GEKAS

DIRECTED BY DIMITRIS MOUTSIAKAS

Drama

Greece

26′

2024

SYNOPSYS
Vassilis, a twelve-year-old boy, lives with his father John, in a small countryside village. Believing that his son has reached the right age to start hunting, John buys him a gun and a Greek Hound puppy and begins his training. Vassilis wants to please his father but no matter how hard he tries, he can’t seem to be able to fire a shot. He bonds with Max, his Greek hound puppy, who becomes his companion during this difficult time. After a few of his own failed attempts to catch a hare, John begins questioning whether he is the role model he wants his son to look up to, after all. On the last day of the hunting season, Vasillis gets a final chance to shoot a hare but fails. His father, after a heated fight with Vasilis, takes Max and makes his son walk home as punishment. Vasillis arrives home at night and finds Max missing. He takes his gun and heads for the yard where his father’s dogs are tied up.
DIRECTED BY DIMITRIS MOUTSIAKAS PRODUCED BY YORGOS PATERAKIS ALEXANDROS TILIOPOULOS WRITTEN BY DIMITRIS MOUTSIAKAS WITH NIKOS GEORGAKIS PAVLOS LAGOS PANOS KORONIS TZOGIA GOUMA DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR YIANNIS CHALKIADAKIS SET DESIGNER ELENA VARDAVA COSTUME DESIGNER GEORGIA BOURA GRAPHIC MAKE UP & HAIR SISSI PETROPOULOU TITLE BARBA DEE

AWARD AND SELECTIONS

47. Drama International Short Film Festival
BEST FICTION | BEST SCRIPT | BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
2024 - OSCAR ®/EFA QUALIFYING
29. Athens International Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2024

DIMITRIS MOUTSIAKAS

BIO

 

Dimitris Moutsiakas was born in 1986 and studied at the Lykourgos Stavrakos Film School. With his first film, “”Who’s Santa?””(2011), he competed in the national and international section of Drama International Short Film Festival. The film also participated in international festivals around the world and was awarded the Odysseus Award of Best Short Film at the LGFF and Award of Silver Reel at Lucerne Film Festival 2013. In 2020 he made his second short film, Bourn, which has competed at the Drama International Short Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival and other festivals abroad. His last short film ”GEKAS” won Best Film Award (Oscar® qualifying), Best Script, Best Photography at 47th Drama International Short Film Festival.
2024
GEKAS (Drama, 26', EL)
2020
BOURN (EL)
2011
POIOS VASSILIS (DRAMA, EL, 25')