Highway Of A Broken Heart

31/10/2024 - quanly

Short Film/ Greece/ 11 min/2023

Director: Nikos Kyritsis

Screenwriter: Nikos Kyritsis

Director of Photography: Yorgos Karvelas, GSC

Production: Maria Drandaki

Music Composer: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos

Art designer: Marli Aliferi

Cast: Elena Topalidou, Vassilis Zarifopoulos

Synopsis:

Somewhere, in the middle of nowhere, on an empty and badly lit part of an endless highway, Mary will do everything she can to win back the man who just broke her heart. But the night holds a big surprise.

Director’s biography:

Nikos Kyritsis was born in Greece and received his MFA in Film Directing with Honors. He has worked in short films, features, commercials and video-art installations in Greece, Germany, and Vietnam. He took part in Berlinale Talents (2013) and Sarajevo Talents (2014), where he won the YapimLab award for Pack&Pitch. His short fiction film, King Kong, premiered at Rotterdam IFF in 2014 and continued in QueerLisboa, Split, Sguardi Altrove, Pink Screens and Queersicht. In 2020 he received the SNF Artist Fellowship Program – ARTWORKS. Baby is his feature debut, developed with the support of the Greek Film Center, First Films First (Goethe Institute) and Sam Spiegel Film Lab.