CFD 25|Lula Leblanc

Glocal Images International Competition Section
Lula Leblanc
96', 2024, Greece

26th of September 1999. Alekos is dead. His teenage granddaughter, Margarita, refuses to attend his funeral and takes advantage of her parents’ absence to throw a small party at home. Three days earlier, unaware that this would be his last night, Alekos attends a reunion of old friends to celebrate the birthday of Lula, his first love, who now suffers from dementia.

Stergios Paschos is a screenwriter and director for cinema and television. He has written and directed seven short films and three feature films. In 2016, he completed his first feature film, Afterlov, which premiered at Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the Youth Jury Award. In 2023, he completed his second feature film, The Last Taxi Driver, which premiered at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, winning the Best Film Award from the Panhellenic Film Critics Association and the Best Actor Award for Kostas Koronaios.

Directed by Stergios Paschos
Screenplay Stergios Paschos
Cinematography Yiorgos Koutsaliaris

Editing Stamos Dimitropoulos Production design
Music Yannis Veslemes
Costume design Rectifier
Sound design Yiannis Yiannakopoulos
Cast Thanassis Papageorgiou, Michele Valley, Danai Nielsen, Elena Topalidou, Takis Vamvakidis, Maria Korachai, Yorgos Ziakas
Producers Nicholas Alavanos, Christina Stavropoulou, Stergios Paschos
Production company FILMIKI
Co-producers Marni Films, Ready2cast, Prosenghissi

Filmography
2024 Lula Leblanc
2023 The Last Taxi Driver
2016 Afterlov
2013 Elvis is Dead ( s.f.)
2012 Largo (s.f.)
2011 Helen ( s.f.)
2010 Knocks ( s.f.)