Manodopera

First Prize for the Best Short Film

Down the lower-ground floor, as seasons go by, an Albanian worker and an upper-class young man renovate a flat. High on the rooftop, as nightfalls go by, the young man and his friends reflect on their existence.

Main Festivals & Awards

Locarno Film Festival, Pardi di Domani (2016)
Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile (2016)
Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Brazil (2016)
Tirana International Film Festival, Albania (2016)
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece (2016)
Transcinema, International Film Festival, Lima (2016)

Janela Int. de Cinema do Recife, Brazil - Best Sound Award
Short to the Point, Romania - Best Narrative Short Film

Director's Biography

Born in 1985 in Athens. Both greek and french, he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, Famu in Prague, and Le Fresnoy in Lille. His short films was screened and was awarded in several international Film Festivals, while his last short Manodopera was premiered in Locarno Film Festival 2016 in the international competition Pardi di Domani, and New Directors / New Films in New York. Based on Manodopera, he's currently preparing his first feature No gods, No Masters, a twisted, class-related melodrama of endless demolition and renovation work, between reality and fantasy, in an Athens flat.