Backroom Blues

In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.

2020 has its place in history as the year a virus stopped the entire planet. In its first months, amid quarantine and growing uncertainty about the future, Fantaspoa Film Festival launched a contest for filmmakers from around the world to create their pandemic-related stories—in their homes, with the resources they had at hand. This anthology brings together the 15 most representative and creative short films produced, capturing this moment in time that, if humanity is lucky, will never be repeated.

Summer at Cyprus seems at first like a gift for Alexandra (Maria Kitsou) and Orestes (Hristodoulos Martas), who travel from Athens to spend the season with Orestes' parents at their seaside residence. However, they soon become enveloped in the turbulence of local politics between Greeks and Turks after getting involved with a family production of a Euripides play.

Six struggling actors will be confronted with the crime movies they grew up with during a bank heist gone wrong.

The story recounts the life of a mafia family in the countryside. Sofronis Kapetanios, a mafia boss and anti-drug activist, decides to retire from active duty and pass the baton to his daughter Veta. She is a housewife by profession who takes care of him. This angers his son Loizos Kapetanios and, like a fallen angel, together with his authoritarian wife Markella, they antagonize their family, making their lives difficult. Veta keeps this a secret from her father so that he does not die prematurely from grief. Veta's three sons, petty crooks who set up games and own a ball pit, try to help their mother keep the business alive. Meanwhile, the other clan leaders find a way to exploit the family conflict by expanding their activities.