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]
About the film
Barevný, DCP
World premiéra
Section: | East of the West Competition |
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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 |
Guests

Petros Charalambous
Film Director

Janine Teerling
Producer, Other

Andreas Tselepos
Actor

Marios Piperides
Producer

Aleš Pavlin
Producer

Andrej Stritof
Producer

Lisa Tsouloupa
Production Designer

Stylianos Constantinou
Editor

Dimitra Papouri
Filmmaker