ANI PH IS, or: A beautiful, tiny, reddish hair, as thin as fiber – Kostas Bakouris, Greece, 2023, 5’30”

Synopsis: Once upon a…hair, there was IS. With the narrative structure of a fairy tale, the story of her life, from the moments she sprouts on a baby’s head till the moment she “dies” falling off from there, while she has to fight against beastie scissors and dictatorial combs, is a metaphor about the circle of life, about the fulfillment of our dreams and about the need to preserve diversity without becoming extinct. But, anyhow, life goes on…

Director: Kostas Bakouris

Producer: Kostas Bakouris, Vassilis Karamitsanis

Writer: Kostas Bakouris, Yorgos Bakouris

Key Cast: Stelios Mainas