SCREENING SELECTIONS 2021
Madonna f64.0
Nominated for Best Greek Film
Information
Year: 2020
Country: Greece
Duration: 18'
Language: Greek
Director: Stavros Markoulakis
Producer: Marnifilms, Mina Dreki
Screenplay: Stavros Markoulakis
Cinematography: Christina Moumouri
Editing: Christos Giannakopoulos
Music: Melentini
Sound: Christos Sakellariou, Panayiotis Kiriakou, Kostas Gounaris
Sound Design: Nikos Linardopoulos
Set: Eleni Kariori
Cast: Konstantina Lia, Penelope Tsilika, Athina Pappa
After an important surgery, Maria returns to her family home, in order to recover. Living with her mother, her sister and a newborn baby. While Maria’s body starts healing, a deeply hidden desire of hers surfaces. Maria wants to come close to the baby, and this creates a serious threat to the “safety” of the family home.
Born in Chania, Greece, March 1994, Stavros Markoulakis graduated from the School of Communication and Mass Media at the National Kapodistrian University of Greece. He studied simultaneously drama in Athens. He worked as an actor, assistant director and production assistant in short and feature films, theatrical productions and commercials in Greece as well as in the Netherlands
In 2020 he completed his first short film entitled "Madonna f64.0", a personal film in search of the need for acceptance. He is currently in the process of developing his next short film, "Pigeons are dying, when the city is on fire". Living and working in Amsterdam and Athens, he is currently in the postgraduate program "Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image" at the University of Amsterdam, while working as Film Programmer at 'Leiden Shorts' and as Programme Coordinator & Shorts Programmer at 'Aegean Film Festival'.