SHORT FILMS
A romantic love story of Varsanoufios and Ploumi, set in a world where love is a fading concept.
THE BEAST asleep
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THE BEAST asleep is a 2017 award winning short film written, produced and directed by Kostis Charamountanis.
Cinematography Yiannis Karabatsos Production Manager Antigoni Rota Assistant Director Antigoni Rota Focus Puller: Elisavet Derbeni Editing: Stamos Dimitropoulos Sound and Sound Design: Christos Sakellariou Costumes: Eleni Podara Makeup: Eui Rapti Script: Thanasis Kafetzis Production Assistants: Yiannis Nasis, Haris Mariouklas Colour Correction Alexandros Kapidakis, Authorwave DCP Alexandros Kapidakis, Authorwave Cast Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Kristalli Zaharioudaki, Eleana Kaukala, Stella Magana, Maria Proistaki, Thanos Tsakalidis, Kostis Charamountanis.
Best Film Award Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Best Screenplay Award Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Best Actor Award to Konstantinos Georgopoulos Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Best Young Director Award SHORT to the Point, Best Screenplay Award The Monthly Film Festival, Best Film of the Month Award 3rd Place The Monthly Film Festival
The film premiered on Thursday, 21 September 2017, at the 40th National Short Film Festival of Drama.
True to his own vision of queer cinema that can be pop, cute, funny, satirical and subversive at the same time, Kostis Charamountanis raises the production standards here compared to his first film with a dystopian teenage and ethnographic comedy set on a Greek island and not coincidentally linked to the iconography of a tradition that comes from a dark, violent and constantly uplifting past. Uneven in parts, disarmingly romantic in others, funny with a source of humour, so loaded that at times it collapses under its own weight and almost as crazy as its characters (sometimes for good and sometimes for ill), the "monster" of the exuberant universe built by Charamountanis feeds on hyperbole and cinematic crossovers that go beyond the obvious, but still manages to keep you from falling asleep for a minute in the face of an innately original and non-serious writing that Greek cinema lacks.
Manolis Kranakis