BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS By Asimina Proedrou
fiction features in progress
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1st FILM • In Post Production • SOCIAL, FAMILY DRA
DIRECTION: Asimina Proedrou
MA WITH CRIME ELEMENTS • GREECE, GERMANY,
SCREENPLAY: Asimina Proedrou
NORTH MACEDONIA • 2021 • 100 min • Greek,
CAST: Stathis Stamoulakatos, Lena Ouzounidou, Evgenia Lavda, Christos Kontogiorgis, Paschalis Tsarouchas, Dina Michailidou
English, Arabic, Slavomacedonian
Stergios is a Greek fisherman living on the bor der with North Macedonia. He is afraid of go ing to jail for fraud and starts to traffic migrants across the lake to repay the money he took. But soon he finds himself trapped by the mafia and his family starts falling apart.
PRODUCERS: Ioanna Bolomyti, Markus Halberschmidt, Vladimir Anastasov, Angela Nestorovska PRODUCTION: Argonauts SA (Greece), ibolomyti@argonautsproductions.gr, argonautsproductions.gr CO-PRODUCTION: FICTION PARK (Germany), Sektor Film (North Macedonia) CO-FINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre
| THESSALONIKI GOES TO CANNES (2021)
| BERLINALE SCRIPT STATION (2016)
| SARAJEVO SCRIPT LAB (2015)
| FIRST FILM FIRST YOUNG DIRECTORS ACADEMY 2016-2017
| CROSSROADS CO-PRODUCTION MARKET (THESSALONIKI IFF 2016) - AWARDS – CNC DEVELOPMENT AWARD, INITIATIVE FILM
