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CLOUDY SUNDAY [Ouzeri Tsitsanis] by Manoussos Manoussakis 12.2 - 20:10 CineStar 5 16.2 - 09:00 CinemaxX 9

WORLDS APART [Enas Allos Kosmos] by Christopher Papakaliatis 14.2 - 13:15 Zoo Palast 4

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HUMIDITY [VLAŽNOST] MODERATION Social Drama /Serbia, Greece, Art, Horror/Greece, Italy, by Nikola Ljuca Netherlands/2015/113’ by Anja Kirschner Egypt, UK/2015/149’

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After spending the morning Moderation, set in Egypt, Greece with her lover, Mina picks up her and Italy, revolves around a husband Petar from the airport. female horror director and her While Petar is asleep, Mina disappears. collaborators, whose latest project is Petar lies to friends and relatives about haunted by encounters with its ‘raw her whereabouts. At work, he faces a lot material’ and the way horror traverses of pressure. In the summer heat, Petar the realities of their lives on and off can’t sleep and spends the nights jogging. screen. He won’t admit anything’s wrong. Screenplay: Anja Kirschner, Maya Lubinsky, Screenplay: Stasa Bajac, Nikola Ljuca Anna De Filippi Cast: Milod Timotijevic, Tamara Krcunovic Cast: Maya Lubinsky, Michele Valley, Aida El Kashef, Production: Dart Films, Tel +381-11-420-3278, Giovanni Lombardo Radice [email protected], www.dartfilm.com Production: Anja Kirschner, +306943458468, Co-production: 2|35 (Greece), Lemming Film, [email protected], anjakirschner.com, (Netherlands), Cinnamon, (Serbia) Theo Prodromidis, +302108840070, +306938025002, International sales: Soul Food International Sales [email protected], Polyeco Contemporary & Distribution, (Serbia) +381 11 26 72 004, Art Initiative, +30 210 4060014, +306948500531, [email protected], [email protected] www.soulfoodfilms.com. Co-production: Nomas Foundation (Italy), Beirut (Egypt) International sales or contact: c/o Anja Kirschner BERLINALE SCREENINGS 13.2 - 11:00 CinemaxX 6 (P&I Screening) BERLINALE SCREENINGS 15.2 - 21:30 Delphi OFFICIAL SCREENING OFFICIAL SCREENING: 16.2 - 13:30 CineStar 8 16.2 . - 21:00 Akademie der Künste, 17.2 - 22:15 CinemaxX 4 18.2. - 17:00 Arsenal 1 19.23 - 22:15 Cubix 9 index NEW AND UPCOMING FILMS FROM GREECE Latest Arrivals Silent 15 by Yorgos Gkikapeppas Cloudy Sunday 7 by Manousos Manousakis Symptom 15 by Angelos Frantzis Mythopathy 7 by Tasos Boulmetis Ursa Minor 16 by Elissavet Chronopoulou Smac 8 by Elias Demetriou Wednesday 4:45 16 by Alexis Alexiou Spring Awakening 8 by Constantine Giannaris Worlds Apart 17 by Christopher Papakaliatis Suntan 9 by Argyris Papadimitropoulos The Longest Run 9 International Co-productions by Marianna Economou Blind Sun 18 by Joyce A. Nashawatti Next Stop: Utopia 10 by Apostolos Karakasis The Lobster 19 by Yorgos Lanthimos The sky above us 19 Fiction Features by Marinus Groothof Greek Productions

Chevalier 12 In Progress by Athina Rachel Tsangari Greek Productions Children of Greece 12 Ashes 20 by Dionysis Grigoratos by Stratos Tzitzis Fate 13 The Great Eastern 21 by Andreas Marianos by Lakis & Aris Ionas Interruption 13 Lines 21 by Yorgos Zois by Vassilis Mazomenos Invisible 14 Magic Mirror 22 by Dimitris Athanitis by Christos Dimas Riverbanks 14 by Panos Karkanevatos

4 Park 22 by Vangelis Kalambakas by Sofia Exarchou Mana 30 Son of Sofia 23 by Valerie Kontakos by Elina Psikou Virus 23 Psy 31 by Angelos Frantzis by Kalliopi Legaki Thread 24 by The Boy In progress Ussak 24 Greek Productions by Kyriakos Katzourakis Alki’s Great Promenade 32 by Margarita Manda Fiction Features In Progress The Extra Mile 32 International Co-productions by Victoria Vellopoulou Daybreak 25 by Gentian Koçi The Great Utopia 33 The Harvesters 26 by Fotos Lamprinos by Etienne Kalos The new plastic road 33 Jesus 26 by Angelos Tsaousis by Fernando Guzzoni & Myrto Papadopoulos The Secret Ingredient 27 by Gjorce Stavreski In progress Voir du Pays 27 by Delphine et Muriel Coulin International Co-productions Athens, the Shards 34

Documentaries by Antoine Danis A family Affair 29 The Last Beach 35 by Angeliki Aristomenopoulou by Thanos Anastopoulos Kostis Palamas: The Supreme Flower in Greek Literature 29 Nostos 35 by Stamatis Tsarouchas by Sandrine Dumas No Candies from Heaven 30

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6 [OUZERI [NOTIAS] CLOUDY SUNDAY TSITSANIS] MYTHOPATHY Drama/Greece Social Drama by Manoussos Manoussakis 2015/116’ by Tassos Boulmetis Greece/2016/100’

1942: Salonika, a multicultural city, under In the early 1970s, with Greece under the Nazi occupation. A defiant Jewish girl rule of a military junta, pre-teen Stavros and a Christian boy fall desperately in discovers a strange accompaniment to love. A small music club, serves as a small the awakening of eros: he subverts the oasis, a cocoon against the insanity of meanings of classical myths, creating racial discrimination and the ensuing strange physical symptoms in those hunt of the Jews gradually spreading around him. Stavros’ conservative around the city. parents, perplexed and flustered, take him from specialist to specialist. Diagnoses Screenplay: Vasilis Spiliopoulos, Ada Gourbali, vary, until a fortune-teller deems that the Manoussos Manoussakis boy is victim of a rare, ancient disease, Cast: Andreas Konstantinou,Christina Hilla-Famelli, which exhibits himself when he is in love. Haris Fragoulis, Vassiliki Troufakou After the collapse of the junta, as Stavros meets the toils of love and politics in Production: Telekinisi S.A. tel: 00302106898607, university, the influence of his strange [email protected], http://ouzeritsitsanis.com/ affliction extends, from his immediate International Sales: feelgoodentertainment, environment into the political arena... +30 211 9967000, http://www.feelgoodentertainment.gr/ Screenplay: Tassos Boulmetis Cast: Yiannis Niarros, Themis Panou, Maria Kallimani, Taxiarhis Hanos Production: Onion Films, 00302106004338, [email protected] EFM SCREENINGS 12.2 - 20:10 Co-production: Ote TV, View Master Films, CineStar 5 Rosebud 21, Magikon 16.2 - 09:00 CinemaxX 9

7 [TO XYPNIMA SMAC SPRING TIS ANIXIS] Drama/Greece AWAKENING by Elias Demetriou 2015/110’ Drama/ Greece by Constantine Giannaris 2015/ 89’

Smac (Second mitochondrial activator of caspases) is a mitochondrial protein Contemporary Athens - A gang of that promotes the natural cell death. teenage thieves and romantic anarchists Eleni has cancer. Andreas is homeless. test the limits of their youthful rebellion An accidental encounter benefits both of and play out their own tragic spring them. awakening against the backdrop of a Screenplay: Elias Demetriou dying city. Cast: Evangelia Andreadaki, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Stavroula Kontopoulou, Stefanos Mwange Screenplay: Constantine Giannaris, Maria Powell Cast: Daphne Patakia, Konstantinos Elmatzioglou, Production: Ammos Films, +306944881820 [email protected], www.ammosfilms.com Kostas Nikoulis, Aggelos Tzegia Production: View Master Films, +30 210 6411992, Co-production: Ote Tv, Authorwave, Prosenghisi F& V, Faliro House [email protected], www.viewmasterfilm.gr Co-production: Odeon S.A., NOVA, CL Productions International Sales: c/o Elias Demetriou, Ammos Films International Sales: WTF Provocateurs (Dimitri Stephanides), +33 643379698, [email protected]

SPRING AWAKENING @ FESTIVALS THESSALONIKI IFF - Audience Award

8 [O PIO SUNTAN THE MAKRIS DROMOS] Drama/Greece, LONGEST RUN by Argyris Papadimitropoulos Germany/2016/104’ Documentary/Greece by Marianna Economou 2015/74’ & 55’

On a hedonistic Greek island, a middle- aged local doctor becomes obsessed with Against the backdrop of the ISIS attacks a young female tourist when she lets in the Middle East, Alsaleh and Jasim find him tag along with her group of hard themselves in a Juvenile Prison in Greece, partying friends. under the severe accusation of smuggling Screenplay: Argyris Papadimitropoulos, illegal immigrants. Their stories unfold in Syllas Tzoumerkas prison and in the court exposing how innocent young refugees are forced by Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou smugglers to transport people across Production: Marni Films, borders. +302103228860, [email protected], www.marnifilms.gr /Oxymoron Films Screenplay: Marianna Economou International Sales: Visit Films, [email protected], Production: Stefi & Lynx productions, +30 210 6386200 T: +1 718 312 8210, W: visitfilms.com www.stefi.gr, [email protected] Co-production: DOC3 Productions, Greece & Marni Films, Greece

SUNTAN International Sales: Deckert Distribution GmbH, @ FESTIVALS +49 (0) 341 215 66 38, [email protected] International Film Festival Rotterdam www.deckert-distribution.com (Big Screen Competition) 2016 The Agora Works In Progress Big Award 2014 (Thessaloniki Film Festival)

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DOKLeipzig 2015, Honorary mention - International Competition Long Prize - VER.DI Docs in Progress, Thessaloniki Doc festival 2015 DOK Leipzig Co-Production meeting 2014

9 [EPOMENOS NEXT STOP: STATHMOS: UTOPIA UTOPIA] Documentary by Apostolos Karakasis Greece/90’

When a Greek factory goes bankrupt, the workers occupy it and attempt to run it on their own. Self-management proves no easy task; soon they discover that they first need to change themselves.

Production: Minimal Films (Greece), [email protected], +30 6979 370675, www.nextstoputopia.com International Sales: VISIBLE FILM, www.visiblefilm.com

NEXTUTOPIA STOP: @ FESTIVALS IDFA (competition for Feature length Documentary) Trieste IFF

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11 CHEVALIER CHILDREN OF Drama, Comedy GREECE by Athina Rachel Tsangari Greece/99’/ 2015 Fiction, Drama by Dionysis Grigoratos Greece/2015/153’

In the middle of the Aegean Sea, on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip The odyssey of five children among the decide to play a game. During this game, 60,000 who were taken away from their things will be compared. Things will be homes during the Greek civil war and measured. Songs will be butchered, led to institutions inside and outside of and blood will be tested. Friends will Greece. Today, the granddaughter of one become rivals and rivals will become of the children reconstructs that odyssey hungry. But at the end of the voyage, with the help of two bloggers who, as it when the game is over, the man who is revealed, have central role in the case. wins will be the best man. And he will wear upon his littlest finger the Screenplay: Dionysis Grigoratos victorious signet ring: the “Chevalier.” Cast: Jenny Stavropoulou, Petros Giasemis, Olympia Gelodari, Giorgos Pazios Screenplay: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Efthimis Filippou Production: Konstantinos Grigoratos, +306946525426, Cast: Yorgos Kentros, Panos Koronis, [email protected] Makis Papadimitriou, Yorgos Pyrpassopoulos, International Sales: Konstantinos Grigoratos, +306946525426, Vangelis Mourikis, Sakis Rouvas [email protected] Production: Faliro House, +30 210 9404762, [email protected], www.falirohouse.com,

Haos Film, +30 210 3222466, [email protected], @ FESTIVALS www.haosfilm.com CHILDREN OF GREECE Co-production: Nova 39th Montreal World Film International Sales: The Match Factory, + 49 221 539 709 0, Festival - Official Selection [email protected], www.the-match-factory.com

CHEVALIER @ FESTIVALS Locarno IFF, Main Competition Sarajevo FF, Main Competition-Special Jury Mention, Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actor (All Cast) Toronto IFF, Contemporary World Cinema New York FF, USA London IFF/BFI, UK,Best Film Award AFI Fest, USA •Stockholm IFF, Sweden Black Nights, Estonia •Les Arcs European FF, France 12 FATE [IMARMENI] INTERRUPTION Dramatical Commedia Drama/Greece, France, by Andreas J. Marianos GREECE/2015/95’ by Yorgos Zois Croatia/2015/111’

On a small island, a saint, it is going to be A post modern theater adaptation of recognized by the church. Ηe s icon, has a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a no face. A strange tradition, says: “the central theater of Athens. Like every saint left the icon, in order to tempt the night, the audience take their seats and faithful in the fair. He was ashamed and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights never returned.” A writer, experiencing a on stage go out. A group of young catastrophic weekend, discovers that it people, dressed in black and carrying existed painter, who had been invited to guns, come up on stage. They apologize painting, but the dissolute life he became for the interruption and invite people cause n attributed to the saint his own from the audience to participate on acts. Islanders resorting to crime, loaded stage. The audience is captivated by the in the holy pity His icon painter, clicking ambivalence, still not realizing if this is on the incomplete nature of hagiography. part of the play or not. The play resumes In seeking out the truth n the Author, with a main difference; life imitates art thachei ugly end. His body was and not vice versa. discovered abused, long after. A reporter, undertakes to cover the event, but meets the closed society that refuses to speak. Screenplay: Yorgos Zois Cast: Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Maria Kallimani, Screenplay: Andreas J. Marianos Daphne Ioakeimidou-Patakia, Christos Stergioglou Cast: Keti Imbrohori, Yannis Zouganellis, Alkis Panagi- Production: Pan Entertainment SA, Maria Drandaki, otidis, Julia Kalogridi +30 210 6985050, Cell:+ 30 6944846012, Production: System Media Art, +0030 2103621428, [email protected], www.pan.com.gr [email protected], www.smartmedia.gr Co-production: EZ Films (France), Nukleus Film (Croatia) Co-production: Massive Productions International Sales: EZ Films, Ray Meirovitz, International Sales: A. J. Marianos [email protected], www.ez-films.com [email protected], System Media Art, +0030

2103621428, [email protected], INTERRUPTION www.smartmedia.gr, 0030 6936246348 @ FESTIVALS Venice FF - Orizzonti Competition,

FATE Torino FF, Mumbai IFF, Thessaloniki IFF, @ FESTIVALS Kolkata IFF, Goa IFF, 2015 Thessaloniki Int .F.F. Palm Springs IFF 13 INVISIBLE [AORATOS] RIVERBANKS [OCTHES] Drama, Thriller Drama/Greece, Germany, by Dimitri Athanitis Greece/2015/84’ by Panos Karkanevatos Turkey/2015/96’

Aris, 38, worker in a factory is fired A minefield by Evros River. A platoon of without any warning. sappers is struggling to clear. Yannis is As his attempts to be re-hired fail, he among them. Gangs transfer refugees, gradually becomes obsessed immigrants across the border-river; with the idea to take justice in his own sometimes the minefield breaks its dark hands. He is ready to proceed with his silence. Chryssa who crosses the children, goal when his ex-wife dumps their six will stumble on Yannis. Challenging years son to him. death is their common fate. She will be lost. Yannis will stay behind trying Screenplay: Dimitri Athanitis, Yorgos Makris to understand what love is, through a Cast: Yannis Stankoglou, Kora Karvouni miracle. Production: Prosenghisi Ltd, +30 210 2725340, [email protected], www.prostv.com Screenplay: Panos Karkanevatos, Isidoros Zourgos Cast: Andreas Konstantinou, Elena Mavridou, Co-production: DNA films, GR Levent Uzumcu International Sales: Panos Papadopoulos, +30 210 2725340, [email protected], Production: Vergi Film Productions, +30 210 6561330 www.prostv.com Cel: +30 697 6005036, [email protected]; [email protected], www.vergilab.gr, http://riverbanksmovie.gr/ Co-production: VIDICOM - Germany, TAKSI - Turkey, NDR, INVISIBLE ARTE, Hamburg Film Fund, NOVA, Media Programme @ FESTIVALS International Sales: c/o Vergi Film Productions, Distri- Best Film/Director/Actor at London GFF bution: Odeon (Greece), Realfiction (Germany), IFP Special Actor’s Prize at Panorama EFF Thessaloniki IFF (Turkey), TV Broadcast: NOVA, NDR, ARTE, ERT Barcelona HRFF Chicago AFF Maverick Movie Awards LA SPFV IFF RIVERBANKS @ FESTIVALS CINEMED-Montpellier Mediterranean FF Thessaloniki IFF Wiesbaden IFF NYC Greek FF

14 SILENT SYMPTOM [SYMPTOMA] Drama/ Greece/2015/92’ Mystery, Drama by Yorgos Gkikapeppas by Angelos Frantzis Greece/2015/87’

A peculiar creature appears on a remote, rainy island, wearing a leather jacket and staring with eyes that glow in the darkness. Whoever encounters it loses their mind. The island’s residents seek A young woman’s lonely struggle to bring help from the only person who seems her voice back provokes her close persons to posses the strength to confront the hysteria since they can’t forgive her silent creature: a young girl. Embarking on a controversy. The heroine’s denial causes relentless hunt for the creature, the girl a deep crisis into her intellectual family. will put her faith on test and reveal her The preservation of a free voice seems hidden relationship with the creature. to be more vital than the capability of speech itself. Screenplay: Konstantinos Antonopoulos, Angelos Frantzis Screenplay: Yorgos Gkikapeppas Cast: Katia Goulioni, Constantine Markoulakis, Cast: Kika Georgiou, Aneza Papadopoulou, Michele Valley, Eleni Vergeti, Yiannis Nikolaidis Manos Vakoussis, Electra Nikolouzou Production: The Gardens, Filmiki productions, 2/35 Production: Film Society, Yorgos Gkikapeppas, Co-production: Daphne Koutra 30 6941559080, [email protected] International sales: c/o The Gardens, [email protected] Co-production: Wrongmen, Alexandra Boussiou, +30 2130 297611, [email protected], www.wrongmen.be SYMPTOM International Sales: Film Society, Yorgos Gkikapeppas, @ FESTIVALS +30 6941 559080, [email protected] Karlovy Vary international film festival (work in progress section) Thessaloniki international film festival SILENT (work in progress section) @ FESTIVALS Torino international film festival Thessaloniki international film festival 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Athens international film festival 2015 (International Competition) 46th India International Film Festival (IFFI Goa) 2015 (World Cinema section)

15 URSA MINOR [MIKRI ARKTOS] WEDNESDAY [TETARTI 4:45] Drama/Greece/86’ 4:45 by Elissavet Chronopoulou Drama/Germany, by Alexis Alexiou Greece, Israel/2015/116’

Ιn a cheap by-the-hour hotel, a man is being arrested while the unconscious Athens, today: 32 hours that body of a woman is being transported to will change the life of a night- the hospital. In the back seat of the patrol club owner as the city and the whole car, on his way to the police station, the country go up in flames. man is recalling the last few months, trying to understand what went wrong. Screenplay: Alexis Alexiou Cast: Stelios Mainas, Dimitris Tzoumakis, Screenplay: Elissavet Chronopoulou Adam Bousdoukos, Giorgos Symeonidis, Mimi Branescu Cast: Sofia Georgovassili, Production: Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Dioni Kourtaki +493061281750, [email protected], Production: Elissavet Chronopoulou, www.twentytwentyvision.eu +30 210 6454601, +30 6972253957 Co-production: CL Productions (Greece), Pie Films (Israel) [email protected]. [email protected] International Sales: Loco Films, +33 670 02 38 30, International sales: c/o Elissavet Chronopoulou [email protected], www.loco-films.com

URSA MINOR @ FESTIVALS WEDNESDAY@ FESTIVALS 4:45 39th Göteborg IFF Tribeca IFF (World Narrative Competition), Hellas Filmbox Berlin - New Vision, Jeonju IFF, Best New Vision Film Award Karlovy Vary IFF- East of the West Thessaloniki IFF - Agora Works in Progress Competition London BFI FF Goeteborg IFF

16 [ENAS ALLOS WORLDS APART KOSMOS]

Drama, Romance by Christopher Papakaliatis Greece/2015/114’

Set in modern day Greece, “Worlds Apart” is comprised of three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.

Screenplay: Christopher Papakaliatis Cast: J.K. Simmons, Christopher Papakaliatis, Andrea Osvárt, Maria Kavogianni Production: PLUS PRODUCTIONS SA, +30 212212 7403, [email protected], www.worldsapartfilm.com Co-production: Alpha TV, Ote TV, Aegean Airlines, Village Roadshow Greece International sales: c/o Kostas Sousoulas, +30 212212 7404, +30 6973 440184, [email protected]

2016 GREEK BOX OFFICE HIT

EFM SCREENING 14.2 - 13:15 Zoo Palast 4

17 BLIND SUN [KAFSONAS] Thriller/France, by Joyce A. Nashawatti Greece/2015/90’

Greece. the sun is cruel and water is rare. Ashraf, a lonely drifter, guards an isolated villa which belongs to an expat family. On a dusty road, near a seaside resort, a bored policeman takes away his residence permit. Haunted by this encounter, Ashraf, alone in his air- conditioned aquarium, feels a presence watching him, a shadow following him, a creature that becomes more and more threatening...

Screenplay: Joyce A. Nashawati Cast: Ziad Bakri, Laurene Brun, Giannis Stankoglou, Giorgos Gallos Production: Good Lap Production, + 33 1 41 06 90 67 (France), [email protected], TBC productions +33 (0)1 822 842 10 www.tbcprod. com (France), BLONDE +30 210 6080650 [email protected], www.blonde.gr (Greece) Co-production: MPM film (France) International Sales: Reel Suspects, +33158514295, m.reelsuspects.com, www.reelsuspects.com FICTIONCOMPLETED FEATURES BLIND SUN @ FESTIVALS International Thessaloniki IFF FIPRESCI Award Co-productions (Greek Section) Dubai IFF Sitges IFF

18 THE LOBSTER [O ASTAKOS] THE SKY Comedy, Drama/Ireland, UK, France, Greece, ABOVE US by Yorgos Lanthimos Netherlands/118’/ 2015 Drama/Netherlands, by Marinus Groothof Serbia, Greece/2015/97’

An unconventional love story set in a dystopian near future where single people, according to the rules of the Town, are As Belgrade silently gets ready for yet arrested and transferred to the Hotel. There another night of NATO bombings, Ana, they are obliged to find a matching mate in Bojan and Sloba try to retain their sanity 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed while dealing with their fears. into an animal of their choosing and released into the Woods. A desperate Screenplay: by Marinus Groothof Man escapes from the Hotel to the Woods Cast: Nada Šargin, Boris Isaković, Nikola Rakočević where the Loners live and there he falls in Production: CTM Pictures, +31 (0)35 647 4040, love, although it’s against their rules. [email protected], www.levpictures.com Co-production: Entre Chien et Loup ( Belgium), Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou Art & Popcorn (Serbia), Heretic ( Greece) Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux International Sales: Heretic Outreach, +30 210 6005260, Production: Element Pictures, +353 1 618 5032, [email protected], heretic.gr/heretic-outreach/ [email protected], www.elementpictures.ie / Scarlet Films: [email protected] / Limp Films, c/o Element Pictures, www.lanthimos.com THE SKY ABOVE US Co-production: Faliro House Productions (Greece), @ FESTIVALS Haut et Court (France), Lemming Film (Netherlands) Rotterdam IFF International Sales: Protagonist Pictures, Jeonju IFF Tel: +44 207 734 9000, [email protected], Galway FIlm Flead www.protagonistpictures.com Anonimul IFF Zadar FF Cambridge IFF THE LOBSTER @ FESTIVALS Jagran IFF Braunschweig IFF Cannes 2015 Jury Prize European Film Awards, Cottbus IFF European Costume Designer 2015 Sarah Blenkinsop, Thessaloniki IFF European Screenwriter 2015, Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou Camerimage IFF, British Independent Film Awards 2015, Best Supporting Actress, Rencontres des Olivia Colman Seville International Film Festival 2015, Cinemas d’Europe Best European Co-Production Stockholm Visionary Award, Chennai IFF Yorgos Lanthimos Ghent Film Festival Oct 2015, The Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack Karlovy Vary IFF 19 Toronto IFF Busan IFF London BFI FF NY IFF AFI Fest Sundance IFF ASHES [KAFSI] Black Comedy/ by Stratos Tzitzis Greece/70’

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.

Screenplay: Stratos Tzitzis Cast: Nikos Georgakis, Gogo Brebou, Giorgos Hraniotis, Ioanna Mavrea Production: Bad Crowd, +30 210 8213841, [email protected], www.badcrowd.eu International Sales: c/o Bad Crowd

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20 THE GREAT LINES [GRAMMES] EASTERN Drama/ Greece by Vassilis Mazomenos Drama/Greece/ 84’ by Lakis & Aris Ionas

Isolation, Hope, Lust and Darkness. Five people standing like trees, waiting on a rocky isolated island for the ocean linear The Great Eastern to pick Seven stories for a contemporary Greek them up in a journey towards hope. A tragedy; the suicides as a result of the young butterfly flies between them and financial crisis. Seven heroes searching fucks everything up. for hope through the telephone lines of a call centre. No one can really help them so they are all connected to this macabre Screenplay: Lakis & Aris Ionas death dance. Cast: Dimitris Politakis, Iro Sofoulaki, Katia Dimopoulou, Elias Papazacharias Screenplay: Vassilis Mazomenos Production: The Studio Art Projects, Cast: Themis Panou, Anna Kalaitzidou, +302103314923, [email protected] Thodoros Katsafados, Vassilis Koukalani Co-production: HAOS Film, Production: Horme Pictures, +306944458723, Athens Filmmakers’ Co-Operative [email protected], www.hormepictures.com International Sales: c/o Lakis & Aris IONAS Co-production: Dna, X-rated International Sales: Horme Pictures, +306944458723, [email protected], www.hormepictures.com

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21 [MAGIKOS MAGIC MIRROR KATHREFTIS] PARK Comedy/Greece/ Drama/Greece, by Christos Dimas 2016/ 100' by Sofia Exarchou Poland/99’

The main character of the movie finds Ten years have passed, and the Olympic a “magic mirror” that can make wishes Village in Athens, Greece is in decay. come true. Many wishes! Unfortunately, Among the abandoned athletic facilities whatever our hero wishes comes true and new-money tourist resorts nearby, in an unexpected and peculiar way. The Dimitris(17), Anna(24), a retired athlete, other characters in our protagonist’s life and their friends traverse Greece’s remain the same, but assume different “glorious” past with the decadence of characteristics with each wish. today, creating a portrait of a society unprepared for the brutal fall. Screenplay: Elena Solomou, Kostis Papadopoulos Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Zeta Douka, Eleni Kokkidou, Athina Oikonomakou Screenplay: Sofia Exarchou Production: BLACK ORANGE PRODUCTIONS S.A., Cast: Dimitris Kitsos, Dimitra Vlagkopoulou, +30 210 8234369, [email protected] Thomas Bo Larsen www.blackorange.gr Production: NEDA Film, Amanda Livanou Co-production: OTE TV, Greece + 306944 757339, [email protected], www.nedafilm.gr Co-production: Faliro House (Greece), Madants (Poland) World Sales: c/o NEDA FILM

MARKETAS & LABWORK PARTICIPATIONS IN PROGRESS

Crossroads co-production market (Thessaloniki 2012) - CNC prize Cinelink Sarajevo market 2013 - Eurimages Prize Karlovy Vary Works in Progress 2015- First Prize Sundance Directors, Screenwriters & Producers labs Baltic Event, Talinn Esthonia 2013

IN POST - PRODUCTION 22 [O GIOS TIS SON OF SOFIAS] VIRUS SOFIA Drama, Thriller by Angelos Frantzis Greece, France, Latvia Drama/Greece, by Elina Psykou France, Bulgaria

PETROS (40) and ANNA (30) have recently Athens, 2004. A few days before the moved to Siberia from Athens due to his Olympic Games officially return to Greece, work as an environmental engineer in the 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to local factory. Their lives are unexpectedly live with his mother Sofia. They haven’t disrupted when Anna gets pregnant. seen each other in a while and Misha They both know Petros can’t be the doesn’t know Sofia has been living with father. Their sexual life has been non- an elderly Greek gentleman, Mr. Nikos. existent since their arrival in Norilsk. While Greece lives the Olympic dream, The two of them slowly take different Misha will come face-to-face with the lies paths in an effort to make sense of their concealed behind motherly love. Riding situation. on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales, he will get violently catapulted into the Screenplay: Angelos Frantzis, Spyros Krimbalis adult world. Cast: Andreas Konstantinou, Katia Goulioni Production: Heretic +30 210 6005260, Screenplay: Elina Psykou [email protected], www.heretic.gr Cast: Viktor Khomut, Valery Tcheplanowa, Co-production: Mezannine Films (France), Thanasis Papageorgiou Tasse Film (Latvia) Production: Heretic, +30 210 6005260, [email protected], International Sales: Heretic Outreach +30 210 6005260, www.heretic.gr [email protected], www.heretic.gr/outreach Co-production: KinoElektron (France), The Chouvkov Brothers (Bulgaria) International Sales: Heretic Outreach +30 210 6005260, [email protected], www.heretic.gr/outreach MARKETAS & LABWORK PARTICIPATIONS IN PROGRESS Best Project Award, Crossroads, Thessaloniki International Film Festival MARKETAS & LABWORK PARTICIPATIONS IN PROGRESS IN FINANCING Les Arcs European FF, Coproduction Village, Works in Progress Award (2016) Berlinale Residency, Berlinale Co-production Forum IN PRODUCTION 23 THREAD USSAK Drama/Greece Drama/Greece/120’ by The Boy 2016/94’ by Kyriakos Katzourakis

Niki, a vibrant articulate woman After a leap in time of about 30 years in conflicted by her need to serve the Party the future, the film projects fears and and yet tormented by her deep-rooted hopes of disparate people (a roving ex- need to be a woman. Her commitment to performer woman, an enigmatic little the Party betrays her inability to simply girl, an ex-drag showman, a politically be a mother. Lefteris, Niki’s son, an conscious dropout, representatives of introverted listless young man, inherits an intangible dark power, a group of a past he did not create or want. He farmers and various other people. Their wanders within a world enveloped by routs intersect and their lives change. the deception of mirrors, where its Questions are brought out demanding community glorifies and celebrates answers: can the tough masks of the motherhood with the ultimate sacrifice characters - a result of the harsh reality of death. Niki’s struggle for freedom - crack? can anyone living in extreme transforms into the invisible shackles that conditions claim a full, good life instead imprison Lefteris. Until one day, the of fighting only for survival? is this thread that binds them, the psychological a utopia? what is utopia? in this last umbilical cord, is cut. (Both protagonists question the film gives an answer. At are potrayed by a single actor). the end of the narration someone says: «Dude, a utopian isn’t but an absolute Screenplay: The Boy materialist»). Cast: Sofia Kokkali Production: Logline Film Essentials (Greece), Screenplay: Katia Gerou, Kyriakos Katzourakis Eleni Bertes, +30 210 3801442, [email protected] Cast: Yiannis Tsortekis, Katia Gerou, Nikos Nikas, Theodora Tzimou Production: ARTemis, www.artemisproductions.gr, [email protected], Mahi Arvaniti, 210 3615711 IN POST - PRODUCTION Co-production: GFC (Greek Film Centre)

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24 [TO KSEKINIMA DAY BREAK TISMERAS] Drama/ by by Gentian Koçi Albania, Greece

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 employed Leta as a caretaker. In order to keep her job and their new roof, Leta has to keep Sophie alive at any cost.

Screenplay: Gentian KOÇI, Production: Artlab Film +355692321352, [email protected] Co-production: Graal films (Greece) International sales: c/o Artlab Film

MARKET & LAB PARTICIPATIONS AS FICTION FEATURES WORK IN PROGRESS IN PROGRESS Cinelink in Sarajevo Film festival Euro-Mediterrean Co-production Forum International Apulia Film Commission in Taranto Connecting Cottbus in Cottbus Film Festival

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25 THE HARVESTERS [I THERISTES] JESUS Drama /France, Drama/France, Chile, Germany, by Etienne Kallos Greece, South Africa by Fernando Guzzoni Greece, Colombia/90’

In the conservative rural culture of the Santiago (Chile). Jesus (18) is in search Afrikaner society, where strength and of his identity. He dances with a Korean masculinity are prized above all, Johan pop group and likes hanging out in public is set apart by his hidden homosexual parks with his friends. He doesn’t go to nature and the fact that he is adopted school or have a job. Since his mother in a community obsessed with family died he lives with his father, Hector (53), and ancestry. One day, his fiercely in an apartment where the tv covers up religious mother brings home another their inability to communicate. Afrikaans orphan. The brothers lock into One night, Jesus opens up to his father a dangerous struggle for power, using and confesses his involvement in an their hidden lives and broken pasts as irreversible event. This shared knowledge weapons against each other. forces them to join together for the first time. Hector tries to protect and help his Screenplay: Etienne Kallos son, but keeping the secret begins to eat Production: Cinema defacto, away at him. One day he decides to go +33 1 55 79 04 04, [email protected] to pick Jesus up, but not precisely to take Co-production: Heretic (Greece), him back home… Film Factory (Saudi Arabia) International Sales: c/o Cinema Defacto Screenplay: Fernando Guzzoni Cast: Nicolás Durán, Alejandro Goic Production: JBA PRODUCTION (France) +33 1 48 048460, www.jbaproduction.com, [email protected], MARKET & LAB PARTICIPATIONS RAMPANTE Films (Chile), +56 09 98648004, AS WORK IN PROGRESS [email protected] Co-production: UNAFILM (Germany), Graal Films (Greece) Prix Fondation Gan, Sundance Lab, Cinefondation Burning Blue (Colombia) International Sales: c/o JBA PRODUCTION IN PRODUCTION

MARKET & LAB PARTICIPATIONS AS WORK IN PROGRESS Torino Film Lab (2013)

IN POST-PRODUCTION 26 [TO MISTIKO THE SECRET SISTATIKO] VOIR DU PAYS INGREDIENT Fiction/ France, by Delphine et Muriel Coulin Greece/100’ Comedy, Drama/ by Gjorce Stavreski Fyrom, Greece

At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, An underpaid train mechanic steals Aurore and Marine, are given three days marijuana from some mobsters and of «decompression leave» at a five-star makes a space cake for his father to resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it’s relieve his cancer pain. Suddenly, he not that easy to forget the war and leave finds himself cornered by the criminals the violence behind. who want their drugs back and the nosy neighbors who want the recipe for the Screenplay: Delphine et Muriel Coulin based on “healing” cake. “Voir du pays” de Delphine Coulin Cast: Soko, Ariane Labed Screenplay: Gjorce Stavreski Production: Archipel 35 (France), +33 (0)1 42 72 10 70, Production: Fragment Film, +389 (0) 75 464488, www.fragmentfilm.com, [email protected] [email protected] Co-production: Blonde SA(Greece) Co-production: Graal films (Greece) International Sales: Films Distribution: International Sales: c/o Fragment Film +33 (0)1 53 10 33 99, [email protected], www.filmsdistribution.com

MARKET & LAB PARTICIPATIONS AS WORK IN PROGRESS Berlinale Talent Project Market-nomination VFF Highlight Pitch Award IN POST-PRODUCTION When East Meets West - EAVE Scholarship Award Manaki Brothers FF: Best Screenplay Crossraods Thessaloniki

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27 DOCUMENTARIES Greek Productions

28 [MIA [O A FAMILY IKOGENIAKI KOSTIS PALAMAS ETHNIKOS YPOTHESI] KOSTIS AFFAIR -THE SUPREME PALAMAS - TO IPERTATO Documentary/Greece, Austra- FLOWER IN by Angeliki Aristomenopoulou lia/2014/28’ 52', 87’ LOULOUDI GREEK TOU LOGOU] LITERATURE Documentary by Stamatis Tsarouchas Greece 2014/82’

The Xylouris Family is Greece’s most famous musical clan. Three generations of musicians uphold and pass on the vibrant tradition of Cretan music, performing ceaselessly to followers across the world, The film is about Greece’s national from a very young age. From 80 year old poet Costis Palamas, his life, ideas and Psarantonis, credited with reinventing his poetry. The camera lens follows a Cretan music, to his son Psarogiorgis and director-researcher’s steps who tries teenage grandchildren growing up in to make a movie about this great and Australia, “A Family Affair” discovers the important person in Greek literature. electrifying power of their music and the The movie lights up unknown facts and sacred ties that hold the family together. details in Palama’s life and records his political opinions in Greek historical and Screenplay: Angeliki Aristomenopoulou national themes. At the same time, the Production: Anemon Productions, [email protected], film reveals the social-political history in 2107211073, www.anemon.gr Greece, from 1865 to 1943, the year that Co-production: Unicorn, OTE-TV, EKK, NERIT Costis Palamas passed away. International Sales: Anemon Productions Screenplay: Stamatis Tsarouchas Production: Stamatis Tsarouchas, A FAMILY@ FESTIVALS AFFAIR +30 6972327816, [email protected]

FIPA-Biarritz - FIPA D’ OR AWARD Hellenic Film Academy - Best Documentary Award Los Angeles Greek Film Festival- Audience Award KOSTIS@ PALAMASFESTIVALS MakeDox - FYROM - Best Moral Approach Jean Rouch IFF - Bartok Award Thessaloniki Doc FF Sensoria Festival of Film and Music - Sheffield Docfest - Greek Documentary FF, Chalkida

29 [O THEOS NO CANDIES DEN MIRAZI MANA KARAMELES] Documentary, human rights, FROM HEAVEN women’s issues, children, by Valerie Kontakos religion/Greece/2015/70' Documentary by Vangelis Kalambakas Greece/2015/73’

In 1962, a group of young women made headlines in Greece by running away to Within the confines of a Christian join a convent. Uninterested in praying all orphanage in Ethiopia, we witness the day, they started a shelter for abandoned daily activities of its little inmates. About and abused children. 50 years later, they fifty children of all ages, from infants to are still raising infants without a wedding adolescents, are taken care of by nannies, band, without help from church or state. nurses and volunteers, while initiated to stringent religious education. The Screenplay: Valerie Kontakos film examines this unique community Production: Exile Films, [email protected], through observation only, without the www.exilefilms.gr aid of commentary or interviews. Co-production: OTEtv International Sales: Exile Films Production: Vangelis Kalambakas, FILMSIXTEEN +30.210.2585535, +30.6944.325949, [email protected] MANA Co-production: A&G Films Ltd., 2|35 S.A., FilmSixteen @ FESTIVALS International Sales: c/o Vangelis Kalambakas, FILMSIXTEEN MediMed Film Market Thessaloniki International Film Festival 29th Pärnu International Film Festival DokuFest Kosovo NO CANDIES NYC Greek Festival FROM HEAVEN @ FESTIVALS 2nd Kalamata Documentary Festival Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People -Best Feature-length Documentary by the Children’s Jury Thessaloniki Documentary Festival AegeanDocs International Documentary Film Festival

30 PSY Documentary by Kalliopi Legaki Greece/2015/67’

Madness means not understanding the other... - sadness and pain are considered an extremity by our society... - when I became ill, I felt fear and shame... - I wanted to be loved and understood... Words from people who have experienced mental suffering. Confessions by people who do not hesitate to talk to us about their own special world.

Screenplay: Alkis Gounaris Production/International Sales: Portolanos Films, +302104833515, [email protected], www.portolanosfilms.gr, www.psyfiles.gr

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31 DOCUMENTARIES IN PROGRESS Greek Productions

[O MEGALOS ALKI'S GREAT PERIPATOS PROMENADE TIS ALKIS] Documentary by Margarita Manda Greece, Italy THE EXTRA MILE Creative by Victoria Vellopoulou Documentary/ Greece

Alki Zei is a great writer but also a woman who had lived the entire history of the second half of the twentieth century. Her life is a great "promenade' through the Greek and European history In June 2015 Lefteris Paraskevas attempts during the social and political turbulence to break the world record of 61 hours and of the last century. The film is a 'road 37 minutes covering the most extreme movie' of memories and a trip through ARCH TO ARC TRIATHLON. He will run, her literary work, appreciated by several swim and bike from the Marble Arch in generations in Greece and Europe. Main London and end in the Arc de Triomphe structure of the film is based on Alki's in Paris. Will he overcome the limits of portrait through a "calendar" script, a his body and spirit and break the world kind of a "withdrawing" direction of her record of this mythical race? memories. Screenplay: Victoria Vellopoulou Screenplay: Margarita Manda, Petros Sevastikoglou Production: Oh my Dog Productions, +30 210 6517707, Production: Fantasia Audiovisual LTD (Greece), +30 6985 686232, [email protected], www.ohmydog.gr [email protected] Co- Production: OTE TV Co-production: Mansarda productions (Italy) International Sales: c/o Oh my Dog Productions International Sales: c/o Fantasia Audiovisual LTD

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32 [O DROMOS THE GREAT UTOPIA THE NEW TOU PLASTIKOU] Documentary PLASTIC ROAD by by Fotos Lamprinos Greece, Ukraine Documentary/Greece, by Angelos Tsaousis Germany/43’- completed, & Myrto Papadopoulos 75’ (on shooting)

1917-1932. Bolshevic Revolution - Golodomor. The greatest Utopia in the history of mankind. A Utopia that shocked the world (1917) and got buried The New Plastic Road is a character-driven (1932) in mass graves along with millions documentary film that reveals the gradual of victims. The film narrates this full of economic and social change underway in promise yet tragic course of “The Great the remote, destitute communities in the Utopia”. A tribute to the centenary of Pamir Mountains (southeast Tajikistan) the October Revolution. and the expansion of China.

Screenplay: Fotos Lamprinos Screenplay: Angelos Tsaousis & Myrto Papadopoulos Production: View Master Films S.A.,+30 210 6411992, Production/International Sales: Filmografik Productions, [email protected], www.viewmasterfilm.gr +306976481082, +302313068216, Co- Production: FRESH PRODUCTION (Ukraine) www.filmografik.com, [email protected], nternational Sales: c/o View Master Films S.A. www.thenewplasticroad.com

MARKET & LAB PARTICIPATIONS AS IN PREPRODUCTION WORK IN PROGRESS StoryDoc EDN: Docs in Thessaloniki MIPDOC EBY (IDFA) EURODOC 2012-13 Emerging Producers- Jihlava IFF Thessaloniki Doc FF (43’ version) Thessaloniki DOC FF (43’ version) SHOOTING

33 [ATHÈNES, ATHENS, LES ÉCLATS] THE SHARDS Documentary by Antoine Danis France, Greece/ 75’

1st FEATURE LENGTH DOC

At dawn a scavenger starts his working day by the waterfront in Pireaus. He pushes his cart through the harsh streets, as the sun goes up and the air seems to vanish. As he enters Athens, its concrete shell starts to crack revealing in the mild evening a fragile humanity, busy singing, dancing, resisting – an essential counterpoint to the disaster underway…

Screenplay: Antoine Danis Production: L’oeil Sauvage (France), [email protected], Minimal Films (Greece), DOCUMENTARIES [email protected] IN PROGRESS International Sales: c/o L’oeil Sauvage International Co-productions IN EDITING

34 [L'ULTIMA SPIAGGIA] THE LAST [I TELEFTAIA PARALIA] NOSTOS BEACH Documentary/France, by Sandrine Dumas Greece, Turkey, Egypt/82’ Observational Documentary by Thanos Anastopoulos Italy, Greece, France

1st FEATURE LENGTH DOC

The documentary NOSTOS is a work of L’ULTIMA SPIAGGIA (The Last Beach) 'family archaeology' that explores the describes the life and tell the stories of life of Thalia Flora-Karavia, a ground- beach-goers revolving around the breaking Greek woman artist born in popular beach of “Pedocìn” - located in 1871. By exploring Flora-Karavia's works Trieste, in the Northeast of Italy – where a and singular life, the film's director wall separates men from women. Sandrine Dumas discovers her own Might this be the last wall in Europe? family's ties that bind her to Greece.

Screenplay: Thanos Anastopoulos, Nicoletta Romeo Screenplay: Sandrine Dumas Production: Mansarda Production Srl (Italy), Production: Pio&Co, Jean Luc Ormières, +39 0400643263, [email protected] +331 75 43 16 77, +336 22 11 13 70, Co-production: Fantasia Audiovisual Ltd (Greece), [email protected] Arizona Productions (France) Co- production: ANEMON Productions (Greece), International Sales: c/o Mansarda Production KINO (France) International Sales: c/o Pio&Co Jean Luc Ormières

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