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4th MICRO μ FESTIVAL 2014


The audience voted against tolerance

The 4th Micro μ Festival was successfully completed last Sunday. The response was great in the seven cities that hosted the event, despite the adverse weather conditions in some of them. The audience in Athens, Thessaloniki, Chania, Ptolemaida, Rhodes, Corfu and Paris, after the three –hour presentation of the 15 films, voted "Free Will" by Antonis Sotiropoulos as the beloved film of this year.

"Free Will" discusses the major changes that the economic crisis caused in everyday life, with electronic trading being the most important. The film highlights the implications of this new reality, comparing the dramatic impact of people’s tolerance with "Mister Anthony" by Manos Hatzidakis.

The festival ended up with the award of the last year's winner, Natasha Xidi, and the award check of € 1,500 from the «RGB Studios» for the next production. In the end of the evening the organizer, Simos Kyparissopoulos, renewed the appointment for the next year by announcing some changes in the festival structure that deserve attention.

2014

FILMS


I AM WHAT I AM


DURATION12’
YEAR2013
DIRECTORPanos Spinthiropoulos
WRITER Georgia Karapapazoglou, Christos Katsaris, Panos Spinthiropoulos
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHY Nika Lominatze
MUSIC Dimitris Papadopoulos
EDITOR Nika Lominatze
ACTORS Othona Iliadi, Chrisantho Papadopoulo, Remi Mironi, John Simi, Georgia Karapapazoglou, Athina Metallidou, Panagiota Savvinidou, Foteini Savvinidou, Stella Zafeiriou, Eftixia Toptsi
MOVIELINK

SYNOPSIS

A coming of age story by the film club of the 1st vocational college of Kordelio.


FOREVER NIGHT


DURATION 16'
YEAR2012
WRITER, DIRECTOR & EDITOR Themis Katsimihas
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHY Petros Nousias
MUSIC Dimitris Siampos, Dimitris Petrakis, Themis Katsimihas
ACTORS Zoe Tounta, Labros Filippou, Thanos Chronis
MOVIE LINK

SYNOPSIS

It doesn’t matter if someone knows you, if you don’t know who you are… A woman wakes up half naked in the middle of a street, having no recollection of who she is or how she got there. In the day that follows, through various encounters with her present and her past, she will have to face her inner demons.


διΕΧΙςΤ


DURATION 3'
YEAR2014
WRITER & DIRECTORAristokratis Charatsaris
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHY & EDITOR Chania Film Lab
MUSIC Ioannis Xenakis – Pithoprakta
ACTORS Maria Sikioti, Afroditi Sovolou, Melina Kourti, Victoras Karousos, Sofia Siaga, Konstantinos Tzinas, Katerina Pappa
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MOVIE-

SYNOPSIS

Deciding on a change; deciding on stepping out of our inner self; deciding on a real existence and expression of emotions.


EVIVA


DURATION 15’
YEAR 2014
WRITER & DIRECTOR Dimitris Nakos, Amerissa Basta
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYYannis Fotou
MUSICGeorge Ramantanis
EDITORNickos Myrtou
ACTORS Yorgos Kotanidis, Alkis Panagiotidis, Dimitris Piatas
MOVIELINK

SYNOPSIS

Two friends meet after a long time in order to travel to another’s friend village to attend his funeral. During their trip a series of unexpected situations come up, delaying them from reaching their destination and altering their perspective of themselves, of life and friendship.


FREE WILL


DURATION 20’
YEAR2014
WRITER & DIRECTORAntonis Sotiropoulos
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYAntonis Sotiropoulos
MUSIC & EDITORAntonis Sotiropoulos
ACTORSGiorgos Hraniotis, Spiros Bibilas
MOVIELINK

SYNOPSIS

Athens, Greece, 2020. Europe's severe economic crisis resulted to serious changes in citizens' everyday life, the most important of all being the use of electronic transactions instead of money as we know it today.


ELI


DURATION 20'
YEAR2013
WRITER & DIRECTORSEli Kritharaki- Yianna Dellatolla
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYKirsten Tan
MUSICStathis Drogosis
EDITORYianna Dellatolla
ACTORSIoanna Tsasta, Christos Alexandrou, Angelos Niakas, Electra Maminaki, Theodora Loukas
TRAILERLINK
MOVIE-

SYNOPSIS

A 30 year-old woman in Athens aspires to become an adult while everything around her prevents her from gaining independence.


I’LL TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND I’ LL TELL YOU


DURATION 15’
YEAR2013
WRITER & DIRECTORAlexandros Chantzis
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYPantelis Mantzanas
MUSIC Christos Chantzis (akafausgd)
EDITORPanos Voutsaras
ACTORSLazaros Vartanis, Vangelis Zlatintsis, Michail Ikonomou
MOVIELINK

SYNOPSIS

July, Athens. One day Christos, a mini-market owner, notices a strange man who wears a winter jacket despite all the heat. Who is he and why Christos seems so worried?


MOTHER QUEEN


DURATION 12'
YEAR2013
WRITER & DIRECTORArtemis Anastasiadou
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYIrini Zevgoli
MUSICMonsieur Minimal, Christos Barbas
EDITORSpiros Kokkas
ACTORSHelena Passou, Evangeli Fili, Maria Tsitroudi
MOVIELINK

SYNOPSIS

Mother Queen is throwing a party for her son's birthday. She tries to control everything and everybody. But things don't go as planned. A short surreal film about power,control and ridicule.


ICEBERG


DURATION 19'
YEAR2012
DIRECTORKostas Gerampinis
WRITERSPavlos Methenitis, Kostas Gerampinis
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYGiannis Georgiou
MUSICPrehysterical Productions
EDITORGiannis Halkiadakis
ACTORSPavlos Iordanopoulos, Maria Skoula, Nikolas Papagiannis, Mihalis Sarantis, Meletis Georgiadis, Flavius Neagu, Evgenia Deliali
MOVIELINK

SYNOPSIS

19-year-old Stefanos is a passionate conspiracy theorist who applies his global perspective to his older brother’s recent drugs-related death. In an attempt to release his suffering he seeks revenge on the man he blames for his loss and enters a world that defies him.


OUT FACE


DURATION 6’
YEAR2014
WRITER & DIRECTORFanis Topsachalidis
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYFanis Topsachalidis
MUSICHaris Gatzoflias
EDITORFanis Topsachalidis
ACTORSVasilis Papadopoulos, Rodi Papadopoulou, Nikos Kourou, Ilias Manis, Paris Kousis, Haris Efraimidis
MOVIELINK

SYNOPSIS

In Greece of the economic recession families lose their houses as they can't pay their loans to the banks.

A special day is coming for the hero, the day they are going to foreclose his house.


BLND TRUST


DURATION 15’
YEAR2014
WRITER & DIRECTORDimitris Angelidis
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYOdisseas Toulis
MUSICVasilis Veliopoulos
EDITORKostas Akritidis, Odisseas Toulis
ACTORSLeonidas Kalfagiannis, Sofia Manoli , Stelios Kalaitzis
MOVIELINK

SYNOPSIS

Sofia is a blind by birth woman in a long term relationship with a young man Leonidas. He wants to marry Sofia and have a family with her, which she will only accept if she manages to be cured.


PRAY


DURATION 18’
YEAR2012
WRITER, DIRECTORThelyia Petraki
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYJan Vogel
MUSICMarietta Fafouti, Themis Teloglou
EDITORDimitris Tolios
ACTORSKaterina Mavrogeorgi, Agapitos Mandalios, Nikoleta Mastrogiannopoulou, Panayiotis Garbis, Katerina Pavlidaki, Vasilis Papadimitriou, Andreas Marianos, Filippos Filaitis
MOVIE LINK

SYNOPSIS

“Pray” describes that moment in life when someone realizes the world is far from perfect. The story is about a girl, who has been sentenced to be buried alive, but no one around her seems to care.


SUNDAY


DURATION 15’
YEAR2013
WRITER & DIRECTORVaggelis Serfas
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHY & EDITORGeorge Tampakakis
MUSICin the ghetto
EDITORYorgos Paterakis
ACTORS Pavlos Iordanopoulos, George Koutlis, Dimitris Bitos
TRAILER-
MOVIE-

SYNOPSIS

Aris and Vassilis are looking for “stuff” for their upcoming graduation party. An unexpected meeting will upset the balances. Who is the enemy? Who is the friend? A film of maturity set in summertime Salamina.


THE EXCEPTIONAL STORY OF JEREMY SWINDON


DURATION 15’
YEAR2011
DIRECTORPavlos Emmanouilidis
WRITERKonstantinos Papachristou
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYDimitris Belegrinis
MUSICApostolos Lymperopoulos
EDITORH. Karetsos
ACTORSMaximos Moumouris, Kostas Papakonstantinou
TRAILERLINK
MOVIE-

SYNOPSIS

Jeremy is lying bound in a dark basement, covered in blood and bruises. A strange mas has taken on the role of the investigator, trying to help him remember how he got there. In Jeremy's memories lies the dark truth. Jeremy is imprisoned in his remorse. Unless none of this has actually happened...


0619


DURATION 3'
YEAR2014
WRITER & DIRECTORMichalis Felanis
DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYMichalis Felanis
MUSICGeorge Grammozis, Yannis Pasakalidis
EDITORMichalis Felanis
ACTORSGeorge Kontominas
MOVIELINK

SYNOPSIS

A man of the bourgeoisie is indifferent to what is happening around him and the injustice that prevails. Since it does not affect him, he does not care and doesn’t want to get involved. But when injustice comes his way, there is no one to help him....