AVANOS

Director: Panagiotis Charamis

Producer: Konstantinos Baliotis

Production company: 2D2R

Country: Greece

An ex-convict returns to his hometown after 10 years in prison, in order to ask for his share while he was away, only to soon realise that the price he has to pay is much higher than what he had expected.

Synopsis:

Avanos is a modern Greek tragedy that takes place near the borders between Greece and Turkey, Europe and Asia as a neo-western. It tells the story of Tasos, an ex-convict in his 40s, who returns to his small hometown after doing 10 years in prison for a murder he committed. His only goal is to claim his share of the money his family made from smuggling near the river by the borders, while he was doing his time inside. Money, that his Uncle and father-figure to him promised Tasos, just before he went in. While there though, Tasos finds out that the family he once had and got completely detached from these 10 years, is now falling apart. His Uncle and head of the family has isolated himself, lost in his megalomaniac plans, his ex-wife is about to join her new partner in another town and their teenager son, unwilling to follow his mother is left behind with his Uncle. Furthermore, Tasos gets involved with another woman, an outsider like him and in conflict with the Uncle over a piece of land, which makes things even more complicated. Tasos’ eagerness though to leave as soon as he gets the money, as well as his reluctance to engage with anything that has to do with his past have tragic consequences. His son gets shot in an accident, while trying to prove himself and it is only then that Tasos realizes that the price he has to pay for a new clean start is higher than what he expected.

Director: Panagiotis Charamis

Panagiotis Charamis was born in Drama, Greece in 1978. He completed his BA in Film Studies at the University of Kent in 2006. In 2009, he graduated with an MA in Filmmaking from Kingston University. Since then, he has been working as a director in cinema, as well as in advertising in Athens, London and Istanbul. His first feature documentary Attention!, which he co-directed with Onur Bakir, premiered at the 35th Istanbul Film Festival in 2016, where it won the Best Documentary Award. His last short Avanos premiered at the Drama Short Film Festival in 2018, where it won 6 awards including the Best Short Award.

Producer: Konstantinos Baliotis

Kostas Baliotis has an ongoing collaboration with some of the most vital film production companies in Greece, as line producer and production manager in short and feature length fiction and documentary films and TV. As a producer started out in 2017 with the short film “Avanos” by Panagiotis Charamis and is currently developing the director’s first feature film. He has produced the short film “Apallou” by writer-director Niko Avgoustidi and, at the moment, is preparing the production of the director’s next short film “Melanochaita”. At the same time he is working with director Kostas Bakouris in pre-production of the short film “Fall Christmas”

Company profile

2 Dimensions To Render (2D2R) is Kostas Baliotis’ production company that undertakes the development of fiction films and documentaries from the stage of the idea till their screening. As a producer started out in 2017 with the short film “Avanos” by Panagiotis Charamis. He is currently in financing development of the feature film “Avanos” along with writer-director Panagiotis Charamis. He has produced the short film “Apallou” by writer-director Niko Avgoustidi and, at the moment, is preparing the production of the director’s next short film “Melanochaita”. At the same time he is working with director Kostas Bakouris in preproduction of the short film “Fall Christmas”.