“45 m2” (Stratos Tzitzis), “Zafiris” (Elena Dimitrakopoulou), “Words of resistance” (Timon Koulmasis)
Best Screenwriting 2011 (Stratos Tzitzis)
Stratos Tzitzis. 45 Square Metres, Directed by Stratos Tzitzis. 79′. Greece, 2011
In today’s climate of financial insecurity, with a youth generation rendered incapable of leaving their family homes on 600 Euro wages, a young saleswoman, Christina, decides to move out and rent her own apartment, surpassing her economic means.
Alienated from her familiar world by this transgression, she begins to see life from a different perspective, a liberal awaking (or “a sensitivity”) represented by Fotis, the young man who rented the apartment before her and whose personal belongings have been left behind.
Encouraged by the poetic notes of this young stranger, Christina struggles to keep the apartment and not return to her mother’s house. She takes on a second, evening job to make ends meet but in the end, utterly exhausted by her efforts, abandons both.
Left penniless, she must finally give up the apartment. As she packs the little she has, Fotis arrives to get his things. The person she encounters is nothing like what she imagined, as he seems a well-to-do young man who at the first sign of difficulty, returned to his parent’s home.
Christina nevertheless engages him through the perception she had created. Her faith in him gives hope that together they will achieve what they could not alone.
Director: Stratos Tzitzis
Script-writer: Stratos Tzitzis
Cinematography:Giorgos Giannelis
Editing:Aggela Despotidou
Sound: Vaggelis Zelkas
Set design: Irini Deligeorgi
Costumes:Ioanna Timotheadou
Make-up: Dimitra Giatrakou
Cast:
Efi Logginou/ Christina
Rania Oikonomidou/ Melpo
Antinoos Albanis/ Harry
Giorgos Giannopoulos / Kostas
Irini Antipa / Gogo
Thanos Grammenos / Epaminondas
Alexandra Palaiologou / Kiriaki
Nicolas Piperas / Fotis
Gioulina Daskalopoulou/ Stella
Natali Pavlof / Gallerista
Alexandra Zoiopoulou / Mediatrice
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Best Short Film 2008
Zafiris, directed by Elena Dimitrakopoulou. Greece, 2006. 19′
Zagori-Epirus. A man is lying in bed. His young daughter cannot realise her mother’s anguish. She just wants to go out and play with her friends. It is spring time, the time of “Zafiris”. Chrisanthi, wearing her fathers pair of trousers, cannot bear to stay still during the game. The little girls and boys are lamenting. Chrisanthi holds her breath and begins to understand how difficult is for her father to lie down all day.
Directed by Elena DIMITRAKOPOULOU, Written by EFFI GAVRILOU, Cinematography: ILIAS ADAMHS, Editing-Sound Design: KENAN AKKAWI, Sound engineer: NIKOS PAPADIMITRIOU, Set design: LIA ASVESTA, Costume design: DESPINA XIMONA, Music: GIORGOS ANDREOU, Singing: MARTHA FRITZILA, DESPINA LABROU, CHORUS of ELKELAM, Production: ERT S.A.,KENAN AKKAWI, EL. DIMITRAKOPOULOU, Cast: Despina Labrou, Gerasimos Skiadaressis, Eri Bakali, Roxani Garefalaki
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Best Documentary 2010
Words of resistance, Directed by Timon Koulmasis. Greece, 2010. 78′
The greek radio program of the Deutsche Welle during the diktatorship (1967-1974). Words of Resistance tells the story of the men and women who created this program and, forced into exile by the fascist regime, continued to fight for seven years to keep up the dignity and the hope of a whole people.
written and directed by Timon Koulmasis
director of photography: Iro Siafliaki
editor: Aurique Delannoy
soundtrack: Timon Koulmasis
music: Mikis Theodorakis, Iannis Markopoulos
production management: Bonita Papastati
producer: Timon Koulmasis
production: TK FILMS, EKK, ERT, AIA FILMS
starring:
Karolos Papoulias, President of Greece
Dora Bakoianni, mayor of Athens, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs
Giorgos Mangakis, minister, Professor of law, lawyer
Thanassis Valtinos, writer, member of the Academy
and the editors of the greek radio program during the dictatorship (1967-1974)
Kostas Nikolaou, founder and chief editor of the program, vicepresident of the European Parliament
Angelos Maropoulos, journalist
Vassilis Mavridis, diplomat, lawyer
Giorgos Kladakis, ambassador
Danae Koulmasi, diplomat, editor
Alek Schinas, writer
Vassos Mathiopolos, journalist
Marios Nikolinakos, economist
Nikos Tsavaras, professor, president of the Greek Psychiatrists’ Association
Nikos Mavromatis, lawyer
