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Pirateland by director Stavros Petropoulos has its world premiere world premiere at the 47th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Ferrand, which will take place from 31 January to 8 February of
2025. The film, produced by Leonidas Yonstandarakos – Alaska Films – and written by George Teltzidis, has been selected to participate in the official competition category of the Festival, considered the most important in the genre worldwide.
Pirateland is an international co-production between Greece, France, Norway and the United States.
and is supported by the French channel ARTE.
SUMMARY
At the end of the tourist season, a Norwegian family arrives at a pension in the Gramvousa region.
boarding house in the Gramvousa region of Crete, claiming to have been an authentic experience of pirate violence. The relationship between Ȃanos and Tassos, father and son, is put to the test as they struggle to meet the the ever-increasing demands of tourists seeking an authentic pirate experience.
pirate experience.
Pirateland is a story about the violence of tourism, the alienation of local people and the
and the dynamic relationship between tourists and locals. The visual universe of the film is built
between wild landscapes of natural beauty and images of a Greek island and the people
of a Greek island and the people who inhabit it.
“Growing up on an island that is constantly changing due to mass tourism and the people who live there. tourism, I have always felt the need to go to small, unseen and and undiscovered places that retain their local character. The constant from the role of the foreigner to the role of the local allows me to experience the these two different identities in terms of conflict, while at the same time trying to trace my while at the same time trying to trace my relationship to them and to identify what it is that the concept of the “bad” tourist. This conflictis what gave birth to the central idea of the film, which aims to create a a dialogue that explores our relationship to place and to others.” – Stavros Petropoulos, director
The participation of the film Pirateland in the festival is an important recognition for Greek cinema, highlighting the dynamism and quality of the country’s Greek cinema on the international film map.
The film is produced by Alaska Films, co-produced with Yukunkun Productions, Ferdi Film, EȀȀȀȀOMED – Creative Greece, Onassis Culture with the support of ARTE, NFI, Vicken Filminstitut, Region of Crete, Indigo View, Ready2Cast.
Duration: 28′. Greece, France, Norway, 2025
Starring: Kostas Ȁoroneos, Marianthi Pantelopoulou, Asteris Rimagmos Rigas, Aslag Guttormsgaard, Marian Hole, Lea Meyer
