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Completed - GREEK, ENGLISH, GERMAN - Second film, Drama - 83 minutes

Log Line

Maria is waiting for a blast. She has to set her life on fire.

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Syllas TZOUMERKAS
Writer(s) : Syllas TZOUMERKAS, Youla BOUDALI
Cast : Aggeliki PAPOULIA, Basile DOGANIS, Makis PAPADIMITRIOU, Maria FILINI, Themis BAZAKA

Producer(s) : Maria DRANDAKI (Homemade Films), Titus KREYENBERG (unafilm), Ellen HAVENITH (PRPL), Jeroen BEKER (Bastide Films)

Synopsis

Maria is running away on the highway. She is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of the motorway. Her crazy, accelerating course will stop at nothing. Only a day before she was a caring mother, a loving wife, a responsible daughter. Today she has gone rogue: she is determined to sweep away everything she has ever cared for. Maria’s tragic tale of ascent to redemption is narrated through bits of the present that become tangibly interwoven with fragments of the past, creating a dazzling and devastating mural of contemporary Greece. Behind the eternal reign of her average greek family, lie only wrongly asserted sexuality, lies and debts, which can only be exposed by a blast. Violent as much as honest, A Blast follows uncompromisingly its anti-heroine, as she desperately reclaims the life taken away from her by an envious mother, a mentally challenged but all demanding sister, an absent husband and a hostile country. The comic goes hand in hand with the tragic and a hidden tenderness constantly counterparts the atrocious reality in a greek tale that is more timely than ever.

Production

Country(ies) : GREECE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS

Financing plan : EURIMAGES DEVELOPMENT AWARD- 30.000
MEDIA DEVELOPMENT - 41.000
MARNI FILMS (GR) - 46.000
UNAFILM (DE) - 15.000

Start of shooting : September 2013

AUSTRALIA BONSAI FILMS
DENMARK Sep 17, 2015 OST FOR PARADIS
GREECE STRADA FILMS
ICELAND HEIMILI KVIKMYN
ITALY Aug 27, 2015 MICROCINEMA
NETHERLAND Mar 11, 2015 DE FILMFREAK
NORTH MACE KT FILM & MEDIA
POLAND AGAINST GRAVITY
SWITZERLAN SPOT ON DISTRIB

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Festivals and Awards

Locarno 2014 Competition
BFI London FF 2014 Dare


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