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Greek Short Stories In Competition IV

Μη με Λησμόνει / Do Not Forget Me

Διάρκεια / Duration: 12’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Yorgos Paterakis

Nikos and Ellie meet at the park. Do they know each other? Does Ellie own a brown dog? Is she wearing long summer dresses? Did Nikos watch her through the raindrops and why he never articulated his thoughts to her? How is it, when one meets somebody so familiar, but is a stranger to her?

Hétérotopie / Hétérotopie

Διάρκεια / Duration: 9’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Eftychia Iosifidou

Space is defined by humans and humans by their space. I observe. I am not there, so I am here. You observe. My thoughts exist because there is an audience.

Απώθηση / Suppression

Διάρκεια / Duration: 5’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Michail Mavroumoustakos

Inside the closed community we live with taboos, with the subconscious dreams falling to a vacuum. The man from the dream plays the role of God and consequently the innermost secret desire of the protagonist.

Το Εγωιστικό Τζίνι / The Selfish Genie

Διάρκεια / Duration: 14’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Alexandros Paspardanis

Kostas is working on his depression by attending psychotherapy sessions. His roommate, Manolis, is advising him to just talk to Anna. But the final decision is always filtered by Kostas' unconscious, revealed to him as the selfish genie.

Στ' Αλήθεια / Actually

Διάρκεια / Duration: 6’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Konstantinos Fragkoulis

«You look exactly like my dead husband»... A man comes into a liqueur shop in Athens and a woman insists that he looks like her dead husband. She asks him to say “Goodnight, darling” and he accepts.

Μεταμόρφωσις / Metamorphosis

Διάρκεια / Duration: 7’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Directors George Ktistakis, Elena Papastavrou

In an ever changing nature, music creation is an indisputable part of the human equation. This process of creation is a journey that ultimately leads to its own starting point having, however, caused a change, a metamorphosis.

Αναρχικός Τραπεζίτης / Anarchist Banker

Διάρκεια / Duration: 10’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Maximos Moumouris

A short film based on the conservative but subversive political text of Fernando Pessoa, who wrote the short story of the same name in 1922. The only hero is a wealthy banker without a name.

Κομμάτι Από Ουρανό / Piece of Sky

Διάρκεια / Duration: 23’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Director Nikolas Makris

When a star falls off Orestis' bedroom ceiling, he makes a wish for what he misses the most. His parents lose their jobs and stay home with him. But the stars keep on falling. How long can this story last?

Καθημερινή Εργάσιμη / Working Day

Διάρκεια / Duration: 11’ - Σκηνοθεσία / Directors Vangelis Karamarigos, Zacharias Mavroeidis

Desperate to find a solution to his accumulated debt, Kostas decides to surprise attack and rob his best friend Vasilis, who transfers the banks daily earnings to the depository. During the ambush, in order to protect his friend, Vasilis refuses to give him the money.



    Publication date: 2014-09-10 12:30:00