in NONOICHI

"Greek Animation"

Saturday, 5th November, at 15:00 - 16:30

(1) My stuffed Granny

Directed by Effie Pappa,
2014, 10:00 / stop motion, puppets

GR-GB Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more?

(2) Man in a box

Directed by Il. Papastamatiou,
2012, 4:36 / stop motion, Claymation

A figure pops up out of a piece of clay, but is unable to get released. It desperately seeks to find ways to get cut off from this piece of clay which confines it. Freedom is close ...

(3) My mother's coat.

Directed by Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits,
2010, 6:06 / 2D

This film is about my Italian mother and her confessions about life in Greece. Based on an interview that I did with her about motherhood, she talks to me about her arrival in post-dictatorship Athens in the 70’s, her struggle to adjust to the Greek mentality, her memories and nostalgia of motherhood, but also her long lasting desire to move back to her small hometown in Italy.

(4) 11

Directed by Lena Stamatopoulou,
2014, 3:35 / 2D

A little girl unable to conform to society.

(5) The Gullible Kiss of Mister Patokos

Directed by Alexandros Apostolakis,
2014, 5:11 / 2D

The film discusses the phenomenon of love at the subjective level. The self is the basis of history and thereby the character experiences this phenomenon again and again in a spiral flow pattern.