Handmade and emotionally instantaneous, the cinema of Kostis Charamountanis, as it evolves through the years and to date mainly in three - from the good to the best - short films ("The Eye and the Eyebrow" of 2016, "THE BEAST asleep" of 2017, "Kioku Before Summer Comes" of 2018) is more than a promise of a filmmaker who unconsciously makes you want to see what the next thing his mind will come up with and how whatever it is will fit harmoniously into the shape of an audiovisual universe that seems so childlike as to reflect the desire of everyone without exception to never grow up and so personal as to concern you almost universally.

His latest short film entitled "Dog of Chamomile" was screened in September at the Premiere Nights of Athens International Short Film Festival, having previously been unjustifiably cut from the Drama Short Film Festival, where we were introduced to the world of Charamountanis, an absolute part of which this little diary of such a special... failure. As a commentary on competitiveness but ultimately so much more, the 10-minute film starts with the recording of a real dog competition to end with a deeply moving poem on the relationship between (every) boy and his dog that seems impossible not to (be) moved.

Manolis Kranakis

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