Writer/Director: Jacqueline Lentzou
Produced by Avion Films (Greece), Atalante Productions (Greece), Kelek Film UG (Germany), 4 A 4 Productions (France)
Festival Selection
2025, Les Arcs Film Festival 2025 Work in Progress Showcase
2024, TARRI Award, ΤorinoFilmLab
Synopsis
After years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father’s frail state of health. Discovering her father’s well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father in a way she was not able to before, and therefore to love him truly for the first time.
Writer/Director: Jacqueline Lentzou
| Director of Photography | Konstantinos Koukoulios |
| Editing | Smaro Papaevangelou |
| Music | Delphine Malaussena |
| Sound | Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Leandros Ntounis, Julien Perez |
| Production Design | Stavros Liokalos |
| Costumes | Eva Goulakou |
| Make Up: Ioanna LygizouProducer | Fenia Cossovitsa |
| Co-Producers | Hédi Zardi, Fiorella Moretti |
| Co-Production | Luxbox Paris |
World Sales Luxbox Paris
Cast: Sofia Kokkali, Lazaros Georgakopoulos
Festival Selection
July 2022
New York Time’s Critic’s Pick , [link here]
October 2021
Grand Prix in Reykjavik International Festival
October 2021
Best Performace Award in Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal)
November 2021
Grand Prix in Sevilla International Film Festival
November 2021
Best Performance Award in Thessaloniki International Film Festival
August 2021
Cineuropa Award, Sarajevo International Film FestivalMarch 2021
Berlin International Film Festival, World Premier: Encounters Competition Official Selection
Jacqueline (Athens, 1989) is a lens based artist whose cinematic language involves, among others, discovering poetry in -seemingly- mundane premises and zooming in ‘tiny’ moments. A London Film School graduate (2013), Jacqueline was quick to unravel her idiosyncratic style which includes sourcing from the dream construct, intuitive knowing, word & image association. She enjoys working with different textures, from her ‘native’ hi8 to 16mm and digital, often merging them to portray the multidimensionality of the human experience.
Her work has screened in Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno and Toronto and has received numerous prominent awards. She won, among others, Best Film by Cinema and Gioventu Jury in Locarno for FOX (2016), the Leica Cine Discovery Award by Semaine de La Critique- Cannes for Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018), the Golden Hugo in Chicago IFF for The End of Suffering (2020), as well as the Grand Prix in Reykjavik IFF and Sevilla IFF for Moon, 66 Questions (2021), her debut feature which premiered in Berlinale Encounters Competition, receiving raving reviews worldwide. In July 2022, Moon, 66 questions was announced as New York Times’ Critics’ Pick. Retrospectives on her full body of work have taken place in Montreal, Vienna, Ghent as well as in London, in the historic ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), in June 2022.
High-profile curatorial websites, such as Mubi, The Criterion Channel, Le Cinema Club and E-flux have hosted Jacqueline’s films while her sophomore project, ‘A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra’ won the Arri Award for cinematic vision in Torino Film Lab 2024. She has screened her work twice at the MoMa (New Directors/New Films) (2019, 2021), in Palais De Tokyo, and in the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Jacqueline reached the three finalists for the prestigious Rolex Mentor&Protegé scheme 2022-2024, and she was honored to have a meeting with Master Jia Zhangke. The same year she was awarded the New York Onassis fellowship, as well as the NIPKOW fellowship for her second feature which was further developed in Cannes’ Next Step Vol II, in Corsica, in 2024.
A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Premier news soon)
feature fiction, 16mm, 2026
2026
Les Arcs Film Festival 2026 Work in Progress Showcase
2024
ARRI Award, ΤorinoFilmLab
Moon, 66 Questions
feature fiction, digital, 2021, 108’
July 2022
New York Time’s Critic’s Pick
October 2021
Grand Prix in Reykjavik International Festival
October 2021
Best Performace Award in Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal)
November 2021
Grand Prix in Sevilla International Film Festival
November 2021
Best Performance Award in Thessaloniki International Film Festival
August 2021
Cineuropa Award, Sarajevo International Film Festival
March 2021
Berlin International Film Festival, World Premier: Encounters Competition Official Selection
The End of Suffering: (A proposal)
16mm, 2020, 13’
September, 2020
Drama International Short Film Festival, Fipresci Award and Special Award for Environment & Climate Change
October, 2020
Athens International Film Festival, Golden Athena for Best Short Film
October 2020
Chicago International Film Festival, United States: Golden Hugo for Best Live- Action Short Film
August 2020
Locarno International Film Festival, World Premier
September, 2020
Drama International Short Film Festival, Fipresci Award and Special Award for Environment & Climate Change
October, 2020
Athens International Film Festival, Golden Athena for Best Short Film
October 2020
Chicago International Film Festival, United States: Golden Hugo for Best Live- Action Short Film
August 2020
Locarno International Film Festival, World Premier
Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year
digital, 2018, 22’
May 2018
Cannes, Semaine de la Critique, Leica Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film (Grand Prix)
September 2018
Athens International Film Festival, Best Film & Best Female Performance
January 2019
London Short Film FestivalI, Special Mention
April 2019
Hellenic Film Academy Award, Best Short Film Award
HIWA
fiction short, digital, 2017, 11’
February 2017
Berlin International Film Festival, Nominated for Golden Bear
FOX
fiction short, digital, 2016, 28’
August 2016
Locarno IFF, Switcherland, 2016, Best Short Film Award by Cinema&Gioventù Jury
October 2017
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Award in the memory of Ingmar Bergman (Grand Prix)
March 2017
Film Femmes Méditerraneé, Best European Short
March 2017
Film De Femmes Creteille FF, 2017, Best European Short Award
April 2017,
Archipelago Festival of New Images, Italy 2017, Grand Jury Award
