Meetings
Direction
Kyriakos Chatzimichailidis
Summary
Logline
Angelos’ obsession with conspiracy theories is the reason he loses his friends. All that remains is his imaginary meetings with irrationality.
Synopsis
Angelos’ anger and compulsionto validate his beliefs, lead to the loss of his friends in a series of phone calls. The spark is apunctured tire, which he attributes to an organized profit maximization scheme of the local repair shop. Triggered by this incident, he unfolds his views on the phone to his friends about various conspiracies that he believes in and which plague the world, bringing him into conflict with the rational views of his friends.
From the solidarity fund that Greece has allegedly accumulated to the chemtrails conspiracy, and from the existence of the Reptilians and the Hollow Earth theoryto the visits of extraterrestrial civilizations on Mount Penteli,Angelos also reveals his pagan devotion to the Dodecatheon and his devoutness to the supremacy of the Hellene as a god-sent species bySirius.
Everybody believes that he's irrational which is quite true. But, are all he thinks totally irrational?
Technical data
short film | Format: 2K DCI SCOPE | Colored | Stereo Sound | 24 frames | 20' | 2022
Awards:
- Best Leading Actor Award to Elias Valasis at 12th Micro ì Festival 2022
- 5th audience's favorite film at 12th Micro m Film Festival 2022
- Best Short Film Award at 11th Athens International Digital Film 2022
- Best Short Fiction Film - Acting Code Awards at 17th London Greek Film Festival 2023
- Best Actor – Acting Code Awards at 17th London Greek Film Festival 2023
- Best Short Fiction Film – Cosmocinema Awards at International Epidaurus Film Festival 2023
- Best Actor – Acting Code Awards at International Epidaurus Film Festival 2023
- Honorable Mention at Greece International Film Festival (2023)
- Çonorable Ìention STEFILM at 2nd Short Film Panorama by The Greek Directors Guild (2023)
- Çonorable Ìention at 11th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra & Awards & 5th International Film Festival of Crete & Awards (2024)
Çonorable Ìention STEFILM at 2nd Short Film Panorama by The Greek Directors Guild (2023)
Awards and Official Selections Laurels
Best Short Film and Best Actor Awards both at London Greek Festival & 2nd International Epidaurus Film Festival
Best Short Film Award at 11th Athens International Digital Film 2022
Best actor award to Elias Valasis at 12th Micro ì Festival 2022