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Copa-Loca
Quinzaine des Cinéastes
2017
European Film Awards
European Short Film Nominee 2017
Sarajevo Film Festival
Special Mention 2017
Festival du nouveau cinéma
Best International Short Film 2017
This is the story of Copa-Loca. Paulina is the girl at the heart of this abandoned Greek summer resort. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.
Bio Christos Massalas
Christos Massalas (Greece, 1986) studied at London Film School (LFS) and Kingston University. His short films were screened in over two hundred international film festivals, including Cannes, New Directors/New Films, BFI and AFI Fest, and have received numerous awards. In 2016, he was selected for the Filmmakers Academy at the 69th Locarno Film Festival. His short Copa-Loca won the Greek Academy Award and was nominated for the European Film Award.
In an abandoned Greek summer resort, we follow the mundane life of Paulina. Between memorizing the list of cocktails that were available at the resort, challenging the locals with impossible dilemmas, and engaging in sexual intercourse with literally almost everyone, she tries to maintain the warm spirit of a never-ending summer in any way possible. In his film, Christos Massalas depicts a floating moment in time through a photogenic and pictorial approach. The cinematography with a pastel colour palette, dynamic sound design, and omniscient narrator creates a dreamlike ambiance. Copa-Loca is blissfully melancholic and digests a bittersweet feeling of belonging in a forsaken place.
Credits
Script
Cast
Elsa Lekakou, Fotis Stratigos, George Ramantanis, Jenny Hiloudaki, Jon Simvonis, Michalis Pitidis, Nadia Katsoura, Panos Iosifidis, Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Stathis Stamoulakatos, Talat Iqbal
Camera
Konstantinos Koukoulios
Editor
Sound
Dimitris Kanellopoulos
Producer
Christos Massalas, Giorgos Karnavas, Konstantinos Konstovrakis