On the day of his 40th birthday, Nikos, a solitary truck driver, arrives on a remote beach somewhere in the north of Greece. He is there to meet his former lover Christos, whom he hasn't seen since their military days.
Director Statement
Some years ago, I got to know a truck driver named Nikos while hitch hiking in Greece.
Nikos told me about his time in the military, during which he met Christos,
a man he was still secretly in love with despite not having seen him in fifteen years.
His story touched me deeply and over the years, it has evolved into a story that is perhaps more about me than the real Nikos.
Part of what has moved me in the process of reimagining this story is the way that love and violence collide in the protagonists’ lives
- indivisible - yet dependent upon each other.
The beauty of this story lies behind the barriers the characters constructed around themselves.
They got protected and persecuted by their own personas, inevitably driven towards repression and isolation.
My desire with this film is to create a moment, suspended in time for them alone - a moment, however complex, of liberation.
- Year2022
- Runtime26 minutes
- LanguageGreek
- CountryGreece
- PremiereLouisiana Premiere
- NoteValentin is a director and writer from Austria. He graduated Ortweinschule for Film & Media in Graz in 2014. Since then, he has been working in theatre, film festivals and film productions. So far, he has directed 3 narrative short films as a director. In 2019, he moved to Athens, Greece where he is currently working on the short film ‘5pm Seaside’.
- DirectorValentin Stejskal
- ScreenwriterGlykeria Patramani, Valentin Stejskal
- ProducerSamir Ljuma, Valentin Stejskal, Alisa Frischholz, Ioanna Peteinaraki
- CastKimon Kouris, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos
- CinematographerSamir Ljuma
- EditorMartin Ivanov
- Production DesignDimitra Sourlantzi
On the day of his 40th birthday, Nikos, a solitary truck driver, arrives on a remote beach somewhere in the north of Greece. He is there to meet his former lover Christos, whom he hasn't seen since their military days.
Director Statement
Some years ago, I got to know a truck driver named Nikos while hitch hiking in Greece.
Nikos told me about his time in the military, during which he met Christos,
a man he was still secretly in love with despite not having seen him in fifteen years.
His story touched me deeply and over the years, it has evolved into a story that is perhaps more about me than the real Nikos.
Part of what has moved me in the process of reimagining this story is the way that love and violence collide in the protagonists’ lives
- indivisible - yet dependent upon each other.
The beauty of this story lies behind the barriers the characters constructed around themselves.
They got protected and persecuted by their own personas, inevitably driven towards repression and isolation.
My desire with this film is to create a moment, suspended in time for them alone - a moment, however complex, of liberation.
- Year2022
- Runtime26 minutes
- LanguageGreek
- CountryGreece
- PremiereLouisiana Premiere
- NoteValentin is a director and writer from Austria. He graduated Ortweinschule for Film & Media in Graz in 2014. Since then, he has been working in theatre, film festivals and film productions. So far, he has directed 3 narrative short films as a director. In 2019, he moved to Athens, Greece where he is currently working on the short film ‘5pm Seaside’.
- DirectorValentin Stejskal
- ScreenwriterGlykeria Patramani, Valentin Stejskal
- ProducerSamir Ljuma, Valentin Stejskal, Alisa Frischholz, Ioanna Peteinaraki
- CastKimon Kouris, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos
- CinematographerSamir Ljuma
- EditorMartin Ivanov
- Production DesignDimitra Sourlantzi