"The Summer with Carmen"

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Film still from "The Summer with Carmen" (To kalokairi tis Karmen), Zacharias Mavroeidis (Greece, 2023).

The Summer with Carmen (To kalokairi tis Karmen), Zacharias Mavroeidis (Greece, 2023)

While enjoying a day at Athens’ queer beach Limanakia, 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his bestie and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut. They brainstorm a script inspired by the dramatic events of their previous summer and a certain dog named Carmen. Through flashbacks, this endearing comedy traces how Demosthenes, while caring for his ailing father reaches out to his ex, Panos, as their cute canine becomes a battleground for their failed relationship and potential reconciliation.

Struggling to transform these events into a hero’s journey, Demosthenes and Nikitas come face to face with their own fraught friendship as they clash over whose story they’re really telling. A delightful, lighthearted comedy that plays on the self-consciousness of the film-within-a-film narrative, with sly nods to Spike Jonze’s, Adaptation.

Film will be screened in original version (Greek) with subtitles in Spanish and Catalan.

A film in the 2024 edition of Mostra FIRE!! Film Festival.

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