Six films by the director Christos N.

Karakasis, travel to Russia

A Tribute to the director and producer Christos N. Karakasis will take place at the
3rd Greek Cinema Week in Moscow. During the tribute six of his films will be
screened for the audience. The films represent twelve years of creativity and they
cover a wide range of themes. The films, which are characterized by the particular
writing and philosophical view of the international award winning director, have a
very successful independent journey and acceptance worldwide. The films will be
screened with Russian and English subtitles. The 3rd Greek Cinema Week, organized
by the Hellenic Culture Center (KEP), in collaboration with the State Film Archive
of Russia - GOSFILMOFOND, will be held from 2 to 9 October 2017 in the
historical cinema "Illusion"

ake a rip Greece-England 2014 ,30 Organization of Production Vasiliki

Kappa ,Director of Photography George Devon, Christos N. Karakasis ,Dionisis
Dimas ,Music Composition Gregory Giarelis ,Production Assistant Maria Kappa
,Assistant director Nikos Psaltakis ,Screenplay Direction Christos N. Karakasis
KOYINTA Production
I m travelling. I m leaving a city behind me for another city. I hope a different one. I
suppose, someone else must be travelling to reach the city that Im leaving. Maybe the
journey takes place only inside us. Maybe the city itself is only inside us. What indeed
is a city, rather than the way we see it. Violence follows me everywhere. For a while
the colors fade and the place loses its power, I'm not sure where I am. How different
is a tourist town from a real one.
The birth of an idea Greece , 2013 70 Organization of production Vasiliki
Kappa , Actors Danae Christopoulou ,sofia Biliati ,Eftychia Argyropoulou ,
Koastandinos Niarchos Music Composition Vangelis Boulouhtsis , assistant
directors Manolis Rizikos Screenplay Direction ,Christos N. Karakasis
KOYINTA Production

Ideas have their own life. They have their own zone. Staying there, all together,
waiting for a hand to touch them. Maybe a mind to alter them. Or someone to
conceive them from scratch like they never existed so far. Does parthenogenesis
really exist? It doesn't exist. It exists though. No, it doesn't exists. It exists. Every time
it is born again. In the glance of a new artist. Nothing is born in the same way.
Everything looks alike and everything is different. An idea is always new
Morphogenesis Greece,2012 25 Organization of production Vasiliki Kappa
,Photography editing Screenplay Direction Christos N. Karakasis , Music
Composition Filippos Peristeris, KOYINTA Production

morphologie, in France it is more like morphogenesis. So,i think in a

morphogenetic way, to create shapes, forms. Therefore, I called my first two
exhibitions morphogenesis one and two. And these in here are based on the
morphogenetic way of thinking, meaning to create shapes that dont really exist. They
might be referring to something; this for example, might be referring to the fibers of
human muscles. You take the inner metal part and wrap it around. The shape that is
now created did not exist before. But we might think it did, or it exists in our mind
Dimitri Mantikas
Between two homelands Greece-Finland ,2011 ,65 Screenplay Direction
Christos N. karakasis Photography Ilias Misyris, Christos N. Karakasis , Arttu
Kotisara-Eero murtomaki, Ari Valkola-Juhani koivusaari ,Text Narrator
Vasiliki Kappa Music Composition Moles Band, Souvlaki orchestra, KOYINTA
Production

"Between two homelands" that tells about a Greek immigrant, Ilias Missyris, who
moved to Finland and how he adjusted to Finnish way of living. He discovered in
Finland the Finnish-Greek associations, Greek music and that way felt more strongly
his Greek identity and a new kind of patriotism. He felt often homesick for the
country he wasn't staying at the moment (of his two homelands) but gradually the
longing for the other started becoming weaker and he enjoyed his life wherever he
was. The idea of making a documentary about people who have found another home
began many years ago.

When I met Ilias I immediately wanted to do a documentary inspired by his life. What
moved me was the fact that Ilias journey had started for him when he was 7 years
old. The truth is that during the film process we, the creative team, we all entered an
inner journey stage. After this inner jouney of ours we ve become much better people
and I wanted to share this feeling with as many as I could. After this journey we are
simpler, more conscious seekers of beauty of life and human relations, and our
thoughts are far richer!

The excellent text written by the author Vasiliki Kappa was born as a synthesis of
lyricism and philosophical thinking. Vasiliki has followed this journey of self-
awareness, as we all did, and thus we essentially achieved to capture the something
that makes a project special; to be simple, to be about human nature and enable us to
think about tomorrow, while building the present, currently living in today, and
critically looking back at yesterday!
Lovers of Art Greece , 2010 ,45 ,Text- Narrator Vasiliki Kappa Music
Composition Vangelis and Periklis Boulouhtsis Assistant director Labrini
Papadimitriou Screenplay direction Christos N.lovers of art Karakasis ,KOYINTA
Production

We filmed a team of amateur actors for three years. They did theatre during their free
time. What was their motivation for participating happily and patiently like real
professionals do? Amateur actors, erasitexnes in Greek, lovers of theatre, will study
their parts silently, without any expectations to be rewarded, this though doesnt mean
they will stay on the surface. Most times they will go deep inside themselves, magic
and beauty will emerge from their heart, a lot of energy will be produced on the
amateur stage. Passionate affairs last long, that the reason why many amateurs will
also develop special skills.
The excursion -Ioannina Greece, 2004, 95' Screenplay direction Christos N.
Karakasis Narrator Kostas Apostolakis. Tour- Scientific collaborator Katerina
Kontopanagou Photography George Nikolos Editing Christos N. Karakasis
Music Composition Tasos Makrogianopoulos, Giorgos Basdras KOYINTA
Production

The Excursion began as a documentary with an intense search of space in relation to

time and the land and how this is expressed in the daily life, and how it influences the
people and their habits.

For all those who embarked with us on this journey in Ioannina having lived there for
many years, it was an occasion, to reminisce on sweet, beautiful, relaxed moments, to
walk again by the lake together with old and beloved friends, to see the city once
more and how it changes.

For all those who live in the city of Ioannina, this documentary was a chance to
escape from the narrow limits of a melancholic and claustrophobic city, and to see
Ioannina from a different point of view. The documentary and we along with it,
sought to feel the intense oppositions of the landscape. To find the measure of the past
with the future and their relation with our own present (the present of the film), the
reconciliation with ourselves, our personal glance, the journey of our life!
Christos N. Karakasis was born in Athens. He studied Film-Theatre-TV Direction,
Computer Science, Music and Humanities. He has Postgraduate Diploma in
training and development, and Post graduatee diploma in film and theatre
direction .He has supervised, technically supported and produced various
audiovisual events, presentations, adverts, video art projects, festivals.As a Director-
Producer he is active since 1992.

His films have been screened in Greece and abroad and have been awarded in
international film festivals. He is a member of the Greek Directors' Guild .He is
the Artistic Director of ATHENS INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL FILM
FESTIVAL (www.AIDFF.com), which achieved alignment of the cinema reality
in Greece with the major international developments in the Cinema era, which is
steadily moving towards the Digital Age.

He is the Artistic Director of the INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND

ECOLOGICAL PANORAMA, which contributes to the dissemination of science
through the power of new media and digital technologies currently used by
scientists around the world. He is the writer of a book titled Introduction to
Cinema which can be helpful to all aspiring filmmakers, but also to those who
want to study in a direct and concise manner the art and technique of filmmaking.
arthrography at filmmaker and koyinta art emagazine.