“Until You See Me” by Eleanna Santorinaiou
Petros struggles to find the right way to grief as he attends the funeral of a loved one. He is in denial. As the ceremony progresses, he gets more isolated into his own world, filming everything with his Hi8 camera. People “demand” of him to be more normal, but he only wants to be on his own. When he arrives home, exhausted, he must face reality.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
"Until You See Me" is a film about being with yourself and coping within, even when the worst thing happens.
It is also a film about society and what they expect from us in specific occasions. It is about our long-gone childhood, love and loss. It was inspired by an article I had read in 2009 in a Greek free press about a young man going to a funeral of a beloved person and never cried whilst he was there. I find death an aching circumstance that somehow adds value to one's life. The question is, how can you deal with this, being alive? Is there a "normal" approach to grief? It seems like our society accepts and expects a certain behaviour to show you are sad. But Petros is not like that. And this is what the film investigates - a very personal way to accept the very common fact that your loved one has died. As I am very interested in childhood and how it shapes us through life, I have embedded this idea in the film as we see a glimpse of Petros' past and how it defined him in his adult life.”
-Eleanna Santorinaiou
CREDITS
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY ΕLEANNA SANTORINAIOU
PRODUCED BY Fournos Multivalent Centre, with associaton of AF Creew
PRODUCER// ARIS KOTRONIS VETTAS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS// GIANNIS SANTORINAIOS & TZENIA ZACHARIOU
FEATURING
PETROS OMIROS POULAKIS
IRENE ZOE MILONAS
MICHALIS DIMITRIS FOURLIS
SOFIA (MOTHER) LILA BAKLESI
YOUNG PETROS MANOLIS ZACHARIOU
ADDITIONAL CAST
AUNTIE 1 (EUGENIA) EVGENIA MARAGOU
AUNTIE 2 (MATINA) MATINA DIMITROPOULOU
MAN IN BLACK DEMOS MAMALOUDIS
FUNERAL HOME MAN 1 DIMITRIS BITHARIS
FUNERAL HOME MAN 2 YORGOS BITHARIS
PRODUCTION MANAGER// ARIS KOTRONIS VETTAS
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY// YIANNIS SIMOS
PRODUCTION DESIGNER// EVA MAVRIDOU
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR// IASONAS KOKKINAKIS
MAKE-UP ARTIST SFX// OLGA KOMPOGIANNI
MUSIC// FANIS ZACHOPOULOS
EDITOR// YIANNIS CHALKIADAKIS
SOUND DESIGNER// VALIA TSEROU
VFX COLORIST// ASTERISK POST
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