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Martin Scorsese Masterclass in Cannes

 

 

 

Greece and Greek films in Cannes


Meet with us to learn more about our slate of unique films by established and emerging filmmakers, our stunning locations and architecture that span the millennia, our appealing funding opportunities and highly competitive incentives (40% cash rebate, 30% tax relief).

You will find us at the Greece Pavilion
(#123, Riviera) from 6-16/07.  

  GREEK CINEMA IN CANNES

ΒRUTALIA, DAYS OF LABOUR
by MANOLIS MAVRIS – Greece, Belgium, 2021, 25’

Fantasy, Musical, Horror

PRODUCERS: Annabelle Aronis, Giorgos Tsokopoulos, Mando Stathi, Myrto Stathi
PRODUCTION: Avion Films (Greece), Stathi Twins Productions (UK) 
CO-PRODUCTION: Tarantula Belgique (Belgium)
CO-FINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre

Tuesday, July 13th:  14:00 & 20:00 at Espace Miramar
Friday, July 16th: 20:30 at Les Visiteurs du Soir Theater in Valbonne 
 
Perfectly identical girls, dressed in military uniforms, work day and night. A matriarchal family. An oligarchic society. What would happen if we replaced bees with humans? Anna observes the universe of her hive. Not being able to consent to the violence that surrounds her, she will have to make a radical decision.

 
 
FEATHERS
by OMAR EL ZOHAIRY – France, Egypt, Netherlands, Greece, 2021, 112’

PRODUCER: Alexis von Wittgenstein
PRODUCTION: Violet Pictures UG (Germany)
COPRODUCTION: View Master Film (Greece), ZDF  (Germany), MBB (Germany),  MFG (Germany), FFF (Germany),  BKM (Germany), KURATORIUM  (Germany), DFFF (Germany),  ΕΚΟΜΕ (Greece)
CO-FINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre

Tuesday, July 13th:  11:15 & 17:00 & 22:30 at Miramar
Wednesday, July 14th: 08:15 at Miramar & 18:00 at Studio 13
 
A passive mother who dedicates her life to her husband and children. Stuck in daily, repetitive, mundane chores, she has made herself as little as she possibly could. When a magic trick goes wrong at her 4-year-old son's birthday party, an avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls the family. The magician turns her husband, the authoritarian father, into a chicken. The mother is now forced to come to the fore and take care of the family while moving heaven and earth to bring her husband back. As she tries to survive, she goes through a rough and absurd transformation

NEW WORLDS: THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION
by ANDREW MUSCATO – USA, Greece, 2021, 102 min.
PRODUCTION: DORN Music, Makuhari Media (USA), Neda Film (Greece)

Friday, July 16th: 20:00 at Salle Debussy

Filmed one summer night in Greece, New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization, captures screen legend Bill Murray and world-renowned cellist Jan Vogler’s final performance of their European “New Worlds” tour.

 
 
THESSALONIKI GOES TO CANNES
The Greek Film Centre and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival present 6 works-in-progress on Monday July 12 @ 14:15 at the Palais K.
Four Greek fiction feature films and two documentaries in post-production will be presented on Monday, July 12, to the Auditorium K of Palais to the sales agents, distributors and programmers who will attend this year’s Cannes’ Marché du Film. The presentation will be available to film professionals for one week after Marché du Film.
 
BASTARDS
by NIKOS PASTRAS – Greece, 2021
Drama, Comedy

PRODUCERS: Nicholas Alavanos, Nikos Pastras
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Sofia Dimopoulou, Fragiskos Xidianos, Jake Craven, Andreas Zoupanos-Kritikos, Anastasia Manola

Five boys and five girls, far away from the rules of a suffocating society they create their own community. They occupy a large house in the mid- dle of nowhere and decide to live there together. The balance will soon be upset, relationships will be tested, but they will find a way to remain free, for as long as “together” lasts. True friendships that are bastardized with newfound emotional attractions that go beyond gender and race, improvisation games, confessional atmosphere and a world that is ready, or at least willing, to be torn down to be built from scratch.

 
 
BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS
by ASIMINA PROEDROU – Greece, Germany, North Macedonia, 2021
Social-Family Drama 

PRODUCERS: Ioanna Bolomyti, Markus Halberschmidt, Vladimir Anastasov, Angela Nestorovska 
PRODUCTION: Argonauts SA (Greece)
COPRODUCTION: FICTION PARK (Germany), Sektor Film (North Macedonia)
CO-FINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre

Stergios is a middle-aged fisherman and farmer living in a lakeside Greek village on the border with North Macedonia, together with his wife, Maria and their daughter, Anastasia. Stergios is afraid of going to jail for a fraud he had committed some time ago, and starts to traffic migrants across the border lake to repay the money he took. But soon he finds himself trapped in a deadly game between the local mafia and his conscience, while his family starts falling apart.

 
 
DOGWATCH
by GREGORIS RENTIS – Greece, France, 2021 
Ηybrid

PRODUCERS: Gregoris Rentis, Vicky Miha, Clément Duboin, Florence Cohen
PRODUCTION: BYRD (Greece)
CO-FINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre

Privately-hired mercenaries are responsible for protecting vessels crossing the High Risk Area off the Somali coastline against pirate attacks. Rigorously preparing to face the enemy, each watch brings them closer to the day of contact. Yet the sea is full of surprises. Or lack thereof.

 
 
EX
by GEORGE MARKAKIS – Greece, Germany
Fiction Film

PRODUCERS: George Markakis, Christopher Cornelsen 
PRODUCTION: Cornelsen Films (Germany)
CO-PRODUCTION: I have my Art (Germany)

While the dancefloor is mythologised as a space for connection, any committed creature of the night knows the real action takes place in the toilet cubicle - at once the club’s engine room and its "confessional" booth. EX depicts the realities of these sacred spaces with a nauseating intimacy, bundling us in with Diana and a flurry of gorgeous party people for one night of sublime chaos. Opening the door to Berlin’s notoriously private nightlife, EX invites us to see more than reckless hedonism. As its characters share stories about lives lived at the fringes of society, a deeper connection unravels, sparking soul-baring moments of clarity, acceptance, and unapologetic truth.

 
 
INTO THE LAND OF ICE AND FIRE
by DIMITRA ZIROU – Greece, Norway, 2021
Ethnographic Documentary

PRODUCERS: Nikos Moustakas, Nancy Kokolaki
PRODUCTION: Bad Crowd
CO-PRODUCERS: ERT SA, Media, Norwegian Arts Council
CO-FINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre

The film is inspired by the contemporary life of the indigenous people inhabiting the European arctic region, the Sami, 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 Sami oral tradition and Mihka, a 7 year-old Sami 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.

 
 
WINTER WITH VALMIRA
by MARIA DOUZA – Greece, Bulgaria, 2021
Social, Family, Drama

PRODUCERS: Michael Sarantinos, Ivan Tonev
PRODUCTION: Steficon S.A. (Greece), ERT, ARS-Digital (Bulgaria), Bulgarian Film Fund
CO-FINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre

When deaf teenager Valmira comes to live to her father’s island away from her special Athens school, she faces the possibility of prejudice and discrimination. Aris, a Bulgarian kind-hearted boy, bullied at school offers to become her friend and ally. But Valmira misjudging reality — because of her impairment — looks down at him and mixes up with bullies' leader Marios, deeply hurting Aris and triggering a violent conflict between the boys. When Marios goes to hospital seriously ill, Aris does an act of profound humanity leading to Valmira’s humble realization of her misconceptions and the reconciliatory ending of the film.

CORA
by EVI KALOGIROPOULOU – Greece, 2022, 90 min.

PRODUCER: Amanda Livanou
PRODUCTION: Neda Films (Greece)

Director Evi Kalogiropoulou (Motorway 65, Court Métrage Competition 2020) returns to the Cannes Film Festival with her first feature length project. A dystopian town ruled by the imposing oil refinery and its gun-toting townsmen, two women fall in love and struggle for identity, belonging, and escape.

 
 
 
 

ΗΕLLENIC FILM  COMMISION 

The Hellenic Film Commission, a directorate of the Greek Film Centre, is the gateway to the country’s filming opportunities and it supports international audiovisual productions planning to film in Greece by providing information, advice and guidance on funding, incentives, filming permits, locations, industry guide and more, free of charge. 
- We offer consultation to foreign producers on all aspects of filmmaking in Greece
- We connect you with the qualified Greek Industry Guide
- We guide you through the funding opportunities and incentives offered in Greece
- We provide the Location Scouting Support Program by the Hellenic Film Commission
- We facilitate your filming permits by being the liaison to local authorities
- We are supervised by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and we make sure that beneficial to the film industry policies are being implemented
- We represent Greece at the European Film Commissions Network (EUFCN) and the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI).
 
Let us Guide you!


Contact information:

Facebook page: HellenicFilmCommission
Instagram page: HellenicFilmCommission
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Venia Vergou, v.vergou@gfc.gr, 7th – 13th July
Stavroula Geronimaki, s.geronimaki@gfc.gr, 5th - 13th July
 
 
Development & Production 

Τhe revised Regulation for the Funding Programs of the Greek Film Centre has just been announced and we’re excited to share all the details with you!

Make sure to get in contact with us so that we can provide all the information you need in regards to our new competitive Minority Co-production Program as well as the rest of funding opportunities we currently offer.

 

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