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Behind the Haystacks by Asimina Proedrou will have its German Premiere in Competition of the Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg!
05/09/23
Oldenburg we are coming!
Screenings will be
Friday 15 Sep, 7pm @ Cine k/Muvi
Saturday 16 Sep, 2:30pm @ Cine k/Studio
Behind the Haystacks is among the 5 films nominated for the 2023 CASTING SEMIRAMIS AWARD, by the International Casting Directors Association – ICDA.
29/08/23
Congratulation and fingers crossed for the amazing casting directors Sotiria Marini, Sofia Dimopoulou, Akis Gourzoulidis and Fragiskos Xidianos who are nominated for the 2023 SEMIRAMIS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CASTING
We are honoured to be selected alongside HOLY SPIDER by Ali Abbasi, IM WESTEN NICHTS NEUES by Edward Berger, CINEMA SABAYA by Orit Fouks Rotem and I AM ZLATAN by Jens Sjögren.
The European Film Academy selected BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS for European Film Awards 2023 together with 18 other feature films.
16/08/2023
We are all so excited and honoured that the Behind the Haystacks (Πίσω από τις Θημωνιές) by Asimina Proedrou, is among the 19 films which have been selected for the first round of the European Film Academy’s European Film Awards Feature Film Selection 2023.
The Academy members will vote for the selected films to choose the nominees of the 36th European Film Awards, in the categories: European Film, European Director, European Actor *, European Actress ** and European Screenwriter
Behind the Haystacks, as part of the Feature Film Selection 2023, will also be considered for the European Excellence Awards in the categories(there are no nominations for these categories): Cinematography (Simos Sarketzis), Editing (Electra Venaki), Production Design (Edouardos Georgiou), Costume Design (Kiki Miliou), Make up & Hair (Dora Nazou), Original Score (Marios Strofalis), Sound (Nikos Papadimitriou, Elektra Venaki, Persefoni Miliou, Kostas Varympopiotis) and Visual Effects (Antonis Kotzias).
On 7th of November 2023 we will find out if we make it to the final round.
BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS receives 10 Greek Film Awards, while Asimina Proedrou has been honoured with 3 IRIS Awards, 7 more went to the amazing Cast & Crew!
28/05/2023
And we called it a Night! Thank you to the members of the Hellenic Film Academy!
🏆🏆🏆 for Asimina Proedrou for BEST DIRECTING, BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR, and BEST SCRIPT
🏆 BEST FEATURE went to Ioanna Bolomyti, Markus Halberschmidt, Vladimir Anastasov and Angela Nestorovska
🏆 Stathis Stamoulakatos for BEST LEADING ACTOR
🏆 Dina Mihailidou for BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
🏆 Christos Kontogeorgis for BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
🏆 for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY went to Simon Sarketzis
🏆 Elektra Venaki for BEST EDITING
🏆 for BEST SOUND shared by Nikos Papadimitriou, Electra Venaki, Persephoni Miliou and Costas Varybopiotis
Asimina Proedrou is selected with BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS for the EUROPE! VOICES OF WOMEN IN FILM programmes’s eighth edition, curated by European Film Promotion.
10/05/2023
The program shines a light on exceptional women filmmakers, amplifying their voices in an industry burdened by gender disparity, said Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley.
The selected films are: Band by Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir (Iceland), Behind the Haystacks by Asimina Proedrou (Greece, Germany, North Macedonia), Elaha by Milena Aboyan (Germany), Family Time by Tia Kouvo (Finland, Sweden), The Girl from Tomorrow by Marta Savina (Italy, France), The Quiet Migration by Malene Choi (Denmark), Smoke Sauna Sisterhood by Anna Hints (Estonia, France, Iceland), Sunlight by Claire Dix (Ireland), That Afternoon by Nafiss Nia (The Netherlands) and Thunder by Carmen Jaquier (Switzerland).