SHORT FILMS
An everyday memory collage of two siblings who are longing for summer.
Kioku 記憶 Before Summer Comes
Κιόκου 記憶 Πριν Έρθει το Καλοκαίρι
Kioku 記憶 Before Summer Comes is a 2018 award winning short film written, produced and directed by Kostis Charamountanis.
Cinematography Elsa Lekakou, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Kostis Charamountanis, Post Production Kostis Charamountanis Cast Elsa Lekakou, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Eleana Kaukala,Kristalli Zacharioudaki, Maria Proistaki, Kristof Lamp.
“Motivation” Award from the Greek Film Center, 41st National Short Film Festival in Drama, Best Director Award 24th International Film Festival of Athens
The film premiered on Tuesday, 18 September 2018, at the 41st National Short Film Festival of Drama.
One of the most special cases of a young creator, Kostis Charamountanis, who was introduced with "The Eye and the Brow", and came of age with "THE BEAST asleep", matures with "Kiokou Before Summer Comes", fortunately without sacrificing in the least his experimental mood, his unpretentious lightness, his queer origins. With a technically courageous but also pop reference-laden video diary of two brothers who wouldn't go into the sea because summer hasn't come yet, Charamountanis becomes here the obvious Harmony Korine on Greek soil, but (again) fortunately more than that. In a sequence of images that fly off one after the other with the speed of memory or the blink of an eye, there's not a second where emotion and that rare sense that what you're seeing is made by someone you can't wait to meet again in the future
Manolis Kranakis