My Mother is a Saint

The meeting of a mother with her son at her hometown takes an unexpected turn.

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Direction: Syllas Tzoumerkas

Script: Syllas Tzoumerkas

Cinematography: Alexandra Riba

Editing: Yorgos Zafeiris

Sound: Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Kostas Bokos

Actors: Angeliki Papoulia, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Eleni Karagiorgi, Niki Papandreou, Leonidas Stamou, Artemis Zarokosta, Anastasia Anagnostopoulou, Argyris Lambrou

Production: Delta Pi

Producers: Konstantinos Sakkas

Co-production: 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture

Costumes: Marli Aliferi

Production Design: Pinelopi Valti

Executive producer: Syllas Tzoumerkas

Make Up: Evi Zafiropoulou

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Greece

Production Year: 2023

Duration: 8'

Distribution in Greece: Delta Pi

Contact: Delta Pi, Konstantinos Sakkas (ksakkas@delta-pi.org)

Produced in the frame of the “PANIGIRI – Live Cinema, The Working Class, Sirens” festival by Eleusis 2023 European Capital of Culture, with the collaboration of Thessaloniki International Film Festival and LADA, with the support of the Embassy of Italy in Athens & the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens, Goethe Institut-Athen and Kingston University.

Syllas Tzoumerkas

Syllas Tzoumerkas was born in Thessaloniki. He directed the feature films Homeland (Venice Critics’ Week 2010), A Blast (Locarno International Competition 2014), The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (Berlinale Panorama 2019), and, in co-direction with Christos Passalis, The City and the City (Berlinale Encounters Competition 2022).

Filmography

2001 The Devouring Eyes (short)
2002 Rain (short)
2010 Homeland
2014 A Blast
2017 A Manifesto for the Un-Communal (short)
2019 The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea
2022 The City and the City (co-direction)
2023 Μy Mother is a Saint (short)