Μαμά, γύρισα - Mum, I'm back | Short Film Eng Subs
A woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother. She keeps an old photograph in her hands: a mother with her two sons. Arriving at the cemetery, she encounters the faces of all those she left behind.
Awards
Best Narrative Short Film at 39th Brussels Independent Film Festival 2018 (Belgium) | Best Narrative Short Film at 4th Sydney World Film Fest 2017 (Australia) | Best Narrative Short Film at 6th La Guarimba Film Festival 2018 (Italy) | Best Foreign Super Short Award at 9th NYC Independent Film Festival 2018 (USA) | Best Script Award at 2nd Aswan Women Film Festival 2018 (Egypt) | Best Jury Award of the Month at Lake View International Film Festival 2017 (India) | Best Foreign LGBT Film at American Filmatic Arts Awards 2017 (NY,USA) | 2nd Place Best Short Film at the ARTINVITA - Festival Internazionale degli Abruzzi 2019 (Italy) | Special Jury Award 8th Balkan Film Food Festival 2018 (Albania) | Special Mention at 6th QUEER-Streifen Regensburg Festival 2017 (Germany) | Honorable Distinction at 7th Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF 2018 (Greece) | Honorable Mention at 2nd Piraeus Film Festival 2018 (Greece) | Honorable Mention at 2nd Select Respect Film Festival 2018 (Greece) | Special Mention at SEE Online Film Festival 2020 (Albania) | Finalist Best Human Rights Short Film at Sao Paolo Times Film Festival 2017 (Brazil) |
Official Selections
18th IISFF in Izmir 2017 (Turkey) | 15th Tirana International Film Festival 2017 (Albania) | 9th SESIFF of Seoul 2017 (South Korea) | 10th Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art 2017 (Ukraine) | 40th National Short Film Festival in Drama 2017 (Greece) | 24th Pride Pictures Queer Film Festival Karlsruhe 2017 (Germany) | 23th Athens International Film Festival 2017 (Greece) | 23th SPE Media Festival of Philadelphia 2018 (USA) | SHORT to the Point International Festival 2017 (Romania) | 19th Thessaloniki LGBT International Film Festival 2017 (Greece) | 7th Micro m Festival 2017 (15 cities) | 5th Chania Film Festival 2017 (Greece) | Bucharest CineFest Shortcut Festival 2017 (Romania) | 7th Stamped Pensacola LGBT Film Festival 2017 (Florida) | Feel the Reel International Film Festival of Glasgow 2017 (United Kingdom) | IndieFlicks Festival 2017 (Manchester, London & Sheffield) | 12th Pornfilmfestival of Berlin 2017 (Germany) | Nida Short Film Festival 2017 (Lithuania) | 8th OFFline Film Festival 2017 (Ireland) | 18th Kerry Film Festival (Ireland) | 9th Vox Feminae Film Festival 2017 (Croatia) | International Short Film Festival Kalmthout 2017 (Belgium) | 9th Alameda International Film Festival 2017 (USA) | 19th QCinema's Annual LGBT International Film Festival 2017 (USA) | San Antonio Q Fest -The San Antonio LGBTQ International Film Festival 2017 (USA) | 5th PiGrecoZen FilmFest in Ancona 2017 (Italy) | 9th International Queer Film Festival Merlinka 2017 (Serbia) | 10th Amarcort Film Festival 2017 (Italy) | The Real Film Festival of Newcastle 2017 (UK) | 30th Image+Nation, Montreal's LGBTQ Film Festival 2017 (Canada) | 10th Larissa International Film Festival 2017 (Greece) | 12th Lecce Film Fest 2017 (Italy) | 14th Akbank Short Film Festival of Instabul 2018 (Turkey) | 8th Philosophical Film Festival 2018 (Skopje) | 2nd Hacker Porn Film Festival in Rome 2018 (Italy) | 9th Austrian Independent Filmfestival 2018 | 11th Outview Film Festival 2018 (Greece) | 10th Sene Film Festival of Rhode Island 2018 (USA) | 6th International Changing Perspectives Film Festival 2018 (Turkey) | 19th cellu l'art Short Film Festival Jena 2018 (Germany) | 3rd Oxford International Film Festival 2018 (United Kingdom) | 13th TLVFest - The Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival 2018 (Israel) | 2nd London Cinematic International Film Festival (LOCIFF) 2018 (U.K) | 8th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film 2018 (India) | 14th OutfestPerú Film Festival LGBTI 2018 (Peru) | 13rd International Film Festival ASTO Patras 2018 (Greece) | 3rd Boston Short Film Festival 2018 (USA) | 15th San Francisco Greek Film Festival 2018 (USA) | 3rd Mednarodni Filmfest Kranjska Gora - KGIFF 2018 (Slovenia) | 4th Marmaris International Short Film Festival 2018 (Turkey) | 3rd Venice Film Week 2018 (Italy) | 3rd Toronto Arthouse Film Festival 2018 (Canada) | Amsterdam Independent Film Festival 2018 (Netherlands) |
Cast
Starring: Eva Koumarianou, Giannis Tsortekis, Thanassis Chalkias
Written - Directed: Dimitris Katsimiris
Cinematography – Editing: Vasilis Stavropoulos
Assistant Directors: Konstantina Giannothanasi, Genovefa Zagga
ΑC: Kyriakos Gikas
Make up Artist- Special effects: Elli Kriara
Music: λΑΜΠΕΡΟύκ
Sound: Konstantinos Papadopoulos
Sound Design-Re-Recording Mixer: Saradis Rabias | Correct Creative Productions
Executive Producer: Panos Katsimperis
Backstage/Photos Backstage: Titika Κalimeri
Produced by
Dimitris Katsimiris, Vasilis Stavropoulos, Kyriakos Gikas
