Zange
Best Short Fiction
Iris Baglanea
Greece,
Fiction,
Modern Greek (1453-),
00:16:15
A family of four lives isolated by a salt marsh, guarding a lighthouse. The children play freely, untouched by fear—chasing waves, hunting crabs, turning the lighthouse beam into a game. But their innocence falters as they grapple with nature’s cycles: their father’s impending death and their mother’s impending pregnancy. Life and death, arriving in swift succession, force them into adolescence. Childhood dreams twist into nightmares, soothed only by each other’s presence.
Film block:
FICTION / ON CHILDHOOD AND INNOCENCE
Screening:
Palace of Culture Pernik, Hall 1
- Language Modern Greek (1453-)
- Country Greece
- Genre Fiction
- Cinematographer Konstantinos Koukoulios
- Scriptwriter Iris Baglanea
- Producer Annabelle Aronis, Helene Stergiopoulou
- Music Elena Kakaliagkou, Ingrid Schmoliner
- Editor Thodoris Armaos
- Cast Ektoras Mammasis, Eleni Trigka, Roza Prodromou, Thodoris Korozis
- Year of creation 2024
- Duration 00:16:15
Iris Baglanea is a director and a performer. Zange is her second short after Goads, which has screened at many festivals worldwide and received various awards. She is currently preparing her first feature film Achinos, for which she received the Onassis Film Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival Crossroads 2022. She is alumna of ARTWORKS by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2021) and the Los Angeles GFF Discovery Days (2023). As an artist, she is interested in the liberating power of trauma as a manifestation of the human nature and how can it be rendered in the moving image.
More films FICTION / ON CHILDHOOD AND INNOCENCE
-
-
-
The Sea in Between
Lun Sevnik Slovenia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Fiction, 00:14:30 -
Bright summer days
Nevena Desivojevic Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Fiction, Serbian, 00:14:00 -
-
