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