Hotel Centaur
Lino Kafidas, Dimitris Kafidas
ABOUT THE MOVIE
The absolute absurdity and meaninglessness of life are explored in this dark piece set in a Greek mountain hotel, with a cast of unlikely characters. At the centre of its enquiry into the absurd is a disenchanted hotelier whose last concern is the management of his establishment. Rather, he engages with his guests and staff as though they exist as proof of his torment, each day repeating a series of eccentric and pointless actions. His staff put up with his behaviour. Each guest that arrives at the Hotel Centaur bears a particular existential burden. From the suicidal boy who reads Kafka and watches his distracted parents dance, to the artist tormented by his blank canvas, to the story’s most unexpected guest, a Japanese man who for the past ten years – inexplicably – has written a polite weekly letter enquiring after the mythical centaurs of the area, and wishes to be shown these creatures. Each character searches, each search is shown to be absurd, with the story culminating in a brutal tragedy that is fallout of a bad joke, and the confirmation that life provides us with no easy answers.
CAST & CREW
Director Biography
Lino Kafidas, born in 1993, studied at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, Belgium.
He is writer and director of the short film “A Family Story” (with which he won several international festivals’ nominations and a Golden First Time Filmmaker award at LVGFA Galaxy Las Vegas Film Festival).
In 2020 he completed (together with Dimitris Kafidas) the medium length documentary “Spiros and the Circle of Death” (dur. 56 min) which won the awards of Best Greek Documentary at Beyond Borders Festival (2020, Castellorizo) and at DocFest (Chalkida, 2021) and also the Best Foreign Documentary award at Festival Internacional de las Artes Cinematograficas de San Cristobal de las Casas (Mexico, 2022). It was one of the 3 greek films selected to participate the International Competition Newcomers of Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (2020). It was also officially nominated by more than 15 International Film Festivals such as Mediteran Film Festival (Bosnia, 2020), South East European Film Festival of Los Angeles (SEEfest, 2020), Barcelona Indie Film Makers Festival (2020), etc
He speaks Greek, English, Dutch, French.
Filmography
Spiros and the Circle of Death, 2020 – 56 min
A Family Story, 2016 – 10 min
Lino Kafidas
Director,
Spiros and the Circle of Death (2020), A Family Story (2015)
Dimitris Kafidas
Director,
Spiros and the Circle of Death (2020)
Dimitris Kafidas
Writer
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT S.A)
Producer
Greek Film Centre
Good Stories Productions (Dimitris Kafidas)
Samuel Akinola
Key Cast
Hiroshi Wakamatsu
Key Cast
Toon Persyn
Cinematography
Dimitra Sofroniou
Original Music / Scoring
