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Plastic flowers

ΠΛΑΣΤΙΚΑ ΛΟΥΛΟΥΔΙΑ

4 minutes – 2019 – Experimental

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YANNIS ZAFIRIS

Yannis Zafiris was born and raised in Athens. He studied graphic design and photography with an aesthetic oriented towards conceptual – experimental self-portraiture and landscape as a dramatic tool. His connection with the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, Antonioni and Kiarostami, combined with film courses and seminars by renowned directors, paved the way to moving images with the thematic and aesthetics of a new poetic realism as the main axis. In 2015 he made his first short film, Rizome, which travelled to several festivals in Greece and abroad. He continued, with 3 more short films (Visit, Springtime Rest). His latest film, Plastic Flowers, travelled and won awards at 42 film festivals, from America to Nepal. His screenplay “Xene mou” was funded by the Greek Film Centre. In addition, he has worked on several independent film productions as executive producer and camera operator and was a member of the production company African Astronaut. He is in post-production on his latest short film, having already started pre-production on the next two, which will be based on the theme of “Escape”. The first feature script is currently being written with a completion date in mid-2023. Since 2022, he is a member of AbFab Productions as production manager – designer.

A fairy poisons the village’s water. He returns all thirsty. Searching for the fountain, he faces a stark place and some plastic flowers. A horse and a dog will keep him company till the end.

CAST

Narrator: Panos Xenakis

CREDITS

DIRECTOR: Yannis Zafiris
SCREENPLAY: Yannis Zafiris
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yorgos Bisdikis,
EDITING: Yorgos Bisdikis

SOUND: Manos K., AfricanAstronaut PH

AWARDS

DRAMA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

Official Selection

RETRO AVANT GARDE FILM FESTIVAL (ITALY)

Official Selection

PRILEP INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (N. MACEDONIA)

Official Selection

LAHORE EURASIA FILM FESTIVAL (PAKISTAN)

Official Selection

TYRE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (LEBANON)

Official Selection

TAGORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (INDIA)

Best Experimental Film

LARISSA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Outstanding Achievement Award – Experimental Films

EURASIA FILM FESTIVAL (RUSSIA)

Special Mention (Screenplay)

CACLUTTA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (INDIA)

Official Selection

SPECIAL MENTION (SCREENPLAY) Eurasia IFF–Monthly Awards & Screenings – March 2020, Russia –

Finalist Rolling ideas – Monthly Awards & Screenings – Selection – April 2020,

Romania Κosice

International Monlthy Film Festival, April 2020, Slovakia –

FINALIST Vesuvius International Monthly Film Festival – Μay 2020, Italy

Αndromeda (2nd Kiarostami Film Festival), 2020, Turkey –

Best Experimental Award 1st Bordeaux International One minute and Short Film Festival, 2020, France

1st International Crete Film Festival, Greece

22nd Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, France

1st Dhaka International Youth Film Festival 2020, Bangladesh –

Best Experimental Film 10th Pune Short Film Festival, 2020, India

1st GILAK International Film Festival, 2020, Iran

Τhess International Short Film Festival (TISSFF), 2020, Greece

1st Cinemaking International Festival, Bangladesh, 2020

1st CALCUTTA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2020, India

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