"What would you miss if you were to disappear?" Screen Daily has revealed an early festival promo trailer for a Greek indie drama titled Silence 6-9, premiering soon at the 2022 Karlovy Vary Film Festival taking place July in Czechia. Aris and Anna meet one evening in a half-abandoned town surrounded by antennas. In this strange, dreamlike world the two solitary souls gradually start to develop feelings for one another... This sounds quite intriguing, not just a simple romance, with much more going on. "This melancholic love story with its mesmeric atmosphere and striking visuals is proof that Greek cinema has lost nothing of its originality." The film stars Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis as Anna and Aris, along with Sofia Kokkali, Maria Skoula, Marisha Triantafyllidou, and Vassilis Karaboulas. Modern Greek cinema is always so strange and peculiar, but also heartfelt and hopeful deep within. This definitely looks intriguing. Here's the...
- 6/24/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Lazaros Georgakopoulos and Sofia Kokkali in Moon, 66 Questions
There have been few films released this year which have as much visual impact as Jacqueline Lentzou’s Moon, 66 Questions, which is about to be released in UK cinemas. Though it was made on a low budget, its distinctive style grabs viewer attention and lingers in the memory. It addresses the experiences of Artemis (Sofia Kokkali), a young woman who has been living abroad but returns to Athens when her father (Lazaros Georgakopoulos) needs care because he has become severely ill with multiple sclerosis – and yet it is nothing like the average film about illness, focusing instead on how these two very different people relate to one another. Years, even decades can go by between the emergence of directors with such a singular vision, so I was pleased to get the chance to connect with Jacqueline and discuss it.
Jacqueline Lentzou
Her style,...
There have been few films released this year which have as much visual impact as Jacqueline Lentzou’s Moon, 66 Questions, which is about to be released in UK cinemas. Though it was made on a low budget, its distinctive style grabs viewer attention and lingers in the memory. It addresses the experiences of Artemis (Sofia Kokkali), a young woman who has been living abroad but returns to Athens when her father (Lazaros Georgakopoulos) needs care because he has become severely ill with multiple sclerosis – and yet it is nothing like the average film about illness, focusing instead on how these two very different people relate to one another. Years, even decades can go by between the emergence of directors with such a singular vision, so I was pleased to get the chance to connect with Jacqueline and discuss it.
Jacqueline Lentzou
Her style,...
- 6/22/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
What day is it? Artemis (Sofia Kokkali) tells us the answer promptly in each section of this meandering, distinctively styled film, adding a note about which female celebrities have birthdays on that day. At one point she notes that the 10th of August was the day of Cleopatra’s death. Though she positions herself within this landscape of women, her life revolves, almost literally, around a man, as she is summoned back to Athens to take care of her ailing father: to lift him and move him and wash and clean and dress him as he succumbs to fulminant multiple sclerosis.
Why does this duty fall upon her? She has been living overseas for years, has barely known him as an adult, but there is an assumption amongst all the older relatives who crowd around them both that nothing else she could be doing with her life is terribly important.
Why does this duty fall upon her? She has been living overseas for years, has barely known him as an adult, but there is an assumption amongst all the older relatives who crowd around them both that nothing else she could be doing with her life is terribly important.
- 6/21/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"He's right in front of me, but I can't see him. I can't talk to him, get to know him..." Film Movement has revealed an official US trailer for an indie drama from Greece titled Moon, 66 Questions. This premiered at various film festivals last year, including playing at the Berlin, Melbourne, and Helsinki Film Festivals, and is opening in the US in art house cinemas this July. After years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father's frail state of health. Discovering her father's well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father better, in a way she was not able before, therefore love him truly for the first time. A bittersweet story about a daughter and father reconnecting in tough times. The film stars Sofia Kokkali and Lazaros Georgakopoulos. It's described in reviews as "part coming-of-age, part illness narrative, the film is above all an intimate portrait of Artemis.
- 6/20/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jacqueline Lentzou’s highly anticipated debut feature follows a daughter struggling to reconnect with her ailing father
Jacqueline Lentzou’s debut feature is a difficult, elusive, but ultimately rewarding study of a daughter struggling to reconnect with her father: it’s a film which – initially at least – appears to occlude its own meaning with mannerisms which I associate with the absurdist style of the Greek new wave.
Sofia Kokkali plays Artemis, a young woman who has been away from her Athens family for a long time, but comes home when her father, Paris, (Lazaros Georgakopoulos ) suffers a stroke, rendering him hardly able to walk and all but speechless. Somehow, the responsibility of caring for Paris falls on Artemis while her extended family interview live-in caregivers and squabble about how to proceed. Meanwhile, her mother, estranged from Paris, seems detached from the whole situation, and Artemis is faintly disquieted to be...
Jacqueline Lentzou’s debut feature is a difficult, elusive, but ultimately rewarding study of a daughter struggling to reconnect with her father: it’s a film which – initially at least – appears to occlude its own meaning with mannerisms which I associate with the absurdist style of the Greek new wave.
Sofia Kokkali plays Artemis, a young woman who has been away from her Athens family for a long time, but comes home when her father, Paris, (Lazaros Georgakopoulos ) suffers a stroke, rendering him hardly able to walk and all but speechless. Somehow, the responsibility of caring for Paris falls on Artemis while her extended family interview live-in caregivers and squabble about how to proceed. Meanwhile, her mother, estranged from Paris, seems detached from the whole situation, and Artemis is faintly disquieted to be...
- 6/20/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A selection at Berlinale and New Directors/New Films, Jacqueline Lentzou’s Greek drama Moon, 66 Questions is now finally getting a release next month courtesy of Film Movement. The film follows twentysomething Artemis (Sofia Kokkali), who after years of distance, tentatively decides to return to Athens and care for her father, Paris (Lazaros Georgakopoulous), after his recent decline in health. As she intimately cares for the stoic, near-wordless Paris, she tries to understand this man she never really knew. When Artemis discovers a well-kept secret from her father’s past, she finally begins to not only better understand a complicated man, but the underlying love coursing through a complicated relationship between father and daughter. Ahead of the release, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer.
David Katz said in his Nd/Nf review, “The film is at once a familiar tale of parent-child estrangement and rapprochement, but also...
David Katz said in his Nd/Nf review, “The film is at once a familiar tale of parent-child estrangement and rapprochement, but also...
- 6/16/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Modern Films has debuted the trailer and poster for Jacqueline Lentzou feature ‘Moon, 66 Questions.’
The movie focuses on Artemis who, after years of distance, has to return to Athens due to her father’s frail state of health. Discovering her father’s well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father in a way she was not able to before, and to love him truly for the first time.
The film is an intimate and touching portrayal of a teenager as she is forced to reevaluate her relationship with her father
Written and directed by Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou, the film stars Sofia Kokkali (Thread) and Lazaros Georgakopoulos (The Other Me).
Having won critical success at Berlinale winning the Golden Puffin at Reykjavík International Film Festival, the film also won Best Actress at Nouveau Cinema and the Cineuropa Award for Best Film at Sarajevo.
Also in trailers – Dakota Johnson stars in...
The movie focuses on Artemis who, after years of distance, has to return to Athens due to her father’s frail state of health. Discovering her father’s well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father in a way she was not able to before, and to love him truly for the first time.
The film is an intimate and touching portrayal of a teenager as she is forced to reevaluate her relationship with her father
Written and directed by Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou, the film stars Sofia Kokkali (Thread) and Lazaros Georgakopoulos (The Other Me).
Having won critical success at Berlinale winning the Golden Puffin at Reykjavík International Film Festival, the film also won Best Actress at Nouveau Cinema and the Cineuropa Award for Best Film at Sarajevo.
Also in trailers – Dakota Johnson stars in...
- 5/16/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Samuel Theis’ “Softie” won the top prize at the 62nd Thessaloniki Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday night with a ceremony in Greece’s second city.
The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics’ Week section, was awarded the Golden Alexander and a €10,000 cash prize by a jury comprised of writer-director Nanouk Leopold, sound designer Roland Vajs and actor Michelle Valley.
The Special Jury Award was given to “Clara Sola,” by Natalie Álvarez Mesén, while the Special Jury Award for best director went to Lorenzo Vigas for “The Box.”
The award for best actress went to Sofia Kokkali for her performance in “Moon, 66 Questions,” by director Jacqueline Lentzou. Aliocha Reinert won the prize for best actor for his role in Golden Alexander winner “Softie.” The award for best screenplay went to Laurynas Bareiša for his film “Pilgrims,” while a special mention was given to Alexandre Koberidze for “What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?...
The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics’ Week section, was awarded the Golden Alexander and a €10,000 cash prize by a jury comprised of writer-director Nanouk Leopold, sound designer Roland Vajs and actor Michelle Valley.
The Special Jury Award was given to “Clara Sola,” by Natalie Álvarez Mesén, while the Special Jury Award for best director went to Lorenzo Vigas for “The Box.”
The award for best actress went to Sofia Kokkali for her performance in “Moon, 66 Questions,” by director Jacqueline Lentzou. Aliocha Reinert won the prize for best actor for his role in Golden Alexander winner “Softie.” The award for best screenplay went to Laurynas Bareiša for his film “Pilgrims,” while a special mention was given to Alexandre Koberidze for “What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?...
- 11/14/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Jacqueline Lentzou’s arresting and long-awaited feature debut, “Moon, 66 Questions,” has its national premiere this week at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, after bowing earlier this year in the Berlinale’s new Encounters competition section.
The film tells the story of a young woman, Artemis (Sofia Kokkali), who decides to return to Athens after a long absence because of her father’s (Lazaros Georgakopoulos) declining health. Though she’s expected to take up the responsibility of caring for him, the fractures in their relationship quickly come to the surface. Old battles are revisited and past wounds re-emerge, until the discovery of a long-buried secret offers the two a chance to achieve a kind of catharsis.
“Moon, 66 Questions” is produced by Fenia Cossovitsa, of Blonde Audiovisual Productions, in co-production with Hédi Zardi and Fiorella Moretti of Luxbox, which is also handling world sales.
Arriving in Thessaloniki straight from the Seville European Film Festival,...
The film tells the story of a young woman, Artemis (Sofia Kokkali), who decides to return to Athens after a long absence because of her father’s (Lazaros Georgakopoulos) declining health. Though she’s expected to take up the responsibility of caring for him, the fractures in their relationship quickly come to the surface. Old battles are revisited and past wounds re-emerge, until the discovery of a long-buried secret offers the two a chance to achieve a kind of catharsis.
“Moon, 66 Questions” is produced by Fenia Cossovitsa, of Blonde Audiovisual Productions, in co-production with Hédi Zardi and Fiorella Moretti of Luxbox, which is also handling world sales.
Arriving in Thessaloniki straight from the Seville European Film Festival,...
- 11/11/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Luxbox Films handles international sales.
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Berlinale selection Moon, 66 Questions, which is currently screening at New Directors/New Films.
Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou’s feature directorial debut was a Teddy nominee in Berlin and also played at Mexico’s Ficunam earlier this year.
Moon, 66 Questions will open theatrically this year follow by home entertainment and digital platforms and centres on twentysomething Artemis (Sofia Kokkali) who returns to Greece to care for her father (Lazaros Georgakopoulos) after he suffers a debilitating illness.
“Starting with her startling shorts, we’ve eagerly followed Jacqueline’s career,...
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Berlinale selection Moon, 66 Questions, which is currently screening at New Directors/New Films.
Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou’s feature directorial debut was a Teddy nominee in Berlin and also played at Mexico’s Ficunam earlier this year.
Moon, 66 Questions will open theatrically this year follow by home entertainment and digital platforms and centres on twentysomething Artemis (Sofia Kokkali) who returns to Greece to care for her father (Lazaros Georgakopoulos) after he suffers a debilitating illness.
“Starting with her startling shorts, we’ve eagerly followed Jacqueline’s career,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Consider an odd occurrence: my generation––the millennials––are really feeling tarot and astrology at the moment. There are many pop-psychological interpretations for this: trying to distinguish ourselves from the stricter religious beliefs of our elders, or growing up amidst an economic decline that has made our futures foggier and more provisional-seeming. But there’s an aesthetic explanation that chimes with the influencer-driven social media landscape of TikTok and Instagram, and which rising Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou’s debut feature Moon, 66 Questions seems one of the first to properly capture.
The film, which enjoys its North American premiere at New Directors/New Films this month, is at once a familiar tale of parent-child estrangement and rapprochement, but also a formal experiment in finding a fresher cinematic language to probe these sensitive issues. Like Jane Schoenbrun’s internet odyssey We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, also premiering in...
The film, which enjoys its North American premiere at New Directors/New Films this month, is at once a familiar tale of parent-child estrangement and rapprochement, but also a formal experiment in finding a fresher cinematic language to probe these sensitive issues. Like Jane Schoenbrun’s internet odyssey We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, also premiering in...
- 5/7/2021
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
"It's new, but it's good..." IFC has released the first official trailer for a sultry romantic drama from Greece titled Monday, arriving this spring on both VOD + in theaters. "A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?" The film follows the love story of Mickey and Chloe, two Americans in their mid-thirties living in Athens, who meet in the heat of summer one whirlwind weekend. Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough star, along with Dominique Tipper, Giorgos Pyrpasopoulos, Elli Tringou, Andreas Konstantinou, and Sofia Kokkali.. This looks fantastic! Full of energy and good vibes, navigating the challenges of love and romance and sex and what it all means, and how to make it all work out. And it really makes me miss traveling around the world so much... Take a look. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Argyris Papadimitropoulos' Monday,...
- 3/11/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"I have forgotten about the past. Both mine and his." Luxbox has revealed a new festival promo trailer for an indie drama titled Moon, 66 Questions, marking the feature directorial debut of the Greek artist / filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou. This Greek drama is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival next week, and is still looking for international distribution. After years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father's frail state of health. Discovering her father's well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father, in a way she was not able before, therefore love him truly for the first time. The cast includes Sofia Kokkali as Artemis, and Lazaros Georgakopoulos as her father Paris. This looks like a very tender film about forgiveness and vulnerability, I'm curious to give it a look at the festival. Check out the footage below. Here's the festival promo trailer for Jacqueline Lentzou's Moon,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It stars rising Greek actress Sofia Kokkali as a woman who returns home after a number of years to care for her sick father
Screen can exclusively reveal the trailer for Berlinale Encounters title Moon, 66 Questions, the debut feature of Athens-born Jacqueline Lentzou.
Luxbox are handling sales.
It stars rising Greek actress Sofia Kokkali as a woman who returns home after a number of years to care for her sick father. When she discovers his long-held secret, it gives their father-daughter relationship a fresh start.
Lentzou competed at the Berlinale in 2017 with short film Hiwa and won best short with...
Screen can exclusively reveal the trailer for Berlinale Encounters title Moon, 66 Questions, the debut feature of Athens-born Jacqueline Lentzou.
Luxbox are handling sales.
It stars rising Greek actress Sofia Kokkali as a woman who returns home after a number of years to care for her sick father. When she discovers his long-held secret, it gives their father-daughter relationship a fresh start.
Lentzou competed at the Berlinale in 2017 with short film Hiwa and won best short with...
- 2/26/2021
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Day 3 of this year’s Berlinale announcements contain the line-ups for Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino. Check back in tomorrow for the Competition program.
Encounters was first introduced at last year’s festival to support new voices in cinema. A three-member jury will award Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award during the industry event in March, with the prizes handed out physically at the summer event.
The selection consists of 12 titles from 16 countries, including seven debuts. Scroll down for the full list.
Over in Panorama, there are 19 titles including 14 world premieres. Several titles arrive from Sundance such as Prano Bailey-Bond’s UK feature Censor and Ronny Trocker’s Human Factors.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino will again present new views on German cinema, with six titles, all of which are world premieres. The full lists are below.
This week so far has seen the Generation, Retrospective, Forum, Forum Expanded and Shorts programs announced.
Encounters was first introduced at last year’s festival to support new voices in cinema. A three-member jury will award Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award during the industry event in March, with the prizes handed out physically at the summer event.
The selection consists of 12 titles from 16 countries, including seven debuts. Scroll down for the full list.
Over in Panorama, there are 19 titles including 14 world premieres. Several titles arrive from Sundance such as Prano Bailey-Bond’s UK feature Censor and Ronny Trocker’s Human Factors.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino will again present new views on German cinema, with six titles, all of which are world premieres. The full lists are below.
This week so far has seen the Generation, Retrospective, Forum, Forum Expanded and Shorts programs announced.
- 2/10/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Greek producer Fenia Cossovitsa discusses new project from Jacqueline Lentzou and upcoming slate of titles
Prolific Greek producer Fenia Cossovitsa, co-founder of Athens-based production outfit Blonde Sa, has revealed further details of her current slate.
Cossovitsa took part this week in Sarajevo’s CineLink work in progress platform with Moon, 66 Questions, the first feature from Jacqueline Lentzou.
This continues a close collaboration with fast-rising talent Lentzou, which has seen the director and producer work on several shorts together, among them Fox; Cannes Critics’ Week award winner Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year; and The End Of Suffering (A...
Prolific Greek producer Fenia Cossovitsa, co-founder of Athens-based production outfit Blonde Sa, has revealed further details of her current slate.
Cossovitsa took part this week in Sarajevo’s CineLink work in progress platform with Moon, 66 Questions, the first feature from Jacqueline Lentzou.
This continues a close collaboration with fast-rising talent Lentzou, which has seen the director and producer work on several shorts together, among them Fox; Cannes Critics’ Week award winner Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year; and The End Of Suffering (A...
- 8/20/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
A few minutes before the end of “Digger,” first-time feature director Georgis Grigorakis arrives at a closing shot for the ages: an ambiguous, breath-halting ellipsis that distills all the film’s themes of dueling familial, economical and community values into one spooky, funny man-versus-machine tableau. Except, as it turns out, it’s not the closing shot, as “Digger” continues into a needless bow-tying epilogue that double-underlines points the film has already made elegantly clear.
A little like the clashing men at its center — an estranged father and son fighting for family land in an absurd, escalating war of physical and emotional attrition — Grigorakis doesn’t exactly know when to quit. The rest of his debut, however, could hardly be more exactingly poised and composed, drenched in thick, cloudburst-blue mood that lends heft and consequence to its small-scale storytelling.
A Berlinale Panorama premiere which later resurfaced in the Sarajevo lineup, “Digger...
A little like the clashing men at its center — an estranged father and son fighting for family land in an absurd, escalating war of physical and emotional attrition — Grigorakis doesn’t exactly know when to quit. The rest of his debut, however, could hardly be more exactingly poised and composed, drenched in thick, cloudburst-blue mood that lends heft and consequence to its small-scale storytelling.
A Berlinale Panorama premiere which later resurfaced in the Sarajevo lineup, “Digger...
- 8/18/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
"Just sell it and give me my share. You owe me." The Match Factory has revealed an official sales promo trailer for a film called Digger, a Greek contemporary western that marks the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Georgis Grigorakis. This just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last month, playing in the Panorama section. Digger is about a father and his "long lost" son, who returns to his secluded home on a motorbike and demands the inheritance that he's owed. Berlinale describes: "Director Georgis Grigorakis sets his rain-drenched woodland Western against a majestic backdrop and finds robust yet tender images to tell this tale of rapprochement between two men. A story of resistance more powerful than the strongest excavator." Starring Vangelis Mourikis, Argyris Pandazaras, and Sofia Kokkali. From this footage, it reminds me a lot of the German film Western, which is also an examination of masculinity in modern times.
- 3/17/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
There are few tropes older than one about a person in a desperate search for something in a foreign land. With the refugee crisis that occupied the headlines in the not so distant past, the trope evolved to a sub-genre of its own, to so-called migration cinema. On the surface, “Pari”, a European co-production film by an Iranian filmmaker Siamak Etemadi, could be confused with such a film. But this Berlinale title that premiered in Panorama section of the festival is something completely different: a unique cinema experience that defies simple labeling.
“Pari” is screening at Berlinale 2020
We meet our eponymous protagonist on a plane to Athens. She is played gracefully by Iranian-German actress Melika Foroutan as a quiet, dignified woman who radiates with kindness and whose face, framed by hijab and some of the visible tar-black hair, is still beautiful. Pari is coming to Athens together with her bearded...
“Pari” is screening at Berlinale 2020
We meet our eponymous protagonist on a plane to Athens. She is played gracefully by Iranian-German actress Melika Foroutan as a quiet, dignified woman who radiates with kindness and whose face, framed by hijab and some of the visible tar-black hair, is still beautiful. Pari is coming to Athens together with her bearded...
- 2/26/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Greek filmmaker Georgis Grigorakis' first feature is a contemporary western which will world-premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section. We present the trailer for the first feature by Greek director Georgis Grigorakis, Digger, which will have its world premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section on Monday 24 February. Written by Grigorakis and with the story credited to him, Maria Votti and Vangelis Mourikis, who also stars along with Argyris Pandazaras and Sofia Kokkali, Digger is a contemporary western about a native farmer who lives and works alone in a farmhouse in the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. For years now, he has been fighting against an expanding industrial monster digging up the forest, disturbing the lush flora and threatening his property. Yet the greatest threat comes with the sudden arrival of his young son, after a 20-year separation. They turn into enemies under one roof. Father and son...
Selene 66 Questions
Greece’s celebrated short filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou will be on hand with her feature debut Selene 66 Questions in 2020 (check out the set visit profile at Flix.gr). Produced by Fenia Cossovitsa and starring/reteaming with Sofia Kokkali, the project is lensed by Konstantinos Koukoulios. Lentzou’s 2016 short “Alepou” was programmed in Locarno, and her 2017 short “Hiwa” competed in Berlin. Her 2018 short “Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year” competed in Critics’ Week at Cannes.
Gist: Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and she must return home to Athens to care for him.…...
Greece’s celebrated short filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou will be on hand with her feature debut Selene 66 Questions in 2020 (check out the set visit profile at Flix.gr). Produced by Fenia Cossovitsa and starring/reteaming with Sofia Kokkali, the project is lensed by Konstantinos Koukoulios. Lentzou’s 2016 short “Alepou” was programmed in Locarno, and her 2017 short “Hiwa” competed in Berlin. Her 2018 short “Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year” competed in Critics’ Week at Cannes.
Gist: Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and she must return home to Athens to care for him.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Stormy awards sees Greek Academy blast government.
Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s (Wasted Youth) drama Suntan was the big winner at the Iris Hellenic Film Academy Awards on Tuesday evening (March 21) winning six prizes out of the 11 for which it was nominated including best film and director.
The film, which played in the Rotterdam, Brussels, Edinburgh, SXSW, Odessa and Jeonju festivals, was also awarded best screenplay, best actor for Makis Padimitriou and best supporting actress for Elli Tringou.
The Faliro House, Marni and Oxymoron production is a bitter sweet drama about a middle-aged doctor on a Greek island whose life turns upside down when he gets embroiled with a group of hedonist tourists.
The film is widely tipped to be Greece’s submission in the best foreign language category at next year’s Oscars.
World sales are handled by Us outlet Visit Films. Strand Releasing is the Us distributor.
Also winning awards was Tasos Boulmetis’ coming of age story...
Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s (Wasted Youth) drama Suntan was the big winner at the Iris Hellenic Film Academy Awards on Tuesday evening (March 21) winning six prizes out of the 11 for which it was nominated including best film and director.
The film, which played in the Rotterdam, Brussels, Edinburgh, SXSW, Odessa and Jeonju festivals, was also awarded best screenplay, best actor for Makis Padimitriou and best supporting actress for Elli Tringou.
The Faliro House, Marni and Oxymoron production is a bitter sweet drama about a middle-aged doctor on a Greek island whose life turns upside down when he gets embroiled with a group of hedonist tourists.
The film is widely tipped to be Greece’s submission in the best foreign language category at next year’s Oscars.
World sales are handled by Us outlet Visit Films. Strand Releasing is the Us distributor.
Also winning awards was Tasos Boulmetis’ coming of age story...
- 3/22/2017
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Stormy awards sees Greek Academy blast government.
Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s (Wasted Youth) drama Suntan swept the Iris Hellenic Film Academy Awards on Tuesday evening (March 21) winning six prizes out of the 11 for which it was nominated including best film and director.
The film, which played in the Rotterdam, Brussels, Edinburgh, SXSW, Odessa and Jeonju festivals, was also awarded best screenplay, best actor for Makis Padimitriou and best supporting actress for Elli Tringou.
The Faliro House, Marni and Oxymoron production is a bitter sweet drama about a middle-aged doctor on a Greek island whose life turns upside down when he gets embroiled with a group of hedonist tourists.
The film is widely tipped to be Greece’s submission in the best foreign language category at next year’s Oscars.
World sales are handled by Us outlet Visit Films. Strand Releasing is the Us distributor.
Also winning awards was Tasos Boulmetis’ coming of age story Mythopathy, which won three...
Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s (Wasted Youth) drama Suntan swept the Iris Hellenic Film Academy Awards on Tuesday evening (March 21) winning six prizes out of the 11 for which it was nominated including best film and director.
The film, which played in the Rotterdam, Brussels, Edinburgh, SXSW, Odessa and Jeonju festivals, was also awarded best screenplay, best actor for Makis Padimitriou and best supporting actress for Elli Tringou.
The Faliro House, Marni and Oxymoron production is a bitter sweet drama about a middle-aged doctor on a Greek island whose life turns upside down when he gets embroiled with a group of hedonist tourists.
The film is widely tipped to be Greece’s submission in the best foreign language category at next year’s Oscars.
World sales are handled by Us outlet Visit Films. Strand Releasing is the Us distributor.
Also winning awards was Tasos Boulmetis’ coming of age story Mythopathy, which won three...
- 3/22/2017
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Political sci-fi drama stars Sofia Kokkali.
Athens-based sales agent Heretic Outreach has added Alexandros Voulgaris’s Thread to its sales slate ahead of the film’s premiere at Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Wednesday (Nov 9).
Starring Sofia Kokkali (Little England), the sci-fi drama is directed by Voulgaris, under his film-making moniker The Boy, whose directing credits include Crying? (2003) and Pink (2006) both of which played at Tiff, and more recently Higuita (2012).
Produced by Eleni Bertes, the film had financial support from the Greek Film Centre and the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.
Set in a dystopian society, the story follows a mother who is torn between her commitment to serving The Party and her responsibilities of being a mother.
The film screens in Thessaloniki twice on Wednesday and has a further screening on Thursday (Nov 10).
Heretic Outreach has four films playing in Thessaloniki, joining Thread are Paul Negoescu’s Romanian box office hit Two Lottery Tickets, Stergios Paschos’s Locarno...
Athens-based sales agent Heretic Outreach has added Alexandros Voulgaris’s Thread to its sales slate ahead of the film’s premiere at Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Wednesday (Nov 9).
Starring Sofia Kokkali (Little England), the sci-fi drama is directed by Voulgaris, under his film-making moniker The Boy, whose directing credits include Crying? (2003) and Pink (2006) both of which played at Tiff, and more recently Higuita (2012).
Produced by Eleni Bertes, the film had financial support from the Greek Film Centre and the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.
Set in a dystopian society, the story follows a mother who is torn between her commitment to serving The Party and her responsibilities of being a mother.
The film screens in Thessaloniki twice on Wednesday and has a further screening on Thursday (Nov 10).
Heretic Outreach has four films playing in Thessaloniki, joining Thread are Paul Negoescu’s Romanian box office hit Two Lottery Tickets, Stergios Paschos’s Locarno...
- 11/7/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Other winners included Norwegian drama Blind, Danish horror When Animals Dream and Nick Cave doc 20,000 Days On Earth.
Yann Demange’s ’71 has won the best film award – the Golden Athena – at the 20th Athens International Film Festival (Sept 17-28).
The film, co-produced by Crab Apple Films, Protagonist Pictures and Warp Films, stars Jack O’Connell as a soldier left behind enemy lines in Belfast during the height of the Troubles.
It debuted at the Berlinale in February and more recently played at Toronto.
The Aiff awards ceremony also saw Eskil Vogt win the best director trophy for Norwegian drama Blind.
The film, which previously won awards at Berlin and Sundance (where it debuted), is about a recently blind woman who fears and fantasies begin to take over her life.
Blind marks Vogt’s directorial debut following a screenwriting career that has included Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011) and Joachim Trier’s upcoming Louder Than Bombs. It was co-produced...
Yann Demange’s ’71 has won the best film award – the Golden Athena – at the 20th Athens International Film Festival (Sept 17-28).
The film, co-produced by Crab Apple Films, Protagonist Pictures and Warp Films, stars Jack O’Connell as a soldier left behind enemy lines in Belfast during the height of the Troubles.
It debuted at the Berlinale in February and more recently played at Toronto.
The Aiff awards ceremony also saw Eskil Vogt win the best director trophy for Norwegian drama Blind.
The film, which previously won awards at Berlin and Sundance (where it debuted), is about a recently blind woman who fears and fantasies begin to take over her life.
Blind marks Vogt’s directorial debut following a screenwriting career that has included Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011) and Joachim Trier’s upcoming Louder Than Bombs. It was co-produced...
- 9/28/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Pandelis Voulgaris’ Little England has been submitted by Greece for the Academy Awards.
The film, known in Greece as Mikra Anglia, has been submitted for the Best Foreign-Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.
Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award submissions 2015
The Greek period drama has already scooped several prizes including a hat-trick at the Shanghai International Film Festival, where it won best film, best director and best actress for Penelope Tsilika; as well as six trophies at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards including best picture.
Set on the island of Andros in the 1930s and 1940s, the film is based on the bestselling novel by Voulgaris’ wife, Ioanna Karistiani. It centres how a community copes while the men of the island spend long periods on ships around the world.
Entirely shot on location, the film stars newcomers Penelope Tsilika and Sofia Kokkali as two sisters in love with the same man, a young merchant...
The film, known in Greece as Mikra Anglia, has been submitted for the Best Foreign-Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.
Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award submissions 2015
The Greek period drama has already scooped several prizes including a hat-trick at the Shanghai International Film Festival, where it won best film, best director and best actress for Penelope Tsilika; as well as six trophies at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards including best picture.
Set on the island of Andros in the 1930s and 1940s, the film is based on the bestselling novel by Voulgaris’ wife, Ioanna Karistiani. It centres how a community copes while the men of the island spend long periods on ships around the world.
Entirely shot on location, the film stars newcomers Penelope Tsilika and Sofia Kokkali as two sisters in love with the same man, a young merchant...
- 9/9/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
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