400 Cassettes
Greece / Fiction / 14' / 4K / Color / 2024
After a lesson about cosmic archaeologists and a water fight in the schoolyard, Elly steals Faye’s soul and Faye gives Elly a rare birthday present. But then, under a sky full of stars, a song from the past will remind the girls that nothing really lasts forever.
Director: Thelyia Petraki
Producer: Kostas Tagalakis, Panos Papadopoulos
Writer: Thelyia Petraki
Cinematographer: Tudor Vladimir Panduru
Editor: Christos Giannakopoulos, Myrto Karra
Sound: Panagiotis Papagianopoulos, George Ramantanis, Christos Giannakopoulos
Music: Alive She Died
Cast: Panayiota Yiagli, Ellie Galousi, Argyris Pavlidis, Thanos Koniaris, Froso Gaza
Biography
Thelyia Petraki, holds a BA in Filmmaking (CalArts USA), and an MA in Visual Anthropology (UCL UK). In her works, the boundaries between memory, dreams and reality tend to blur. Her films are a perpetual gaze to the human behavior in an attempt to understand human condition through the cinematic lens. Lately, she combines and experiments with various analogue formats, along with recycling found footage, creating this way a mosaic effect. She also tends to study the past in order to understand the future.
Filmography
400 Cassettes (2024)
Bella (2020)
Helga Är I Lund (2016)
Ego kai oi alloi (2015)
Pray (2012)
Tango Muerte (2005)
Festivals Attended
Locarno Film Festival – World Premiere (2024)
Concorto Film Festival – Italy (2024)
Tetova International Film Festival – Republic of Macedonia (2024)
Seminci – Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid – Spain (2024)
Cinemed – Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen de Montpellier – France (2024)
Uppsala Short Film Festival – Sweden (2024)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur – Switzerland (2024)
Minimalen Short Film Festival – Norway (2025)
Dhaka International Film Festival – Bangladesh (2025)
Slamdance Film Festival – USA (2025)
Glasgow Short Film Festival – UK (2025)