ESCAPING THE FRAGILE PLANET
43rd Drama International Short Film Festival - Best Editing
A boy-meets-boy tale, a few hours before the world ends.
Featured on The New Yorker as part of the "Screening Room" collection. Watch it in full HERE
DISCLAIMER
This is a work of fiction, as shot on July 2019.
Any resemblance to actual events surrounding the COVID‑19 pandemic, is purely coincidental.
FESTIVALS
43rd Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece
26th Athens International Film Festival, Greece
38th Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, USA
61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece
10th Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, UK
18th London Short Film Festival, UK
43rd Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France
28th Mardi Gras Film Festival, Australia
Roze Filmdagen Film Festival 2021, Netherlands
BFI Flare 2021: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival, UK
18th San Francisco Greek Film Festival, USA
24th Pink Apple Film Festival, Switzerland
15th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, USA
27th Regensburg Short Film Week, Germany
13rd Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival, Greece
31st Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Canada
34th Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival, USA
25th FIRE!! Barcelona Film Festival, Spain
13th Short Waves Festival, Poland
36th Lovers Film Festival, Italy
20th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, Switzerland
34th image+nation, Montreal LGBTQ+ FF, Canada
10th Aegean Film Festival, Greece
17th Lago Film Fest, Italy
10th Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
33rd Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Canada
7th FeKK, Slovenia
12th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, India
13th Leiden Shorts, Netherlands
2nd Queer Wave LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, Cyprus
20th PinkPanorama LGBTQI Film Festival, Switzerland
25th Queer Lisboa - International Queer Film Festival, Portugal
34th Out On Film, Atlanta's LGBTQ Film Festival, USA
Cannes World Film Festival August 2021, France
19th Gwanghwamun International Short Film Festival, South Korea
25th Seattle Queer Film Festival, USA
19th shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival, Russia
32nd Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, Germany
33rd NewFest: New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, USA
25th Queersicht Filmfestival, Switzerland
22nd Queer Film Festival Mezipatra, Czech Republic
20th Pink Screens, Belgium
25th PÖFF Shorts - Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia
31st Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia
30th Vinokino, Finland
13th International queer film festival Merlinka, Serbia
7th Bari International Gender festival, Italy
13th LGBT+ Film Festival, Poland
67th Cork International Film Festival, Ireland
35th Queergestreift Film Festival, Germany
2022 Seoul Int'l PRIDE Film Festival, South Korea
AWARDS
43rd Drama International Short Film Festival - Best Editing
Roze Filmdagen Film Festival 2021 - Jury Special Mention
13o Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival - Audience Award National
Cannes World Film Festival - Best LGBTQ Film (Grand Winner 2022)
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Thanasis Tsimpinis
CAST Michail Tabakakis, Nikos Lekakis
PRODUCERS Phaedra Vokali, Mina Dreki
CO-PRODUCERS Michalis Gkiokas, Dimitris Karteris, Renos Papastavros
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Theodora Valentis
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Konstantinos Koukoulios
FILM EDITOR Smaro Papaevangelou
TEASER EDITOR Thanasis Tsimpinis
PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGN Eva Goulakou
MUSIC COMPOSER & SOUND SUPERVISOR Renos Papastavros
SOUND DESIGN Stefanos Douvitsas
VISUAL EFFECTS & CG FOG Michalis Gkiokas
POST PRODUCER & COLORIST Dimitris Karteris
PRODUCTION MANAGER Marilena Efthymiou
1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Zabela Chaviara
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR Eirini Bita
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Iro Aidoni
1ST ASSISTANT CAMERA Stamatis Kouros
2ND ASSISTANT CAMERA & DIT Marios Delias
ADDITIONAL 2ND ASSISTANT CAMERA Stelios Mylonas
GAFFER Kostas Bakogiannis
ELECTRICIAN Thanos Gogas
PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
1ST ASSISTANT SOUND MIXERS Christos Sakellariou, Panagiotis Kyriakou
PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGN ASSISTANT Sofia Vaso
PROPERTY MASTER Tasos Kontaxis, Panagis Vardakas
MAKE-UP & HAIR ARTIST Sissi Petropoulou
MAKE-UP & HAIR ASSISTANT Vasiliki Danoglou
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Christos Tsakonas, Geraldo Lavavace
SUPPORTING CAST Jenny Sallo, Vasiliki Grentzelou
TRANSLATION Hed Kyriakidi, Nefeli Kyriakidi
TITLES & POSTER DESIGN Stathis Mitropoulos
Produced by Marni Films & GFC