Amygdala | Big Short Films 2022

Amygdala

06.06.2022

DISFF: Honorary Distinction for the Best Original Music Score to Marilena Orfanou. Available online between June 9th and 15th, 2022.

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Synopsis

Two sisters, Anna and Melina spend the last days of the summer in their vacation house outside of Athens. Anna is having a party to celebrate her birthday and her passage to adulthood. Soon she will be off to college leaving her little sister behind. She has invited Maria, her crush, to spend the day with her by the pool and organize the party. Melina obsessively loves and admires her older sister and wants badly to be part of her world. She is not invited to the party. But she sets her mind to it, making this night for her sister a bloody night to remember.

Selected festival screenings and awards

44th Drama International Short Film Festival 2021 (Special Mention for Best Original Music to Marilena Orfanou)

27th Athens International Film Festival 2021

1st Festival of Queer Approaches, Xanthi 2021

Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2021

5th Festival WIFT GR 50/50 2021 (Women In Film & Television, Greece)

Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People 2021

Trieste Film Festival 2022 – Official Competition

Tampere Film Festival 2022 – Generation XYZ competition

International Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg (2022 Regensburg Short Film Week)

Greek Film Festival in Berlin 2022

Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz 2022

Film Still "Amygdala" by Maria Hatzakou

Credits

Written, Directed & Produced by Maria Hatzakou

Cast: Panayiota Yiagli, Eva Samioti, Donna Petropoulou

Director of Photography: Christina Moumouri

Editing: Alkis Papastathopoulos

Music: Marilena Orfanou

Art Direction: Maria -Dimitra Vetta

Costumes Design: Vassilia Rozana

Make-up Artist & Special Make-up Effects: Niki Ovakoglou

Special Make-up Effects: Prokopis Vlaseros

Sound: Xenofontas Kontopoulos

Boom: Thanos Petrou

Sound Design: Leandros Ntounis

Color Grading: Angelos Mantzios/ Metapost

Acting Coach: Marisha Triantafyllidou

Casting: Eleni Molfeta

Production Manager: Teta Apostolaki

Co-Producers: Marilena Orfanou, Nikos Smpiliris

Associate Producer: Evgenia Bourzoukou

Co-Producer: ERT

With the support of the Greek Film Center

A Merricat Film production

Meet the Filmmaker

Maria Hatzakou