Archive of films Patchwork / Patchwork

Cyprus / Israel / Slovenia
2021, 86 min

Section: East of the West Competition
Year: 2021

Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is motherhood a natural state of boundless love and caring, or is it an ideal imposed by society?

Synopsis

Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. But she is unable to describe her feelings of guilt and confusion until she strikes up a hesitant friendship with the daughter of her new boss. The shy and defiant Melina’s difficult life reminds Chara all too much of her own painful past, which she has been trying to forget. Petros Charalambous's psychological drama raises several provocative questions: What makes a woman a mother? And is motherhood a natural state of boundless love and caring, or is it an ideal imposed by society? A multilayered story of a woman struggling through moments of existential angst, as portrayed by the inimitable Angeliki Papoulia.

Sandra Hezinová

About the director

Petros Charalambous (1976, Cyprus). Selected filmography: Boy on the Bridge (To agori sti gefyra, 2016), Patchwork (2021).

Contacts

AMP Filmworks
4 Agias Elenis, Office 603, 1060, Nicosia
Cyprus
Tel: +357 99337685
E-mail: [email protected]

Press kit

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About the film

Color, DCP
World premiere

Section:	East of the West Competition

Director:	Petros Charalambous
Screenplay:	Janine Teerling
Dir. of Photography:	Yorgos Rahmatoulin
Music:	Christos Kyriakoullis
Editor:	Stylianos Constantinou, Kyros Papavassiliou
Art Director:	Lisa Tsouloupas
Producer:	Janine Teerling, Marios Piperides
Production:	AMP Filmworks
Coproduction:	Transfax Film Productions, Perfo Production
Cast:	Angeliki Papoulia, Joy Rieger, Stella Fyrogeni
Contact:	AMP Filmworks