREECE201795’
/ AGORA WORKS IN PROGRESS 2016 - THESSALONIKI INT. FILM FESTIVAL
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35-year-old Anna lives alone in her big family house. She is addicted to Cosmic Candy, her favourite sweet since childhood. She loves her job at the supermarket, her Fit ’n’ Wit exercise equipment, and anything that helps her avoid panic attacks. Persa, the 10-year-old neighbour, is bound to shatter her solitude, when she appears at Anna’s door-step asking for help because her father has mysteriously disappeared. Trying to solve the mystery of the missing dad, Anna and Persa will go through several trials and trib-ulations. They will find themselves in the most improba-ble situations; from a school full of children playing the heroes of the 19th century Greek Revolution to the most dense forests, where one can come across a life-sized candy that speaks human! The unexpected return of Persa’s father brings their escapade to an abrupt end that finds Anna a totally different person.
DIRECTION: Rinio DragassakiSCREENPLAY: Katerina Kaklamani, Rinio DragassakiCAST: Maria Kitsou, Maya Pipera, Kimonas KourisPRODUCER: Fenia CossovitsaPRODUCTION / CONTACT: Blonde, Fenia Cossovitsa, (T) +30 210 6080610, (M) +30 6979306255, (E) [email protected]: Agat Films (France), Faliro House (Greece)
COSMIC CANDY COMEDY, DRAMA GREECE, FRANCE
By Rinio Dragassaki
/ INITIATIVE FILM AWARD, ISABELLE FAUVEL AT CROSSROADS COPRO-DUCTION FORUM 2013
/ MFI SCRIPT 2 FILM WORKSHOP 2013
/ CROSSROADS COPRO-DUCTION FORUM 2013
/ !F/SUNDANCE SCREEN-WRITERS LAB 2014 (TURKEY-GREECE)
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When George runs out of the police riot bus and sees his daughter among the demonstrators facing him, he and his wife decide that father and daugh-ter should go to their country home for a few days, to keep her safe and see if they can salvage their relationship.
DIRECTION: Christos GeorgiouSCREENPLAY: Christos GeorgiouCAST: Nefeli Kouri, Dimitris Imellos, Myrto Allikaki, Basilis MagouliotisPRODUCER: Thanassis Karathanos, Costas Lambropoulos, Birgit Kemner, Christos Georgiou PRODUCTION: View Master Films (Greece), (T) +30 210 6411992, (E) [email protected], Twenty Twenty Vision (Germany), Manny Films, Lychnari Productions LTD, Pallas Film
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Martin Hampel, (T) +49 3061281750 (E) [email protected], (W) www.twentytwentyvision.eu
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOCIAL DRAMAGREECE, GERMANY, FRANCE, CYPRUS201785’
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The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man that has a need for pity, is addicted to sadness and self-inflicts pain when fearful of its absence. This is the life of a man in a world - apparently- not cruel enough.
DIRECTION: Babis MakridisSCREENPLAY: Babis Makridis, Efthymis FilippouCAST: Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Nikos Karathanos, Makis PapadimitriouPRODUCER: Amanda LivanouPRODUCTION: Neda Film (Greece), (T) +30 210 3230294, + 306944 757339, (E) [email protected], www.nedafilm.grCO-PRODUCTION: Faliro House (Greece), Madants (Poland)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: New Europe Film Sales, Jan Naszewski, (E) [email protected]
PITYDRAMAGREECE, POLAND2017
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By Dora Masklavanou
In 1955, a couple of prominent Greek Instanbulites adopt an orphan Greek girl from the “sacred” town of their origin. They offer her a powerful 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 receives an education, she becomes of age and falls in love. She has a lust for life, all the while unsuspicious of the devious plan of annihi-lation that others are weaving behind her back, targeting her large inheritance.
DIRECTION: Dora MasklavanouSCREENPLAY: Dora MasklavanouCAST: Katia Goulioni, Ozgur Emre Yildirim, Lydia FotopoulouPRODUCER: Fenia CossovitsaPRODUCTION / CONTACT: Blonde, Fenia Cossovitsa, (T) +30 210 6080610, (M) +30 6979306255, (E) [email protected]: ΕRT, Nova
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By Marsa Makris
Caged in a large and decaying labyrinthine pent-house, cut off from an also decaying and threaten-ing surrounding world that they spy upon through the windows’ grilles and slots, the two protago-nists of the narrative, a beautiful restless woman and a sick bed-ridden man, share their common but in no way idyllic life. The nature of their rela-tionship is undefined and ambiguous, as together they fall into a world between fantasy & reality, where fear, anger, illusion, disgust, and wonder, interchange constantly in a frantic psychological twist. They are “The Beauty and the Beast”, but with the absence of Love.
DIRECTION: Marsa MakrisSCREENPLAY: Marsa Makris, Vangelis Chatziyannidis CAST: Loukia Michalopoulou, Blaine L. Reininger, Ersi Malikenzou, Yorgos KontoyannisPRODUCER: Gina Petropoulou, Marsa MakrisPRODUCTION: Gina Petropoulou, Marsa Makris (Greece), (E) [email protected], [email protected] (T) +30210 7230054, + 30 6944 768016, +30 6944786872WITH THE SUPPORT OF: Arri-Rental, Thales Angénieux LumatechnicCONTACT: Vassilis Economou, [email protected], www.24fpsverite.com
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A Greek couple is faced with the mysterious event of the wife falling pregnant with no prior inter-course. When confronted with the unfathomable, can any answer bring peace?
DIRECTION: Angelos FrantzisSCREENPLAY: Angelos Frantzis, Spyros Kribalis CAST: Katia Goulioni, Andreas KonstantinouPRODUCERS: Giorgos Karnavas, Konstantinos KontovrakisPRODUCTION: Heretic (Greece), (T) +302106005260, (E) [email protected], www.heretic.grCO-PRODUCTION: Tasse Film (Latvia), Mezzanine Film (France)CONTACT: Ioanna Stais, Heretic Outreach, (T) +302106005260, (E) [email protected], www.heretic.gr
VIRUS THRILLER, DRAMA GREECE, FRANCE, LATVIA 110’
/ 7TH CO-PRO-DUCTION FORUM CROSSROADS OF THE THESSALONIKI IFF AWARD
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At the end of 1990, year when the communists are still attempting to remain in power, apolitical prisoner is secretly taken out of prison in order to meet his old university friend, nowHead of the European Delegation, who has come to monitor human rights conditions inAlbania. But nothing goes according to the plan.
DIRECTION: BUJAR ALIMANISCREENPLAY: ARTAN MINAROLLI CAST: Viktor ZHUSTI, Xhevdet FERI, Ndriçim XHEPA PRODUCER: ART FILM ALBANIAPRODUCTION / CONTACT: ART FILM ,+355 684016821, [email protected], [email protected]: ZORBA PRODUCTION (France), GRAAL FILMS (Greece)
THE DELEGATION ALBANIAFRANCE, GREECEDRAMA2017
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An underpaid train mechanic steals marijuana from some mobsters and makes a space cake for his fa-ther to relieve his cancer pain. Suddenly, he finds himself cornered by the criminals who want their drugs back and the noisy neighbors who want the recipe for the “healing” cake.
DIRECTION: Gjorce StavreskiSCREENPLAY: Gjorce Stavreski CAST: Blagoj Veselinov, Anastas Tanovski, Aksel MehmetPRODUCTION: Fragment Film (Τ) +389 (0) 75 464488 www.fragmentfilm.com (E) [email protected]: Graal Films (Greece)
CONTACT: Wide, (T) +33 153950464, (F) +33 153950465,(E) [email protected], www.widemanagement.com
THE SECRET INGREDIENT
COMEDY, DRAMA GREECE FYROM104΄
By Gjorce Stavreski
/ 2015 BERLINALE TALENT PROJECT MARKET, NOMINATION VFF HIGHLIGHT PITCH AWARD
/ 2014 WHEN EAST MEETS WEST, AWARD: EAVE SCHOLARSHIP
/ 2013 MANAKI BROTHERS, AWARD: BEST SCREENPLAY
/ EAST MEETS WEST - TRIESTE
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Arsons, murders and the coming of two strange men, one from the sea and one from the forest, create the scenery of a terrifying situation for the citizens of a small, provincial town. A thrilling, political allegory that describes the fight between the good and the evil.
DIRECTION: Tayfun PirselimoğluSCREENPLAY: Tayfun PirselimoğluCAST: Tansu Biçer, Nalan KuruçimPRODUCER: MITRA FILMCILIC / BAD CROWDPRODUCTION: MITRA FILMCILIC (Turkey), (T) +90 535 7119868, [email protected], BAD CROWD (Greece), (T) +302108213841, (E) [email protected], www.badcrowd.euCO-PRODUCTION: ISTANBUL DIGITAL (Turkey), AUTHORWAVE (Greece), ARIZONA PROD (France)INTERNATIONAL SALES OR CONTACT: Bad Crowd, Nikos Moustakas (T) +302108213841, (E) [email protected], www.badcrowd.euwww.badcrowd.eu
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A cinematic essay that combines documentary, fiction and philosophical contemplation on the subject of the paradoxical interplay between the cultures of the European North and South, with the camera performing continual back-and-forth movements between Germany and Greece. Ethnog-raphy and historiography, culture and everyday life, political and personal experience all come together forming new references, in the course of what constitutes a journey through the labyrinth of recent European history.
DIRECTION: Nicos LigourisSCREENPLAY: Nicos Ligouris PRODUCER: Nicos LigourisPRODUCTION: Nicos Ligouris (Germany) (T) 0049308812844 [email protected] [email protected]: Jost Hering Filme (Germany)CONTACT: Nicos Ligouris (Germany) (T) 0049308812844 [email protected] [email protected]
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CINEMATIC ESSAYGREECE201780’
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Lefteris Paraskevas, a hairdresser from Greece, will attempt the most extreme triathlon route in the world, ARCH TO ARC TRIATHLONH. His aim is to raise awareness and funds towards supporting two organizations that help people with kinetic and mental disabilities.
DIRECTION: Victoria VellopoulouSCREENPLAY: Victoria VellopoulouCAST: Lefteris ParaskevasPRODUCER: Photini EconomopoulouPRODUCTION: OH MY DOG, (GREECE) 2 Velissariou street, Cholargos 15562 Greece, (T) +30 6985 686232, (E) [email protected], www.ohmydog.gr
THE EXTRA MILE DOCU- MENTARY GREECE201674’
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1917-1932. Bolshevic Revolution - Ηolodomor. The greatest Utopia in the history of mankind. A Utopia that shocked the world (1917) and got bur-ied (1932) in mass graves along with millions of victims. The film narrates this full of promise yet tragic course of “The Great Utopia”.
DIRECTION: Fotos LamprinosSCREENPLAY: Fotos Lamprinos PRODUCERS: George Kyriakos, Costas Lampropoulos PRODUCTION: VIEW MASTER FILMS S.A. (T) 210 6411992, (E) [email protected], www.viewmasterfim.gr, (Greece)CO-PRODUCTION: FRESH PRODUCTION (Ukraine)CL PRODUCTIONS (Greece)
CONTACT: VIEW MASTER FILMS S.A. George Kyriakos (T) 210 6411992 (E) [email protected], www.viewmasterfim.gr
THE GREAT UTOPIA
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ALKI’S LONG WALKDOCU- MENTARY GREECE201788΄
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A cinematic journey in the tumultuous life and prolific works of Greek novelist, Alki Zei. A life that accumulates Greece’s entire 20th cen-tury history and writings that have received in-ternational success and continue to be honoured, touching generations and generations of readers. Based predominantly on the verbal testimonies of Alki Zei herself but also those of her sister, Hele-ni Kokkou and her dear friends and fellow-travel-lers, film director Manos Zacharias and poet Titos Patrikios.
DIRECTION: Margarita MandaSCREENPLAY: Margarita Manda, Petros Sevastikoglou PRODUCER: Stella Theodorakis, Thanos AnastopoulosPRODUCTION: Fantasia Audiovisual Ltd (Greece), (T) +30 210 9210882, (E) [email protected], [email protected], www.fantasiafilmworks.com
CONTACT: Fantasia Audiovisual Ltd (Greece), (T) +30 210 9210882, (E) [email protected], [email protected], www.fantasiafilmworks.com
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To some inhabitants, provincial cities, like Argos, are suffocating. Cultural associations, such as Cul-tural Argolic Protasis, are a sheet anchor for these restless amateurs of all ages. In their pursuit of existential survival, they create an open collectivi-ty, discover new things, read poetry, sing, analyze theatrical plays and work on plays of writers such as Dario Fo, Gogol, Cocteau, Lope de Vega, Brecht, Mike Kenny, Papadiamantis, Ritsos... a reflection on the selfless word of amateur creation in Greek province today.
DIRECTION: Giorgos Chr. ZervasSCREENPLAY: Giorgos Chr. Zervas / Vangelis PapadakisPRODUCER: Giorgos Chr. ZervasPRODUCTION: GIORGOS ZERVAS FILM PRODUCTIONS +302102113698, +306937748734, [email protected], vimeo.com/zervas, GREECE
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In a deserted coalmine on the Turkish border, thousands of Yezidi refugees wait for a safe return. Through the eyes of an older man, a teenage boy and a family, Shingal Where Are You? illustrates the burdens and dilemmas of this persecuted reli-gious minority.
DIRECTION: Angelos RallisSCREENPLAY: Angelos Rallis PRODUCER: Angelos RallisPRODUCTION: AR Productions (Greece), [email protected], (T) +30 6907615544, www.angelosrallis.com
INTERNATIONAL SALES OR CONTACT: Cargo Film & Releasing, David Piperni, (E) [email protected], Daniel Cantagallo, (E) [email protected], (T) +1-212-995-8139; (M) +1-310-780-7160, www.cargofilm-releasing.com
SHINGAL, WHERE ARE YOU?
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An orchestra could consist of a guitar, a piano, keyboards and a voice. Right? Wrong!... An orchestra could be solo voices as well! StringLESS!Five women, an acapella vocal group from Thes-saloniki, trying to survive adversity & the Greek crisis, creating beautiful & alternative music with female identity. Can they make it?
DIRECTION: Angelos KovotsosSCREENPLAY: Angelos Kovotsos PRODUCER: Vangelis FampasPRODUCTION / CONTACT: MASSIVE PRODUCTIONS (Greece), (T) +302106995320 (E) [email protected]
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“Vive la fuite!”, was the life motto of Alexis Akrithakis, the important Greek artist who spent the most prolific period of his artistic career in Berlin. A romantic, unconventional painter, a dreamer with a moving childishness, an impulsive seeker of experiences who identified with the myth of the “damned” artist in the most unpretentious and entirely experiential way.
DIRECTION: Evi KarampatsouSCREENPLAY: Evi Karampatsou PRODUCER: Evi Karampatsou & GFCPRODUCTION / CONTACT: Evi Karampatsou, GREECE, (T) +30 6944947429, (E) [email protected]
VIVE LA FUITEFEATURE DOCU-MENTARYGREECE201774’
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A man pushes his shopping cart through the streets of Athens revealing voices of anger, res-ignation and hope. The film is a poetic portrait of an ancient capital, the current setting of the hangover of a European crisis
DIRECTION: Antoine DanisSCREENPLAY: Antoine Danis PRODUCER: Les Films de l’Oeil SauvagePRODUCTION: Les films de l’oeil sauvage, Quentin Laurent, (T) +33 6 15 7789 95 (E) [email protected]://oeilsauvage.com/CO-PRODUCTION: MINIMAL FILMS (Athens)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Quentin Laurent, (T) +33 6 15 7789 95, (E) [email protected]://oeilsauvage.com/
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Dolphin Man tells the life story of Jacques May-ol, 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 May-ol’s world, capturing his compelling journey from Japan to Europe, North America and India, while immersing viewers into the sensory and transfor-mative experience of free-diving. The film weaves together stunning contemporary underwater pho-tography of the world’s leading free-divers with intimate testimonies of Mayol’s closest friends and family and rare film archive.
DIRECTION: Lefteris CharitosSCREENPLAY: Yuri Averof, Lefteris Charitos PRODUCER: Rea Apostolides, Yuri Averof, Seiko Kato, Estelle Robin, Ed BarreveldPRODUCTION: Anemon Productions, (E) [email protected], (T) +30 210 7211073 www.anemon.gr, (Greece)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Jan Rofekamp, Films Transit, (E) [email protected]
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DOLPHIN MAN By Lefteris Charitos
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Lena Platonos, a major figure in the Greek elec-tronic music scene ahead of her time in terms of groundbreaking work, is now receiving a surge of international attention thanks to album re-is-sues and remixes. With the help of collaborators, friends and international artists of today, the film goes back to the time her revolutionary records were made.
DIRECTION: Cristo Petrou PRODUCER: Giorgos Karnavas, Ioanna StaisPRODUCTION: Heretic (Greece), (T) +302106005260, (E) [email protected], www.heretic.gr
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Heretic Outreach, Ioanna Stais, (E) [email protected], www.heretic.gr
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Davlat is a Tajik merchandiser and a humble father of three children. A well respected businessman in the Pamir area, a mountainous region south-east of Tajikistan in the borders with China. His life has been transformed since the opening of the Tajik-Chinese border and the reconstruction of the old Silk Road. A road full of surprises and new ex-periences for Davlat and his family.
DIRECTION: Angelos Tsaousis & Myrto PapadopoulosSCREENPLAY: Angelos Tsaousis & Myrto Papadopoulos PRODUCER: Angelos Tsaousis, Myrto PapadopoulosPRODUCTION / CONTACT: FILMOGRAFIK PRODUCTIONS, (T) 00 30 231 3068216, GR mob. 00 30 697 6481082, US mob 00 1 (415) 900-9026, (E) [email protected], [email protected], www.filmografik.com, (GREECE)
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By Angelos Tsaousis & Myrto Papadopoulos
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The loss of historical memory is equal to the loss of the ability to conceive the present and to predict the future. Unpublished shots of 35mm negative, by the pioneer filmmakers of the period 1936-1952: through Metaxas Dictatorship, Greco-Italian war, German Occupation, Resistance, Liberation, British landings, December events, Civil War, emergency courts-martial, prison island of Makronisos.“All over Greece, becoming one soul, one voice,rises to the air a hymn to freedom, the only value of mankind”.
DIRECTION: Nikos KavoukidisSCREENPLAY: ΤelefilmPRODUCER: Nikos KavoukidisPRODUCTION: Τelefilm
CONTACT: Telefilm N.Kavoukidis & Co [email protected]
REMEMBRANCESDOCU- MENTARYGREECE2016128’
By Nikos Kavoukidis
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AINIGMA BY ANTONIS DOUSIAS & ARIS FATOUROS [10MN / FANTASTIC / GREECE]
CHELIDONIA BY CATHERINE LECOQ & VINCENT MICHAUD [19MN / FANTASTIC / FRANCE, GREECE]
A JOB INTERVIEW BY ANTONIS GLAROS [7MN / COMEDY, DRAMA, CRIME / GREECE]
THE PENAL COLONY BY MANOS ALIKSANYAN [23MN / DRAMA, SOCIAL, CRIME / U.K., GREECE]
GREEKFILMS
IN THESHORTFILMCORNER
SKIN BY PANOS KATSIMPERIS [20MN / DRAMA, FANTASTIC, YOUTH / GREECE]
WHALE 52 BY THANASIS TROUBOUKIS [23MN / DRAMA / GREECE]
YAPI BY DRAPER KHANDROS [9MN / SOCIAL / GREECE]
YENARIS/ THE BOY WHO NEVER GREW HIS HAIR LONG BY ZOIE SGOUROU [24MN / DRAMA, YOUTH / GREECE]
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