Bella
A short observational documentary that depicts Bella's life, a stray dog that lives in the old town of Corfu, through the filming of a random day.
Aris Melachroinos, Georgia Zabelaki
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"Construction" is the documentation of the process of a rehearsal performed by contemporary dance and acrobatics company "Ki omWs kineitai" during the preparation of the group to participate in a theatrical play. It took place during the second lockdown in Athens in a climate of general uncertainty regarding the planning and performing of live performances. In "Construction" the return of the bodies to rehearsal conditions, the need for communication and reconnection and the memory of sharing with the spectators that still gives hope are recorded in a spontaneous and fragmentary way.
It’s Monday, the 13th of December 1943, the small town of Kalavryta is set on fire by the occupation army of Nazi Germany while the entire male population is being gathered on a nearby hill and shot dead. This war crime will go down in history, along with the massacre of Acqui Division, as the largest mass killing in Greece during WWII. Three men who witnessed these events as kids, locked up with the rest women, children and elderly people in Kalavryta’s primary school, recall this traumatic experience.
The narration of the basic changes in the life of an everyday man during 2020. The deprivations, the adjustments, but also the losses he suffered during such a strange period of time. All this through the perspective of his daily activities within a single day.
A young bicycle rider explains why he wants to spend so much time with this sport: The hard and great times that bike gives him.
The portrait of Dimitra Samara, a talented dress designer, who decided to pursue her dream only a few years ago. A great misfortune in her life brought her closer to her dreams. The only way to overcome her shock was to escape through her passion. So, through a voice-over narration and the creation of a dress, from scratch to its final form, we follow a parallel evolution: That of the red dress and of her own self.
Everyday life through the eyes of Vassilis, an energetic and open-minded, aging man.
This documentary deals with the relationship that can be developed between two different types of music (Classical and Electronic), shaping also the portrait of a professional Musician and Viola teacher at the Athens School of Music.
This short film is the portrait of a man, emphasizing a specific aspect of himself, that is, his engagement with musical improvisation.
