06 Dec 2022
Konstantina Kotzamani’s debut feature TITANIC OCEAN, a co-production of Greece, France, Romania, Germany, Spain and Japan received support from Eurimages! Congratulations to all the team and all our partners.
Read more @ Eurimages
25 Oct 2022
After its world premiere at Karlovy Vary Chrystal Globe Competition, Christos Passalis’ Silence 6-9 will have its national premiere at the International Competition of the 63rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (3-13 November 2022).
19 Jun 2022
Homemade Films has been granted support from Creative Europe – Media Slate Funding!
Congratulations to everyone who worked and collaborated for this (Maria Drandaki, Kyveli Short, Vasia Attarian, Vicky Miha, Hermione Efstratiades), to our partners, and to all the artists and their amazing projects:
ANIMAL by Sofia Exarchou (feature, Atélier, Cannes)
MY SOUL STARTLED by Syllas Tzoumerkas (Berlinale Co-production Market, feature)
PATRIMONIAL FEARS AND OTHER SYMPTOMS by Elina Psykou (Berlinale Co-production Market, Cinelink, feature)
FUTURE TENSES by Christos Karakepelis (Visions du Réel, feature documentary)
HOPEPUNK by Vasiliki Lazaridou (short)
We’ll be more than happy to bring these amazing projects to life over the next period!
31 May 2022
World premiere for Christos Passalis’ feature SILENCE 6-9 at the International Competition of the 56th Karlovy Vary IFF!
See you all in Karlovy Vary for an amazing, melancholic love story like no other, starring Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis.
“Aris and Anna meet one evening in a half-abandoned town surrounded by antennas. In this strange, dreamlike world the two solitary souls gradually start to develop feelings for one another… A melancholic love story with a mesmeric atmosphere and striking visuals that proves Greek cinema has lost nothing of its originality.” – KVIFF
Produced by Homemade Films, co-produced by ERT and Asterisk post with the support of Greek Film Centre, EKOME and the Athens Film Office.
Read more @ kviff
06 Mar 2022
La Voluntaria / The Volunteer, the second feature film by Nely Reguera, had its premiere at the 25 Festival de Málaga. It stars Carmen Machi as Marisa, a retired doctor who is dying to have grandchildren and decides to travel to a refugee camp, where the children need, in her opinion, people exactly like her.
La Voluntaria, a co-production of @fastenfilms @bteampictures and Homemade Films will hit screens in Spain in June 10.
29 Mar 2022
North American premiere for Christos Passalis’ and Syllas Tzoumerkas’ THE CITY AND THE CITY at the New Directors / New Films 2022 by Film at Lincoln Center and MoMA!
Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas will present the film in New York, on April 23rd at MoMA T2 and on April 24th at FLC Walter-Reade Theater.
“Using a radical, endlessly surprising narrative structure and a distinctive stylistic approach, Greek filmmakers Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas tell of how the once-thriving Sephardic Jewish community in their native city of Thessaloniki was gradually decimated over the course of the violent 20th century. It’s a properly disjointed and unsettled tale, zigzagging across time, and taking place on parallel contemporary and historical tracks, tracing moments of anti-Semitic persecution, the Nazi occupation of Greece, and lingering postwar trauma. Originating as an installation project, The City and the City is a film of devastating emotional clarity and relentless force.”
17 Feb 2022
World premiere for The City and the City @ Berlinale and the first – rave – reviews are here:
“An absorbing and appropriately disturbing indictment of man’s inhumanity to man. (…) A heartfelt, sorrowful and elegiac love-letter to Thessaloniki, which before the Second World War was a dazzlingly polyglot cosmopolis.”
-Neil Young, Screen Daily
“The genius in The City and the City is the seemingly nonchalant and subtle amalgamation of the past and the present. The two cities in the name of the film refer to one singular Thessaloniki. It is the time that creates the duality, and not the space.Passalis and Tzoumerkas employ an ingenious technique here.”
-Suvo Pyne, High on Films
“***** – The creative choices employed by co-directors Syllas Tzoumerkas and Christos Passalis have led to a non-traditional war film that feels quite radical in the most beguiling way.”
-Oliver Johnston – The Upcoming
“****1/2 – Cinematically brilliant and thematically relevant”
-Meredith Taylor – FilmUforia
“*** – In this unsettling mea culpa, the Jewish community’s loss and fear are palpable.”
-Alex Goldstein – One Room With A View
The world sales of the film are represented by Syndicado.
19 Jan 2022
Just announced: Christos Passalis’ and Syllas Tzoumerkas’ THE CITY AND THE CITY will have its world premiere at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (10-20 February 2022) and the Encounters official competition section!
A co-production of the Greek National Opera and Homemade Films, with the collaboration of Thessaloniki International Film Festival, THE CITY AND THE CITY narrates in a razor-sharp way the untold story of the life and perils of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki.
Read more @ and see you in Berlin!
29 Nov 2021
XENOS, the upcoming feature film by Mahdi Fleifel, a co-production of Denmark (Bullitt Film), Greece (Homemade Films) and the Netherlands (Studio Ruba) received support from the joint programme of the Netherlands Film Fund and the Hubert Bals Fund!
Mahdi Fleifel’s debut feature documentary, A World Not Ours (2012), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and picked up over 30 awards, including the Peace Film Prize and the Panorama Audience Award at the 2013 Berlinale and the Edinburgh, Yamagata and DOC:NYC Grand Jury Prizes. Mahdi’s 2016 short film, A Man Returned, won the Silver Bear and the European Film Nomination at the Berlinale and his latest short film, A Drowning Man, a co-production of Homemade Films, formed part of the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2017 and was nominated for a BAFTA award.
29 Nov 2021
Christos Passalis’ SILENCE 6-9 and Nikos Kyritsis’ BABY, presented at the Works in Progress and the Crossroads Co-production market of the 2021 Thessaloniki International Film Festival respectively, won three awards at the closing ceremony of the festival’s Agora:
Initiative Film Award for Nikos Kyritsis’ in-development debut feature by the Crossroads Jury, and
the ERT Agora Works in Progress Award and the MUSOU Music and Sound Award for Christos Passalis’ debut feature by the Works in Progress Jury.
11 Dec 2021
Arcadia, Yorgos Zois’ sophomore feature film after Interruption, received support from the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund. Arcadia is a co-production of Greece (Homemade Films, Foss Productions), Bulgaria (Red Carpet Films) and Serbia (Film House Bas Celik).
Yorgos Zois‘ debut short film, Casus Belli premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival in 2010 and participated in the official competition of numerous international film festivals (Rotterdam, Clermont Ferrand, Tokyo Short Shorts, Palm Springs, LA Short Fest etc) winning multiple awards and distinctions. His second short film, Out of Frame, premiered at the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012 and won the EFA award for the Best European short film and was nominated for Best Short film of the European Film Academy Awards 2012. His first feature, Interruption, premiered at the Orizzonti Competition of the 72nd Venice Film Festival. His follow-up shorts, 8th Continent and Third Kind premiered as a special screening at the Venice IFF, and at the Cannes Semaine de la Critique and the Telluride IFF, respectively. Casus Belli, Out of Frame and Interruption were all produced or co-produced by Homemade Films.
25 Feb 2021
Mladen Djordjevič’s Labour Day starts shooting in Beograd. The Serbian director’s second film after his transgressive and provocative arthouse hit Life and Death of a Porno Gang, follows a group of ex-workers from a recently closed factory who in their fight for dignity, reach out to the supernatural.
Labour Day Is co-produced by Milan Stojanović (Sense production, Serbia), Mladen Djordjevič (Corona Film, Serbia), Martitchka Bozhilova (Agitprop, Bulgaria), Maria Drandaki (Homemade Films, Greece), Ivan Marinović (Adriatic Western, Montenegro), Anamaria Antoci (Tangaj production, Romania) with the support of Film Center Serbia, the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Greek Film Centre, Film Centre Montenegro and Eurimages.
Read more @ cineuropa
16 Jan 2021
“A sure-fire hit of tomorrow!” Konstantina Kotzamani’s first feature film project wins the Creative Excellence Award of the Macao Festival Project Market!!
Variety reports:
‘The Creative Excellence Award worth $10,000 went to Greece-France-Japan project “Titanic Ocean,” from director Konstantina Kotzamani and producer Maria Drandaki. It will be Kotzamani’s debut feature following a string of successful short films.
The jury (Locarno Film Festival artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro, Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar, and Choi Yeonu, head of production at the U.S. film team of Korea’s CJ ENM.) said that “Titanic Ocean” was: “A daring project which is supported with flair and savviness by the producer and director. A sensual blend of fantasy and realism, ‘Titanic Ocean’ presents itself as a sure-fire hit of tomorrow.”’
16 Jan 2021
“My Soul Startled“, Syllas Tzoumerkas’ new film project, a co-production of the Onassis Foundation and Homemade Films, was selected to participate at the 2021 Berlinale Co-production Market 2021. The film will be represented in the digital market by Maria Drandaki and Syllas Tzoumerkas.
Read more @ the Berlinale press release and @ Flix.gr
14 May 2020
Titanic Ocean, Konstantina Kotzamani’s in-development first feature film after her multi-awarded shorts (Washingtonia, Limbo, Yellow Fieber, Electric Swan), received funding by Creative Europe – MEDIA for its development.
14 Jun 2020
Syllas Tzoumerkas started his on-location workshops for his new film, My Soul Startled, at the Duncan Dance Research Centre of Athens, with the participation of amateur and professional actors.
The project is developed through and co-produced by the Onassis Foundation.
The workshops feature a stellar ensemble of Greek actors belonging to different generations and coming from various backgrounds: Maria Diakopanagiotou, Giannis Vasilottos, Angeliki Papoulia, Thanos Tokakis, Elli Tringou, Argyris Xafis, Kimon Kouris, Katerina Roussiaki, Vassilis Kanakis, Youla Boudali, Thanassis Dovris, Olia Lazaridou, Amalia Moutoussi, Niki Papandreou, Erietta Kelly, Yorgos Fassoulas, Anna Tsakouridou, Zoe Sigalou, Marina Siotou, Kostas Xikominos, Maria Filini, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Christos Passalis, and others.
Check for updates at the Onassis Stegi official instagram
14 Apr 2020
Syllas Tzoumerkas won the Best Director Hellenic Film Academy Award 2020 and Angeliki Papoulia the Best Lead Actress for The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea, and Electric Swan was awarded with the Best Short Film Award at the 2020 Iris Awards! Congratulations to the winners and the teams of the films. 
18 Mar 2020
Homemade Films’ productions & co-productions, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea by Syllas Tzoumerkas in the feature film categories, Electric Swan by Konstantina Kotzamani and Index by Nicolas Kolovos in the short film category, earned 14 nominations in total at the 2020 Hellenic Film Academy Awards!
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea was nominated for
Best Film (Maria Drandaki, Titus Kreyenberg, Ellen Havenith, Olle Wirenhed, Anthony Muir)
Best Director (Syllas Tzoumerkas)
Best Actress (Angeliki Papoulia)
Best Actor (Christos Passalis)
Best Supporting Role Actress (Youla Boudali)
Best Screenplay (Youla Boudali, Syllas Tzoumerkas)
Best Editing (Andreas Wodraschke)
Best Music (Jean-Paul Wall, drog_A_tek, Phoebus)
Best Costume Design (Marli Aliferi)
Best Sound (Marco Vermaas, Felix Siewert, Persefoni Miliou, Nikos Exarchos, Stefanos Konstantinidis)
Best Make-up (Evi Zafiropoulou, Linda Boije af Gennäs)
Best Effects (Luuk Meijer, Evi Zafiropoulou, Linda Boije af Gennäs)
Electric Swan was nominated for
Best Short Film (Konstantina Kotzamani)
Index was nominated for
Best Short Film (Nicolas Kolovos)
23 Jan 2020
Konstantina Kotzamani’s Electric Swan was declared Best 2019 Short Film by the French Critics’ Association (Syndicat de la Critique de Cinéma)!
23 Jan 2020
Konstantina Kotzamani’s Electric Swan wins Best Film at the Whole Wide World Competition of the Zubroffka Festival in Poland, Best Short Film and Best Director at the La Cabina Medium Length Film Festival, and gets declared as Best Short of the Year by the Close-Up Culture magazine!
More @ Flix.gr
23 Jan 2020
Syllas Tzoumerkas’ The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea released theatrically in Greece by StraDa Films (21/11) and Sweden by Njuta Films (29/11)!
23 Jan 2020
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea premiered in an enthusiastic sold-out special double-screening out-of-competition at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival!
Director and lead actors photographed by Aris Rammos:
31 Aug 2019
Konstantina Kotzamani’s Electric Swan had its world premiere yesterday at the Sala Giardino, in the Out-of-Competition Special Screenings section of the 76th Venice International Film Festival. The double screening that featured medium-length Electric Swan and Guillermo Arriaga’s short film No One Left Behind was presented by Alberto Barberra.
29 Aug 2019
Syllas Tzoumerkas’ The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea in wonderful company @ BFI London – Dare Section in October 2019!
City cop Elisabeth (Angeliki Papoulia) is caught up in a botched Athens bust and exiled to the remote town of Mesolongi, where she is now the local police chief. After an apparent suicide shakes the town, Elisabeth is plunged into a sleazy and violent conspiracy involving a vicious club owner, his depressed sister and an assortment of bent officials and hard-living locals. Combining an extravagant visual style, including flashes of surreal and perverse religious imagery, this singular vision from Tzoumerkas (who co-wrote Suntan) is certainly not for the faint hearted. Violent and explicit, fiercely committed to its own oblique narrative and nightmarish imagery, Tzoumerkas’ film cements his status as one of the most exciting young directors to emerge from the thriving Greek film scene. – Paul Ridd
For screening dates and tickets @ BFI
18 Aug 2019
Syllas Tzoumerkas’ Τhe Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (“Das Wunder Im Meer Von Sargasso) in German cinemas September 12 from Real Fiction – 📍in Berlin, Köln, Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Hannover, Kiel, Bremen, and many more cities! More @ real fiction
27 Jul 2019
Konstantina Kotzamani‘s new medium-length film ‘Electric Swan‘ (a French-Argentinian-Greek co-production by Ecce Films, Un Puma and Homemade Films) will have its world premiere Out-of-Competition in the Official Selection of the 76th Venice International Film Festival (Special Screenings)! Watch the trailer here and read more about the film @ www.labiennale.org
04 Jul 2019
The 2019 edition of the Competition for the European Parliament’s LUX film prize officially kicked off in March and, following much deliberation on the part of the Selection Panel, the ten films which make up the Official Selection have just been unveiled at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The official line-up was revealed by European Parliament´s Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education Helga Trüpel, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control Martina Dlabajová, LUX Prize coordinator Doris Pack, and Benedikt Erlingsson, director of 2018 LUX Prize winner – Woman at War.
The 2019 LUX Prize Official Selection (in alphabetical order)
Clergy – Wojciech Smarzowski (Poland)
Cold Case Hammarskjöld – Mads Brügger (Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Belgium)
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija – Teona Strugar Mitevska (North Macedonia/Belgium/Slovenia/Croatia/France)
Her Job – Nikos Labôt (Greece/France/Serbia)
Honeyland – Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov (North Macedonia)
Invisibles – Louis-Julien Petit (France)
Ray & Liz – Richard Billingham (UK)
System Crasher – Nora Fingscheidt (Germany)
The Man Who Surprised Everyone – Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov (Russia/Estonia/France)
The Realm – Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Spain/France)
04 Jul 2019
Syllas Tzoumerkas and Angeliki Papoulia to present The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea at the Another View section of the 54th Karlovy Vary IFF 2019. In addition to the film’s presentation, Angeliki Papoulia will serve as member of the KVIFF’s International Competition Jury, and Syllas Tzoumerkas will hold a masterclass and be a mentor for the directors selected by the festival and European Film Promotion for this year’s edition of Future Frames.
Read more @ Variety</em>.
The Filmmmakers’ at KVIFF interviews: Syllas Tzoumerkas & Angeliki Papoulia.
31 May 2019
Asian and Korean premiere for Syllas Tzoumerkas’ The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea at the International Competition of the 2019 BiFan – Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. more @ BiFan.kr
