Moon, 66 Questions
Greece, France / Fiction / 108’ / HD / Color / 2021
After years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father’s frail state of health. Discovering her father’s well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father, in a way she was not able before, therefore love him truly for the first time.
Director:Jacqueline Lentzou
Script: Jacqueline Lentzou
Director of Photography: Konstantinos Koukoulios
Producer: Fenia Cossovitsa
Editing: Smaro Papaevangelou
Sound: Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Leandros Ntounis, Julien Perez
Cast: Sofia Kokkali, Lazaros Georgakopoulosy
CV
Jacqueline (Athens, 1989) is an artist whose cinematic language involves discovering poetry in – seemingly - mundane premises. Her tools are word and image association, the dream-construct, intuition. She experiments with formats, durations and feelings.
Through her work she discusses non-traditional family systems, loneliness, duality and oneness, love, and most importantly, the lack of it. A London Film School graduate (2013), Jacqueline has written and directed five short films up and one feature film until now, all of them having a remarkably successful festival career having premiered at Locarno, Toronto, Berlin, Cannes.
She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Award in the Memory of Ignmar Bergman for FOX, the Leica Cine Discovery Award by Semaine de La Critique (Cannes) for Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018), as well as the Grand Prix in Reykjavik IFF for Moon, 66 Questions (2021) among other distinctions.
Retrospectives on her work have taken place in Montreal, Vienna, Porto and Ghent, in the context of which she gave masterclasses on filmmaking.
Filmography
2021 Moon, 66 Questions
2020 The End of Suffering (short)
2018 Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (short)
2017 Hiwa (short)
2016 Fox (short)
2013 Thirteen Blue (short)
Festivals Attended and Awards
Berlinale 2021 - Encounters
Ficunam - International Competition
Vilnius International Film Festival - European Debut Competition
New Directors/New Films
Shanghai International Film Festival - Belt and Road film week
Garage Screen
Curtas Vila Do Conde - New voices
Beach Film Festival Of The New European Films - Official Selection
Melbourne International Film Festival
New Horizons International Film Festival - Competition
Sarajevo International Film Festival - Official Competition
Beijing Interntional Film Festival - Beijing Panorama
Helsinki International Film Festival - New Europeans Films
Taipei Film Festival - Future Lights - Out of Competition
Festival Du Nouveau Cinema - Competition
Film Fest Gent - Explore Zone Competition
Seville European Film Festival - New Wave Competition - Best New Wave Film
Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Best Actress for Sofia Kokkali