Hotel Centaur
Greece, Belgium2022fiction24'Międzynarodowy konkurs krótkometrażowy (2023)
Centaurs are creatures from the Greek mythology with a head and torso of a man on the body of a horse. Supposedly, they lived in Greek forests. Some people who believe they really exist are willing to pay large sums for a meeting with them. In Hotel Centaur, located in picturesque surroundings, a group of colourful eccentrics organise a get-together. Young Greek cinema is definitely in a great shape. The story seems to engage in an intriguing dialogue with Jorgos Lanthimos’s films. It is a unique combination of a sublime from, the absurd, the sun and a social satire. The atmosphere and rhythm of the surprising script is intensified by the score composed by sound artist Dimitra Sofroniou.
- directed by
- Lino Kafidas
Lino Kafidas was born in 1993. He studied at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, Belgium. He is writer and director of the short film “A Family Story” (with which he won several international festivals nominations and a Golden First Time Filmmaker award at LVGFA Galaxy Las Vegas Film Festival). In 2020 he completed (together with Dimitris Kafidas) the medium length documentary “Spiros and the Circle of Death” which won several awards in Greece and also in international festivals.
Dimitrios Kafidas
Dimitris Kafidas has studied economics at the Economic University of Athens, and also journalism and sociology with emphasis on politics and geography. In 2020 he completed (together with Lino Kafidas) the medium length documentary “Spiros and the Circle of Death” which won several awards in Greece and also in international festivals. He is now developing his feature film screenplay "The Last Days of May" which is funded by the Greek Film Centre.
- cinematography
- Toon Persyn
- script
- Dimitrios Kafidas
- animated by
- Nick Cannaerts
- cast
- Samuel Akinola, Hiroshi Wakamatsu, Nileas Bouche, Marina Papadaki, Tereza Grimani, Stefanos Lappas, Lefteris Filippou, Norbert Bouche, Yiouli Paschali
- music
- Dimitra Sofroniou
- sound
- Simos Lazaridis
- editing
- Lino Kafidas
- production
- Dimitrios Kafidas (Good Stories Productions)
- Photo
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