Greek short film earns recognition at international festivals

The film will beryllium screened connected Holy Saturday, April 11, astatine the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival successful California. It is 1 of the fewer examples of Greek “high-concept” sci-fi to summation designation astatine large U.S. festivals.

The California-based abbreviated movie festival has been listed among the “25 Coolest Film Festivals successful the World” by MovieMaker magazine.

The communicative unfolds successful a satellite astir wiped retired by a deadly virus. Three teenagers rotation done a devastated landscape, burdened by actions that person permanently marked them.

The movie has already been selected for screening astatine respective different large planetary festivals, including the Dam Short Film Festival successful Nevada, the San Jose International Short Film Festival—one of Silicon Valley’s astir important Oscar-qualifying festivals—and the London Breeze Film Festival, successful the “IMPACT” category, which highlights films with a beardown societal message. These selections further corroborate its increasing beingness connected the planetary abbreviated movie circuit.

“Unlike my erstwhile work, this clip I chose to spot teenagers astatine the halfway of the story,” says the film’s creator, Giorgos Chrysanthakopoulos. “I wanted to research the illness of morality done the eyes of those who request a aboriginal the most, yet person the fewest defenses against guilt. My characters are not victims—they are survivors forced to turn up abruptly done choices nary quality being should ever person to make,” the manager adds.

Cast: Mandy Chryse, Melina Asimaki, Nikos Staikos
Writer/Director: Giorgos Chrysanthakopoulos
Director of Photography: Giorgos Fakouras
VFX: Panos Koutelas
Sound Design: Christos Solakis
Music: Manolis Chrysanthakopoulos
Production: mimescript productions