“HOLY BOOM”

GALLERY
DETAILS

Drama – 90 mins
Director: Maria Lafi
Producer: Lilette Botassi/ Inkas Film & Tv Productions

Co-producers: ERT S.A, GFC, Albanian Film Center, 90 Production, Blunatic Pictures, Yafka S.A, Maria Lafi

A random explosion connects three stories of strangers seeking a way to survive on the edge of legality.

TRAILER
SYNOPSIS
HOLY BOOM” is a drama feature film with multiple storylines, taking place in a multicultural area of Athens during orthodox Easter.
The lives of four strangers, who live in the same neighborhood, change dramatically when, on Palm Sunday, the neighborhood’s postbox is blasted just for laughs by Filipino teenager Ige. Documents of vital importance to all of them have been destroyed: Lena and Manou’s LSD stickers, a letter to Thalia from her abandoned child, and Adia’s birth certificate.
The consequences are relentless: Lena and Manou are chased by the drug dealer who wants his money back. Adia, an illegal immigrant, is now alone with her newborn child, forbidden to even identify the corpse of her husband, who has just died in a car accident. Ige tries in vain to be accepted by the local community and Thalia, who is watching everyone in the neighborhood, has lost her only chance of finding happiness.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS

HOLY BOOM – Greece, Albania, Cyprus – 2018

Nominated for Best Film Director (Maria Lafi) and Visual Special Effects (Antonis Kotzias) by Hellenic Film Academy 2019

FESTIVALS LIST

TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (TIFF), ALBANIA / November 2018

FCZ 23: FESTIVAL DE CINE DE ZARAGOZA, SPAIN / November 2018

59th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESSTIVAL – GREEK FILMS, GREECE /   November 2018

FESTIVAL INTARNATIONAL DU FILM DE FES, MOROCCO / February 2019

3rd ASWAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, EGYPT / February 2019

II FESTIVAL DE CINE CHIPRIOTA Y GRIEGO EN BARCELONA, SPAIN / March 2019

37° BERGAMO FILM MEETING, ITALY / March 2019

22nd ANNUAL CHICAGO EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL, USA / March-April 2019

INDEPENDENT DAYS| 19th INTERNATIONAL FILMFEST IDIF, GERMANY / April 2019

17th CYPRUS FILM DAYS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, CYPRUS / April 2019

2nd NEW YORK GREEK FILM EXPO, USA / May 2019

22nd FLYING BROOM INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL, TURKEY / May 2019

SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL SEEFF, BERLIN / May 2019

13th LOS ANGELES GREEK FILM FESTIVAL, USA / June 2019

6th INTERNATIONAL TRIPOLI FILM FESTIVAL, LEBANON / June 2019

4th CALELLA FILM FESTIVAL, SPAIN / June 2019

12th ISLANTILA CINEFORUM FILM FESTIVAL, SPAIN / July-August 2019

4th BUZZ IFF – BUZĂU INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, ROMANIA/ July 2019

6th FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE DE CALZADA DE CALATRAVA, SPAIN / July 2019

11th PRISHTINA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, KOSOVO / July 2019

10th JAGRAN FILM FESTIVAL (JFF), INDIA / July 2019

4th FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE DE QUITO FICQ, EQUADOR / August 2019

6th FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE POR LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS, COLOMBIA / August 2019

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINEMA DE FIGUERA DA FOZ – FILM ART, PORTUGAL / September 2019

15th RENGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, CHILE/ October 2019

25th GREEK FILM FESTIVAL OF AUSTRALIA / October 2019

7th CHANIA FILM FESTIVAL AND CHANIA FILM FESTIVAL EDU, GREECE / October 2019

16th SAN FRANCISCO GREEK FILM FESTIVAL, USA / October 2019

41st SEMANA DE CINE DE LUGO, SPAIN / October 2019

29th FILM FESTIVAL COTTBUS (SPECTRUM section), GERMANY / November 2019

15th EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL TORONTO, CANADA / November 2019

FRICINE 2019 – Intl SocioEnvironmental Film Festival of Nova Friburgo, BRAZIL / November 2019

17th CHENNAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, INDIA / December 2019

AWARDS

BEST BALCAN FILM – TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

BEST FEATURE FILM – FCZ 23: FESTIVAL DE CINE DE ZARAGOZA

GRAND PRIX – FESTIVAL INTARNATIONAL DU FILM DE FES

BEST SCREENPLAY / MARIA LAFI & ELENA DIMITRKOPOULOU – 3rd ASWAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL

BEST ACTRESS / LULI BITRI – 3rd ASWAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL

BEST FILM – II FESTIVAL DE CINE CHIPRIOTA Y GRIEGO EN BARCELONA

AUDIENCE AWARD – II FESTIVAL DE CINE CHIPRIOTA Y GRIEGO EN BARCELONA

BEST DIRECTOR / MARIA LAFI – 13th LOS ANGELES GREEK FILM FESTIVAL

BEST DIRECTOR / MARIA LAFI – 4th CALELLA FILM FESTIVAL

ACTRESS SPECIAL MENTION / LULI BITRI – 4th CALELLA FILM FESTIVAL

AUDIENCE AWARD – 6th FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE DE CALZADA DE CALATRAVA, SPAIN

AUDIENCE AWARD -4th FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE DE QUITO FICQ

BEST DIRECTOR / MARIA LAFI -12th FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE DEBAJO LA LUNA – ISLANTILLA CINEFORUM

BEST FEATURE FILM – 6th FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE POR LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS

BEST EDITING / YORGOS PATERAKIS & KENAN AKKAWI – FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINEMA DE FIGUERA DA FOZ – FILM ART

BEST WRITING / MARIA LAFI & ELENA DIMITRKOPOULOU – FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINEMA DE FIGUERA DA FOZ – FILM ART