Agora Market Manual 2010

Film Market51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010 - Agora/Market ManualMontevideo as a metaphor for our condition. – And our conditionis urgent. –While we try to pull ourselves out, we remaininside, waiting patiently. – And we are working with all we’vegot. –Yes, we’d like – to be far away, – in Montevideo. Perhapswe are already there –181Montevideo 60’KINE, Greece, 2010KINEPAPADOPOULOU Phaedrakinekine16@yahoo.gr+30 210 383 8493In 1974 the Turkish army invaded Cyprus and occupied its Northernpart. Cypriot-Greek and Turkish troops confronted eachother on the “green line”. At one point of this so called, “frontier”confusion is caused on both sides by a slight noise in the quietof the night…229No Man’s Land 16’TOFARIDES Kyriacos, Cyprus, 1996AVRA PRODUCTIONSTOFARIDES Kyriacosavrafilm@gmail.com+357 99 550 514Crossroads Participants Previous WorksTwo groups of friends facing death. And life. A boy and a girlfacing love. And its defeat. Everyone moving with excessivespeed. In the streets of a city that rejects them. In a countrythey do not consider their own. Three days at the edge of thecity. Three days to realize that love is the only homeland.190Nobody 95’NIKOLERIS Christos, Greece, 2010N-OrasisEXINTARIS Yannismail@n-orasis.gr+30 2310 425880Athens, Plato’s Academy district. Stavros owns a tobacco storein a small quiet junction. His wife has left him and refuses tocome back. His mother has already had a stroke and he musttake care of her 24/7. One day, an Albanian, recognises Stavros’smother as his own long-lost mother.203Plato’s Academy 104’TSITOS Filippos, Greece, Germany, 2009PAN Entertainment S.A.DRANDAKI Mariadrandaki@pan.com.gr+30 210 698 5050Balkan Fund Participants Previous WorksHow well do we know each other? A gas-station attendant, alonely young man, a young woman, a gay couple, a pregnantwoman and a doctor, who may or may not know each other,all have an acquaintance in common, who connects them in afatal way.187Positive Stories 70’STATHOPOULOS Haris, PAPATHANASSIS Dimitris, ANJUS Dimitris, TOTSIKAS Thanassis,BAVELLAS Dimitris, Greece, 2010T-ShortPAPADIMITRIOU Lambriniinfo@t-short.gr+30 210 346 101889