FEATURE FILMS 2023
Serifos, 15 - 17 September 2023
Patmos, 21 - 30 July 2023
100 SEASONS
Opening Film • Premiere • Q&A with Director
Drama • 104’ • Sweden • 2023
Director: Giovanni Bucchieri
Language : Swedish, English, French
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: 13
Inspired by real video diaries of his first love, which he filmed around 30 years ago, director Giovanni Bucchieri unfolds an emotional love story starring two artists and soulmates. Their relationship is challenged by bipolar disorder, ambition in life and longing for acceptance. 100 SEASONS offers a colourful mix of passion, tenderness, and romance. An inspiring and heartfelt film about dreams, failure and love that can never die.
SATURDAY, 22 JULY • 20.30 • MARIANNA CINEMA • Ticket includes Opening Ceremony before the screening and ticket for the Opening Party
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Premiere
Drama • 115’ • Indonesia, France, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Germany and Qatar • 2022
Director: Makbul Mubarak
Language : Indonesian
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: 13
With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakib works as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served for centuries in a rural Indonesian town. After Purna returns home to start his mayoral election campaign, Rakib bonds with the older man, who becomes a close mentor and father figure, and finds his calling as Purna’s assistant in work and life. When Purna’s election poster is found vandalised one day, Rakib doesn’t hesitate to track down the culprit, kicking off an escalating chain of violence.
SUNDAY, 23 JULY • 21.00 • MARIANNA CINEMA
MASCARADE
Premiere • Followed by special PopUp Event
Crime, Drama • 142’ • France • 2022
Director: Nicolas Bedos
Language : English, Italian, French
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: 15
When a young gigolo (Pierre Niney) falls under the spell of a tantalizing con artist (Marine Vacth), a devious scheme is hatched under the French Riviera’s burning sun. In their pursuit of a life of luxury, will the two lovers go so far as to sacrifice the livelihoods of a former movie star (Isabelle Adjani) and a real estate agent (François Cluzet)? Passion, crime, betrayal… After MR. AND MRS. ADELMAN and LA BELLE ÉPOQUE, Nicolas Bedos makes mockery of the cruel world in which money reigns supreme and serves up yet another intricate romantic saga.
SUNDAY, 23 JULY • 20.45 • ! LOCATION CHANGE! NEW VENUE: TARSANAS POP-UP CINEMA • Ticket includes dinner and drinks before the screening.
THE BEASTS
Drama, Thriller • 137’ • Spain, France • 2022
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Language : French, Galician, Spanish
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: 15
Antoine (Denis Ménochet) and Olga (Marina Foïs) are a French couple that settled down, some time ago, in a small village, in inland Galicia. There, they lead a peaceful life, although coexisting with the local people isn’t as idyllic as they would like. A conflict with their neighbors, the Anta brothers (Luis Zahera & Diego Anido), breaks out whereby tension will grow throughout the hamlet until it reaches a point of no return.
MONDAY 24, JULY • 21.00 • MARIANNA CINEMA
INSIDE
Q&A with the Director
Drama, Thriller • 105’ • Greece, Germany, Belgium • 2023
Director: Vasilis Katsoupis
Language : English
Subtitles: Greek
Rating: 15
Nemo, a high-end art thief, is trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn’t go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and ingenuity to survive.
TUESDAY, 25 JULY • 21.00 • MARIANNA CINEMA
MOTHER AND SON
Drama • 116’ • France • 2022
Director: Léonor Serraille
Language : French
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: 15
In the late 1980s, Rose moves to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
WEDNESDAY, 26 JULY • 21.00 • MARIANNA CINEMA
DO YOU LOVE ME?
Premiere
Drama • 90’ • Ukraine • 2023
Director: Tonia Noyabrova
Language : Ukranian
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: Not Rated
Ukraine, 1990. One year before the Soviet Union collapses. Kira, 17 years old, is stepping out of her adolescence into adult life at the very same moment as Ukraine steps out of Soviet slavery into the unknown. Together they will try all kinds of things for the first time – funny, dangerous, rebellious – as every teenager does.
THURSDAY, 27 JULY • 21.00 • MARIANNA CINEMA
MEDUSA DELUXE
Drama, Mystery • 101’ • UK • 2022
Director: Thomas Hardiman
Language : English
Subtitles: Greek
Rating: 15
A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.
THURSDAY 27 JULY • 23.00 • MARIANNA CINEMA
SURPRISE FILM !!
Director: TBA
Language : TBA
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: PG
An internationally acclaimed film premiere, proudly presented by the Aegean Film Festival and its programming partners. Trust the festival to take you to a cinematic experience, specially curated on this Friday night of July. After all, the meaning of an international film festival is the trust you show to all those sensitive, inspiring and a little bit crazy curators and artists that work hard to bring unique content to the big screen.
FRIDAY, 28 JULY • 21.00 • MARIANNA CINEMA
FEATURE FICTION AUDIENCE AWARD
Re-screening of the awarded feature fiction film selected by the audience of Patmos
Winners to be announced on Saturday 29th of July at 20.30 during the award ceremony (two hours before the screening)
SATURDAY, 29 JULY • 22.30 • MARIANNA CINEMA
