Clean Cities − 2021

Part One – Skopje

Directed by Marina Danezi

“Clean City” makes a stop in North Macedonia. There, award-winning documentary filmmaker Marina Danezi meets the theater production’s five lead performers: Mabel, Rositsa, Fredalyn, Drita, and Valentina. With Skopje as a backdrop, Danezi’s camera sensitively brings their personal stories to the fore. What was life like before they left their home countries? What circumstances led them to Greece? How did they arrive there and what did they imagine they’d find there? How long did they think they’d stay and what kept them there? And what did they find difficult? These five women recollect and reminisce, laugh and grow emotional, and in the process weave a common narrative that takes in memory and hope, homelands and being uprooted, prejudice and diversity – a narrative that talks about women and the world of work, about dignity and respect.

Part Two – Sarajevo

Directed by Kostas Mandilas

The “Clean City” tour makes a stop in Bosnia and Herzegovina to appear at the International Theater Festival MESS. Filmmaker Kostas Mandilas enters into conversation with one of the production’s two directors – Prodromos Tsinikoris – with Sarajevo as a backdrop, a city still visibly scarred by the civil war. Tsinikoris sets out the idea behind the production, talks about documentary theater, and explains what it’s like working with non-professional actors.

Part Three – Montpellier

Directed by Constantinos Hadzinikolaou

The production’s five lead performers now find themselves in France. They’re staying together in a large house with a garden for a few days, and in their moments of rest and relaxation before going on stage, they remember moments from their lives. One question keeps coming to the fore, in various ways. What is love? Shot on Super 8, this third part of the documentary – directed by Constantinos Hadzinikolaou – explores the lead performers’ stories by means of short takes and fleeting glimpses, capturing the prevailing atmosphere backstage a little before the lights go up.

Part Four – Istanbul

Directed by Christos Sarris

Last stop: Istanbul. Director Christos Sarris delineates the portrait of a cleaning lady, an internal migrant who moved to Istanbul from a provincial Turkish town. Her story is like that of the production’s leads, and her life is in danger of passing over into an endless repetition of the same movements. Until the moment when the woman there to do the housework becomes a Woman, with a capital “w”.

SKOPJE

Script & Director: Marina Danezi

Director of Photography: Claudio Bolivar

2nd Camera Assistant: Dimitris Zivopoulos

Sound Recording: Lefteris Kabalonis

Editor: Andreas Yannakopoulos

Sound Mix: Dimitris Miyakis

Production Manager: Tasos Koronakis

Line Production: Laika Productions

SARAJEVO

Director: Kostas Mandilas

Camera: Panagiotis Manolitsis, Kostas Mandilas

Sound: Alekos Sakellariou

Super 8 Film: Kostas Mandilas

Executive Producer: Anastasia Moumtzaki

Production: Production House Greece

MONTPELLIER

Script, Camera & Director: Konstantinos Chatzinikolaou

Executive Producer: Aggeliki Aristomenopoulou

Editor: Artemis Anastasiadou

Sound Design & Mix: Persefoni Miliou

Camera Assistant: Stelios Moraitidis

Line Producer: Irilena Tsami

Editor: Massive Productions

Video & Interviews: Aggeliki Aristomenopoulou

Featuring:

Mabel Mosana

Rositsa Pandalieva

Fredalyn Resurreccion

Drita Shehi

Valentina Ursache

Special thanks to:

Anestis Azas

Christos Sarris

Prodromos Tsinikoris

Théâtre des 13 vents

The script is based on the interviews of Mabel Mosana, Rositsa Pandalieva, Fredalyn Resurreccion, Drita Shehi, Valentina Ursache

The filming was held in film Super 8 at Montpellier, France, in November of 2019, occasioned by the performance of Clean City, directed by Anestis Azas & Prodromos Tsinikoris at Théâtre des 13 vents

ISTANBUL

Director: Christos Sarris

Director of Photography: Alexander Asplint

1st Camera Assistant: Dimitris Zivopoulos

Sound Recording & Mix: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos

Production Manager: Despina Sifniadou

Editor: Dimitris Zivopoulos

Script: Melpomeni Maragkidou

Translation: Giannis Panourgias

Colorist: Manthos Sardis

Post-production Coordinators: Elena Choremi, Smaragda Dogani

Fixer: Mert Gürel

Casting Agent: Giovanni Ajans

Film Equipment Rental Companies: RentPhotoVideo, DK Video Productions

Special thanks to:

Larsa Larsson

Gamze Larsson

Savaş Tan

Zorlu Performing Arts Center (Zorlu Performans Sanatları Merkezi)

Featuring:

Arife Göksu

Selma Kodon

Edanur Göksu

Mithatcan Göksu

Mabel Mosana

Rositsa Pandalieva

Fredalyn Resurreccion

Drita Shehi

Valentina Ursache

Music: Alexis Kalofolias

Recorded and Produced by: Buildings at Night

“CLEAN CITY” THEATER PRODUCTION CREDITS

Direction & Dramaturgy: Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris

Dramaturgy Consultant & Research: Margarita Tsomou

Set Design & Costumes: Eleni Stroulia

Assistant to the Set & Costume Designer: Zaira Falirea

Lighting: Eliza Alexandropoulou

Music: Panagiotis Manouilidis

Video: Nikos Pastras

Assistant Directors: Ioanna Valsamidou, Liana Taousiani

Production Management: Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos

Video appearance: Nelly Kambouri

Puppet Construction: Yiannis Katranitsas

With: Mabel Mosana, Rositsa Pandalieva, Fredalyn Resurreccion, Drita Shehi, Valentina Ursache

Surtitles Translation: Memi Katsoni

Video recording: Dotmov

ONASSIS CULTURE

Director of Culture: Afroditi Panagiotakou
Deputy Director of Culture: Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Head of Content: Alexandros Roukoutakis
Content Writer: Elizampetta Georgiadou
Campaign Manager: Elisavet Pantazi

Onassis Creative Studio
Head of Creative: Christos Sarris
Motion Graphics: Konstantinos Chaidalis

Video Production Coordinators: Elena Choremi, Smaragda Dogani

Editor: Tryphon Karatzinas

Sound Mix: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos