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Αποθήκη Δ’Aίθουσα “TΩNIA ΜΑΡΚΕΤΑΚΗ”, Αποθήκη Δ’
Ημερομηνία: 14 Οκτωβρίου 2023
ΕΙΣΙΤΗΡΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΠΡΟΒΟΛΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΠΟΘΗΚΗ Δ, ΛΙΜΑΝΙ:
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HUBRIS
Jules de Niverville, Canada
29′
HUBRIS is an experimental docu-narrative that chronicles three individual journeys intrepreted by dance and circus artists, exploring a powerful storyline about climate change. Blinded by ego, their journeys sybmolize the collateral damage induced by a culture deeply rooted in individualism—serving as a metaphor for our environmental crisis and a need for a U-turn towards transformative change.
Director Biography – Jules de Niverville
A visual and media artist, Jules has been oscillating between photography and film for 30+ years. Following his Concordia University degree in filmmaking he was soon working in the industry as set decorator and assistant art director in both local and American feature productions, including television series and advertising. His photography has led to numerous publications; exhibited in group shows in Montreal and Brussels during their respective MOIS DE LA PHOTO, as well as solo shows around the world. His career has since shifted to cinematography and editing (with a specialization in dance for camera productions). His first film TWITCH had a successful run on the short film festival circuit with screenings in more than 50 festivals internationally, winning three awards. Jules’ second film PARLE-MOI/TALK TO ME also won multi-awards and garnered accolades in the festival circuit.
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I PROMISE YOU PARADISE
Morad Mostafa, Egypt
25′
Following a violent incident; Eissa a 17 years old African migrant in Egypt is in a quest against time to save his loved ones whatever it takes.
Director Biography – Morad Mostafa
Morad; an Egyptian Filmmaker, born in Cairo; 1988. He worked in several independent films; and collaborated as an Executive Director in “SOUAD” and it was in the official selection in “Cannes Film Festival” 2020, Morad is an alumni of the “Berlinale Talents Campus” and “Locarno Academy”. He wrote and directed three short films all of them were selected in “Clermont-Ferrand” in three consecutive years and were screened in more than 300 festivals worldwide and won several awards. His latest short film “I PROMISE YOU PARADISE” is selected in Cannes Film Festival “Critics Week” 2023. Morad is currently developing his debut feature film “Aisha can’t fly away anymore” in “Cinéfondation” the residency of Cannes Film Festival and also in Torino Film Lab and Rotterdam Lab IFFR.
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FOUR CHAMBERS TO THE HEART
Johan Grimonprez, Kostas Ioannidis, Belgium
9′
Palermo 1624. While in quarantine due to the plague, 94 year old master painter Sofonisba Anguissola, a worldwide renowned artist at the time but later consigned to obscurity, writes her final letters to her pupil and Flemish master-in-the-making Anton Van Dyck.
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CU-CKOO
Evgeny Nikolaev, Russian Federation
22′
After moving to a new house, the Hero meets an unknown girl-neighbor and immediately becomes a witness of inexplicable events. Trying to understand the mystical events, the Hero enters into a confrontation with the girl’s father, who keeps a shocking secret.
Director Biography – Evgeny Nikolaev
Born in 1995 in the village of Myandigi. In 2017, he graduated from the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts as a director and producer of cultural and leisure programs. For five years he worked as a director of the Amginsky Folk Theater, and also worked in many projects such as: Scarecrow, Illegal, Songs of Summer, Eder Saas, Almost like everyone else, as a second director, assistant director and actor, director of photography. Lives and works in the village of Amga.
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DER TOTE
Samuel Segurado, Liz Manresa, Switzerland
24′
Not only death, but complete darkness surrounds him, time seems to have stopped. He doesn’t understand where he is. He also does not understand how he got here. But he has a guess for what reason he might be here. Music surrounds him. Melodies show him the way and lead us through the story. And then it can happen that the images disappear before our eyes and live on only in our minds.
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CHEVALIER
Frederic Zeimet, Luxembourg
16′
Lonely and abandoned by her father and society, Emma, eleven years, throws herself body and soul into a lost cause.
Director Biography – Frederic Zeimet
Frédéric Zeimet is a Luxembourgish-born screenwriter and director.
He is a European Short Pitch, Torino Filmlab and European TV Lab Alumni.
Diagnosed with dyslexia from an early age on, Frédéric Zeimet has always had trouble expressing himself… For a long time, he found refuge in mathematics before he discovered the power of pictures and his need to tell stories.
After studying History of Art and Archeology, Frederic Zeimet has been mentored by Luc Dardenne (the multi-awarded Belgian director) during his screenwriting studies.
During his first years as a screenwriter, Frederic was awarded as best junior screenwriter in France, first time for a foreigner and was selected two times to the Screenwriters’ White Night at Cannes Film Festival.
He recently took his first step as a director. His first short-film “Cowboy” has been selected to over 20 festivals around the world, being awarded at Festivals like Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival.
He wrote, directed and produced the first Luxembourgish Web-series W. on a small budget. The six episodes were awarded around the world with Best Short Drama at Stareable Web Fest, Gold Award for Best International Series at DC Webfest or Best Screenplay at Die Seriale, at T.O. Webfest. It finished in second place at the Web Series World Cup 2020.
“Chevalier” is his latest shortfilm.
STARMAN
Zeta Spyraki, United Kingdom
15′
A long-distance relationship parallel.
A space travelling Astronaut, returns to her Lover, after a long time. His wait has changed him, and their reconnection will bring forth the question of where one ends and the other begins, and whether their love will literally devour them or they can remain whole, together. Upon her return, as ex-machina, a divine, genderless Alien Prophet guides her and shows her the way.
Director Biography – Zeta Spyraki
Zeta, originally from Patras, Greece, is a London and Patras based filmmaker, who first started off as a writer. She was awarded first Prize in the National Student Literature competition in Greece and then proceeded to publish her short stories collection at the age of 18. She then studied Computer Engineering and Informatics before returning to her true passion, storytelling, in now a visual form.
She completed her 3-year Masters with Distinction at the London Film School, graduating as a Director as well as Cinematographer. Her graduation film as a writer/director, Meltemi, which opened in July 2018 in Palm Springs Shortfest, has been awarded and selected in a variety of BAFTA qualifying festivals both in Greece and abroad. Her short film Olive-Oil was a 2019 Nespresso Talents Runner Up (2nd place). Since January 2020 she has also been a part-time Lecturer in Directing and Cinematography for Lincoln University, Lincoln School of Film and Media.
Her commercial work includes credits for BBC, Dove, Marie-Yat, UBER, Magnum, Deliveroo, Time Out London, Mulberry, Callaly and Coffee Island.
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MIDNIGHT SKIN
Manolis Mavris, Greece
40′
A ULYSSES JOURNEY
Joyce Garvey, Ireland
10′
An eco-feminist salute to the epic book Ulysses by James Joyce ; ‘A Ulysses Journey’ is art hand crafted film using experimental projection, effects and filters: based on a fantasy backward journey from Castle to Gutter, of a Dublin prostitute called ‘The White Lady’ so called for the thick white cream she wears on her face. She was scarred in mind and body when a lit lantern was thrown into her locked room :She sees herself as an earth Goddess, if a fading one, like Mollie Bloom in Ulysses, she is a Calypso, held captive by her past and the mirrored reflection of herself.
Director Biography – Joyce Garvey
Dr Joyce Garvey is a visual artist, writer, and award winning filmmaker who uses visual art/film,
/installation/creative writing and photography to focus the observer on her themes of human and global evolution: Age/IdentityDisability/Diversity/Environment and Pandemic.
NOTHING HOLIER THAN A DOLPHIN
Isabella Margara, Greece
The two fishermen find a dolphin accidentally caught in their nets. The dolphin in its turn finds a fisherman drowning in the water. In this small Mediterranean village, an ancient myth unexpectedly comes to life.
I IS ANOTHER
Viktor Miletić, France
21′
Set in 2041, in a Paris, France, where no one remembers what love is. A man is mugged but can’t stop laughing. The reason for his elation: he simply fell in love.
PLEASE, WAIT
Karina Logothetis, Greece
9′
During an unprecedented quarantine, M loses sense of time..
THE FOOD ON THE TABLE
ISMENE DASKAROLIS, Germany
14′
Now the subjects of a despotic chief, far from having any favor to expect from him, as both themselves and all they have are his property, or at least are considered by him as such, are obliged to receive as a favor what he relinquishes to them of their own property. He does them justice when he strips them. He treats them with mercy when he suffers them to live.” Two women, in love with the same man, pay a price for their privileged upbringing when his political motives are revealed.
Director’s Statement
The Food on the Table is a product of anger following the Greek crisis and the European rise of the far right both in Greece, Germany and other countries. Unfortunately the politics of this film remain very much relevant today. It is a film about betrayal, both personal and collective. It is about the conversation that we are not having. It is about trying to understand yesterday and today.
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DAPHNE
Tonia Mishiali, Cyprus
20′
Daphne switches from one sexual partner to the next, but does not seem to be satisfied, at least not with what she thought she needed; until she finds a wounded dog in the street. How far would she go to feel some affection?
Director Biography – Tonia Mishiali
Tonia is a Cypriot writer/director and producer whose work focuses on social and women’s issues. She is a member of the Hellenic and European Film Academies and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network. She is Berlinale Talents alumna and held the position of co-artistic director of Cyprus Film Days International Festival from 2014-2022, having also served for 4 years as vice president and board member of the Directors Guild of Cyprus. She has been on several film festival juries (incl. Karlovy Vary, Off Camera) and a script reader for the Greek Film Centre.
Tonia’s short films, DEAD END (2013), LULLABY OF THE BUTTERFLY (2014) and I DON’T LIKE THE WIND I LIKE THE SUN (2020) have been officially selected in more than 100 international film festivals, including prestigious and A-list ones (Locarno, Palm Springs, Sarajevo, Transilvania, Encounters, Busan, Drama, Cork) winning several awards. DEAD END is represented by the SND Films and has been sold to Asia, USA and Europe.
Her debut feature PAUSE (2018), a Cyprus/Greece co-production, is represented by Film Republic (UK) and has participated in cocoPITCH 2015 and in Karlovy Vary WIP 2017. It has been officially selected in more than 80 international film festivals, including Santa Barbara and Seattle as well as many FIAPF accredited ‘A’ list festivals, like Karlovy Vary, Sydney, Cairo, Stockholm, Sofia, Kitzbuhel, Transilvania and Sydney, the latter at which it was selected for the European Film Promotion section “Europe! voices of women in film” where films by Europe’s ten most outstanding women directors were presented. PAUSE received rave reviews internationally from the trades and other established media, including the Hollywood Reporter and LA times, and was listed one of “20 most daring films of 2019” by Rotten Tomatoes. PAUSE received 13 awards including the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Greek film by the International Federation of Film Critics at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Best Film by the Greek Film Critics Association at the Panorama of European Cinema. It has also been nominated for “Best First-time Director” and “Best Actress” at the Hellenic Film Academy Iris Awards 2019, while its screenplay is listed in the core collection of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It has been released theatrically in USA and Europe, sold to many territories in Asia, while it also streamed on major platforms including Amazon Prime and HBO Europe.
Tonia is now developing several projects under her production label Bark Like A Cat Films, which she launched in 2020 with the aim to support her own directing projects as well as daring films by filmmakers with an edge. These include her next directing projects and five other films by fellow filmmakers (shorts and features), all of which have been funded by the Cyprus Ministry of Culture and developed through and awarded at major markets and workshops (Crossroads, Coco, Sources2, MFI, TFL, Torino Short Film Market, Euroconnection, Meetings on the bridge, Sofia Meetings, Midpoint, First Films First).
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LOCKED DOWN
Dimitris Tsilinikos, Greece
18′
During the pandemic and the Greek lock down, the locked down relationship of a married couple with kids reaches a pivotal point at the sight of a younger and in love couple who lives in the opposite apartment.
Director Biography – Dimitris Tsilinikos
Dimitris Tsilinikos is an actor, playwright, children’s book writer and theater director. He was born and raised in Larissa, Greece. He graduated from the Physics Department of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and holds a Business Administration title from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is attending the post- graduate program on Creative writing and Screenwriting at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.
He started working in the business field while at the same time studying theater in a small dramatic school based in Stavroupoli, Thessaloniki.
Although his acting career started at the age of 30, he has held lead roles in more than 30 theatre plays in a wide repertoire, including ancient Greek drama, rock opera, musical and stand up comedy. He has also appeared in over 25 feature and short films, 1 TV series and several TV commercials. He was awarded as the Best Male Actor (5th Filme Short Film Festival, Thessaloniki,2015) for the part of Manolis in Gregory Vardarinos’ “The Noir Project”.
He wrote and directed the theatrical play “Salonika, the covetable city” for the National Theatre of Northern Greece in 2017 and “Cartes Postales de Salonique” in 2019. He has also written 3 other plays.
His co – wrote 4 short film screenplays with his partner Dora Kaskali, and he already directed his first short film called “Locked down”.
His first childrens’ book “ Πιρούνια και Μαχαίρια … στα μαχαίρια” was nominated for the Best Childrens’ Book (National Book Awards, 2016). His second childrens’ book “ Η Ζωή με τον μπαμπά” was included in White Ravens list 2020 (International Youth Library).
He is teaching a seminar entitled “Business Theatre” which is based on theater techniques for Business Executives.
He speaks Greek, English, French, Italian and Spanish. He has one daughter and lives in Thessaloniki, Greece.