PEPPERMINT

Synopsis

An album of photographs, even those of a family we don't know, makes us remember our own situations and the experiences that affected our entire life. lt is not necessarily the most important events. Very often the first scenes that come to mind are simple images, moments, sounds and smells from the years of our childhood and adolescence. So we can all recognize and remember our own images and our own feelings. Stefanos pulled out his first tooth by tying it to the doorknob with a piece of string. His mother told him that if he threw it on the roof tiles a raven would bring him a ring. But he didn't wait. He stole it from his Aunt Venetia's jewelry rase and promised it to Marina, his first cousin. Kiss-kiss the grownups told them, but the cousins kissed on the mouth. Only during their adolescence things went too far. They had to break up. They went their own ways only to meet again at the funeral of Stefanos' mother, 30 years later. They'll certainly have a lot to say to each other.

Biography

Born in 1953 in Rhodes, Costas Kapakas studies and worked in Berlin from 1974 to 1983. His first work in film was in animation.

Filmography:
1984 SCENES, short
1985 3 1/2, short
1988 STRIPES, short
1995 STICK IN THE WATER, short
1999 PEPPERMINT