HIWA
Greece / Experimental, Fiction / 11’ / HD / Color / 2017
In Jay’s dream, Athens’ sun is so weak, you can look straight at it, without getting blind.
Director: Jacqueline Lentzou
Script: Jacqueline Lentzou
Director of Photography: Konstantinos Koukoulios
Producer: Jacqueline Lentzou, Vicky Miha
Editing: Smaro Papaevangelou
Sound: Leandros Ntounis
Cast: Melchor Lopez, Jerahmeel Zsara Lopez, Kirsten Tisha Luis, Jessafe Agsi
CV
Jacqueline (Athens, 1989) is an artist whose cinematic language involves discovering poetry in – seemingly - mundane premises. Her tools are word and image association, the dream-construct, intuition. She experiments with formats, durations and feelings.
Through her work she discusses non-traditional family systems, loneliness, duality and oneness, love, and most importantly, the lack of it. A London Film School graduate (2013), Jacqueline has written and directed five short films up and one feature film until now, all of them having a remarkably successful festival career having premiered at Locarno, Toronto, Berlin, Cannes.
She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Award in the Memory of Ignmar Bergman for FOX, the Leica Cine Discovery Award by Semaine de La Critique (Cannes) for Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018), as well as the Grand Prix in Reykjavik IFF for Moon, 66 Questions (2021) among other distinctions.
Retrospectives on her work have taken place in Montreal, Vienna, Porto and Ghent, in the context of which she gave masterclasses on filmmaking.
Filmography
2021 Moon, 66 Questions
2020 The End of Suffering (short)
2018 Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (short)
2017 Hiwa (short)
2016 Fox (short)
2013 Thirteen Blue (short)
Festivals Attended and Awards
Berlinale
Las Palmas De Gran Canaria International Film Festival
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, the Netherlands
VIS Vienna Shorts Film Festival
Pune Short Film Festival, India
FECIBogotá – International Independent Film Fair, Colombia
NexT International Film Festival, Romania
Cinema Jove – Valencia International Film Festival
Psarokokalo – Athens International Short Film Festival, Greece - Won: Audience Award
Montenegro Film Festival
São Paulo International Short Films Festival, Brazil
FeKK – Ljubljana Short Film Festival, Slovenia
Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, Finland
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, United Kingdom
El Gouna Film Festival, Egypt
Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland
Milano Film Festival, Italy
Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Canada
Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival, Belgium
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
Tirana International Film Festival, Albania
Fajr International Film Festival, Iran
Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway - Won: Raskin Spirit Festival Award