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Poster BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS
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BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS

Writer-director: ASIMINA PROEDROU

Drama / Thriller

Northern Greece. A middle-aged fisherman is trafficking immigrants to pay the tax authorities for a petty fraud he once committed. Soon he becomes trapped in a deadly game between the local mafia, his conscience and the duty to his family.

BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS - Official Trailer

Status: US Premiere @ Palm Springs IFF 2024

Writer-director: ASIMINA PROEDROU

CNC Development Award & Initiative Film Services Award @ Cross Roads Co-Production Forum 2016, Development supported by MEDIA Program 2017, Production Support by Greek Film Centre 2018 and Eurimages 2020.

In Coproduction with Argonauts Productions (GR) and Sektor Film (MK) and in co-production with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel in collaboration with Arte

Distributors:

Greece TANWEER

World Sales:

TVCO

News:

Press:

Festivals:

  • Cyprus Film Days IFF
  • San Francisco Greek Film Festival
  • Palm Springs IFF 2024
  • Kinenova International Film Festival 2023
  • Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers Film Festival 2023
  • Tirana International Film Festival 2023
  • Oldenburg International Film Festival 2023 – German Premiere
  • Galway Film Fleath 2023
  • Sydney Film Festival 2023
  • 53rd International Film Festival of India, Goa 2022
  • 63rd Thessaloniki IFF 2022 – Greek Premiere

Awards, Nominations & Selections:

@ San Francisco Greek Film Festival 2024

🏆 Best Narrative Feature Film Award

@ International Casting Directors Association (ICDA)

Nominated for the Casting Semiramis Awards 2023

@ IRIS Awards 2023 by Hellenic Film Academy / 17 Nominations & 10 Awards

  • 🏆 Best Film – Ioanna Bolomyti, Markus Halberschmidt, Vladimir Anastasov and Angela Nestorovska
  • 🏆 Best Directing – Asimina Proedrou
  • 🏆 Best Debut Director – Asimina Proedrou
  • 🏆 Best Script – Asimina Proedrou
  • 🏆 Best Leading Actor – Stathis Stamoulakatos
  • 🏆 Best Supporting Actress – Dina Mihailidou
  • 🏆 Best Supporting Actor – Christos Kontogeorgis
  • 🏆 Best Cinematography – Simon Sarketzis
  • 🏆 Best Editing – Elektra Venaki
  • 🏆 Best Sound – Nikos Papadimitriou, Electra Venaki, Persephoni Miliou and Costas Varybopiotis

@ 53rd International Film Festival of India, Goa (2022)

  • 🏆 Best Debut Feature Film Award

@ 63rd Thessaloniki IFF (2022) / 6 Awards

  • 🏆 Greek Film Centre Award for Best Debut (director)
  • 🏆 Greek Film Centre Award for Best Location
  • 🏆 Special Mention in Meet the Neighbours competition section
  • 🏆 FIPRESCI Award for a Greek Film that premieres at Thessaloniki IFF
  • 🏆 Greek Association of Film Critics Award for Best Film
  • 🏆 Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) Award for Best Film

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CUCKOO

by TILMAN SINGER

Mystery Thriller / Horror

On a trip to the German Alps with her father and stepmother, Gretchen (Hunter Schafer from HBO’s “EUPHORIA”) discovers that the resort town where they’re staying hides sinister secrets, as she’s plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.

CUCKOO - Official Trailer

Status: US Premiere @ SXSW 2024

Writer & Director: TILMAN SINGER

After his award-winning graduation film “Luz”, KHM graduate Tilman Singer wrote and directed his first feature film “Cuckoo”.

Financed by NEON / Pre- and Production Support by Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, Production Support by HessenFilm und Medien and DFFF

In collaboration with Josh Rosenbaum and Ken Kao (WAYPOINT Entertainment) and Thor Bradwell.

Distributors:

Germany Weltkino Filmverleih / US & CA NEON Rated

Press:

Festivals:

  • Lichterfest Frankfurt – Hesse Premiere
  • Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival – Belgium Premiere
  • Overlook Film Festival – Opening Film
  • SXSW 2024 – US Premiere
  • Berlinale Special Gala – World Premiere
Poster THE MAN FROM ROME
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THE MAN FROM ROME

Writer-director: JAAP VAN HEUSDEN

Drama / Thriller

Filippo is an unusual mixture of detective, scientist, and priest. He comes to a small Dutch town, send by the Vatican to investigate, and probably debunk, a miraculous statue of the virgin Mary. Little does he know that he’ll find a grieving community that won’t allow him to take away their miracle. And an enigmatic, mute young woman – helps to crack down Filippo’s certainties about his calling as a priest and as human being.

THE MAN FROM ROME - Official Trailer

Status: International Premiere Tallinn Black Nights FF on Nov. 10th 2023

Writer-director: JAAP VAN HEUSDEN Co-writer: ROGIER DE BLOK

Production supported by Netherlands Film Fund, Film Fund Limburg, COBO Fund, Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, DFFF and Eurimages.

In Coproduction with IJswater Films NL, co-financed by Magic Media Production GmbH

Distributors:

Benelux Gusto Entertainment , Germany missingFILMs

World Sales:

Patra Spanou Film

Awards, Nominations & Selections:

@ Nederlands Film Festival (2023)

Dutch Film Awards “Golden Calf” 2023 – Best Music for Minco Eggersman

@ Limburg Film Festival (2023)

  • 🏆 Best Feature Film Award

Festivals

  • Tallinn Black Nights International Film Festival 2023
  • Netherlands Film Festival 2023
  • Limburg Film Festival 2023
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MAYA

by TONIA MISHIALI

Fantasy, Drama

Rebellious psychiatrist Maya visits her parents’ isolated mountain village for the first time since birth, to sell the family house, only to enter a patriarchal microcosm complete with superstitions, fears and fables of goblins in the woods. She is soon led to big discoveries about the myths, her parents, but also about herself.

Status: Development

Writers: Tonia Mishiali, Andreas Kyriacou, Frixos Masouras

In Co-Production with BARK LIKE A CAT FILMS (CY), HIVE DIVISION (IT), and COWTOWN PICTURES (IE)

Selected @ European Genre Forum 2023