Athens International Film Festival
aiff

HOARD


UK | 2023 | COLOR, | DCP | 131’ | ENGLISH

Maria, 10, lives with her mother, Cynthia, in a garbage (and love) filled house. Despite Cynthia’s psychosis, she is utterly devoted to her daughter, gathering trash she offers her in absolute adoration. Until one day she is crashed under her own trash. Maria is then violently exiled from her childhood’s garbage fort so as to be adopted by a tender foster mother. Just after graduating high school she seems almost normal, until one fatal encounter resurfaces every child trauma. Typical Brit and Neil Jordan influenced aesthetics, a mesmerizing leading performance and a weird combination of magic and disgust that won’t go away. D.P.

DIRECTOR: Luna Carmoon
SCREENWRITER: Luna Carmoon
DoP: Nanu Segal
MUSIC: Jim Williams
EDITOR: Rachel Durance
PRINCIPAL CAST: Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn, Saura Lightfoot Leon, Lily-Beau Leach, Deba Hekmat, Cathay Tyson, Nabil Elouahabi

LUNA CARMOON
Self-taught English writer/director. Her work dissects the absurd and the mundane, based on her own memories. Her cinema is nodding greatly to ‘60s and ‘70s British cinema. 

FILMOGRAPHY
2023 Hoard



        : International Competition

        CAREFREE DAYS | XIAO YAO YOU

        CAREFREE DAYS | XIAO YAO YOU

        28/09/2023, 19:15, ASTOR
        29/09/2023, 19:00, ASTY

        HOW TO HAVE SEX

        HOW TO HAVE SEX

        28/09/2023, 22:00, IDEAL
        30/09/2023, 21:30, DANAOS 2

        OPPONENT | MOTSTÅNDAREN

        OPPONENT | MOTSTÅNDAREN

        29/09/2023, 19.15, DANAOS 1
        30/09/2023, 22.00, ASTY

        TÓTEM

        TÓTEM

        30/09/2023, 20:30, IDEAL
        04/10/2023, 21:30, DANAOS 2

        MATRIA

        MATRIA

        30/09/2023, 22:00, ASTOR
        03/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 2

        ARTHUR & DIANA

        ARTHUR & DIANA

        01/10/2023, 17:00, ASTOR
        06/10/2023, 19:30, ASTY

        RICEBOY SLEEPS

        RICEBOY SLEEPS

        01/10/2023, 19:15, DANAOS 1
        05/10/2023, 17:00, IDEAL

        20,000 SPECIES OF BEES | 20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS

        20,000 SPECIES OF BEES | 20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS

        02/10/2023, 19:00, ASTOR
        05/10/2023, 19:15, ASTOR

        UNIVERSAL THEORY | DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM

        UNIVERSAL THEORY | DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM

        02/10/2023, 22:00, ASTOR
        03/10/2023, 19:30, ASTOR

        SLOW

        SLOW

        03/10/2023, 19:00, IDEAL
        06/10/2023, 17:00, ASTOR

        LOST COUNTRY

        LOST COUNTRY

        03/10/2023, 21:30, DANAOS 1
        05/10/2023, 17:00, ASTOR

        TEMPORARIES | RICHELIEU

        TEMPORARIES | RICHELIEU

        04/10/2023, 18:00, ASTOR
        06/10/2023, 22:00, ASTOR

        BITTEN | LA MORSURE

        BITTEN | LA MORSURE

        04/10/2023, 20:45, ASTY
        06/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 2

        COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST | KØBENHAVN FINDES IKKE

        COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST | KØBENHAVN FINDES IKKE

        04/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 1
        06/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 1

        OMEN | AUGURE

        OMEN | AUGURE

        05/10/2023, 22:00, ASTOR
        06/10/2023, 19:30, ASTOR

        AWARD-WINNING FILM SCREENING (TEMPORARIES | RICHELIEU)

        AWARD-WINNING FILM SCREENING (TEMPORARIES | RICHELIEU)

        08/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 1