SHORT FILMS

Lola

Stop Motion • 2D Animation • 7-9’

Director: Kleopatra Korai

Production: Lokey/ Asterisk Films kleopatra@lokey.gr | info@lokey.gr

Synopsis: Lola is 6 years old. The playground gives her joy. She climbs on the swing and guides us into the world of her imagination, with everything she loves to do in her day and night. Reality and fantasy are entangled. In Lola’s world, words have no sound, because Lola communicates through sign language. Her language takes shape, words break apart, creating images and unraveling stories that build a unique world where Lola loses herself. She dives head first into ice cream, dances with dinosaur and plays with her real and imaginary friends alike. She is startled back to the real world of the playground when a kid suggests they move on to the next game together. How different is the world of a deaf child? Probably as different and unique as the child that creates it, any child.

“Lola” is an animated film for children. It has been conceived with the deaf in mind, but it is being created for all audiences, deaf and “listening”. It aims to highlight that different is not foreign and one can only gain by shared experiences. Learning a few “words” in a new language, sign language, is a bonus.

Your God

2D Animation • 4’

Director: Ioannis Chatzistavris jochatzi@gmail.com

Synopsis: Yannis, a young kid, has as a class assignment to draw a picture of god. His drawing does not meet his teacher’s expectations, who makes fun of him in class. School finishes and Yannis makes his way home sad and sceptical. He enters home and hugs his sick mother. She pays no attention to him. Undaunted, he goes to the kitchen, where his father serves lunch. His father, not knowing how to show his love, leaves after caressing his hair. The child saves some food and places it symmetrically, like an offering to the god, on his plate. He enters his room, opens the window and places the plate/offering on the windowsill. A cat appears and starts eating. The cat then enters the room and plays with the child. Who is now evidently happier. Dad calls Yannis who leaves the room, the cat leaves too. Yannis returns and opens his bag in order to do his homework, he sees tucked inside the drawing for which he was ridiculed in class. He takes a moment to think and then pins the drawing on the wall. It’s a drawing of a cat.

Zebra’s Island

2D Animation • 10’

Director: Alexandros Kostopoulos

Production: Ioanna Soultani | GFC | ERT-Microfilm

Synopsis: In a distant country, when someone turns 70, he is transported via a zebra-drawn carriage, to a castle built on an island, as he can no longer offer to the community. A little girl (7) must find a way to reach the island and find her beloved grandfather.

Presentation video: vimeo.com/706426882 alexkosto@gmail.com | info@soulproductions.gr