
Vasilis Mazomenos
Directing
Biography
Vassilis Mazomenos (Greek: Βασίλης Μαζωμένος; born 1964, Athens) is a producer , screenwriter , director, member of both the European Film Academy and the Greek Hellenic Film Academy. He is also a production designer. Producer of short films and a poet. Mazomenos is one of the first Greek directors to exploit the potential of new technologies in the difficult task of renewing the filmic language.
Known For

After his father's death in a hunting accident, Lazarus grows up in a remote village in Epirus, experiencing loss, loneliness, and migration in a story about memory and identity.
Endless Land

A monk leads a procession. A girl is rescued from prostitution. Two college students become perpetrators of violent crimes. An elderly man falls victim to a police officer. A couple tries to repair their relationship. A woman expresses her anger to a civil servant. A man kidnaps his best friend. Seven different stories about love in modern Greece, from people who seek it, find it, lose it.
Purgatory

The 50-year Cypriot tragedy through the memories of an old man, a former gun dealer at death's door. A nightmare, through his operation, unmasks the reality of his own life and reveals his guilt feeling about his country.
Guilt

Greece nowadays. Seven different stories about seven persons who have already reached their limits and finally fall apart. Despite their seemingly obvious connection they are simultaneously connected through a common desperate action: the last phone call to the psychological support center called "life line". It's their last hope. As no one can really help them, even then, they all remain another part of the contemporary Greek tragedy. Written by Horme Pictures
Lines

A timeless poetic wandering in the international museum of vanity with Don Quixote as the guide.
The Triumph of Time

An aged, above suspicion, bourgeois man known as ‘The Master’ lives isolated in a luxurious beachfront villa with his teenage daughter. In reality, however, he is involved in an illicit trade in antiquities, acts as a loan shark, and trades antiquities on the black market. The ‘Master’ has two henchmen, Mercury and John, who both commit fatal mistakes. Mercury falls for the daughter of ‘Master’, while John becomes obsessed with a prostitute. Both of them, as ‘sentimentalists’, must be eliminated.
The Sentimentalists

In a nightmarish world, dominated by the decline and degradation of Man , Christ resurrected wandering, across three different eras of human history.
Money, a Mythology of Darkness

A high school student, who fails to withstand the pressure of her mother and a number of her classmates, is fatally driven to death.
Three Steps

Documentary on the Thriller, Noir, Fantasy, Science Fiction genders in the Greek cinema for the last 50 years. It is a collage of authentic scenes and trailers of 50 films as presented by 4 girls, bearing the name of the gender they represent. 50 years (1959-2009), 50 films, 45 directors, script writers, authors, critics, producers.
Strangers in a Strange Land: 50 Greek Mystery & Fantastic Movies

Is kissing a simple human action or something... strange?
Kiss

A journey through 40 years of life of the most important Film Festival in Portugal, through the voice of its President and Director, Mário Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira. Born at a coffee shop table in the "Invicta" - Porto City, with a subsidy of 15 "contos" (75EUR), since 1981 it hasn't stopped bringing us cinema, and given its weight and peculiarity, The project developed and soon became a reality, with the screening of several sessions a day, the realization of retrospectives and, also, in parallel, the promotion of concerts and art exhibitions. It is considered the biggest film festival in Portugal, and internationally recognized as one of the most important worldwide, and is now entering its 40th edition.
40 Years of Fantasporto

A man is late for work and his work place punishes him.
Stairs

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I mnimi

During a pandemic, a granddaughter has daily telephone contact with her isolated grandmother. Until the day when the grandmother does not answer...
Jasmine

Aris, a Greek man, becomes a no one in his own country and struggles to recover his self, living as a foreigner.
Exile

Ali, an Afghan Muslim, lives in Athens Greece. He is trying to get access to the western dream, surrounded by memories of his homeland, his trip to Europe and his nightmares. A real odyssey and a true story about Ali, his trip to Iran, Turkey, and eventually Greece, where he faces racism and intolerance.
10th Day

A politician, entangled in various, mysterious cases, advises his son to give up his job.
Father's Advice

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Logoi kai amartimata

In near future Europe human beings surrender themselves to an ongoing death row.
Pass

Daedalus escapes from the Labyrinth to find the ideal state, but soon he falls into tragic moments of history.