BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS

By Asimina Proedrou

1st FILM • In Post Production • SOCIAL, FAMILY DRAMA WITH CRIME ELEMENTS • GREECE, GERMANY, NORTH MACEDONIA • 2021 • 100 min • Greek, English, Arabic, Slavomacedonian

Stergios is a Greek fisherman living on the border with North Macedonia. He is afraid of going 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.

DIRECTION: Asimina Proedrou

SCREENPLAY: Asimina Proedrou

CAST: Stathis Stamoulakatos, Lena Ouzounidou, Evgenia Lavda, Christos Kontogiorgis, Paschalis Tsarouchas, Dina Michailidou

PRODUCERS: Ioanna Bolomyti, Markus Halberschmidt, Vladimir Anastasov, Angela Nestorovska PRODUCTION: Argonauts SA (Greece), ibolomyti@argonautsproductions.gr, argonautsproductions.gr COPRODUCTION: FICTION PARK (Germany), Sektor Film (North Macedonia) COFINANCED BY: Greek Film Centre

| THESSALONIKI GOES TO CANNES (2021) | SARAJEVO SCRIPT LAB (2015) | BERLINALE SCRIPT STATION (2016) | FIRST FILM FIRST YOUNG DIRECTORS

ACADEMY 2016-2017 | CROSSROADS CO-PRODUCTION MARKET (THESSALONIKI IFF 2016) - AWARDS – CNC DEVELOPMENT AWARD, INITIATIVE FILM