Greece

PEPPERMINT

CREDITS 

35mm - colore - 105’

Direction: Costas Kapakas
Script: Costas Kapakas
Photography: Yannis Daskalothanassis
Editing: Takis Yannopoulos
Art Director: Giorgos Georgiou, Alexandra Horianopoulou
Music: Panayotis Kalatzopoulos
Sound: Marinos Athanassopoulos
Costumes: Maria Kotodima
Cast: Georges Corraface, Giorgos Gerontidakis-Sempetadelis, Anny Loulou, Alexandros Mylonas, Markella Pappa, Nikoletta Vlavianou, Zoe Voudouri.
Producer: Kostas Lambropoulos, Despina Mouzaki, Haris Padouvas
Production: Greek Film Centre, Kapa Films, Cinegram SA, ERT SA Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

SYNOPSIS

An album of photographs, even those of a family we don't know, makes us remember our own situations and the experiences that affected our entire life. It is not necessarily the most important events. Very often the first scenes that come to mind are simple images, moments, sounds and smells from the years of our childhood and adolescence. So we can all recognize and remember our own images and our own feelings. Stefanos pulled out his first tooth by tying it to the door knob with a piece of string. His mother told him that if he threw it on the roof tiles a raven would bring him a ring. But he didn't wait. He stole it from his Aunt Venetia's jewelry case and promised it to Marina, his first cousin. Kiss-kiss the grownups told them, but the cousins kissed on the mouth. Only during their adolescence things went too far. They had to break up. They went their own ways only to meet again at the funeral of Stefanos' mother, 30 years later. They'll certainly have a lot to say to each other.

THE DIRECTOR: COSTAS KAPAKAS

Born in 1953 in Rhodes. Until 1983 he studied and worked in Berlin. His first work in film was in animation.

FILMOGRAPHY

2006 Uranya
1999 Peppermint
1995 Stick in the water, short
1988 Stripes, short  
1985 3 ½, short
1984 Scenes, short

SELECTED FESTIVAL AND AWARDS

2001 Gold Medal Awarded by ANEC, the Italian National Association of Cinema Owners and Bronze Gryphon at the Giffoni Film Festival
2001 Best Director at the Lauderdale International Film Festival
2001 Special Jury Award at the Worldfest Houston
2000 Financial Support for Distribution at the Cinema Mediterraneen Montpellier Festival International
2000 Bronze Knight  at the Golden Knight International Film Festival
1999 Grand Prix for Best Feature Film, Best New Director, Best Script, Best Actress,  Best Editing, Best Music, Best Supporting Actor,  Best Make up and Best Sound at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival