HOLY EMY By Araceli Lemos
fiction features
12
1st FILM • DRAMA, COMING-OF-AGE • GREECE,
DIRECTION: Araceli Lemos
FRANCE, USA • 2021 • 110 min • Tagalog, English,
SCREENPLAY: Araceli Lemos, Giulia Caruso
Greek
After their mother returns to the Philippines, sisters Emy and Teresa live within their tight knit Filipino Catholic community in the port city of Athens. But when Teresa gets pregnant, Emy is increasingly drawn to other, more mys terious forces that live inside her.
CAST: Abigael Loma, Hasmine Killip, Angeli Bayani, Irene Inglesi PRODUCER: Konstantinos Vassilaros PRODUCTION: StudioBauhaus (Greece), info@studiobauhaus.gr, studiobauhaus.gr CO-PRODUCTION: Utopie Films (France), Nonetheless (USA) CO-FINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre INTERNATIONAL SALES: StudioBauhaus (Greece), info@studiobauhaus.gr, studiobauhaus.gr
| SARAJEVO’S CINELINK AWARD (2017)
| EAVE SCOLARSHIP AWARD (2018)
| TIES THAT BIND (2018) | MFI SCRIPT2FILM (2016)
| FIRST CUT+, TRIESTE 2021 – FIRST CUT+ AWARD
