INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SECTION
Starts on Thursday 28/11 at ΤΡΙΑΝΟΝ cinema –The Full Program
The International Competition Section of this year’s Festival starts on Thursday 28/11 at 20.15, at Trianon Cinema with Vassilis Mazomenos’ new film “Exile” in the presence of the director.
This year’s films in competition will be judged and awarded by the 4 juries of the 32nd Panorama of European Cinema.
The awards will be announced on the closing ceremony on Wednesday 4/12 at Trianon Cinema.
AWARDS
FIPRESCI Award - Theodoros Angelopoulos
By The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Jury which consists of:
Alena Sycheva (Russia), Τasos Goudelis (Greece) & Vecdi Sayar (Τurkey)
PEKK Award
By The Greek Film Critics Association Jury which consists of:
Dimitris Koliodimos, Gerasimos Vakros, Theodoros Soumas
Panorama Award
By this year’s Panorama Jury which consist of:
Stathis Valoukos (writer-screenwriter), Antonis Boskoitis (filmmaker –journalist), Elissavet Chronopoulou (director – writer –screenwriter)
ATHINORAMA Award
By the Magazine’s Audience – Readers Jury
The 10 films in the International Competition Section are the following:
(In alphabetical order)
ΑΛΥΤΗ (ENTWINED) (2019) | Greece | 89’
Monday 2/12 at 20.30
Director: Minos Nikolakakis | Sales: Inkas Films & Minos Nikolakakis
Panos is a young doctor who leaves city life behind him in order to offer his services in a remote village. There, he falls in love with a peasant girl, Danae, who lives in complete isolation, as she suffers from a rare condition that causes her skin to resemble tree bark. Determined to cure her Panos will soon discover that things are not quite what they seem.
Η ΑΝΑΚΡΙΣΗ (THE INTERROGATION) (2019) | Greece | 80’
Sunday 1/12 at 19.45
Director: Panayiotis Portokalakis | Sales: Viewmaster Films
When an aggressive young girl realizes that the relationship with her father is poisoning her behavior, discouraging anyone who is trying to love her, she decides to search out the past of her tortured by the military junta father.
ΕΞΟΡΙΑ (EXILE) (2019) | Greece | 110’
Thursday 28/11 at 20.15
Director: Vassilis Mazomenos | Sales: Horme Pictures
Aris, a desperate man, attempts to leave Greece with an almost wrecked boat. After being rescued from certain drowning by some Coast Guard men, he now returns as a foreigner to his own ruined country. There he experiences every kind of «sin» and extreme as an outcast of the system. He steals; he becomes a slave and kills. He tries, willingly, to survive off the beaten track. Is this the story of a modern Ulysses or the nightmare of an ordinary man?
AJVAR (2019) | Serbia,Montenegro | 107’
Sunday 1/12 at 21.30
Director: Ana Maria Rossi | Sales: Biberche productions
Vida and Bane, a married couple, have been living in Scandinavia for a long time. They both have successful careers, enough money to live a decent life, but they do not have children. Now that they are 40, the couple’s reality is nostalgia and the lack of communication.
LIVING AND KNOWING YOU’RE ALIVE (Être vivant et le savoir) (2019) | France | 98’
Tuesday 3/12 at 19.45
Director: Alain Cavalier | Sales: Pathé Distribution
Alain Cavalier and Emmanuèle Bernheim start preparing a film based on the novelist’s autobiography which touches on her relationship with her father following a cardiovascular accident.
I WILL CROSS TOMORROW (2019) |
Netherlands, Luxembourg, Greece, France, | 90’
Thursday 28/11 at 22.30
Director: Sepideh Farsi | Sales: Cine-Sud Promotion & Pan Entertainment
Maria is a Greek policewoman, struggling with her money problems, teenage daughter, old mother and the crisis in her country, that affects her professionally. Yussof is a Syrian rebel, on his way out of a war-ridden Syria to go to Europe. Both have killed unwontedly, both feel guilty, but together, they will find some inner peace.
GHOST TROPIC (2019) | Belgium, Netherlands | 85’
Saturday 30/11 at 20.00
Director: Bas Devos | Sales: Rediance Films
After a long day at work, a woman falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot. On her nocturnal journey she will meet some other inhabitants of the night.
MY THOUGHTS ARE SILENT (Moi dumki tikhi) (2019) | Ukraine | 104’
Monday 2/12 at 22.20
Director: Antonio Lukich | Sales: Alief
Vadim is twenty-two and he’s a sound engineer. He’s moving permanently to Canada in three months. Before his departure he’s assigned to record the voice of a very rare bird, which dwells only in the Transcarpathian mountains of Ukraine.
PASSED BY CENSOR (2019) | Turkey,Germany, France, | 96’
Friday 29/11 at 20.30
Director: Serhat Karaaslan | Sales: Bac Films
An employee of a prison censorship office steals the photo of an inmate’s wife from a letter and becomes obsessed with her.
STITCHES (2019) | Serbia | 105’
Friday 29/11 at 22.15
Director: Miroslav Terzic | Sales: Cercamon
The film tells the story of a woman who, 20 years after she was coldly informed of her newborn’s sudden death, still believes that the infant was stolen from her.
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