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Markela Kontaratou
Profession:
WriterDirector
Country:
Greece
Markela Kontaratou is a filmmaker from Athens Greece. She has studied visual arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, English Literature at the American College of Greece, and completed an MA with distinction at The London Film School. Her work as a visual artist has been shown in group exhibitions in Greece, the Netherlands and Austria. Her debut short film Scorched Earth (2023) premiered in the Pardi Di Domani competition of the 76th Locarno Film Festival. It has since screened at Palm Springs, Aesthetica Film Festival, Manaki Brothers FF, Drama International FF, Zagreb FF, Poitiers FF among others. Markela has also trained and worked in various other aspects of filmmaking such as lighting, editing and producing, which have given her a deeper understanding of the medium.
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Meridian
In the Greek rural village of Meridian, where lignite is worshipped as a God, Marina, despite having had surgery for cancer, keeps working at the lignite mine. Her sister, Elina is pregnant, and the ...
Meridian
In the Greek rural village of Meridian, where lignite is worshipped as a God, Marina, despite having had surgery for cancer, keeps working at the lignite mine. Her sister, Elina is pregnant, and the ...