Comfortable Holidays, the newest function from Palestinian Filmmaker Scandar Copti, has taken the highest prize on the Thessaloniki Movie Competition in Greece.
Copti’s movie gained the Finest Characteristic Movie Award, which comes with a ten,000-euro money prize. Awarding the prize, the jury, headed by Sara Driver, praised the movie for “intricately weaving completely different narratives and views that absolutely expose the complexity of nationwide, gender and sophistication dynamics that may divide societies and for seeing the long run within the face of a younger girl the Golden Alexander goes to Comfortable Holidays by Scandar Copti.”
Comfortable Holidays debuted at this 12 months’s Venice Movie Competition. The story open after a minor accident units off a sequence of occasions, unraveling lies and unstated truths that sow division inside a multifaceted patriarchal society.
The competition’s Finest Director Award, which comes with a 5,000-euro money prize, was picked up Leonardo Van Dijl for Julie Retains Quiet. The movie follows Julie, a star participant at an elite tennis academy. When her coach falls beneath investigation and is out of the blue suspended, the entire membership’s gamers are inspired to talk up. However Julie decides to maintain quiet. The jury described the as a “highly effective however quiet psychological movie.”
“Superbly constructed, carried out and shot. The Silver Alexander for Finest Director goes to Leonardo van Dijl for Julie Retains Quiet,” the jury mentioned.
Elsewhere, Portuguese performer Joana Santos gained the Finest Actress Award for her function in On Falling by Laura Carreira.
Take a look at the total checklist of winners beneath.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AWARDS
The Worldwide Competitors part contains debut or sophomore movies of up-and-coming filmmakers.
The jury consists of:
Sara Driver (filmmaker and producer)
Denis Côté (filmmaker)
Konstantinos Kontovrakis (producer)
The Finest Characteristic Movie Award “Golden Alexander – Theo Angelopoulos”, accompanied by a ten,000-euro money prize, was bestowed to the movie:
Comfortable Holidays by Scandar Copti
Reasoning: For intricately weaving completely different narratives and views that absolutely expose the complexity of nationwide, gender and sophistication dynamics that may divide societies and for seeing the long run within the face of a younger girl the Golden Alexander goes to Comfortable Holidays by Scandar Copti.
The Competition’s Grand Sponsor, COSMOTE TV, helps the Finest Director Award “Silver Alexander”, which is accompanied by a 5,000-euro money prize and was bestowed to:
Leonardo Van Dijl for Julie Retains Quiet
Reasoning: It is a highly effective however quiet psychological movie. Superbly constructed, carried out and shot. The Silver Alexander for Finest Director goes to Leonardo van Dijl for Julie Retains Quiet.
The Finest Actor Award was bestowed to:
Mahmood Bakri for his efficiency in To a Land Unknown by Mahdi Fleifel
The Finest Actress Award was bestowed to:
Joana Santos for her function in On Falling by Laura Carreira
MEET THE NEIGHBORS+ AWARDS
Meet the Neighbors+ competitors part contains debut or sophomore movies from the 36 nations of Southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean and the Center East.
The jury consists of:
Manal Awad (actress)
Maryna Er Gorbach (filmmaker)
Vassilis Sourapas (distributor)
The Finest Characteristic Movie Award “Golden Alexander – Michel Demopoulos”, accompanied by a ten,000-euro money prize, was bestowed to the movie:
Vittoria by Alessandro Cassigoli & Casey Kauffman
Reasoning: It’s a shocking, shifting, progressive method to the very delicate topic of adoption that, catching us utterly off guard, introduced the viewers, and us, to tears.
The Finest Director Award “Silver Alexander”, accompanied by a 5,000-euro money prize, was bestowed to:
Laila Abbas for the movie Thank You for Banking With Us
Reasoning: The director manages to relate a feminine pushed story of on a regular basis life inside the constraints of the patriarchy and political state of affairs of Palestine with an intriguing tone and sudden parts of humor that skillfully play with viewers expectations.
The Finest Actor Award was bestowed to:
Volodymyr Kravchuk for his efficiency in U Are the Universe by Pavlo Ostrikov
Reasoning: For his excellent efficiency in a one man story trapped within the universe, he amazingly managed to take us into the journey of human expertise and love.
The Finest Actress Award was bestowed to:
Antonia Zegers for her function in The Exiles by Belén Funes
Reasoning: For her heat, eye-catching efficiency of a girl that energizes the story of a mom going through powerful selections and brings to the display convincingly a variety of feelings.
Particular Point out was bestowed to the actress:
Elvira Lara for her function in The Exiles by Belén Funes
Reasoning: For her highly effective portrayal of a younger woman balancing childhood and maturity, and for her capability to seize each innocence and resilience, we have a good time Elvira Lara and stay up for witnessing her continued expertise and brilliant future in cinema.
Particular Point out was bestowed to the whole solid of the movie:
Killerwood by Christos Massalas
Reasoning: For the collaborative spirit and presence of its solid in a group effort that buzzes with inventive power.
>>FILM FORWARD AWARDS
The Movie Ahead Worldwide Competitors Part presents the work of latest, daring filmmakers who problem our relationship with storytelling and aspire to renegotiate it by means of their debut or sophomore movies, past the boundaries of movie genres.
The jury consists of:
Mina Kavani (actress)
Lois Patiño (filmmaker)
Haris Vafeiadis (filmmaker)
The Best Characteristic Movie Award “Golden Alexander”, accompanied by a 8,000-euro money prize, was bestowed to the movie:
Common Language by Matthew Rankin
Reasoning: For an distinctive movie with a extremely unique concept that mixes occasions, areas and cultures, with a really distinctive cinematic language and humorousness.
The Finest Director Award “Silver Alexander”, accompanied by a 4,000-euro money prize, was bestowed to:
Noaz Deshe for the movie Xoftex
Reasoning: This film is the symphony of the chaos and intense every day lifetime of the immigrants within the jungle of a refugee camp, by means of a really highly effective cinematic language.
Particular Point out was bestowed to the movie:
Maldives by Daniel Bolda
IMMERSIVE: ALL AROUND CINEMA AWARDS
The competitors part “Immersive: All Round Cinema” embraces creations that make use of high-end applied sciences to current completely different views of prolonged actuality.
The jury consists of:
Arkaitz Basterra (producer, screenwriter, director and Investor’s Committee Member [Moby Dick Film Capital])
Ellen Kuo (Head of XR Market on the NewImages Competition)
Maria Mavropoulou (visible artist)
The Immersive: Throughout Cinema “Golden Alexander”, accompanied by a 2,000-euro money prize, was bestowed to the movie:
Play Life by Žilvinas Naujokas, Vilius Petrauskas, Mantas Pronckus, Donatas Ulvydas
Reasoning: The jury commends Play Life for its elegant simplicity and beautiful visible design. This immersive VR expertise fantastically brings Algis Kriščiūnas’ work to life, permitting viewers to step inside vibrant, dreamlike worlds. Its seamless mix of artwork and expertise creates a charming, meditative journey by means of mesmerizing imagery.
Particular Point out was bestowed to the movie:
Journey of Piraeus by Filippos Tsitos
PODCAST COMPETITION AWARDS
Seven Greek-speaking and three English-speaking podcasts participate within the Podcast Competitors part, competing for the Finest Podcast Award.
The jury consists of:
Maria Markouli (journalist, author and radio producer)
Yannis Nenes (journalist and radio producer)
Gregoris Rentis (movie director and producer)
The Finest Podcast Award, accompanied by a 2,000-euro money prize, was bestowed to the podcast:
Associates in Liminal Areas by Anastasia Sotiropoulos
Reasoning: Associates in Liminal Areas is the story of how the communication between two unknown folks in liminal circumstances evolves, resulting in an sudden friendship. The podcast touches upon morality points, whereas standing out for its narrative approach endowed with wealthy media parts.
Particular Mentions was bestowed to the podcast:
A Story Advised by the Mountains by MASH (Christos Kapenis & Katerina Anastasiou)
Reasoning: Α poetic and barely kooky story of the love between two mountains that performs out with scientific particulars of geology and chemistry, with poetry and creativeness. A podcast with a cheerful finish and an eco message.
MERMAID AWARD
The Mermaid Award is a prize for the perfect LGBTQIA+-themed movie from the official collection of the Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Competition. Mastercard helps the award with a financial prize of three,000 euros.
The jury consists of:
Sofia Rozaki (visible artist)
Gordon Spragg (PR and advertising and marketing advisor for unbiased cinema [WOLF consultants])
Yorgos Tsitiridis (journalist)
The Mermaid Award was bestowed to the movie:
All Shall Be Effectively by Ray Yeung
Reasoning: We want to thank the Thessaloniki Movie Competition for choosing us because the jury for such a big award. It’s a nice honor for us. Amongst many necessary and fascinating movies, we selected All Shall Be Effectively by Ray Yeung for its distinctive and skillful course, which pays explicit consideration to element, and for the heat and generosity with which it presents human relationships — particularly the bond between the 2 girls. Within the present context, our precedence is to focus on how fragile and much from assured elementary human rights might be. This movie is an indictment of patriarchy and deeply rooted homophobia, displaying how typically queer relationships are devalued as unequal or invalid. It reminds us that households fashioned by means of LGBTQI+ bonds are sometimes stronger than legally acknowledged organic relationships. Ending on a hopeful be aware, we need to emphasize what the title itself says — that in the long run, all shall be nicely.
SMART7 AWARD
Aiming to foster the transnational circulation of European titles, the Smart7 movie competition cooperation community incorporates a Competitors Part, presenting a collection of seven nationwide movies (one from every member nation). One movie will win the Smart7 Award, adopted by a prize of 5,000 euros. The community consists of the next movie festivals: New Horizons Worldwide Movie Competition (Poland), IndieLisboa Worldwide Movie Competition (Portugal), Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Competition (Greece), Transilvania Worldwide Movie Competition (Romania), FILMADRID Worldwide Movie Competition (Spain), Reykjavik Worldwide Movie Competition (Iceland), and Vilnius Worldwide Movie Competition Kino Pavasaris (Lithuania).
The Smart7 Award was bestowed to the movie:
It’s Not My Movie by Maria Zbąska
Reasoning: It’s Not My Movie is a shifting mix of romantic comedy and survival cinema, displaying a uncommon picture of mature love on the massive display. The movie’s stunning cinematography captures a pair’s journey to fix their relationship, with genuine dialogue and profound reflections. The characters confront nature as a metaphor for his or her internal conflicts, and although their makes an attempt are imperfect, they’re deeply touching. This movie stands out for its narrative simplicity, humour and highly effective visible type.
FOS AWARD
This 12 months, we’re delighted to welcome a newly established award, FOS powered by PPC. Actors and actresses making their movie debut, in a lead or supporting function, in a Greek full-length movie collaborating within the Competition’s official lineup, are competing for the award. Within the awards’ ceremony, two awards are bestowed, to an actress and an actor respectively, each accompanied by a 3,000-euro money prize.
The jury consists of:
Katerina Didaskalou (actress)
Renos Haralambidis (actor and movie director)
Giannis Tsortekis (actor)
The “FOS” Award for an actor making his debut in a lead or secondary function, in a Greek full-length movie, was bestowed to:
Yannis Karampampas for his efficiency in Wishbone by Penny Panagiotopoulou
Reasoning: For succeeding in respiration life, the story’s narrative and private testimony into his gaze.
The “FOS” Award for an actress making his debut in a lead or secondary function, in a Greek full-length movie, was bestowed ex aequo to:
Eva Samioti & Myrto Meitani-Kastrinaki for his or her performances in Riviera by Orfeas Peretzis
Reasoning: As a result of these uncommon instances do exist in cinema, the place the communication can change into so narrational, heart-wrenching and private, that awards ought to be shared.
ALPHA BANK ACCESSIBILITY AWARD
The Alpha Financial institution Accessibility Award is accompanied by a money prize of three,000 euros and is awarded to both a person or a movie that highlights accessibility points within the arts.
The Alpha Financial institution Accessibility Award was bestowed ex aequo to:
director Leonard Mink and actor Ben Kermer for the movie Tremolo
Reasoning: In Alpha Financial institution we place nice emphasis on the fitting for everybody to be an element, in essentially the most equal method potential, to the cultural lifetime of our nation. The truth that one out of 11 fellow residents of ours faces some sort of handicap renders the aim of common accessibility a prime social precedence, as on the finish of day, the deprivation of entry equals to the deprivation of freedom. To this finish, we’ve been working alongside the Competition since 2019, contributing to the internet hosting of universally accessible screenings. In 2022, we launched the Accessibility Award for movies that foreground accessibility points within the arts. This 12 months, we’re delighted to bestow the Accessibility Award to the medium-length German movie Tremolo directed by Leonard Mink. The movie unfolds the story of a deaf boy who, after a very long time, reunites together with his father, a musician who can’t converse signal language. In the midst of a protracted weekend, father and son understand that they do share a standard language, which is not any aside from music. Youngster protagonist, Ben Kermer, being deaf himself, provides to the real illustration of the challenges posed by bodily incapacity in on a regular basis life and in human relationships, because the film conveys a deep socially-sensitive message for the notions of acceptance and otherness.
HELLENIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION AWARDS
The First Prize of the Hellenic Broadcasting Company (ERT), a money prize of three,000 euros, might be given to the Greek movie that wins the award from the Jury of the Worldwide Federation of Movie Critics (FIPRESCI), the Second Prize, a money prize of two,000 euros, might be given to the Greek movie that may win a distinction on the AGORA Works in Progress, whereas since final 12 months a brand new Authentic Music Award has been launched, accompanied by a money prize of two,000 euros.
The jury of the Finest Authentic Music Award consists of:
Leonidas Antonopoulos (deputy director of the radio station KOSMOS 93.6)
Dimitris Nikoloudis (performer, music producer on the ΕRT3 radio programme)
Tassos Rossopoulos (composer, deputy director of the ERT Third Programme 90.9).
The Finest Authentic Music Award was bestowed to:
Yannis Veslemes for the music of the movie Maldives
Reasoning: ERT’s jury, bearing in mind the contribution to the movie’s narrative, the originality of the composition, in addition to the distinctive musical interpretation, bestows the Finest Authentic Music Award to a Greek movie celebrating its premiere on the Greek Movie Competition to Yannis Veslemes for the music of the movie Maldives directed by Daniel Bolda.
The ERT Award given to the Greek movie that wins the award from the Jury of the Worldwide Federation of Movie Critics (FIPRESCI) was bestowed to:
Riviera by Orfeas Peretzis
“HUMAN VALUES” AWARD OF THE HELLENIC PARLIAMENT
The Hellenic Parliament presents its “Human Values” award to an Worldwide Competitors
part movie.
The jury consists of:
Aris Fatouros (director and Program Marketing consultant on the Hellenic Parliament TV)
Vasilis Douvlis (Head of the Program Division on the Hellenic Parliament TV)
Kostas Dimos (Program Collaborator on the Hellenic Parliament TV)
The “Human Values” Award of the Hellenic Parliament was bestowed to:
Julie Retains Quiet by Leonardo van Dijl
Reasoning: The tv station of the Hellenic Parliament bestows the award “Human Values” to a movie that explores with mastery, narrative conciseness and highly effective interpretation the dilemma of a teen gifted tennis participant referred to as to deal with her private trauma and break her deafening silence, within the shadow of the suicide dedicated by a feminine fellow athlete and the sending-off of their coach. The award is bestowed to the movie Julie Retains Quiet by Leonardo van Dijl.
HELLENIC FILM AND AUDIOVISUAL CENTER – CREATIVE GREECE AWARDS
The Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle – Artistic Greece will award two prizes within the sixty fifth Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Competition. Extra particularly, the awards are the next: The Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle – Artistic Greece Award, accompanied by a 5,000 euros money prize, granted to a debutant director, in a Greek manufacturing having its premiere within the official choice (“First Run”) and the Finest Location Award, accompanied by a 1,500 euros prize, bestowed by the Hellenic Movie Fee of the Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle – Artistic Greece, to a location supervisor (or a director in case of no location supervisor within the movie) of a movie by a debutant director in a Greek manufacturing premiering on the official choice.
The jury consists of:
Yanna Sarri (Director of the Division of Promotion, Hellas Movie, Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle – Artistic Greece)
Zoe Kandyla (Growth & Manufacturing Director, Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle – Artistic Greece)
Dimitris Bouras (movie critic, Press Workplace of the Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle – Artistic Greece)
The Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle – Artistic Greece Award to a debutant director, in a Greek manufacturing having its premiere within the official choice, was bestowed to:
Kostis Charamountanis for the movie Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish
Reasoning: Kostis Charamountanis’ course interweaves a wide range of miscellaneous expressive parts with boldness and explorative spirit, attaining a coherent and distinctive cinematic language. Vividness, humour and tenderness foreground the movie’s themes across the transition to grownup life and household with a way of originality.
The Finest Location Award of the Hellenic Movie Fee of the Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle – Artistic Greece was bestowed to:
Marios Dimopoulos & Niki Saliagopoulou for the movie Riviera by Orfeas Peretzis
Reasoning: With the Location Award we want to honor the rising specialty, a minimum of for Greek requirements, of location managers. With expertise and perceptiveness, location managers contribute to the precision of the difference of the script on display, and the detection of the director’s imaginative and prescient. Ιn this spirit, and bearing in mind the narrative and inventive use of places, the 2024 Location Award is bestowed by the directorate of the Hellenic Movie Fee of the Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle – Artistic Greece to Marios Dimopoulos, location supervisor of the movie Riviera by Orfeas Peretzis. The chosen location is a key character of the story, aptly reflecting the alterations within the psyche of the heroes. From the protection of recollections supplied by a decayed pansion all the way in which to the expectation of a greater future that nests within the development websites of a neighborhood with a grocery store serving as the principle sq., the film succeeds in tracing in each shot features, views and feelings, whereas displaying a exceptional minimality of areas. At all times beneath the gaze of an ever-watchful sick palm tree.
J.F. COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION AWARD
The J.F. Costopoulos Basis, on the event of its fortieth anniversary, instituted in 2019 The J.F. Costopoulos Basis Award within the context of the Thessaloniki Movie Competition. The prize might be awarded to a movie from the Greek program choice, holding its premiere on the Competition. The movie ought to current a complete proposition, promote the artwork of cinema and exhibit its affinities with the opposite types of artwork.
The jury consists of:
Betty Kaklamanidou (Professor on the Aristotle College of Thessaloniki)
Vassilis Douvlis (filmmaker)
Pantelis Mantzanas (cinematographer)
The J.F. Costopoulos Basis Award was bestowed to the movie:
Arcadia by Yorgos Zois
Reasoning: This 12 months’s J.F. Costopoulos Basis Award is unanimously bestowed to the movie Arcadia directed by Yorgos Zois. Inserting the common theme of loss and grief at its narrative core, Arcadia stood out for its real interpretations, aesthetic thoroughness and directorial dexterity, whereas crafting a singular world within the borderline between the actual and the imaginary.
FINOS FILM AWARD
For yet one more 12 months, Finos Movie bestows an award on the Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Competition, distinguishing a Greek movie that premieres on the Greek Movie Competition part.
The jury consists of:
Barbara Dukas (Director, Head of DISFF Pitching Lab)
Christina Ioakeimidi (filmmaker)
Iasonas Triantafyllidis (journalist)
The Finos Movie Award was bestowed to the movie:
Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish by Kostis Charamountanis
Reasoning: The Award is bestowed to a filmmaker gifted with a particular private gaze. Via many particulars, he foregrounds in a singular method the relations and the dynamics between the three members of a household that struggles to deal with a standard trauma, aided by the excellent performances of the actors. Enhancing, cinematography and narrative tempo painting summer time in a vividly sensuous method, by means of an experimental method, whereas the movie oozes a way of dream and freedom.
THE FIPRESCI AWARDS
The Worldwide Federation of Movie Critics (FIPRESCI), comprising distinguished movie critics, presents two awards: to the perfect movie of the Worldwide Competitors part and to
the perfect Greek movie that has its premiere on the Competition.
The jury consists of:
Senem Erdine
Manuel Halpern
Yannis Zoumboulakis
The FIPRESCI Award to the perfect Worldwide Competitors movie was bestowed to:
Arcadia by Yorgos Zois
Reasoning: Cleverly incorporating a metaphysical thought, a thoughts recreation, Arcadia takes on a humanistic dimension by speaking about ideas like loss, guilt and repentance, aptly, comprehensively and with a satisfying cinematic look.
The FIPRESCI Award to the perfect Greek movie that has its premiere on the Competition was bestowed to:
Riviera by Orfeas Peretzis
Reasoning: For its aesthetic accuracy, wealthy metaphors, and the irony of a personality trying to repair or discover her place in a specific world.
GREEK ASSOCIATION OF FILM CRITICS (PEKK) AWARD
The Greek Affiliation of Movie Critics (PEKK) awards, as yearly, the Finest Greek Movie screened within the official collection of the sixty fifth Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Competition.
The PEKK Award was bestowed to the movie:
Meat by Dimitris Nakos
Reasoning: For its composed directorial and scriptwriting method in coping with the subject of latest Greek boondocks, the Greek Affiliation of Movie Critics bestows the Finest Greek Movie Award to the movie Meat by Dimitris Nakos.
WIFT GR AWARD
The WIFT GR Award is offered by the Greek Chapter of WIFT (Ladies in Movie & Tv) to a movie from the Worldwide Competitors, Meet the Neighbors+ or >>Movie Ahead Competitors for the perfect girl’s contribution and presence in entrance or behind the digital camera.
The jury consists of:
Niovi Anazikou (journalist, documentary filmmaker and WIFT GR Vice President)
Mary Kolonia (screenwriter, director, producer and WIFT GR Secretary Normal)
Mirella Legakis (economist, Greek Federation of Cinema Golf equipment Board Member and WIFT GR Board Member)
The WIFT GR Award was bestowed to the movie:
Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero
Reasoning: WIFT GR awards the prize to the movie Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero, which sheds mild on the socio-political realities of the Dominican Republic. The movie is spectacular in its technical excellence, because the course, cinematography, enhancing and sound design compose an environment of social realism and lyricism. Via the story of a pregnant teenager, the director explores social inequality, heritage and identification, highlighting the extra challenges because of gender in addition to the empowerment of girls. Sugar Island feedback on human and gender-based inequality, inviting the viewer to a dialogue on modern social challenges and the worth of life.
CREW UNITED AWARD
The Crew United, consisting of a 5-year free Premium Membership within the Crew United platform, was bestowed to:
Dimitris Nakos for the movie Meat
Reasoning: The sharpness with which the director approached the drama of a household within the Greek countryside and the insightful look with which he revealed the pathogenesis within the relationships between them, but in addition inside the context of the broader neighborhood, made us determine that the Crew United award to a director of a Greek manufacturing from the competitors sections of the Competition, goes to the director Dimitris Nakos for the movie Meat.
YOUTH JURY AWARDS BY THE STUDENTS OF THE THESSALONIKI UNIVERSITIES
The Youth Jury includes college students of the Faculty of Movie of the Aristotle College of Thessaloniki, and can current the Finest Movie Award and the Particular Jury Award. Eligible for these awards are Greek movies premiering on the Greek Movie Competition.
Youth Jury supervisor: Apostolos Karakasis (Assistant Professor in Movie and Tv Principle & Historical past, Aristotle College of Thessaloniki)
The jury consists of:
Dimos Ganas
Angeliki Dekavala
Angelos-Manolis Spartakos
Andreas Sotiriadis
Silva Tsoumana.
The Finest Movie Award of the Youth Jury was bestowed to:
Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish by Kostis Charamountanis
Reasoning: The Youth Jury of AUTh’s School of Fantastic Arts Movie Faculty bestows its Finest Movie Award to the movie Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish by Kostis Charamountanis. For the way in which he unfolds a narrative we are able to connect with in a resourceful and recent method, guided by the distinctive enhancing type that converses with the viewer and the characters of the movie. The filmmaker, by means of his distinct directorial gaze, touches upon points equivalent to inclusivity, loneliness and household trauma. In tandem with the movie’s cinematography and music, the filmmaker crafts a singular aesthetic harking back to a summer time, but in addition a reminder as to how harsh actuality can get.
The Particular Youth Jury Award was bestowed to:
Meat by Dimitris Nakos
Reasoning: The Youth Jury of AUTh’s School of Fantastic Arts Movie Faculty bestows a Particular Point out to the movie Meat by Dimitris Nakos. For making very best use of the thriller style conventions that includes anti-heroes, because the occasions preserve you in fixed alert. The music enriches handily the agricultural panorama of the movie’s universe and the actors’ performances sweep you away, whereas the framing and the directorial method keep a sustained feeling of pleasure. The movie mirrors Greek society, addressing themes equivalent to the dearth of accountability, poisonous masculinity, exploitation of minorities and the prevalence of private curiosity over human relationships.
FISCHER AUDIENCE AWARDS
Fischer, the official sponsor of the Competition’s Viewers Awards for the final decade, will give 5 prizes to movies which have their first public screening in Greece on the Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Competition and collect essentially the most optimistic votes from the viewers: 4 prizes might be awarded to worldwide productions from the Competition’s Official Program (the Worldwide Competitors, Meet the Neighbors+, Movie Ahead, and Official Choice sections) premiering in Greece, in addition to the “Michalis Cacoyannis” award to a Greek movie premiering on the Competition.
Fischer Viewers Award – Worldwide Competitors:
To a Land Unknown by Mahdi Fleifel
Fischer Viewers Award – Meet the Neighbors+:
The Mohican by Frederic Farucci
Fischer Viewers Award – >>Movie Ahead:
Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish by Kostis Charamountanis
Fischer Viewers Award – Official Choice:
Ghostlight by Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan
Fischer Viewers Award “Michael Cacoyannis” – Greek Movie Competition:
Wishbone by Penny Panagiotopoulou
AGORA AWARDS
Earlier inside the week, the Agora Awards of the sixty fifth Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Competition have been bestowed. Making use of all accessible instruments and the brand new applied sciences, the Competition’s Agora showcased a brand new sequence of actions, supporting profitable initiatives carried out each in bodily areas and on-line. This 12 months’s Agora was topped with nice success, as almost 650 guests attended its occasions.
The Crew United Award was offered by Venia Vergou and Iris Asimakopoulou from Crew United and was bestowed to:
Vasilis Zlatanos
The reasoning: “The Crew United Prize, inside the framework of the programme Meet the Way forward for Agora, is awarded to a movie composer who confirmed to us the right way to elevate the affect of a movie scene together with his music composition, to the best degree and on prime of magnificent performing performances. And it goes to Vasilis Zlatanos”.
The winner receives a 5-year Premium membership subscription on Crew United, the main on-line networking platform.
The newly established Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra Award was bestowed to:
John Konsolakis
A committee headed by Simos Papanas, Creative Director of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, and comprised by Antonis Sousamoglou and Miltos Logiadis grant a singular award, giving the chance to a younger composer among the many individuals to document their subsequent cinematic work with the TSSO.
The reasoning of the jury: “The distinctive Symphonic Movie Music Award established this 12 months by the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki inside the framework of the Thessaloniki Movie Competition, goals to advertise the creation of movie music for symphony orchestras. In contrast to different music awards, that is the one one on this planet that focuses on Symphonic Movie Scoring and can present the winner with the infrastructure to professionally document the symphonic a part of their subsequent movie’s soundtrack. This 12 months, the prize is bestowed on a pilot foundation to one of many Greek composers taking part in Meet the Future, whereas from 2025 our aim is to change into worldwide and current this award to movies taking part within the AGORA Work In Progress part of the Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Competition. You will need to point out that such a recording carries vital prices and thus, composers are sometimes deterred from participating a symphonic orchestra. TSSO will supply human sources, venues, technical gear, and moreover as much as 20,000 euros for the assorted prices of the recording course of. We’re completely happy to announce the Symphonic Movie Music Award of TSSO for 2024 is awarded to John Konsolakis!”
CROSSROADS CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARDS
Two Thirty-5 (2|35) Award – Submit-production(picture and sound) was bestowed to:
THE HUNCHBACK
Director: Ahu Ozturk, Manufacturing: Pinar Aydin-Leyla Movie, Türkiye
The reasoning of the jury: “The award goes to the venture that portrays two girls who lived by means of loss, abandonment and delusion so actually rendered that we immersed ourselves utterly into their lives”.
The 8,000-euro award for script improvement bestowed by CNC-Centre nationwide du cinéma et de l’picture animée:
The reasoning of the jury: “The award goes to the venture and a group who translate the absurdity of their very own life expertise right into a biting, poetic and humorous journey from ‘to make use of their very own phrases’ third world to top notch”. The award goes to:
Director: Rakan Mayasi, Manufacturing: Could Odeh, Zorana Musikic – Mayana Movies, Co-production: Abdallah Al Ramahi, Palestine, Germany, Jordan
The Greener Display Award providing session on sustainability practices earlier than and in the course of the movie capturing is bestowed ex aequo:
THE HUNCHBACK
Director: Ahu Ozturk, Manufacturing: Pinar Aydin – Leyla Movie, Türkiye
and
THE APPALLING HUMAN VOICE OF THE ANIMALS
Director: Neritan Zinxhiria, Manufacturing: Efijeni Kokedhima – Reconstructing Reminiscences, Greece
The reasoning: “We, at Greener Display, are thrilled to current this consultancy award to not one, however two excellent movies. Initially, this award was meant for a single venture, however the distinctive dedication demonstrated by these two movies made it clear that each deserved recognition. This award celebrates their motive to environmental duty and their dedication to pushing boundaries in pursuit of a extra sustainable planet inside the movie trade. We’re excited to collaborate with them on their sustainability journey for a greener trade one scene at a time”.
The Greener Display Consultancy Award comes with a prize equaling to €7,000 alongside a tailor-made inexperienced manufacturing plan for the profitable venture, digital coaching for the eco-manager on this plan, steady assist for the eco-manager throughout manufacturing alongside elective “Greener Script” consultancy periods for the author, director, and producer.
The ArteKino Worldwide Award with a money prize of 6,000 euros, was bestowed to:
FOG
Director: Denis Spiridonov, Manufacturing: Katia Khazak – Aurora Movies, Co-production: Vanya Rainova – Portokal, France, Bulgaria
The reasoning: “We had the possibility to satisfy 15 inspiring tasks. I want to thank and encourage all the administrators and producers right here and in addition the Agora group who did nice work. ARTE has determined to reward a venture by a really promising director whose life has been impacted by current political occasions in his nation each as a citizen and as an artist. The principle character of this primary function movie is caught on this actuality and faces very powerful selections however will determine to face by his rules until the top. We have been impressed by the standard of the script and by the sensitivity and willpower of the creator who’s accompanied by a wonderful producer”.
The Finos Movie 3,000-euro award was granted to a Greek venture.
The reasoning of the jury: “The award goes to the venture that touched us with its emotional depth and the readability of the imaginative and prescient utilizing her character’s gaze to disclose what’s backstage”.
WAKE (AGRYPNIA)
Director: Thelyia Petraki, Manufacturing: Kostas Tagalakis – Out of the Field Movies, Co-production: Iraklis Mavroidis, Nikos Smpiliris – Boo Productions, Greece
The Producer’s Community Accreditation to subsequent 12 months’s Cannes Marché du Movie was awarded to:
Producer Ares Sporta for the venture
Director: Kaltrina Krasniqi, Manufacturing: Ares Shporta – Vera Movies, Co-production: Dream Manufacturing unit Macedonia, Code Blue Manufacturing, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Montenegro
The reasoning: “The award goes to the venture that explores class and gender inequalities perpetrated by girls”.
The Mediterranean Movie Institute Award – Script 2 Movie Workshop Scholarship was awarded to the movie:
THE PASSPORT
Director: Rakan Mayasi, Manufacturing: Could Odeh, Zorana Musikic – Mayana Movies, Co-production: Abdallah Al Ramahi, Palestine, Germany, Jordan
The reasoning of the jury: A ghost is haunting Europe, laughing within the face of darkness.
The MIDPOINT CONSULTING AWARD was bestowed to:
THE SIDE EFFECTS OF TRUSTING LIFE
Director: Ahmad Ghossein, Manufacturing: Georges Schoucair – Abbout Productions, Co-production: Twenty Twenty Imaginative and prescient Filmproduktion, DUOfilm, Lebanon
The reasoning: “The award goes to the venture the place the fixed sequence of disasters plaguing a rustic turns the mechanism of survival into a giant snicker”.
The EAVE THESSALONIKI Award – Advertising Scholarship was granted to:
Konstantinos Koukoulis for African Gray
The reasoning: “The cooperation between Crossroads Co-production Discussion board and EAVE to supply a scholarship for the EAVE 2025 Advertising Workshop is supposed to offer a chance for a deep dive into movie advertising and marketing and worldwide publicity for an upcoming producer. This rising producer’s robust motivation, power and willpower, has satisfied us that he’ll take advantage of out of this chance for worldwide publicity albeit working from the fringes of the Greek periphery as he’s primarily based on the great island of Lesvos…”
ONASSIS FILM AWARD
The Onassis Movie Award – with a cash-prize of 10,000 euros – was granted to a Greek venture taking part within the Agora’s Crossroads Co-production Discussion board part for this 12 months.
The reasoning: “The Onassis Movie Award goes to a venture that redefines a beloved style and guarantees a satisfying cinematic story with a shocking protagonist. A venture which reveals that generally concepts for movies might be discovered as simply as knocking on our neighbor’s door.”
The award goes to the movie:
AFRICAN GREY
Director: Yorgos Gousis, Manufacturing: Konstantinos Koukoulis – Plankton, Greece
AGORA WORKS IN PROGRESS AWARDS
Authorwave Submit-Manufacturing Award – Artistic Companies
The reasoning: “The distinctive type, rebellious characters and necessary story convincingly mirrored the uncompromising character displayed by the movie and its group.”
The Authorwave post-production Artistic Companies award goes to:
BEARCAVE
Administrators/Scriptwriters: Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna Papadakis, Manufacturing: Emily Sky Hickin – PUCCI Productions, Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna Papadakis, Arsinoi Pilou, Thanasis Michalopoulos – Pameligo Collective, Greece, United Kingdom
119 Marvila Studios Award – Sound mixing providers
The reasoning: “This venture is a shifting portrayal of modern-day Turkey by means of the lense of a household drama that tackles common present affairs with tenderness and humor.”
The 119 Marvilla Studio Award goes to:
LIFELIKE
Director: Ali Vatansever, Manufacturing: Selin Vatansever Tezcan, Oya Özden Özdemir – Terminal Movie, Aytun Aktan Bahçeci – Aktan Görsel Sanatlar, Co-production: Antigoni Rota – Foss Productions, Turkey, Greece
The ERT Agora Works in Progress Award with a money prize of two,000 eurosis given to a Greek venture.
The reasoning: “The presentation and clips we noticed satisfied us that this movie can supply romance, suspense, quirky humor and, above all, a playful glimpse behind the scenes of the standard martial arts world.”
The ERT Award of two,000 euros goes to:
PATTY IS SUCH A GIRLY NAME
Director: Giorgos Georgopoulos, Producer: Stefanos Koutsardakis – Chaotic Good Productions, Co-production: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos – Faliro Home Productions, Fenia Cossovitsa – Blonde Productions, Greece
