A Blast
A Blast- Director
- Syllas Tzoumerkas
- Country
- Greece, Germany, Netherlands
- Year
- 2014
- Genre
- Drama, Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Syllas TZOUMERKAS, Youla BOUDALI
- Cast
- Angeliki Papoulia, Vassilis Doganis, Maria Filini, Themis Bazaka, Yorgos Biniaris, Makis Papadimitriou
- Production
- Homemade Films, Unafilm, PRPL, Bastide Films
Storyline
Maria is running away on the highway. She is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of the motorway. Her crazy, accelerating course will stop at nothing. Only a day before she was a caring mother, a loving wife, a responsible daughter. Today she has gone rogue: she is determined to sweep away everything she has ever cared for. Maria’s tragic tale of ascent to redemption is narrated through bits of the present that become tangibly interwoven with fragments of the past, creating a dazzling and devastating mural of contemporary Greece. Behind the eternal reign of her average greek family, lie only wrongly asserted sexuality, lies and debts, which can only be exposed by a blast. Violent as much as honest, A Blast follows uncompromisingly its anti-heroine, as she desperately reclaims the life taken away from her by an envious mother, a mentally challenged but all demanding sister, an absent husband and a hostile country. The comic goes hand in hand with the tragic and a hidden tenderness constantly counterparts the atrocious reality in a greek tale that is more timely than ever.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Festival del Film Locarno 2014
Concorso Internazionale
Sarajevo Film Festival 2014
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILMS
Crossing Europe Film Festival 2015
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015
Variety Critics’ Choice
Atlántida Film Fest (Filmin) 2016
Call for proposals Development
Year 2012
Call number 31/2012
Media support 41,000.00€
Single Project - Deadline 23/11/2012
Company: Maria Drandaki Homemade Films
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2013
Call number 07/2012
Media support 15.127,00€
Italy (MOVIMENTO FILM SRL)
Distribution:
Homemade Films ()
