Greece: Invited Country

In partnership with the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Centre and with support from the Greek Embassy in Portugal, Nebulae welcomes Greece as this year’s Invited Country. The programme includes project presentations, one-on-one meetings and encounters between invited professionals. The collaboration also features a round table on the prospects for co-production between Greece, Portugal and the Mediterranean, bringing together producers and representatives from film institutions in the participating countries.

Selected Projects

4 pm to 5 pm

by Yorgos Teltzidis

Production: Vassilis Panagiotakopoulos (Onassis Culture, Greece), Christos Sarris (Foss Productions, Greece)
Estimated length: 90’

A portrait of legendary Greek radio producer Giannis Petridis through his vast music collection. As his private archive becomes public, fans’ letters and memories reveal his lasting impact on Greek music culture and the man behind the myth.

Echoes of the Ancestors (Vouí ton Progónon)

by Andreas Siadimas

Production: Andreas Siadimas (Dangerous Productions, Greece)
Estimated length: 90’

The Greek-French actor Georges Corraface returns to his family home following the death of his parents. He is confronted with the tangible and intangible world they left behind, on an existential journey through loss, identity, legacy and the fragile bond between generations.

The Empire (I Aftokratoría)

by Dimitra Babadima

Production: Dimitra Babadima (Good Attitude, Greece), Ioanna Davi (Indigo View, Greece)
Estimated length: 75’

The documentary follows my father, Yiannis Babadimas, a retired bank manager, marxist and hoarder of discarded objects. Forced to empty his storerooms, he plans to burn his Empire until an unexpected encounter gives it new purpose.

K.

by Panagiotis Papafragkos

Production: Stelios Mavrodontis (Dog Star Films, Greece), Evolution Films (Czech Republic), EYE Filmmuseum – Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Estimated length: 90’

K. returns to the 1970s Sadská Clinic in Czechoslovakia, where Dr. Hausner led over 3,000 LSD sessions. Through Hana K., his most difficult patient, and her bond with poet Karel Šebek, the film enters a fragile world of trauma, love and psychedelia.

My Grandma’s Sister (I Aderfi Tis Giagias Mou)

by Eleni Kavouki

Production: Antonis Korkontzilas (ABCinema, Greece), Alexis Anastasiadis (Frenel, Greece), Christine Tsakmaka (asterisk*, Greece), Luli Bitri (LeArt Production, Albania)
Estimated length: 90’

Summer of 1948. As the Civil War rages in Greece, in a small village in Thessaly, sixteen-year-old Artemis Bita is recruited abruptly by a group of guerrillas. Seventy-five years later, her story unfolds between three countries and three generations.

Searching for Thule (Quaestio Thules)

by Yannis Karpouzis

Production: Tasos Koronakis (Laika Productions, Greece), Marina Danezi (Firnindi Films, Iceland)
Estimated length: 75’

In search of mythical Thule, a scholar retraces the journey of the Greek explorer Pytheas and his Celtic navigators from Marseilles to the frozen North. Bringing histories from Europe’s margins to the fore, the film radically reimagines its origins.