Films in Development

A collage-style film poster for 'Iphigenia,' featuring cut-out images of women and a child against a crumpled paper background with handwritten-style font.

IPHIGENEIA

“Iphigeneia” is a Greek-language, short, drama film Written and Directed by Alex Machlouzarides-Shalit.

This film aims to capture the emotional turbulence of anticipating frightening news, the strength needed to navigate generational trauma and one’s own journey to deal with their past and presumed inevitable hereditary destiny. The film follows Iphigeneia, a 28-year-old single mother of a 2-year-old girl named Nefeli. The story takes place in the 24-hours between doctors’ appointments, as she tests and waits for her results for breast cancer. In this time, she struggles to juggle parenting her daughter and her work life as a waitress in a local café.

Throughout the film however, a second narrative plays out, which follows her mother’s own experience suffering from breast cancer while raising her as a child in the late 1990’s. The film constantly draws parallels narratively, emotionally and visually, between Iphigeneia and her mother, creating a poetic investigation and expression of generational and hereditary angst and fate. Although presented in a deeply realistic light, the film blends surreal and metaphorical aspects related to Iphigeneia’s fears and thoughts that appear to haunt her. The film blends hyper-realism with surrealist elements to present a pained, deeply private story in a restrained format, without overt sentimentality and melodrama, that it may resonate with anyone who has experienced similar anxieties. The character is tentatively named Iphigeneia for the perceived and destined maternal sacrifice made by the women in the generations of this family. It relates to ancient Greek mythology surrounding this historic character with great strength and resilience in the face of her fate being out of her control.

This film was partly inspired by Agnes Varda’s “Cleo from 5 to 7” and the Netflix series “Maid”, along with cinematic-language influences from Fellini, the Safdie Brothers and Ari Aster.

The film stars Maria Constantinou and introduces Nefeli Iordanous.

Assistant Director/ Art Director/ Production Manager - Mikaella Socratous

FLACCID SOUP

Flaccid Soup is a short, dark-comedy film Written and Directed by Alex Machlouzarides-Shalit. It stars Nicholas Spurou and Styliana Bagdades. Assistant Director/ Art Director/ Production Manager - Mikaella Socratous

The film follows a young man rekindling with his old highschool crush, as he comes back home after years for christmas and runs into her at a bar one night. What follows is his psychological deconstruction as he can’t let a moment from his past go, a moment that has disturbed and changed him ever since, the time she told him “he smells like soup.”

A woman with short dark hair looking downward, standing in front of a blue door in a room with white walls and ceiling.
Woman with dark hair in profile, wearing a black apron, in a dimly lit room with shelves of books and framed pictures on the wall.
A woman holding a young girl with a stuffed pink octopus toy, inside a dimly lit staircase area.
A young girl with brown hair in pigtails and wearing a pink shirt reaches out and touches the face of a woman with dark, curly hair who is leaning in towards her in a room with a medical setting or nursery background.
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A woman with shoulder-length dark hair and a cream sweater appears to be upset or emotional, reaching out toward a child with their back to the camera, in a dimly lit room with a window and blue shutters in the background.
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A young woman with shoulder-length dark hair and a gray sweater is talking to an older man with glasses and a black shirt with white dots.
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A young woman with dark hair and hoop earrings looks at the camera while walking on a city street lined with trees and parked cars.
A woman walking on a sidewalk, talking on her phone, near a stop sign at an intersection with a street and parked cars.
A woman with blonde hair, wearing a patterned shirt, looks at a glass bowl she is holding in a cluttered room with photos and books on shelves.
A young girl with brown hair tied in pigtails talking to a woman with dark hair in a medical setting.
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Title slide with black background and large pink text that reads 'FLAGCID SOUP', smaller purple text above says 'A Twisted Pinkies Motion Picture', and smaller purple text below left says 'Production Design and Graphics', with the name 'Mikaella Socr
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A young girl with brown hair in a bun, wearing a black hoodie with GIA written on it, is sitting on a patterned carpeted floor, drawing on a piece of white paper with an orange marker.
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