HOPEPUNK

DIRECTED BY VASILIKI LAZARIDOU

Horror

Greece & France

20′

2025

SYNOPSIS
Rebellious driver Andi and a restless zombie named Pina are driving through the city with a dark secret in the trunk. Their destination is HOPEPUNK, a queer zombie squat at the edge of town where they set a trap for a gang of nationalist taxi drivers that has spread its filthy tentacles across the dead-zone metropolitan highways, controlling the streets of Athens.
DIRECTED BY Vasiliki Lazaridou PRODUCED BY Phaedra Vokali Maria Drandaki CO-PRODUCED BY – Marie-Gabrielle Peaucelle Kyveli Short WRITTEN BY Vasiliki Lazaridou WITH Youla Boudali Reject aka Lex Thanos Tokakis Christos Syllas Alexandros Moukanos DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Areti Papaioannou EDITOR Kleitos Kyriakidis, Alki Papastathopoulos SET DESIGNER Sofia Vaso COSTUME DESIGNER Christina Lardikou, Elissavet Zacharaki MUSIC Yorgos Dousos VFX ARTIST Kleitos Kyriakidis GRAPHIC Charis Valsamis MAKE UP Olympia Lazaridou HAIR Alex Priftis TITLE Charis Valsamis

AWARDS AND SELECTIONS

39. BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
WORLD PREMIERE
2025

VASILIKI LAZARIDOU

BIO

 

Vasiliki Lazaridou (they/them) is a visual artist, writer and filmmaker, from Northern Greece. Their experimental short SPLIT was selected for the international shorts program of Berlin Porn Film Festival in 2021 and is shown in galleries and festivals around the world. They have been awarded a scholarship for young artists by Stavros Niarchos Foundation, while their multimedia projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally during the last decade. Their genre short HOPEPUNK is developed and produced by Homemade Films and Les Films de Juillet with the support of Greek Film Center, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) and the National Centre of Audiovisual Media and Communications – EKOME.
2025
HOPEPUNK (Horror, 20', GR & FR)