Yorgos Gousis's road movie ‘Magnetic Fields' dominates main prizes at Greece's Iris Awards
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- 23 Jun 2022
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Magnetic Fields won for best film, first- time director, screenplay and best actress prizes, while Smyrna was awarded the trophies for best cinematography, production design and costume design.
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Magnetic Fields is a road movie about a man and a woman who have met by chance on a boat and decide to stick together in search of a suitable place to bury a mysterious metallic box.
It premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 2021 and was produced byYorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis’ local powerhouse Heretic.
Meanwhile, Smyrna, starring Rupert Graves, Susan Hampshire, Jane Lapotaire and local star Mimi Denissi, deals with the massacre of the Greek minority population of the Turkish cosmopolitan city of Smyrna in 1922 by the Turkish army. It is produced by Dionyssis Samiotis for Tanweer with Fenia Kossovitsa as co-producer, Joseph Samaan as executive producer and Martin Sherman as associate producer.
With a €4.5m budget, Smyrna is the biggest Greek film ever produced and garnered an impressive 250,000 admissions on its release in December 2021.
First-time director Araceli Lemos was awarded best director for the Locarno 2021 award-winner Holy Emy, about a young Filipina woman searching for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition and her faraway mother’s healing powers.
This was the second year in a row the awards ceremony was held in an open-air theatre because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More...
