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KRISTOS, THE LAST CHILD (2022)
A feature documentary (90' & 52' version)
Of the thirty-one inhabitants of Arki, a windswept island in Greece’s Dodecanese, Kristos is the last remaining child. He is ten, and he is the only pupil of his teacher Maria, who devotes herself to him.
Kristos will begin his final year of elementary school soon. To finish compulsory education, he needs to leave Arki and move to a larger island. However, his family cannot afford this expense and his father has different plans for him. He wants to teach him to become a shepherd, a profession passed down the family for generations.
Maria cannot accept this situation. She believes that her student has the right to choose his future like all the other children in Greece and is
determined to find a solution to further his education.
Will Kristos stay on the island to become a shepherd like his brothers or will he leave Arki to continue his education far away, on the other side of the sea?
Writer-Director: Giulia Amati
Producers: Giulia Amati, Quentin Laurent, Nikos Moustakas, Nancy Kokolaki
Director of Photography: Carlos Muñoz Gomez - Quintero
Sound: Μanolis Makridakis, Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos, Nikolas
Konstantinou, Alexis Koukias
Editing: Evgenia Papageorgiou
Μusic: Angelo Capozzi
A co- production of Blink Blink prod, Les films d'oeil sauvage, Bad Crowd, with the support of MIBACT, Tax Credit Italy, RAI cinema, Al Jazeera, Lyfta, Creative Europe Media, ARTE France, CNC, Region sud-PACA, Procirep, SCAM, Greek Film Center, Greek Ministry of Culture, ERT.
INTO THE LAND OF ICE AND FIRE (2021)
An ethnographic documentary (95' & 52' version)
The film is inspired by the contemporary life of the indigenous people inhabiting the European arctic region, the Sámi, widely known as Lapp.
After twenty years of researching and photographing the European arctic and its indigenous inhabitants, the Greek award-winning film director Dimitra Zirou, begins to film an art documentary inspired by this
distant land and its people.
Two parallel stories, are gradually unfolding the everyday life of two very different persons: 86 year - old Sara, one of the few remaining keepers of Sámi oral tradition and Mihka, a 7 year-old Sámi boy, both living in Guovdageaidnu - Kautokeino, a remote small town in the middle of the Norwegian arctic tundra. The film is observing their life during an one-year’s cycle, through the changing of the arctic seasons as they shift
from the long winter’s darkness to the summer’s never-setting light.
SCRIPT / CINEMATOGRAPHY / DIRECTION Dimitra ZIROU
PRODUCERS Nikos MOUSTAKAS - Nancy KOKOLAKI
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / SÁMI ADVISOR Asta Mitkija BALTO
PROJECT MANAGER Evi GAVRIILIDOU
CO - PRODUCERS Ingvild Aagedal SKAGE - Dragan IVANOVIC
Co-production: ERT, GFC, ISME FILMS, BANDUR FILMS
With the support of: Arts Council Norway, Creative Europe MEDIA, Fritt Ord Foundation
Under the auspices: The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Greece, The Goulandris Museum of Natural History
Special Thanks to: Sámi Film Insitute
With the support of the Creative Europe Programme- MEDIA of the European Union
trailer : https://vimeo.com/598759417
KERR (2021)
A political thriller (101')
Turkey - Greece - France
...and what is more; everything is ridiculously repeating.
CAN is a sole witness of a murder in the town where he came for the funeral of his old father. The murderer showing no interest in CAN's presence quits the place, calmly. The police he applied then, doesn't allow him to leave after his testimony. He meets various strange friends of his father in the town where he's trapped, thereafter and some weird things happen right after another. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs are at large. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.
Written and Directed by: Tayfun PIRSELIMOGLU
Director of Photography: Andreas SINANOS
Editor: Ali AGA
Composer: Nikos KYPOURGOS
Art Director: Natali YERES
Producer: Vildan ERSEN
Co-Producers: Nikos MOUSTAKAS, Nancy KOKOLAKI, Guillaume DE SEILLE
Cast: Erdem SENOCAK, Jale ARIKAN
KERR is a co-production of Gataki Films (Turkey), Bad Crowd (Greece) and
Arizona Productions (France) with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture,
Greek Film Centre, EKOME, CNC, Creative Europe Media, and Eurimages.
trailer: https://vimeo.com/696907054
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MARKOS (2020)
Feature Music Documentary (93' & 52' version)
Modern musicians travel in the Aegean Sea for a tribute to the rebetis Markos VAMVAKARIS. Composers, musicologists and artists from all around the world bring out his important musical heritage into the 21st century. It is a documentary about the influence of Markos in the modern musicians of Europe.
Written by: Kleanthis DANOPOULOS, Nikos SKARENTZOS
Directed by: Nikos SKARENTZOS
Cast: Vassiliki TROUFAKOU
Supported by: Greek Film Center, COSMOTE TV, ERT S.A.
Premiere 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
trailer: https://youtu.be/_xp0nlZcByc
F (2020)
Short Film
In front of the sea, on a deserted beach in winter. Two people are discussing. A male body, a female body. A male voice, a female voice. What do they have to say? It does not matter, since whatever they say, whatever they are, exists only between them. They try in vain to define what is connecting them. Their adventure, to become heroes of a story, in the same moment as they narrate it - that's their story.
Written and Directed by: Eftychia IOSIFIDOU
Producers: Nikos MOUSTAKAS, Nancy KOKOLAKI
Supported by: Greek Film Center
A SIMPLE MAN (2019)
A crime drama
An outlaw thug, trapped in an isolated village near the borders, attempts to escape to the neighboring country. He captures a peaceful winemaker, taking him hostage in his own home, while the authorities tighten the noose around him.
After the death of his wife fifteen years ago, the winemaker was forced to raise his daughter alone. In the interest of protecting her he conceals the truth; he tells his captor to pretend that he is an immigrant working as his bottling assistant.
The daughter’s love for the intruder will put her relationship with her father to the test. After killing two police officers who identified him in cold blood, the winemaker is petrified while his daughter remains charmed. She realizes her father has been lying to her, which makes her decide to cover for the stranger and help him cross the border, right after going to the capital to get him money and a false passport.
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Written by: Tassos GERAKINIS - Christos STREPKOS
Directed by: Tassos GERAKINIS
Cast: Takis SAKELLARIOU, Katerina PAPANASTASSATOU, Christos STREPKOS, Yorgos SOUXES, Nikolas KASSAPIS
Cinematographer: Yannis FOTOU GSC
Editor: Dimitris PEPONIS
Set & Costume designer: Kiki MILIOU
Music: Vassilis MITROPOULOS
Co-producers: Vassilis KONSTANTILIERIS, Christos V. KONSTANTAKOPOULOS
Producers: Nikos MOUSTAKAS, Nancy KOKOLAKI
Supported by: Greek Film Center, ERT S.A.
trailer: https://youtu.be/Iyi7H_vFRX8
.IDENTITY (2019)
Short Film
A woman discovers with terror that her face changes every day; as this situation occurs at the passport control of an airport, she really has a big problem.
Written & Directed by: Despina CHARALAMPOUS, Panos PAPPAS
Director of Photography: Ioan MELTZER
Cast: Elena MAVRIDOU, Ektor LIATSOS, Vassilis KOUKALANI, Sophia GEORGIADOU, Dunkan SKINNER, Koralia TSOGA, Maria PAPAFOTIOU, Natalie SKINNER.
Graphic Designer: Konstantinos PAPAMICHALOPOULOS
Set Decorator: Dimitra PANAGIOTOPOULOU
Costume Designer: Kika KARABELA
Visual Effects: Alex FRIDERICI
Music: Nikos KYPOURGOS
Makeup Artist: Sissi PETROPOULOU
Hair Stylist: Mary ROUSSI
Supported by: Greek Film Center
I DREAMED OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS (2019)
Short Film
Thanasis, a young lawyer is a member of a voluntary NGO fighting for the social rights of a not-named population group. We never learn exactly what this group is. We only know that they are some families who live in settlements outside city limits. They could be refugees, Roma, Homeless – or just “the others”.
One of the children who live in the camp, a little girl who has not been able to be vaccinated so far by the volunteer group, has suffered an accident - and may need an anti-tetanus shot. The girl’s mother thinks that the vaccination will remove the burning scar from her face. Thanasis lies to her telling that everything will be alright and everyone returns to their lives.
After all it is New Year's Eve.
And the only thing left is that girl's smile.
Script adaptation and direction by: Dimitris GIAMLOGLOU
Director of Photography: Vaggelis KATRIZIDAKIS
Producers: Nikos MOUSTAKAS, Nancy KOKOLAKI
Supported by: Greek Film Center
SIDEWAY (2017)
A Turkish/ Greek/ French Co-production
Screwy signs indicate the arrival of the doomsday. The people of a small town find themselves on the edge of insanity, thinking the Antichrist is already around. But who is Christ, then? A poor guy with a sacred mark on his back working in a coffee shop?
This is an allegorical story of depicting very absurd fatal situation happening today.
Written & Directed by: Tayfun PIRSELIMOGLU
Produced by: MİTRAFİLMCİLİK, BAD CROWD, Istanbul Digital, Authorwave, Arizona prod
Cast: Tansu BİÇER, Nalan KURUÇİM, Taner BİRSEL, Ercan KESAL, Riza AKIN, Haydar ŞİŞMAN
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Premiere Warsaw Film Festival 2018 (WARSZAWSKI FESTIWAL FILMOWY)
Best Director (Tayfun Pirselimoglu) Istanbul Film Festival 2018.
Best Male Actor (Tansu Bicer) Istanbul Film Festival 2018.
Best Art Director Ankara International Film Festival 2018
Best Director Award, Accessible Film Festival (Engelsiz Filmler Festivali).
Best Cinematography Award (Andreas Sinanos),Sinema Yazarları Derneği (SİYAD) Cinema Writers Association.
Supported by: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Greek Film Center
WORKING DANCERS (2016)
Argentine-Greece / Documentary / 76min
Talented dancers
Amazing choreographies
Beautiful songs
Original music
and a magnificent city,
Buenos Aires.
A documentary that gives us the opportunity to watch talented dancers like Ernesto, Bettina, Victoria, Pablo, dancing all over town. We attend their rehearsals and their performances in the emblematic building of the National Library in Buenos Aires and we follow their lives during the years of our research. They collectively create Argentina's first National Company of Contemporary Dance. They demanded and they acquired a National Dance Law.
Directed by: JULIA M.HEIMANN, KONSTANTINA BOUSMPOURA
Produced by: Kinisis, Bad Crowd, Authorwave
Supported by: National film board of Argentine (INCAA)
The film participated as work in progress in DOC BUENOS AIRES, 13th Forum of documentary Coproduction December 13
ATLANTIDOC, International Documentary Festival of Uruguay, December 2012
ASHES/ ΚΑΥΣΗ (2016)
Greece / Black Comedy / 71min
Language Greek
Subtitles English
Picture colour
Aspect ratio 2:39
Exhibition format DCP
Sound Dolby digital
In a city that bursts with chaos and disorder, five people gather in a house where a very close friend of them died. Trapped in his house they cannot agree on the way of his funeral. The heat makes the situation oppressive but they still insist on their differences. The corpse starts decomposing, their relationships are being tested and secrets are revealed.
After a few hours nothing will be the same again.
Cast: NIKOS GEORGAKIS, GOGO BREBOU, GIORGOS HRANIOTIS, IOANNA MAVREA, VASSILIKI TROUFAKOU
Production manager: LIZA GIRMI
Assistant director- Script supervisor: ELENA DIMITRAKOPOULOU
Assistant director: ELENI STAMOULAKATOU
Make up: SISSI PETROPOULOU
Hair dresser: VAGY ROKA
Gaffer: IOANNIS MARAGOUDAKIS
Grip: LAMBROS TSONIS
Steadicam operator: MICHAEL TSIMPEROPOULOS
Camera assistant: VAGGELIS NTOUMAS
Art director assistant: STELIOS MOURATOGLOU
Boom operator: NIKOS EXARCHOS
Β' assistant camera-DIT: KOSTAS DRAKAKIS
Colorist: ALEXANDROS KAPIDAKIS
Credits-DCP Mastering: PANAGIOTIS KARACHALIOS
Production assistant: SAVVAS PARASKEVAS
Editor assistant: HELENA GKRITZELA
Production secretary: EIRINI MAVROMATI
Second art director assistant: MADALENA TIGKILI
Steadicam assistant: MANOLIS VITSAXAKIS
Accountant: DIMITRIS GEORGIOU
Still photographers: MARIZA PAPADIMITRIOY, ANDREAS STAVRINIDES, ANNA CHARALAMPIDI
Graphic designer: ELENI KARALI
I'M NOT HIM (2013)
A Turkish/ Greek/ French Co-production
I'M NOT HIM narrates the involuntary, passive and total penetration of the hero in someone else's life and personality, that will eventually lead him to jail.
Starring the Turkish writer, screenwriter and actor Ercan Kesal and the Iranian–German international actress Maryam Zaree.
The film participated in 52 international film festivals and received 7 awards (Rome Best Script, Istanbul Best Film, Best Script, Best Music, Barcelona Best Film etc.)
Written & Directed by: Tayfun PIRSELIMOGLU
Produced by: ZUZI FILM, BAD CROWD, ARIZONA PROD, BREDOK, DENK, GRAAL, KINICON, FONO FILM
Photography by Andreas SINANOS
Music composed by Yorgos KOUMENTAKIS
Supported by: Turkish Ministry of Culture, CNC (France) and EURIMAGES
SPECIAL DAY (2012)
Greece / Fiction Film / 10min
A film by Nicolas KOLOVOS
Sofia gets severe pre-wedding jitters. A jumble of thoughts and images triggers anxiety that Sofia struggles against and tries to overcome.
Cast: Eleftheria GEROFOKA, Dimitris LALOS, Dora SIMOPOULOU, Nektaria GIANOUDAKI
HAIR (2010)
Turkey-Greece / Feature Film / 131min
Fate brings together two unhappy people in this drama from Turkish filmmaker Tayfun Pirselimoğlu. Hamdi makes and sells wigs from a small shop in Istanbul. Hamdi isn't much of a businessman, and doesn't care much about his shop -- or anything else for that matter since he was diagnosed with cancer. One day, a middle-aged woman named Meryem comes into Hamdi's shop; she has long and beautiful hair, and informs him that she wants to sell it. Hamdi is struck by the woman's barely concealed anger and sadness, and he wants to know more about her.
Written & Directed by: Tayfun PIRSELIMOGLU
Cast: Ayberk PELCAN, Nazan KESAL, Riza AKIN
Director of Photography: ERCAN OZKAN
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Premiere at Competition Section of Locarno Film Festival
30th Istanbul Film Festival-Best Director-Best Actress
27th Festroia Film Festival-Fipresci award
17th Festival on Wheels-Special Mention
9th Almaty Film Festival -Netpac Prize
47th Antalya Film Festival-Best Supporting Actor-Best Photography
44th Turkish Film Critics-Best Actor-Best Actress
17th Sadri Alisik-Best Actress
Toronto FF
Talin Black Nights FF
Athens F
Montpelier FF
Boston TFF
Warsaw FF
La Rochelle FF
Munchen FF
Mannheim TFF
Ajaccio FF
Bangkok FF
London TFF
Beirut TFF
Nurnberg TFF
UniFilmFest 2012
Hong Kong TFF
Prague FF
HAZE (2009)
Turkey-Greece / Feature Film / 109min
A film by Tayfun Pirselimoglu
A young man who packages pirated DVDs for shady characters comes across a revolver next to which lies a picture of a woman. This discovery leads him to a couple that lives in the same grim area as him on the edge of Istanbul and is in a state of crisis. She is a seamstress, he is a butcher. There emerges a peculiar configuration of three people, who all find their despair hard to bear – all on their own.
Written & Directed by: TAYFUN PIRSELIMOGLU
Cast: RUHI SARI, NURCAN ULGER
Director of Photography: ERCAN OZKAN
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Premiere Berlinale Forum
16th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival Best Photography
Istanbul FF
Indie Lisboa FF
Durban FF
Luciana FF
Brussels FF
BFI FF
