Highway of a Broken Heart
TITLE
Highway of a Broken Heart
DIRECTOR
Nikos Kyritsis
COUNTRY
Greece
YEAR
2023
DURATION
11′
GENRE
Fiction
Highway of a Broken Heart
Somewhere, in the middle of nowhere, on an empty and badly lit part of an endless highway, Mary will do everything she can to win back the man who just broke her heart. But the night holds a big surprise.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Nikos Kyritsis
Nikos Kyritsis was born in Greece in 1986 and received his MFA in Film Directing with Honors. He has worked in short films, features, commercials and video-art installations in Greece, Germany, and Vietnam. Since 2017, he has been teaching Film, Media, and Communication in HHU & SBC Universities in China. He took part in Berlinale Talents (2013) and Sarajevo Talents (2014), where he won the YapimLab award for Pack&Pitch. His short fiction film, King Kong, premiered at Rotterdam IFF in 2014 and continued in QueerLisboa, Split, Sguardi Altrove, Pink Screens and Queersicht. In 2020 he received the SNF Artist Fellowship Program – ARTWORKS. Baby is his feature debut, developed with the support of the Greek Film Center, First Films First (Goethe Institute) and Sam Spiegel Film Lab.
- DirectorNikos Kyritsis
- Screenplay Nikos Kyritsis
- Cinematography Yorgos Karvelas GSC
- EditingNikos Vavouris
- Cast
- Producer/s Maria Drandaki
- Production Company
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Distributor/s
- Project Title Fracture
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date January 1, 2023
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Country of origin
Greece -
Country of filming
Greece - LanguageModern Greek (1453-)
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Nikos Kyritsis
Nikos Kyritsis was born in Greece in 1986 and received his MFA in Film Directing with Honors. He has worked in short films, features, commercials and video-art installations in Greece, Germany, and Vietnam. Since 2017, he has been teaching Film, Media, and Communication in HHU & SBC Universities in China. He took part in Berlinale Talents (2013) and Sarajevo Talents (2014), where he won the YapimLab award for Pack&Pitch. His short fiction film, King Kong, premiered at Rotterdam IFF in 2014 and continued in QueerLisboa, Split, Sguardi Altrove, Pink Screens and Queersicht. In 2020 he received the SNF Artist Fellowship Program – ARTWORKS. Baby is his feature debut, developed with the support of the Greek Film Center, First Films First (Goethe Institute) and Sam Spiegel Film Lab.
