Yorgos Zois’ ‘Arcadia’ triumphs at Greece’s Iris Awards

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Yorgoszoa Arcadia He won all three main awards at the Hellenic Film Academy’s Iris Awards, including Best Film, Director, and Screenplay.

The Greek Bulgaria co-production premiered last year in the Berlin dating section, where the couple traveled to a remote offseason resort to identify the remains of their friend who died in a car accident. He then enjoyed a massive festival run and won the Zois Best Director Award in Sarajevo.

Among the producers are Maria Drandaki, Antigoni Rota, Veselka Kiryakova and Babak Anvari with support from the Greek Film Centre, Ekkomed and ERT Public TV.

Yannis Veslemes ‘ She loved flowers more He won eight awards, mainly in the technical category. Premiered last year in Toronto, the film about three brothers trying to revive the world of their dead mother.

The wild body by Elina Psykou won the Best Feature Documentary Award, previously performing at festivals such as Thessaloniki and CPH:Dox.

Debut Director Award went to Costis Charamountannis for his coming-of-age story Before the end of summer, Kyoanthat Elsa Recakou was nominated as the best actress.

To an unknown land, Directed by Mehdi Fleifel and produced by Maria Drandaki, the odyssey of two Middle Eastern refugees from Athens, it won the Best Fiction (co-produced by Greek Minorities) award.

Industry frustration

The dissatisfaction of the local film industry has been concrete throughout the gala due to the continued lack of consistent, updated film policies by the government. Lefteris Haritos, president of Hellenic Film Academy, is tackling the issue in his welcoming speech. This subject echoed with acceptance speeches from all winning filmmakers.

The Greek Ministry of Culture and its institutions are Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Centre (Ekkomed), which operates cash rebates and tax incentive schemes after absorbing the Greek Film Centre, and are the main targets of industry rage.

They are responsible for substantial delays in cash rebates paid for foreign co-productions and local works, as well as insufficient amounts available for selective production and development schemes nationwide. Industry executives fear that the lack of regular cash flow could lead to three consecutive suspensions by Ekkomed in the reception and processing of new production applications.

Almost 2,000 signatories from all sectors of the film industry have signed an open letter under the title Visibility Zero, highlighting the rebate payments and delays in systematic issues following the agency’s recent restructuring.

A clear demonstration of the important relationship between the industry and the Ministry and Ekkomed was the first absence of representatives from these institutions in the award gala.