TRIBUTE: NOTES ON FILM

Eftihia – by Angelos Frantzis

Inspired by the life of the most prolific Greek female poet and lyricist; an extraordinary woman and artist, who has created a massive volume of timeless and popular songs. As a refugee, she traveled from Smyrna to Greece, with only one little pillow clutched between her arms and her two children. She lived every day of her life, as if it were her last. She wrote incessantly on any surface she could find, she chain smoked, fell helplessly in love and gambled fearlessly in posh clubs and dirty dumps alike. Her name means Happiness, but destiny made sure she knew very little of it.

 

Angelos Frantzis

Angelos Frantzis was born in Athens in 1970. He studied film direction at INSAS in Brussels. He has made five shorts and seven feature films (Polaroid, A dog’s dream, In the woods, Symptom, Still River, Eftichia, Murphy’s Law). His films have screened and won awards at many international film festivals (Rotterdam, Torino, Hong Kong, Sitges, Sao Paolo, New Horizons, Munich, Istanbul etc.). Besides film directing, Angelos Frantzis has been involved in art projects with combined techniques (installation, performance) and has worked as a film critic, publishing reviews in various books and magazines. His latest installation Got to be real participated in Venice Biennale 2012.
release date:

2019

director:

Angelos Frantzis

starring:

Karyofyllia Karabeti, Katia Goulioni, Pigmalion Dadakaridis

country:

Greece

duration:

123 min

language:

Greek with English subtitles

premiere:

German