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The LUX Prize: AKADIMIA PLATONOS - PLATO‘S ACADEMY
Greece, Germany 2009, 103‘, 35mm, colour
directed by Filippos Tsitos
screenplay Alexis Kardaras, Filippos Tsitos
cinematography Polidefkis Kirlidis
editing Dimitris Peponis
music Enstro
sound Vangelis Zelkas, Costas Varibopiotis
art direction Spyros Laskaris
costumes Christina Chantzaridou
cast Antonis Kafetzopoulos (Stavros), Anastas Kozdine (Marenglen), Titika Saringouli (Mother), Giorgos Souxes (Nikos), Konstantinos Koronaios (Argyris), Panayiotis Stamatakis (Thymios), Maria Zorba (Dina)
producer Constantinos Moriatis, Thanassis Karathanos
production Pan Entertainment, Twenty Twenty Vision
co-production Greek Film Centre, ZDF-Das Kleine Fernsehspiel
world sales Greek Film Centre Hellas Film
7, Dionisiou Areopagitou str. 117 42 Athens, Greece
Tel. + 30 210 3678500
Fax + 30 210 3614336
info@gfc.gr
www.gfc.gr
synopsis
Every day, Stavros raises the shutters of his kiosk, puts out the newspapers and arranges the chairs on which he and his friends will while away the hours. This routine is broken the day she throws herself into the arms of an Albanian worker – calling him her son, in Albanian. From then on Stavros’s friends view him with suspicion: Is he Greek or Albanian?
“Everybody agrees that the European Union is a good idea. The disagreements begin when one has to decide: Who has the right to enter the Union and who hasn’t? Who has the right to remain in the Union and who hasn’t? Who is going to get help from the Union and who isn’t? Which members of the Union should have more privileges than others? Discrimination hovers over these decisions. Tolerance is the beginning of the solution.” (Filippos Tsitos)
Filippos Tsitos (Athens, 1966) studied marketing at university and has worked as a photographer, assistant director on documentaries and as a producer for musical radio programs. In 1991 he moved to Germany and studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy of Berlin. He won the German Short Film Award for Parlez-moi d’amour in 1994. His feature debut My Sweet Home (2001) was selected at the Berlinale.
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