Christina-Kallirroi Garbi

writer, director and actress

Greece

Christina-Kallirroi studied Acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory and Law at the Athens Law School. Since 2012 she has been working as an actress and director in theatre. In 2020, she wrote and directed her first short film NOW THAT SPRING IS HERE (VIENNA SHORTS 2021, Audience Award at Feel the Reel International Film Festival). Her second short film POPPIES AND DUCKS premiered at Trieste Film Festival 2023, won the Grand Prize at Jeonju International Short Film Festival and continues its festival run receiving warm acceptance worldwide. KAMIKAZI will be her third short film. Her book of poetry called South Argentina is about to be published.

PAPAVERI E PAPERE – POPPIES AND DUCKS (short, 2022)

NOW THAT SPRING IS HERE (short, 2020)

KAMIKAZI

in development

Artemis is a cleaner at an expensive hotel in Athens. She is facing financial problems and she is struggling to pay her bills every month. She keeps stealing pieces of raw meat from the kitchen of the hotel where she works. She takes them as a gift to Eva, a woman ten years younger, with whom she has just fallen in love. With these pieces of meat the two women have romantic dinners and begin to bond. Eva has no idea of ​​the origin of these gifts nor of Artemis’s true job. On the day of Artemis’s birthday, things take an unexpected turn and the fragile balances that Artemis has created are threatened to blow up.