Asimina Proedrou Tragedy (2024)

1. Asimina Proedrou

Asimina was born in 1982, in Athens, Greece. She studied music (piano degree in 2001), International Economics (BA in 2005 and MSc in 2007) and Film Directing.
Bio & Filmography

Nov 15, 2022 · Asimina Proedrou's first feature explores how a tragic event forces a Greek family to confront its moral failings.
Asimina Proedrou's first feature explores how a tragic event forces a Greek family to confront its moral failings.

May 8, 2023 · This sets the scene for a tragic denouement among the reed beds of the unearthly lake. ... Greek writer-director Asimina Proedrou was born in 1982 ...
Iason Athanasiadis reviews the film of a migrant story set in Greece that has just been nominated for 17 Greek Cinema Academy Awards.

Oct 27, 2023 · Behind the Haystacks is a powerful film, lyrical and intense at the same time, about the human condition, moral impasses and ordinary people trying to survive.
An interview with Asimina Proedrou on her film "Behind the Haystacks", the official Greek entry for the 96th Academy Awards (International Oscar).

Red Hulk, Asimina Proedrou's 2013 multi-award-winning Greek short film, explores themes of identity, nationalism and xenophobia in a contemporary Greek setting.
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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 ...
by Asimina Proedrou | Greece, Germany, North Macedonia | 2022 | 118'

This contemporary Greek tragedy is set in a small town near the North Macedonian border as large numbers of refugees begin surging through the “Balkan corridor ...
Told in three chapters, each focusing on a different family member and their secrets, this contemporary Greek tragedy is set in a small town near the North Macedonian border as large numbers of refugees begin surging through the “Balkan corridor.”

Dec 5, 2023 · Asimina Proedrou on Threading the Needle in “Behind the Haystacks” ... tragedy of refugees that have risked life and limb to make it to ...
The director behind Greece's official entry talks about the family drama with international implications, filmed against all odds.

Dec 9, 2023 · A refugee smuggling tragedy tears at the fabric of a Greek family in "Behind the Haystacks," a ... Asimina Proedrou's debut feature, a…
A refugee smuggling tragedy tears at the fabric of a Greek family in “Behind the Haystacks,” a touching and deeply involving drama that is the Greek submission for consideration as Best…

May 10, 2018 · Red Hulk, Asimina Proedrou's 2013 multi-award-winning Greek short film, explores themes of identity, nationalism and xenophobia in a ...
Red Hulk, Asimina Proedrou’s 2013 multi-award-winning Greek short film, explores themes of identity, nationalism and xenophobia in a contemporary Greek setting. It is a hard-hitting exposé of a society in decline, where frustration at the failing institutions gives rise to racism, sexism, intolerance and violence in an effort to cleanse society of the foreign element which is blamed for all its dysfunction. The plot offers insights into how conceptualisations of difference can lead to violent action, and its underlying causes. With the absolute rupture between signifier and signified in the national symbols, values, codes and traditions, the issue of identity has become narrowly defined, all-encompassing and self-absorbing, resulting in the severing of ties between individuals, their families and friends, as exemplified in the film by its protagonist. His inevitable alienation from traditional supports leads him to seek refuge with a close-knit ultranationalist group linked to corrupt police, which operates under strict codes of secrecy outside of the law, and ensures its longevity by binding its members within a web of ultranationalist criminality. Within the conference theme of Un-framing Hellenism, we explore nationalism in a Greek context and attempt to de-stereotype the nationalists’ support base.