Airhostess-737
On a Boeing-737 a 39-y.o. flight attendant, Vanina, tries hard to hide her, obvious, discomfort. Everyone seems genuinely worried about her while she goes on complaining about her new braces. She blames her mother for not taking care of her teeth when she should. However, her colleagues know; this plane carries her mother’s dead body to her hometown. When the turbulence become threatening, Vanina faces an urgent need to see her mother in what proves to be a last chance for reconciliation.
“ADAMI Award” at Clermont-Ferrand 2023, Selected at Locarno 2022
Greece | 2022 | 16′
Airhosstes-737
On a Boeing-737 a 39-y.o. flight attendant, Vanina, tries hard to hide her, obvious, discomfort. Everyone seems genuinely worried about her while she goes on complaining about her new braces. She blames her mother for not taking care of her teeth when she should. However, her colleagues know; this plane carries her mother’s dead body to her hometown. When the turbulence become threatening, Vanina faces an urgent need to see her mother in what proves to be a last chance for reconciliation.
“ADAMI Award” at Clermont-Ferrand 2023, Selected at Locarno 2022
Greece | 2022 | 16′
Director
Director Statement
Thanasis Neofotistos is a Film Director, Writer & Architect from Greece. Member of European Film Academy (EFA), Berlinale & Sarajevo Talents alumnus and Head Programmer of Student Int’l Competition of Drama Int. Short Film Festival. But most importantly, member of the LGBTQI+ community! His new short film AIRHOSTESS-737 (16′-2022) premiered in 75th Locarno IFF 2022 and then at 47th TIFF Toronto Film Festival! His short film, PATISION AVENUE (13’-2018), premiered at 75th Venice Film Festival, won 3 awards at 41st Clermont-Ferrand 2019 (Jury, Canal+, EFA) and was a 2019 Festival-Hit with more than 100 film festival selections. ROUTE-3, his latest film, world-premiered at 44th TIFF Toronto 2019 and then again in 42nd Clermont-Ferrand 2020. GREEK SCHOOL PRAYER (20’-2014) was his successful thesis (best Greek short film of 2014, over 50 IFF), and SPARKLING CANDLES (9’-2019) is his LGBTQI+ super cute queer short film that premiered at the legendary 43rd Frameline IFF. He is now in the financing stage of his debut feature film, which he envisions as his personal coming-of-age Greek tragedy; THE BOY WITH THE LIGHT-BLUE EYES (aka PETER AND THE WOLF), the film got the main GFC, ERT & Media funding and has been developed, amongst others, at First-Films-First, MFI, Sarajevo & Cannes Focus CoPro 2022.
“Airhostess-737” is a story that I experienced entirely in a dream. It is the piece I was missing to complete my trilogy Patision Avenue & Route-3, films about a road, a journey, a route. Films with a character as the central figure, who is eventually drowned by his own subconscious or, as I present it, by the surrounding space that encloses him. I strongly identify with this heroine, a child of an unprepared mother who was unable to give her the care, acceptance and love that she needed and so she remained hurt and distant. This film is for all those who still seek reconciliation. Or, who have not realized they need it. Even for some who think it is too late to try it, that is, after death. This film is a milestone for me, as it is my short before my debut feature film where I got the chance to, freely, express my cinematic language. Production wise, building an airplane-set was one of the most demanding yet interesting tasks to date!
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Director
Thanasis Neofotistos is a Film Director, Writer & Architect from Greece. Member of European Film Academy (EFA), Berlinale & Sarajevo Talents alumnus and Head Programmer of Student Int’l Competition of Drama Int. Short Film Festival. But most importantly, member of the LGBTQI+ community! His new short film AIRHOSTESS-737 (16′-2022) premiered in 75th Locarno IFF 2022 and then at 47th TIFF Toronto Film Festival! His short film, PATISION AVENUE (13’-2018), premiered at 75th Venice Film Festival, won 3 awards at 41st Clermont-Ferrand 2019 (Jury, Canal+, EFA) and was a 2019 Festival-Hit with more than 100 film festival selections. ROUTE-3, his latest film, world-premiered at 44th TIFF Toronto 2019 and then again in 42nd Clermont-Ferrand 2020. GREEK SCHOOL PRAYER (20’-2014) was his successful thesis (best Greek short film of 2014, over 50 IFF), and SPARKLING CANDLES (9’-2019) is his LGBTQI+ super cute queer short film that premiered at the legendary 43rd Frameline IFF. He is now in the financing stage of his debut feature film, which he envisions as his personal coming-of-age Greek tragedy; THE BOY WITH THE LIGHT-BLUE EYES (aka PETER AND THE WOLF), the film got the main GFC, ERT & Media funding and has been developed, amongst others, at First-Films-First, MFI, Sarajevo & Cannes Focus CoPro 2022.
Director Statement
“Airhostess-737” is a story that I experienced entirely in a dream. It is the piece I was missing to complete my trilogy Patision Avenue & Route-3, films about a road, a journey, a route. Films with a character as the central figure, who is eventually drowned by his own subconscious or, as I present it, by the surrounding space that encloses him. I strongly identify with this heroine, a child of an unprepared mother who was unable to give her the care, acceptance and love that she needed and so she remained hurt and distant. This film is for all those who still seek reconciliation. Or, who have not realized they need it. Even for some who think it is too late to try it, that is, after death. This film is a milestone for me, as it is my short before my debut feature film where I got the chance to, freely, express my cinematic language. Production wise, building an airplane-set was one of the most demanding yet interesting tasks to date!
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