First Contact

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Thursday, 30 November 2023

Dimitris ARGYRIOU

Lithuania | 2014 | 6’54’’

“Have You Ever Fall In Love?” First Contact is a metaphor about falling in love.

Screenplay: Dimitris Argyriou

Cinematography: Lucas Garrido Sanchez

Editing: Vytautas Tinteris

Sound Design: Nerea Morato Quesada

Music: Boris Bezemer

Main Cast: Telman Ragimov, Sigita Juraskaite

Producer: Dimitris Argyriou

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SHORTS ATTACK - BY INTERFILM BERLIN
APULIAN CINEMA DAYS
ISTITUTO LUCE, with the best directors of short film
"KOSOVA FILM" the retrospective of best feature films from Kosova
"TIME OF GYPSIES" - feature & documentary films from balkan filmmakers
"ACADEMY OF ARTS" film school works from: denmark, israel, kosova and finland
SUPINFOCOM - jury's special mention for the animation, tiff 2003
"REFLECTING ALBANIA" documentary films made in albania by the different foreign filmmakers

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Andrea Barzin
Angeliki Antoniou
Carl Henrik Svenstedt
Caveh Zahedi
Edoardo Winspeare
Fatmir Koci
Franko Nero
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Ken Loach
Miguel Hermoso
Niko Xhirasola
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Theo Angelopoulos

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