Iris Awards 2023

After two years of phygital ceremonies, and a year in which cinemas have proven themselves landmark spaces for Athens and its citizens, the Iris Awards are returning to the Onassis Stegi Main Stage to celebrate the Greek film industry. For the 14th year running, Greece’s answer to the Oscars is gathering the film community together and sharing in their love for the filmmaking process on a night dedicated to Greek cinema.

This year’s nominations, across 22 Iris Award categories, were selected from 92 feature, medium-length, and short films submitted for the Hellenic Film Academy’s first round of voting. Among them are two Onassis Culture co-productions: “Dodo” by Panos Koutras, and “Broadway”, the first feature film by Christos Massalas. Also nominated are “Bastards” by Nikos Pastras, which won the Onassis Cinema Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s Agora Film Market, and “Tilos Weddings” by Panayotis Evangelidis, which enjoyed its Athens premiere at Onassis Stegi and is up for Best Documentary Film.

“Dodo” – a dramedy packed with comic situations reaches its peak

A strange bird that had disappeared from the planet hundreds of years ago is making an out of the blue reappearance in Athens, at the luxurious residence of a family on the brink of financial disaster. The countdown to bankruptcy has begun and in the few hours leading to the marriage of the family’s daughter, the boundaries between sanity and madness will be tested and the situation will soon get out of hand.

This is the plot of Panos H. Koutras’ new film, following “The Attack of The Giant Moussaka,” “Real Life,” “Strella,” and “Xenia,” which had its pre-festival premiere at Onassis Stegi and its official premiere in the Cannes Première section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

Credits

With: Smaragda Karydi, Akis Sakellariou, Natasa Exintaveloni, Nikos Gelia, Aggelos Papadimitriou, Mariella Savvides, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Polydoros Vogiatzis, Tzef Montana, Kris Radanof, Anna Jorjikia, Tzortzis Papadopoulos, Ahmad Kontar & Jomana Alhasan
Written & Directed by: Panos H. Koutras
Producers: Eleni Kossyfidou, Panos H. Koutras, Marie-Pierre Macia, Claire Gadea
Co-producers: Joseph Rouschop, Konstantinos Moriatis
Cinematography: Olympia Mytilinaiou
Production Design: Elena Vardava
Costume Design: Eva Goulakou
Music: Delaney Blue
Production: 100% Synthetic Films (Greece), MPM Film (France)
Co-production: Tarantula Belgique (Belgium), Pan Entertainment – Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) – Onassis Culture (Greece)
Supported by: Εurimages, Greek Film Center, National Center of Audiovisual Media and Communication (EKOME), CNC, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Creative Europe Media