Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes per la terza volta
- Cinque film nella fase di work-in-progress parteciperanno all'evento Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes, sostenuto dal Greek Film Centre
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The Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Agora is poised to “Go to Cannes” for the third year in a row. Five Greek films that are currently in post-production will be screened as works in progress at the event, which will be held on Monday 20 May at 2 pm in Palais K, during the Marché du Film of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival (14-25 May 2019). The initiative is supported by the Greek Film Centre, in partnership with Cannes’ Marché du Film, and it should be noted that Greece remains the only country from South-Eastern Europe and the Balkans that is taking part in the event. Click here to see the complete list of the festivals participating in Goes to Cannes.
Two first-time directors have been selected with their projects: Christos Nikou with his allegorical comedy Apples [+leggi anche:
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Eight years after his debut, Jerks, Stelios Kammitsis will be coming along with his sophomore project, a road movie about a young former diving champion who sets off on a spontaneous trip to Italy, during which he meets a German drifter. They both head to Bavaria for their own, different reasons. Finally, in his fifth feature film, Winona [+leggi anche:
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The 60th-anniversary edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival will run from 31 October–10 November.
Here is the detailed list of the selected projects:
Apples [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] – Christos Nikou (Greece/Poland)
Producers: Hercules Mavroides, Angelo Venetis, Nikos Smpiliris (executive producer) (Boo Productions)
Co-producer: Mariusz Włodarski (LAVA Films)
Support: Greek Film Centre, Polish Film Institute, ERT SA
Defunct [+leggi anche:
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Producers: Christos V Konstantakopoulos, Kostas Kefalas (Faliro House)
Support: Greek Film Centre, ERT SA
The Man With the Answers – Stelios Kammitsis (Cyprus/Greece/Italy)
Producers: Vicky Miha (asterisk*), Fenia Cossovitsa (Blonde), Luca Legnani (9.99 Films), Stelios Kammitsis (Felony)
Support: Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus, Greek Film Centre, Apulia Film Commission, ERT SA, Creative Europe MEDIA programme, IDM Südtirol
Persephone – Costas Athousakis (Greece)
Producer: Costas Athousakis (Sisyphus Projects)
Support: Greek Film Centre, ERT SA
Winona [+leggi anche:
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Producer: Eleni Bertes (Logline)
Associate producers: Michalis Sarantinos, Maria Kontogianni (Steficon)
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