FOREVER
[GIA PANTA]
by Margarita Manda
Greece 2014 87 min. original version with English subtitles
sat 21 nov 6:00 pm Murnau Filmtheater
German premiere
Script: Margarita Manda, DoP: Kostas Gikas, Editor: Aggela Despotidou, Production: Faliro House, Producers: Kostas Kefalas, Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Costas Lambropoulos, Margarita Manda, Cast: Anna Mascha, Kostas Filippoglou
Costas is an engine driver. Anna is a passenger who takes the same train to work every day. Costas and Anna are two lonely people living in Athens. Costas is secretly in love with Anna. She has no idea – until the day when Costas decides to approach Anna and to reach out to life and love. At first, Anna resists, but in the end she decides to surrender to her own need for ever-lasting love.
"I wanted to make an elegy on silence; on time which is defined by silence. And I wanted to do this by going back to cinematic forms that don’t make images out of stories, but rather seek out the stories that exist within the images themselves." (Margarita Manda)
Biography: Margarita Manda, born in Athens/Greece, studied Political Science and French Literature at the Kapodistrian University of Athens, and is also a graduate in Film Direction from the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. She has worked as assistant director for many Greek filmmakers and for Theo Angelopoulos on the films: ULYSSES’ GAZE, ETERNITY AND A DAY, THE WEEPING MEADOW and THE DUST OF TIME. She has written and directed feature and short fiction films, medium- and feature-length documentaries, videos for stage productions, and corporate videos. In 2004, she worked for the video department of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens Olympic Games, filming scenes of the city preparing for the Olympics.
Filmography (selection): 2002 FYLAKES TOU HRONOU, 2004 NEA ODYSSOS, TO HORIO TOU NEROU, 2009 HRYSOSKONI, 2014 FOREVER
Awards: Silver Pyramid Award for Best Director (Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt 2014), Best Cinematography (Hellenic Film Academy Awards, Greece 2015)
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