Bella
Direction & Screenplay
Thelyia Petraki
docudrama
Greece
2020
Language: Greek, English
Subtitles: French/english
24 MIN
Short film in competition
Grand Jury Prize - International Short Film
Festivals
E-Flux Award at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - 2020
Première mondiale et Mention spéciale au Festival Visions du Réel - 2020
Greece 1986-1987, a little before the fall of State Socialism and just at the end of the Cold War. In front of Anthi’s eyes the country is changing, the world is changing and with them Christos seems to be changing too.
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International shorts competition 3
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Thelyia Petraki
Direction & Screenplay
Thelyia Petraki is a Hellenic film academy award-nominated director. She graduated from CALARTS (USA) with a BA in Film, and from UCL (UK) with an MA in Visual & Material Culture Dept. of Social Anthropology.
She has written and directed Pray (2012) distributed by Premium Films, the medium-length documentary Me and the Others (2015) that participated in Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival co-produced with COSMOTE TV and the short film Helga Är I Lund (2017) that premiered at the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival.
Currently she is developing her first feature film.
Original Title
Bella
Duration
24 MIN
Language
Greek, English
Subtitles
French/english
Country
Greece
Direction
Thelyia Petraki
Editing
Myrto Karra
Cinematographer
Manu Tilinski
Screenplay
Thelyia Petraki
Producer
Kostas Tagalakis
Cast
Elena Topalidou