Margarita Plessas was born in Athens in 1981.

From an early age she engaged in dancing and painting.

From 1996 to 1998 she studied drawing and painting in the studio of painter Michael Veloudios. In 2004 she graduated with honors from the School of Fine Arts of Genoa, in Italy (Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti di Genova) with a degree in painting.

The next two years she studied Scenography and Theatre Performance Art in the laboratory of stage designer Mary Haniotakis. Since 2006 she has been the artistic director of Dance group Amor Latino in which she also participates as a dancer.

Among others she has painted Cover designs for DODONI Publishers and the Logos for the conference "Contemporary art and public spaces" in the Technopolis of Athens.

Part of her work is exhibited in the Tower of the School of Education, Aristotle University of Thessalonica (A.U.TH.).

Since 2001 she participates in shows in various galleries and exhibitions in Greece.

George Kordellas was born in Kozani, on December 23, 1959. Working professionally since 1981 in the film and television productions.

He directed the television series Anastasia, Apon, Tzivaeri, To Fterougisma tou Glarou, Vendetta, Doureios Ippos, Xoreuontas Sti Siopi, Mystika kai Lathi, Kinnoumeni Ammos , Loufa kai Parallagi, and separate episodes of the series Anatomia enos Egklimatos, Alithines Istories, Mia Nyxta san kai Auti, Istories Mystiriou, Istories Apo tin Apenanti Oxthi, Ariane telemovie, documentaries etc.

Ten days of Greek Films

Monday 12 / 7  |  Plato's Academy | Fillipos Tsitos

Tuesday 13 / 7 |  Gold Dust   |  Margarita Manda

Wednesday 14 / 7 |  Island | Christos Dimas

Thursday 15 / 7 |  Strella |  Panos Koutras

Friday 16 / 7 | Athansia |  Panos Karkanevatos

Saturday 17 / 7 | INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY IKARIA

Directed by Spyros Teskos

"Μy Nikaria" is a documentary on life and occupations of the inhabitants of Greek island Ikaria. It tries to investigate their particular ways and thoughts, and how they have developed through the ages. Opportunity is given by a local custom -still practiced in the villages of Ikaria-, which the locals call "mnimosino".

"The mnimosino is the culmination of love, solidarity and equality," says the protagonist of the film. So on Easter Sunday, all the villagers gather, and enjoy the meat mainly offered by farmers in memory of their dead, making the mnimosino, one of the biggest celebrations of the place.

The Building Manager

Directed by Pericles Hoursoglou

Prize FIPRESCI (International Critics Association).

50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

"Trying to set the world around him in order for he cannot set himself in order".

Plot: Pavlos. Late forties. With two children who go to school every morning, the apartment block which it’s his turn to manage, the rotten plumbing and leaking sewage, the mother who’ll never get it into her head that her son is married to another woman – his wife, who feels him drifting ever further away after 10 years of marriage.

Audience Award FISCHER

Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2009

SCRIPT-DIRECTION : Sofia Papachristou

Synopsis

Peter is an engineer, employed by a multinational company, whose commitment to the environment is dubious at best.

Eager for keeping his position, Peter agrees to supervise the construction of a high-technology waste recycling plant for producing electricity on the Greek island of Pera Kassiros, an insignificant dot on the map somewhere in the Aegean Sea.

GOLD DUST

a film by Margarita Manda

Athens, today.

Three siblings face the prospect of selling their family home. The potential buyers will tear it down and erect a modern building in its place. Alexis defends the sale, documenting his position with the financial benefits that this will bring. Anna reacts negatively.  For her their family home is the memory of her childhood. Amalia hesitates in making a decision, trapped between her emotional reservations and the practical needs.

4 BLACK SUITS
Comedy, (2010)
Director Renos Haralambidis

Plot: Four bankrupt gravediggers prepare for the “big money”, an opportunity to change their lives and leave their profession - which initially began as a temporary solution, but remained their occupation for life.

With the promise of high pay, fulfilling the last will of a deceased Greek from abroad, (which is: his coffin has to be carried on foot from Athens to the cemetery of a village in Boeotia.

Dir. Panos Karkanevatos

Greek and English language with English subtitles
Greece/USA/Netherlands/Belgium/2008/100mins/35mm
Written & produced by Panos Karkanevatos

A compelling personal epic that trips across the globe embracing the worldwide Greek diaspora, Well Kept Secrets, Athanasia was the winner of the critics’ FIPRESCI Prize at last year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival.

"En Miá Nikti " is an ensemble that was created in mid 2009, from the need of its members to communicate and enhance their musical sounds and stimuli, using the palette of both the special timbres and features of an arrangement based on  the mandolin.
The repertoire of the ensemble is a journey through the traditional and the more modern musical idioms of Greece and the Mediterranean region.

Songs in ethnic style music written for film and known melodies by jazz composers are the backbone of the ensemble’s repertoire.