Behind The Haystacks
Director: Asimina Proedrou
Producer: Ioanna Bolomyti, Markus Halberschmidt, Vladimir Anastasov, Angela Nestorovska
Screenplay: Asimina Proedrou
Cinematographer: Simos Sarketzis
Editor: Ilektra VenakiÂ
Cast: Stathis Stamoulakatos, Lena Ouzounidou, Evgenia Lavda, Christos Kontogeorgis, Dina Mihailidou, Paschalis Tsarouhas
2022 | Arabic, English, Macedonian, Modern Greek | 108 Mins | Colour
A middle-aged fisherman living on Greece’s northern border, who is drowning in debt, starts to smuggle migrants across the border lake, in exchange for a hefty fee. His wife, a housewife and devout churchgoer, is seeking the truth in God’s Word, while their daughter tries to define her own life within an oppressive environment. Until a tragic incident strikes the family, pushing the three heroes to face their own personal impasses and weaknesses, whilst having to consider, for the first time in their life, the price to pay for their actions.
Asimina Proedrou, born in 1982 in Athens, Greece. She earned an MSc degree at the University of Economics and Business. Asimina began her filmmaking studies in 2010, in Athens. Where she participated in the Online Short Film Festival for Balkan Films ‘altcineAction!’, with her first short film, Facets of Loneliness, that won the Best Short Film Award. Later, she made RED HULK, which was her graduation film project. RED HULK, won the Best Short Film Awards at the most prestigious short film festivals in Greece. It has been officially selected for more than sixty international film festivals. Asimina is an alumna of Berlinale Talents 2015 & 2016 and Sarajevo Talents 2015. Behind the Haystacks is her debut feature film.
