80 min – 2023
Director : Spyros MANTZAVINOS and Kosta ANTARACHAS (Greece)
Production : ALASKA FILMS and ERT (Greece)
Panellinion is a café, located in the center of Athens, where regulars meet to play chess. Scientists, artists, retirees, workers seek in gaming an outlet and consolation in their lives. With tears in their eyes, they confess, drink, argue and remember old stories of eccentric customers.
Spyros MANTZAVINOS is an author and director. In 2019, he published his book Mnistirofonia and Other Stories, nominated for the Debut Writer Award by Klepsydra magazine.
Director and screenwriter, Kosta ANTARACHAS participated as co-writer in the film Gin and Tonic (2016). His screenplay Seabed Piano was awarded by the Screenwriters Guild of Greece (2017). Shall we Dance? (2018) is his first film as director and screenwriter.