Life in the Countryside: Nature & Hospitality

Vamvakou Revival in collaboration with ARTWORKS and with the contribution of the co-founder of Syros Film Festival, Jacob Moe, realizes for the first time an online film festival under the theme “Life in the countryside: Nature & Hospitality”, as part of the Vamvakou Revival initiative, implemented with the guidance and financial support of Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Five filmmakers who have been awarded by ARTWORKS, within the framework of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program, will present their work and share with the audience films related to the theme of the festival.

Within 5 days, you will discover what canaries and lifejackets, bees and volcanoes, the sea and mountains have in common. Through 5 films, Nature and Hospitality unfold from various viewpoints and aspects. The Beginning and Love; The End of the World; Old Age and Death; The Civilization of Revenge and Destruction; Light and Dark.

Participants: Giorgos Kivernitis, Konstantinos Antonopoulos, Yorgos Zois, Lia Tsalta and Vasilis Kekatos.

Screening from 18-23 Ιουνίου @ vamvakourevival.org

YORGOS KYVERNITIS – “The Canaries” (2019), 17′

Thursday, 18/06, starting at 19:00 

Petrina and Stathis fell in love when they were little kids. However, they went their separate ways and followed their own paths. They had children, grandchildren, they raised their families. Several years later, when left alone, they reunited and got married, wanting to grow old together. Today, 85 years old, the two of them live in Syros island with their canaries.

Direction: Giorgos Kivernitis/ Script: Giorgos Kivernitis/ Cinematography: Giorgos Kivernitis/ Editing: Giorgos Kivernitis/ Music: Orestis Petrakis/ Producer: Giorgos Kivernitis/ Format: DCP/ Color: Color/ Production Country: Greece

Τrailer:

Konstantinos Antonopoulos – “Postcards from the End of the World” (2019), 23′

Friday 19/06, starting at 19:00

Trapped in a seemingly dull family vacation, Dimitra, Dimitris, and their two daughters will have to find a way out of a secluded island in the Mediterranean, when confronted with the unexpected end of the world.

Director: Konstantinos Antonopoulos/ Production: Fani Skartouli/ Director of photography: Thodoros Mihopoulos/ Editing: Livia Neroutsopoulou/ Music: Larry Gus/ Cast: Angeliki Dimitrakopoulou, Yiorgos Gallos

Τrailer:

Yorgos Zois – “8th Continent” (2017), 11′

Saturday 20/06, starting at 19:00

In Lesvos island an old abandoned dump lies on a mountain with two big craters. The craters are overflown by thousands of life jackets from the refugee waves. A worker is the only inhabitant in this place that resembles an alien planet or a new continent.

Concept: Yorgos Zois/ Directed by Yorgos Zois/ Cast: Pavlos Iordanopoulos/ Director of photography: Stelios Pissas/ Editor: Yannis Chalkiadakis/ Sound design: Alexandros Sidiropoulos, Aris Louziotis/ Music: Thaleia Ioannidou/ Compositing: Thodoris Zigkiris/ Camera assistant: Yannis Karabatsos/ Dcp – Colour: Grading Alexandros Kapidakis, Authorwave/ Producer: Yorgos Zois, Antigoni Rota/ Executive Producer: Christina Cironi/ Co-producers: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Stelios Kotionis/ Produced by Squared Square

Τrailer:

Lia Tsalta, “The Forest” (2018), 18′

Sunday 21/06, starting at 19:00

In a future world with no existing nature, a theme park with a few remaining plants exists. A Guide leads a group of Tourists to the existing biodiversity exhibited in galleries, showing them the only surviving species of birds, leading them to shopping malls and under-construction mountains. Finally, they will reach the only real existing Forest left in the world. The only Forest they have ever seen in their entire life. What will they meet there?

Director & Screenplay: Lia Tsalta/ Director of Photography: Yannis Kanakis/ Main Editor: Nikos Pastras/ Music: Fernando Corona/ Sound: Nikos Exarchos, Persefoni Miliou/ Costumes: Danai Anagnostou/ Production Design: Danai Anagnostou, Christos Bourantas/ Make-up – Hairdresser: Ioanna Lygizou/ Casting: Cleopatra Ampatzoglou/ Assistant Director: Chrisanthos Margonis/ Producer: Eleni Kossycdou/ Production: Blackbird/ Co Production: ERT, CosmoteTV/ Cast: Elena Topalidou, Maria Haralambopoulou

Trailer:

Vasilis Kekatos, “The Silence of the Dying Fish” (2018), 19′

Monday 22/06, staring at 19:00

On his way to work, a lonely fish-farm worker learns that he has died the day before. Utterly oblivious to his preposterous situation, he spends his last day on Earth trying to verify his existence. What will become of his poor canaries?

Direction: Vasilis Κekatos/ Script: Vasilis Κekatos/ Cinematography: Giorgos Valsamis/ Editing: Smaro Papaevangelou/ Sound: Yannis Antypas/ Actors: Andreas Konstantinou, Aggelos Skasilas, Alexandros Papaioannou, Kostis Tavoularis, Alexandra K*/ Production: Blackbird Production, Eleni Kossyfidou/ ERT SA, Tripode Productions,/ Producer/Producers: Eleni Kossyfidou/ Sets: Eva Goulakou/ Format: DCP/ Color: ColorProduction/ Country: Greece

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