Chainfree Film Festival 2010
This year, 19 short films as well as 2 full-length films participate in Chainfree Film Festival 2010, which have been created throughout the last 2 years by 13 young directors, who belong to Chainfree Network.
Chainfree Network
Chainfree Network has recently been established, in September 2009, in order to embrace mainly all the young, as well as independent cinematographers in Greece, who creatively contribute to the 7th Art by using their own funds as far as the creation, production, distribution and promotion of their films are concerned. It is actually an “umbrella”, a movement that appeals and compresses young people from cinema field in Greece, such as students as well as professionals, and aims to create a new film industry, different to the one that we usually watch the last decades, in other words a film industry that rehashes old-fashioned ideas on the contrary to one that creates according to the principles of imagination, freshness and freedom of expression. Chainfree makes an effort in this way to make its revolution in this hermetically sealed and difficult field. Essentially, it is a dynamic that is being created and enables different cinematographic teams, without losing their own identity and artistic distinctness.
Runtime: 8′
Screenplay- Directed by Charis Gioulatos
Cinematography Supervision: Charis Gioulatos, Antonis Apostolou
Editing: Dimitris Tsatsoulis
Music: Elias Dagas
Featuring: Nasos Roufos, Nikos Alexiou, Spyros Bereris
Plot: No more words, actually it is not that here it ends. on the contrary!
Runtime: 9′
Directed by: Antonis Apostolou
Editing: Antonis Apostolou
Cinematography Direction: Charis Gioulatos, Antonis Apostolou
Featuring: Gianna Tzermia, Savina Konstantinou, Ageliki Michalopoulou, Venia Andreou
Plot: It is a scene from a play by Fassbinder. Three women, a former criminal team, have to face each other since one of them betrayed them and escaped to Little Rock with her baby. The others will discover her and will demand explanation as well as revenge.
Runtime: 5′
Production: 2009
Directed by Christos Tellidis
Featuring: Erini Melissinou, Christos Tellidis, Christos Palatianos, Giannis Tsiamis
Plot: Hippocampus is one of the most important areas for the human brain as well as the rest of the mammals. It is located in the middle of the temporal lobe of the brain. It belongs to the limbic system and has the key role for the long-term memory and for the space perception.
Cinematography Supervision: Elias Roumeliotis
Production Organization: Aude El-Hawa
Music: Elias Lardas
Featuring: Dimitirs Kamouzis, Nikos Papaevageliou, Katerina Katsaragaki, Maria Christina Kaplanidi, Maximos Kaplanidis
Plot: A day with the employees of the Oxygen Distributing State Company.
Runtime: 15′
Production: 2010
Screenplay- Edited- Directed by: Thanos Kermitsis
Cinematography Supervision: Aris Kaplanidis
Music: Polis Paschalidis
Featuring: Giorgos Ktistakis
Plot: In the near future, world has experienced a huge destruction. A man tries to survive through the remnants in order to satisfy his basic needs.
Runtime 26′
Production: 2008
Filmed- Directed- Edited by: Aris Kaplanidis
Camera Man Assistant: Giorgos Spyropoulos
Featuring: Maximos Kaplanidis, Katerina Katsaragaki
Plot: Grabbing the chance of the annual comic competition entitled 24h Comics Day, organized by the Comicworld publications, this documentary offers a collage of young artists, whereas focuses on the procedure of creating a comic. A documentary for supra-human beings and the comics they create.
Runtime: 5′
Directed- Edited by: Michalis Mavromoustakos
Visual effects: Fotis Fotiou
Featuring: Anna Kosmou, Kyriakos Avgoustis, Konstantinos Lioubis
Plot: Kyriakos, an amateur photographer goes for a ride taking pictures of the Medieval Town of Rhodes. A strange lightening in one of the pictures attracts his attention
Runtime: 4′
Production: 2009
Directed by: Thanos Karvoounis
Screenplay: Thanos Karvoounis, Kostas Chasapopoulos
Music: Maria Louka
Featuring: Maria Louka, Kostas Chasapopoulos, Alexis Ballas, Axel Kapogiannis, Eva Kyprianou
Plot: The story of a woman captured in her weaknesses.
Runtime: 15′
Directed by: Nontas Sapidis, Polis Paschalidis
Editing: Nontas Sapidis
Music: Polis Paschalidis
Featuring: Nontas Sapidis, Polis Paschalidis, Kostas Vasoglou
Plot: 24 years after the Chernobyl explotion, humanity has suffered the ruin. Deserted landscapes, alive dead corps who walk and dead bodies who stand still. A few kilometers away from a small town there are 3 survivors in a small warehouse. Two of them are forced to go back to the center of the town in order to bring supplies. There they will face unpleasant situations.
Runtime: 30′
Production: 2009
Screenplay- Directed- Edited by: Theofylaktos Argyrou
Featuring: Melina Kirtata, Theofylaktos Argyrou, Maro Pantazi, Vasilis Logios
Cinematography: Thodoris Fragos
Plot: Maria experiences a real drama. Her life is meaningless, but a man will offer her the most strange feeling in this difficult situation, love!
Runtime: 22′
Production: 2007
Directed by: Aris Kaplanidis
Screenplay: Nikos Kaltsas, Aris Kaplanidis
Editing: Nikos Kaltsas
Cinematography Supervision: Alexandros Tranoulidis
Featuring: Nikos Chloros, Giannis Rouboulias, Stamatis Bartatilas, Michalis Papazoglou, Poly Saiti, Margarita Verigaki, Sofi Sofokleous
Plot: We are in the end of seventies decade. Financial reasons lead the Greek Cinema to the easy solution of videotaping. Cinema steps aside and cinematographers are forced to stop filming and learn the techniques of the new medium. Lakis Kokos, a soft porn director, protesting, is locked in his studio having his three porn stars as hostages. The movie focuses on the last 20 minutes of the hostage.
Runtime: 20′
Production: 2009
Directed by: Thanos Kermitsis
Screenplay: Thanos Kermitsis, Antonis Koutelias, Woody Allen
Editing: Thanos Kermitsis
Featuring: Giannis Rouboulias, Evangelos Evangelou
Plot: Kosmas Apostolou possesses whatever each end everyone of us desires
Money, success, expensive cars, powerful friends and connections. Everything seems to be fine, until the moment that a strange visitor comes. It is the Grim Reaper himself.
Based on the short story by Woody Allen entitled “Death Knocks”
Directed by: Giorgos Papaioannou
Genre: Adventure
Featuring: Babis Papapostolou, Dimitris Papavasiliou, Giorgos Papaioannou, Argyris Pougouras
Plot: The legendary agent James Dont in new adventure. The commander Pougourof has discovered the radioactive element “pineneedlium”, hidden deep in the DNA of the pine trees. He aims to gather the pine needles from all over the Balkans and manufacture a huge number of nuclear weapons. James doesn’t have to stop him.
Runtime: 132′
Production: 2009
Directed by: Giannis Tzouvelekis
Screenplay: Giannis Tzouvelekis
Featuring: Giannis Tzouvelekis, Kostas Vavouranakis, Thanos Kermitsis, Antonis koutelias, Filippos Glinavos, Panagiotis Mastrokostantis, Agelos Glinavos.
Plot: Apostolos Paraskevatos is a person living in mediocrity, a life that his close persons are forced to share with him. When the pressure put by his girlfriend and his best friend in order to find a job, persuade him to become a warehouseman, Apostolos becomes a witness of drug dealing. Looking for police help, he is entangled in situation that not only will change his routine, but all his beliefs about people and life.
Runtime: 7′
Production: 2009
Screenplay- Directed by: Evangelos Rigas and Tasos Trahanas
Editing: Thanos Kermitsis
Cinematography Supervision: Katerina Konstantopoulou
Featuring: Efterpi Papaefthimiou, Smaragda Manolaraki, Antonis Antonakos, Tasos Trahanas, Evangelos Rigas
Plot: Two women hit the road for a summer trip but an unpleasant surprise awaits them
Runtime: 10′
Screenplay: Nikos Manko
Directed by: Aris Kaplanidis, Nikos Manko
Editing: Aris Kaplanidis
Featuring: Elias Roumeliotis, Aris Kaplanidis, Nikos Manko, Kostas Ntais, Xaris Nikolidakis
Plot: A box coming from nowhere travels hand by hand among strangers, as if it was a running competition. However, no one knows the box content.
Runtime: 25′
Production: 2008
Directed by: Christos Tellidis
Featuring: Christos Tellidis, Antonis Savaris, Amalia Psiloudi, Anastasia Koutsouveli, Dionysis Koutsouvelis, Charis Koutsouvelis.
Plot: A true legend that exists in Marousi (Attica) refers to a ghost that appears every now and then in the local cemetery. The ghost is a little blonde girl with long hair, who always keeps her hands close to her chest. People who meet the girl think that she has lost her way, but by the time they approach close enough to talk to her, they realize that the girl has a superficial ability; her eyes seem to be crystal. The film is all about that legend.
Runtime: 7′
Production: 2009
Edited- Directed by: Michalis Mavromoustakos
Screenplay: Erato Boliari, Konstantinos Repanis
Plot: Save the forest, this is the message. Little Catherine anxious in front of the camera lens tries to make us act. Arsonists, the Forest is on fire. Young people against ecology are to answer a question Who has the power?
Runtime: 4′
Production: 2008
Directed by: Giorgos Papaioannou
Featuring: Spyros Papanaoum, Paris Papadopoulos, Babis Papapostolou
Plot: Love about Frisbee through the eyes of three different persons from three different places of the globe.
Runtime: 7′
Production: 2009
Directed by: Kostas Skyftas, Antreas Lambropoulos
Featuring: Kostas Skyftas, Giorgos Kordonis, Antreas Vrizalas, Thanos Katergaris, Elias Anastopoulos, Stefanos Varotsis, Antreas Lambropoulos
Plot: The story about two murderers who have to take back a calendar which carries important information, before this end to wrong hands.
Runtime: 96′
Production: 2009
Directed by: Thanos Kermitsis
Screenplay: Thanos Kermitsis, Antonis Koutelias
Editing: Thanos Kermitsis
Featuring: Antonis Koutelias, Thanos Kermitsis, Spyros Papayakoumos, Giannis Tzouvelekis, Antonis Droulias, Panagiotis Mastrokostantis, Giannis Rouboulias, Manolis Kermitsis, Dimitris Lachanikardis, Marina Mastoraki
Plot: It’s been three years since the incidents of the first movie.
Morinaka, always using the fake nickname Saizo, peregrinate from place to place along with Fujita and Samanosuke, trying to avoid the Governor’s people as well as his own identity, to avoid the fact that he is Shogun Successor. However, a surprising meeting will trigger several events that will change the Countrys fate forever. In addition to all these, Ginji, the mysterious commander of the Governor’s people, will make any effort to destroy forever Morinaka and his fellows in order to prevent a revolution Will Morinaka make the right choice in order to lead his people to freedom? Will he follow the road to destiny?
