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Iris Awards 2023

Greek cinema’s biggest celebration is back at Onassis Stegi

Dates

Location

Athens

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Tuesday 27 June
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Onassis Stegi is honoring Greek cinema by holding the Hellenic Film Academy’s 14th annual Iris Awards. This year’s award ceremony is to be held on Tuesday, June 27 on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage. Hosts for the evening are the actors Natasa Exintaveloni and Lili Baklesi.

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.

Onassis Culture co-productions nominated at the 2023 Iris Awards

“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

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“Broadway” – the first feature film by Christos Massalas

Flying in the face of her wealthy bourgeois family’s reprimands, Nelly starts work as a dancer in a strip club. There she meets Markos, a charismatic two-bit hustler who helps her give the henchmen her stepfather sent after her the slip. Markos, who becomes her minder and lover, takes her to his hideout – an abandoned amusement complex called Broadway on Athens’ Patission Street, where a gang of pickpockets now squats. With them lives a capuchin monkey called Lola, and a mysterious man wrapped in bloodied bandages who’s on the run from kingpins of the underworld. Nelly decides to stay with this Broadway band and, for a time, everything runs smoothly in their little world. But when Markos is arrested one day and sent to prison, the group dynamic shifts – and the consequences are unexpected.

Christos Massalas’ “Broadway” premiered before an international audience at the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam –one of the most important film events in the world– as part of the Big Screen Competition. The film went on to receive its French premiere at the Angers Festival – Premiers Plans, and also screened in French cinemas. In September, the film opened in Athenian cinemas.

Credits

Written and Directed by: Christos Massalas
Producer: Amanda Livanou (Greece)
Co-producers: Bertrand Gore (France), Cristian Nicolescu (Romania)
Co-producer: Christos Massalas
Music: Gabriel Yared
Cinematography: Konstantinos Koukoulios
Editor: Yorgos Lamprinos
Production Design: Anna Georgiadou
Costume Design: Marli Aleiferi
Choreographer: Chali Jennings
Sound: Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Valia Tserou, Vincent Verdoux
Make-up Artist: Ioanna Lygizou
Hair Stylist: Chronis Tzimos
Production Managers: Katerina Seferli, Giorgos Stergiou

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