‘Completely happy Holidays’ By Scandar Copti Takes Prime Prize At Thessaloniki

Reasoning: In Alpha Financial institution we place nice emphasis on the appropriate for everybody to be a component, in probably the most equal means attainable, to the cultural lifetime of our nation. The truth that one out of 11 fellow residents of ours faces some form of handicap renders the objective of common accessibility a prime social precedence, as on the finish of day, the deprivation of entry equals to the deprivation of freedom. To this finish, we’ve got been working alongside the Pageant since 2019, contributing to the internet hosting of universally accessible screenings. In 2022, we launched the Accessibility Award for movies that foreground accessibility points within the arts. This 12 months, we’re delighted to bestow the Accessibility Award to the medium-length German movie Tremolo directed by Leonard Mink. The movie unfolds the story of a deaf boy who, after a very long time, reunites along with his father, a musician who can’t communicate signal language. In the middle of a protracted weekend, father and son notice that they do share a standard language, which isn’t any aside from music. Youngster protagonist, Ben Kermer, being deaf himself, provides to the real illustration of the challenges posed by bodily incapacity in on a regular basis life and in human relationships, because the film conveys a deep socially-sensitive message for the notions of acceptance and otherness.

HELLENIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION AWARDS

The First Prize of the Hellenic Broadcasting Company (ERT), a money prize of three,000 euros, can be given to the Greek movie that wins the award from the Jury of the Worldwide Federation of Movie Critics (FIPRESCI), the Second Prize, a money prize of two,000 euros, can be given to the Greek movie that may win a distinction on the AGORA Works in Progress, whereas since final 12 months a brand new Unique Music Award has been launched, accompanied by a money prize of two,000 euros.

The jury of the Greatest Unique Music Award consists of:

Leonidas Antonopoulos (deputy director of the radio station KOSMOS 93.6)

Dimitris Nikoloudis (performer, music producer on the ΕRT3 radio programme)

Tassos Rossopoulos (composer, deputy director of the ERT Third Programme 90.9).

The Greatest Unique Music Award was bestowed to:

Yannis Veslemes for the music of the movie Maldives

Reasoning: ERT’s jury, bearing in mind the contribution to the movie’s narrative, the originality of the composition, in addition to the distinctive musical interpretation, bestows the Greatest Unique Music Award to a Greek movie celebrating its premiere on the Greek Movie Pageant to Yannis Veslemes for the music of the movie Maldives directed by Daniel Bolda.

The  ERT Award given to the Greek movie that wins the award from the Jury of the Worldwide Federation of Movie Critics (FIPRESCI) was bestowed to:

Riviera by Orfeas Peretzis

“HUMAN VALUES” AWARD OF THE HELLENIC PARLIAMENT

The Hellenic Parliament presents its “Human Values” award to an Worldwide Competitors

part movie.

The jury consists of: 

Aris Fatouros (director and Program Guide on the Hellenic Parliament TV)

Vasilis Douvlis (Head of the Program Division on the Hellenic Parliament TV)

Kostas Dimos (Program Collaborator on the Hellenic Parliament TV)

The “Human Values” Award of the Hellenic Parliament was bestowed to:

Julie Retains Quiet by Leonardo van Dijl

Reasoning: The tv station of the Hellenic Parliament bestows the award “Human Values” to a movie that explores with mastery, narrative conciseness and highly effective interpretation the dilemma of a young person proficient tennis participant referred to as to deal with her private trauma and break her deafening silence, within the shadow of the suicide dedicated by a feminine fellow athlete and the sending-off of their coach. The award is bestowed to the movie Julie Retains Quiet by Leonardo van Dijl.

HELLENIC FILM AND AUDIOVISUAL CENTER – CREATIVE GREECE AWARDS

The Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Heart – Artistic Greece will award two prizes within the sixty fifth Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Pageant. Extra particularly, the awards are the next: The Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Heart – Artistic Greece Award, accompanied by a 5,000 euros money prize, granted to a debutant director, in a Greek manufacturing having its premiere within the official choice (“First Run”) and the Greatest Location Award, accompanied by a 1,500 euros prize, bestowed by the Hellenic Movie Fee of the Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Heart – Artistic Greece, to a location supervisor (or a director in case of no location supervisor within the movie) of a movie by a debutant director in a Greek manufacturing premiering on the official choice.

The jury consists of:

Yanna Sarri (Director of the Division of Promotion, Hellas Movie, Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Heart – Artistic Greece)

Zoe Kandyla (Growth & Manufacturing Director, Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Heart – Artistic Greece)

Dimitris Bouras (movie critic, Press Workplace of the Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Heart – Artistic Greece)

The Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Heart – Artistic Greece Award to a debutant director, in a Greek manufacturing having its premiere within the official choice, was bestowed to:

Kostis Charamountanis for the movie Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish

Reasoning: Kostis Charamountanis’ path interweaves quite a lot of miscellaneous expressive parts with boldness and explorative spirit, attaining a coherent and distinctive cinematic language. Vividness, humour and tenderness foreground the movie’s themes across the transition to grownup life and household with a way of originality.

The Greatest Location Award of the Hellenic Movie Fee of the Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Heart – Artistic Greece was bestowed to:

Marios Dimopoulos & Niki Saliagopoulou for the movie Riviera by Orfeas Peretzis

Reasoning: With the Location Award we want to honor the rising specialty, at the least for Greek requirements, of location managers. With expertise and perceptiveness, location managers contribute to the precision of the difference of the script on display, and the detection of the director’s imaginative and prescient. Ιn this spirit, and bearing in mind the narrative and artistic use of areas, the 2024 Location Award is bestowed by the directorate of the Hellenic Movie Fee of the Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Heart – Artistic Greece to Marios Dimopoulos, location supervisor of the movie Riviera by Orfeas Peretzis. The chosen location is a key character of the story, aptly reflecting the alterations within the psyche of the heroes. From the security of reminiscences supplied by a decayed pansion all the best way to the expectation of a greater future that nests within the development websites of a neighborhood with a grocery store serving as the principle sq., the film succeeds in tracing in each shot elements, views and feelings, whereas displaying a outstanding minimality of areas. All the time below the gaze of an ever-watchful sick palm tree.

J.F. COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION AWARD

The J.F. Costopoulos Basis, on the event of its fortieth anniversary, instituted in 2019 The J.F. Costopoulos Basis Award within the context of the Thessaloniki Movie Pageant. The prize can be awarded to a movie from the Greek program choice, holding its premiere on the Pageant. The movie ought to current a complete proposition, promote the artwork of cinema and exhibit its affinities with the opposite types of artwork.

The jury consists of:

Betty Kaklamanidou (Professor on the Aristotle College of Thessaloniki)

Vassilis Douvlis (filmmaker)

Pantelis Mantzanas (cinematographer)

The J.F. Costopoulos Basis Award was bestowed to the movie:

Arcadia by Yorgos Zois

Reasoning: This 12 months’s J.F. Costopoulos Basis Award is unanimously bestowed to the movie Arcadia directed by Yorgos Zois. Inserting the common theme of loss and grief at its narrative core, Arcadia stood out for its real interpretations, aesthetic thoroughness and directorial dexterity, whereas crafting a novel world within the borderline between the true and the imaginary.

FINOS FILM AWARD

For one more 12 months, Finos Movie bestows an award on the Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Pageant, distinguishing a Greek movie that premieres on the Greek Movie Pageant part.

The jury consists of:

Barbara Dukas (Director, Head of DISFF Pitching Lab)

Christina Ioakeimidi (filmmaker)

Iasonas Triantafyllidis (journalist)

The Finos Movie Award was bestowed to the movie:

Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish by Kostis Charamountanis

Reasoning: The Award is bestowed to a filmmaker gifted with a particular private gaze. Via many particulars, he foregrounds in a novel means the relations and the dynamics between the three members of a household that struggles to deal with a standard trauma, aided by the excellent performances of the actors. Modifying, cinematography and narrative tempo painting summer season in a vividly sensuous means, via an experimental method, whereas the movie oozes a way of dream and freedom.

THE FIPRESCI AWARDS

The Worldwide Federation of Movie Critics (FIPRESCI), comprising distinguished movie critics, presents two awards: to the very best movie of the Worldwide Competitors part and to

the very best Greek movie that has its premiere on the Pageant.

The jury consists of:

Senem Erdine

Manuel Halpern

Yannis Zoumboulakis

The FIPRESCI Award to the very best Worldwide Competitors movie was bestowed to:

Arcadia by Yorgos Zois

Reasoning: Cleverly incorporating a metaphysical thought, a thoughts recreation, Arcadia takes on a humanistic dimension by speaking about ideas like loss, guilt and repentance, aptly, comprehensively and with a satisfying cinematic look.

The FIPRESCI Award to the very best Greek movie that has its premiere on the Pageant was bestowed to:

Riviera by Orfeas Peretzis

Reasoning: For its aesthetic accuracy, wealthy metaphors, and the irony of a personality trying to repair or discover her place in a specific world.

GREEK ASSOCIATION OF FILM CRITICS (PEKK) AWARD

The Greek Affiliation of Movie Critics (PEKK) awards, as yearly, the Greatest Greek Movie screened within the official number of the sixty fifth Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Pageant.

The PEKK Award was bestowed to the movie:

Meat by Dimitris Nakos

Reasoning: For its composed directorial and scriptwriting method in coping with the subject of up to date Greek boondocks, the Greek Affiliation of Movie Critics bestows the Greatest Greek Movie Award to the movie Meat by Dimitris Nakos.

WIFT GR AWARD

The WIFT GR Award is offered by the Greek Chapter of WIFT (Girls in Movie & Tv) to a movie from the Worldwide Competitors, Meet the Neighbors+ or >>Movie Ahead Competitors for the very best girl’s contribution and presence in entrance or behind the digicam.

The jury consists of:

Niovi Anazikou (journalist, documentary filmmaker and WIFT GR Vice President)

Mary Kolonia (screenwriter, director, producer and WIFT GR Secretary Basic)

Mirella Legakis (economist, Greek Federation of Cinema Golf equipment Board Member and WIFT GR Board Member)

The WIFT GR Award was bestowed to the movie:

Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero

Reasoning: WIFT GR awards the prize to the movie Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero, which sheds gentle on the socio-political realities of the Dominican Republic. The movie is spectacular in its technical excellence, because the path, cinematography, modifying and sound design compose an environment of social realism and lyricism. Via the story of a pregnant teenager, the director explores social inequality, heritage and identification, highlighting the extra challenges because of gender in addition to the empowerment of girls. Sugar Island feedback on human and gender-based inequality, inviting the viewer to a dialogue on up to date social challenges and the worth of life.

CREW UNITED AWARD

The Crew United, consisting of a 5-year free Premium Membership within the Crew United platform, was bestowed to:

Dimitris Nakos for the movie Meat

Reasoning: The sharpness with which the director approached the drama of a household within the Greek countryside and the insightful look with which he revealed the pathogenesis within the relationships between them, but additionally throughout the context of the broader group, made us determine that the Crew United award to a director of a Greek manufacturing from the competitors sections of the Pageant, goes to the director Dimitris Nakos for the movie Meat.

YOUTH JURY AWARDS BY THE STUDENTS OF THE THESSALONIKI UNIVERSITIES

​​The Youth Jury includes college students of the College of Movie of the Aristotle College of Thessaloniki, and can current the Greatest Movie Award and the Particular Jury Award. Eligible for these awards are Greek movies premiering on the Greek Movie Pageant.

Youth Jury supervisor: Apostolos Karakasis (Assistant Professor in Movie and Tv Idea & Historical past, Aristotle College of Thessaloniki)

The jury consists of:

Dimos Ganas

Angeliki Dekavala

Angelos-Manolis Spartakos

Andreas Sotiriadis

Silva Tsoumana.

The Greatest Movie Award of the Youth Jury was bestowed to:

Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish by Kostis Charamountanis

Reasoning: The Youth Jury of AUTh’s College of High-quality Arts Movie College bestows its Greatest Movie Award to the movie Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish by Kostis Charamountanis. For the best way he unfolds a narrative we will hook up with in a resourceful and recent means, guided by the distinctive modifying type that converses with the viewer and the characters of the movie. The filmmaker, via his distinct directorial gaze, touches upon points corresponding to inclusivity, loneliness and household trauma. In tandem with the movie’s cinematography and music, the filmmaker crafts a novel aesthetic harking back to a summer season, but additionally a reminder as to how harsh actuality can get.

The Particular Youth Jury Award was bestowed to:

Meat by Dimitris Nakos

Reasoning: The Youth Jury of AUTh’s College of High-quality Arts Movie College bestows a Particular Point out to the movie Meat by Dimitris Nakos. For making perfect use of the thriller style conventions that includes anti-heroes, because the occasions maintain you in fixed alert. The music enriches handily the agricultural panorama of the movie’s universe and  the actors’ performances sweep you away, whereas the framing and the directorial method keep a sustained feeling of pleasure. The movie mirrors Greek society, addressing themes corresponding to the shortage of accountability, poisonous masculinity, exploitation of minorities and the prevalence of private curiosity over human relationships.

FISCHER AUDIENCE AWARDS

Fischer, the official sponsor of the Pageant’s Viewers Awards for the final decade, will give 5 prizes to movies which have their first public screening in Greece on the Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Pageant and collect probably the most optimistic votes from the viewers: 4 prizes can be awarded to worldwide productions from the Pageant’s Official Program (the Worldwide Competitors, Meet the Neighbors+, Movie Ahead, and Official Choice sections) premiering in Greece, in addition to the “Michalis Cacoyannis” award to a Greek movie premiering on the Pageant.

Fischer Viewers Award – Worldwide Competitors:

To a Land Unknown by Mahdi Fleifel

Fischer Viewers Award – Meet the Neighbors+:

The Mohican by Frederic Farucci

Fischer Viewers Award – >>Movie Ahead:

Kyuka Earlier than Summer time’s Finish by Kostis Charamountanis

Fischer Viewers Award – Official Choice:

Ghostlight by Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan

Fischer Viewers Award “Michael Cacoyannis” – Greek Movie Pageant:

Wishbone by Penny Panagiotopoulou

AGORA AWARDS

Earlier throughout the week, the Agora Awards of the sixty fifth Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Pageant had been bestowed. Making use of all out there instruments and the brand new applied sciences, the Pageant’s Agora showcased a brand new sequence of actions, supporting profitable initiatives carried out each in bodily areas and on-line. This 12 months’s Agora was topped with nice success, as almost 650 guests attended its occasions.

The Crew United Award was offered by Venia Vergou and Iris Asimakopoulou from Crew United and was bestowed to:

Vasilis Zlatanos

The reasoning: “The Crew United Prize, throughout the framework of the programme Meet the Way forward for Agora, is awarded to a movie composer who confirmed to us methods to elevate the affect of a movie scene along with his music composition, to the best degree and on prime of magnificent appearing performances. And it goes to Vasilis Zlatanos”.

The winner receives a 5-year Premium membership subscription on Crew United, the main on-line networking platform.

The newly established Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra Award was bestowed to:

John Konsolakis

A committee headed by Simos Papanas, Creative Director of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, and comprised by Antonis Sousamoglou and Miltos Logiadis grant a novel award, giving the chance to a younger composer among the many members to report their subsequent cinematic work with the TSSO.

The reasoning of the jury: “The distinctive Symphonic Movie Music Award established this 12 months by the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki throughout the framework of the Thessaloniki Movie Pageant, goals to advertise the creation of movie music for symphony orchestras. Not like different music awards, that is the one one on this planet that makes a speciality of Symphonic Movie Scoring and can present the winner with the infrastructure to professionally report the symphonic a part of their subsequent movie’s soundtrack. This 12 months, the prize is bestowed on a pilot foundation to one of many Greek composers taking part in Meet the Future, whereas from 2025 our objective is to grow to be worldwide and current this award to movies taking part within the AGORA Work In Progress part of the Thessaloniki Worldwide Movie Pageant. It is very important point out that such a recording carries vital prices and thus, composers are sometimes deterred from participating a symphonic orchestra. TSSO will supply human sources, venues, technical tools, and moreover as much as 20,000 euros for the varied prices of the recording course of. We’re glad to announce the Symphonic Movie Music Award of TSSO for 2024 is awarded to John Konsolakis!”

CROSSROADS CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARDS

Two Thirty-5 (2|35) Award – Submit-production(picture and sound) was bestowed to:

The reasoning of the jury: “The award goes to the venture that portrays two ladies who lived via loss, abandonment and delusion so truthfully rendered that we immersed ourselves utterly into their lives”.

The reasoning of the jury: “The award goes to the venture and a group who translate the absurdity of their very own life expertise right into a biting, poetic and humorous journey from ‘to make use of their very own phrases’ third world to top quality”. The award goes to:

PASSPORT

The ArteKino Worldwide Award with a money prize of 6,000 euros, was bestowed to:

The reasoning of the jury: “The award goes to the venture that touched us with its emotional depth and the readability of the imaginative and prescient utilizing her character’s gaze to disclose what’s backstage”.

The Award goes to:

Producer Ares Sporta for the venture

BLEACH        

Director: Kaltrina Krasniqi, Manufacturing: Ares Shporta – Vera Movies, Co-production: Dream Manufacturing unit Macedonia, Code Blue Manufacturing, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Montenegro

The reasoning: “The award goes to the venture that explores class and gender inequalities perpetrated by ladies”.

The Mediterranean Movie Institute Award – Script 2 Movie Workshop Scholarship was awarded to the movie:

The reasoning of the jury: A ghost is haunting Europe, laughing within the face of darkness.

The MIDPOINT CONSULTING AWARD was bestowed to:

The reasoning: “The award goes to the venture the place the fixed sequence of disasters plaguing a rustic turns the mechanism of survival into a giant snicker”.