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A Buddy Already Dead

Apart from some beers and one chicken in a freezer, a trumpet teacher, keeps also the corpse of his mother.

Is there life after death?

  • Konstantinos Fragkoulis
    Director
  • Dimitris Papanastasiou
    Writer
  • Konstantinos Fragkoulis
    Producer
  • Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Το Πτώμα Ήταν Νεκρό
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 41 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 12, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    RED dragon
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:35
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Grand Off international film festival 2016/Nomination for best actor
    Warsaw
    Poland
  • Athens international film festival 2016
    Athens
    Greece
    January 24, 2016
    European
  • Skopje Kinenova film festival 2016
    Skopje
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
  • Hellas Filmbox Berlin 2017
  • Solo Para Cortos
    Barcelona
    Spain
  • 21st Thai Short & Video film festival 2017
    Bangong
    Thailand
    Best International Short Movie
  • Artfools Larissa Film Festival

    Special Mention for its protagonist
Director Biography - Konstantinos Fragkoulis

Konstantinos Fragkoulis is a film director from Samos island, Greece. He has studied Business Administration and Film in Athens. His first short film ("Milk" | 2008) was named Best Student Short in Drama International Short Film Festival of the same year. He has since written and directed 3 more shorts, which have been screened on the silver and small screen, in a number of countries. He is currently working on his first feature film. His parents have finally accepted him and came in terms with his chosen career, though they are still openly discussing the reasons he didn't become a pharmacist.

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Director Statement

"A Buddy Already Dead” is a jazz infused short comitragedy, mirroring a stark contemporary Athenian reality. It is a collected view on an introspective society that opted to keep going by continuously overlooking its problems. It describes a troublesome but all-too-familiar situation, where self-preseverance is synonymous to being isolated in your own shell.
In such a case compassion would be found in the most unexpected of places...
The feeling of rejection and a story of how do everything ...wrong.