GREEK SHORT STORIES - IN COMPETITION VI

Poplars
DURATION: 11’ DIRECTOR: Alexandros Vounatsos

Lesvos, 1997, Gulf of Gera. A father waits at the pier for his two children, smoking. From the opposite shore, their mother helps them board the small ferry. When they arrive, they appear older. They greet him formally and enter the car that drives them to an olive grove. There stand three poplars, symbols of the three heroes. As they work, the children and trees grow taller whenever the father smokes or grows angry. Suddenly, he realizes time has passed unnaturally. Confused, he falls into a golden crater and merges with the tallest tree. Years later, his sons return, embraced by rustling leaves.

400 Cassettes
DURATION: 14’ DIRECTOR: Thelyia Petraki

After a lesson about cosmic archaeologists and a water-fight in the schoolyard, Elly steals Faye’s soul and Faye gives Elly a rare birthday present. But then when the night falls, under a sky full of stars a song from the past will remind the girls that nothing really lasts forever.

My Green Garden
DURATION: 16’ DIRECTOR:  Eleni Tsekeri

Going off to an inner quest to Tinos island in the Cyclades, the filmmaker attempts to define herself and her position in the world. She keeps shifting between two gardens  and two father figures, while trying to deal with a personal loss, the defeat of a social movement and a cinematic failure. What remains reads like a letter to the ever missing father.

Nothing and Everything
DURATION: 17’ DIRECTOR: Lia Tsalta

Two women face the final moments of their relationship, navigating the tender rituals of goodbye. As they reflect on their separation, they immerse themselves in a world of care, loss and the transience of existence.

Places Called Home
DURATION: 16’ DIRECTOR: Dimitris Tsalapatis

Eva lives with her mother Alex, homeless and outside the law. By day, they survive on petty theft and their imagination; by night, they sleep in their car, lost in their own utopia; Until the limits of this utopia are tested.

Planets
DURATION: 29’ DIRECTOR: Fili Olsefski

Maria loves Earth. She also loves Xenofon, her astrophysics colleague. When their romance turns sour, and in the midst of Earth’s environmental collapse, Maria finds a solution for mankind and our home planet.