End of August
17’, short fiction, Greece/Cyprus, 2023
That summer, Amelia will discover her mother's secret love affair, refusing to believe what she saw, she will run away from home with Epaminondas, her first love. They will live an adventure, testing themselves and everyone they meet along the way, ending up at the end of the night as children again in the arms of their parents.
Written and directed by Angelika Katsa
Produced by Leonidas Konstantarakos & Stavros Petropoulos
Coproduced by Alaska Films, Felony Film, Ready2Cast, Rentphotovideo, GFC & ERT
Cinematography by Yorgos Koutsaliaris
Edited by Stamos Dimitropoulos
Microbiome
26’, short documentary, Greece, 2021
The limits of intrusion in the peaceful lifes of the local folk in the island of Ikaria are being tested in a group of scientists' quest to find the secret for long and healthy life. A clash of energies between locals and perplexed scientists, leaving no stone unturned, in an attempt to understand frozen time and intriguing idiosyncrasies. A comedic study in pacing and reframing a world view.
Written and directed by Stavros Petropoulos
Produced by Leonidas Konstantarakos & Stavros Petropoulos
Coproduced by Alaska Films & CLEO (Collaborative Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Outcomes Research)
Cinematography by Yiannis Kanakis
Edited by Stamos Dimitropoulos
Original music by Dimitris Patsaros
Panellinion
80’, documentary, Greece, in post-production, estimated delivery 2023
Panellinion is an out-of-place-and-time chess coffeehouse in the center of Athens; a refuge for people who suffocate in everyday life, who despise and fail to adapt in the conditions of modern life. Giannis, the owner of the traditional coffee-house, hates chess and views chess players as creeps. On the other hand he looks upon the regulars as his children:Scientists, artists, retirees, workers who seek outlet and consolation -or obsession that ruined their lives- in chess, make confessions, recall old stories of legendary eccentric customers with tears in their eyes, roister, drink and sing.
Written and directed by Kostas Antarachas & Spyros Mantzavinos
Produced by Leonidas Konstantarakos
Coproduced by Alaska Films & ERT
With the support of the Greek Film Center
Cinematography by Yorgos Koutsaliaris
Edited by Dimitris Polyzos
Magnifier
80’, documentary, Greece, in production, estimated delivery 2024
Life with someone suffering from Alzheimer’s disease resembles the slow motion crumbling of a building. The - sometimes momentary - loss of one's face is stretched through time and it occurs as its gradual denudation, where it parts with levels of itself until there’s only the core: a naked feeling without any memory which could constitute the essence of oneself - free from all the conditioned elements that we acquire through our lives.Thekla’s documentary “Enlarger”, places this character denudation course in filmic time. Having begun filming since the first diagnosis of her mother’s disease, she uses her lens to observe a gradual transformation that blurs the lines between familiar and unfamiliar. The camera’s mission is not an unpainful one. The act of filming is a familiarisation ritual, a way to keep the director in a relationship that is constantly transforming in ways that could block her out. Well aware of the chances to be excluded, she manages to turn her desire to keep their relationship alive into a filmic language.
Written and directed by Thekla Malamou
Produced by Leonidas Konstantarakos & Thekla Malamou
Produced by Alaska Films
With the support of the Greek Film Center
Cinematography by Thekla Malamou
Edited by Ioanna Pogiantzi
Gramvoussa
25’, short fiction, Greece/France, in development, estimated delivery 2024
Gramvoussa is a seaside village on the coastline of Crete, well-established for its pirate history. Among its enchanting landscapes, bountiful tourist attractions and large hotel units is Manos, a local resident and owner of a small, family-led B&B called "Gramvoussa - the Pirates Land". It is at the end of the tourist season, just before winter kicks in, that a three-member Swedish family visits the island and find accommodation at Manos'. They ask Mano and Tasso, his teenage son, to tour them around famous sites of pirate legends. Soon enough, however, they will ask for more than just a guided tour; they will request a real pirate experience. Obliging to their request, Manos and his son will launch on a game of re-enactment. To simulate the pirate experience, they will design kidnappings, use threats, actively exert physical and psychological violence, with the Swedish family wilfully always assuming the roles of victims. As the game evolves, it increasingly excites and rapidly escalates to all the more daring re-enactments. Tassos’ observation of his estranged father having assumed the role he's been assigned, meanwhile, widens the gap between them. But the final and most daring request will cross the line, and Tassos will step in to pursue a conflict that might just succeed in reducing the distance between him and his father.
Directed by Stavros Petropoulos
Written by Yorgos Teltzidis
Produced by Leonidas Konstantarakos
Coproduced by Alaska Films (GR), Yukunkun (FR), Onassis Stegi (GR), GFC (GR)
Cinematography by Yiannis Kanakis
Edited by Stamos Dimitropoulos
Homes
35’, documentary, Greece, 2019
10 site-specific shows and performances examine the traumatic experience of forceful displacement, the violent loss of one’s “home” and the sense of belonging. The film follows the artists through Athens and the port of Piraeus where they create notional “shared spaces” on the borderline between fiction and reality.
Written & Directed by Leonidas Konstantarakos & Stavros Petropoulos
Produced by Leonidas Konstantarakos & Stavros Petropoulos
Coproduced by Alaska Films & Onassis Cultural Centre
Cinematography by Iason Arvanitakis
Edited by Giorgos Zafeiris
X Apartments
52’, documentary, Greece, 2018
X Apartments. Fifteen apartments, two routes in two – forgotten – neighborhoods of Athens, two spectators. A documentary about a transmedial, group documentary performance from the Onassis Cultural Centre and the questions it raises. We follow the audience and we converse with them, the curators, the artists and the residents of the apartments searching for the boundaries between art and reality, private and public space, voyeurism and intimacy.
Written & Directed by Leonidas Konstantarakos
Produced by Leonidas Konstantarakos & Stavros Petropoulos
Coproduced by Alaska Films & Onassis Cultural Centre
Cinematography by Iason Arvanitakis
Edited by Giorgos Zafeiris
I am a Dancer
72’, documentary, Greece, 2018
Four persons with different disabilities come in contact with contemporary dance in a series of workshops for mixed groups of different-aged non-professional and professional dancers with or without disabilities, organized by the Onassis Cultural Centre in the context of the European programme Unlimited Access. Under the two-year guidance of Greek choreographers, they experiment with movement, discover their potentials and contribute to the creation of three pieces for the International "Unlimited Access" Dance Festival, thus expanding art’s boundaries and the expressive capacities of the human body.
Written & Directed by Stavros Petropoulos
Produced by Leonidas Konstantarakos & Stavros Petropoulos
Coproduced by Alaska Films & Onassis Cultural Centre
Cinematography by Yiannis Kanakis
Edited by Giorgos Zafeiris