26/11/2025, 20.00 Uhr, KuBiZ Raul Wallenberg, Bernkasteler Str. 78, 13088 Berlin
-20.00 “PENCIL KNIFE BATON” DE – GR, OmU, 95min
A truly independent production of 18 international awards. A dark quantum comedy about the utopia of universal storytelling and the realism of teamwork, synchronization, and solidarity.
Four flatmates in Berlin Max, Nicola, Mariam and Eva, seek truth, acceptation and themselves. In a parallel universe a group of decadent retired gods Artemis, Demeter, Dionysus, Apollo and Hephaestus, struggle against stereotypes, injustice and oblivion. The Pencil and the Knife. Creativity and Survival. Two languages, two worlds, two ostensibly different situations, but deep down inextricable, like the two tips of a Baton.
CAST AND CREW:
DIRECTING/ SCREENPLAY Konstantinos Kakogiannis
DIRECTING OF PHOTOGRAPHY Pavlos Mavrikidis
EDITING Giorgos Alefantis
SET DESIGN Pavlos Kapalas
COSTUME DESIGN La Reina
STARRING Maria Katsandri, Sebastian Becker, Georgia Zoi, Panagos Ioakim, Marie Celine Yildimir, Ntinos Pontikopoulos, Anja Bothe, Konstantinos Gerakis, Konstantinos Papatheodorou,Vali Mavridi. Guest Stars: Valeria Christodoulidou, Haris Asimakopoulos
GREECE/ GERMANY COLOR/ BLACK AND WHITE DURATION 95min
A FEW WORDS ABOUT ATOPIA COLLECTIVE
ATOPIA COLLECTIVE is a mainly cinematic team based in Berlin, Athens and with fellow co-players in every corner of the planet.
The movie Pencil Knife Baton is a resulted from the encounter of 100 Don Quixotes who invested in her and trusted each other. A movie that talks about co-existence and solidarity not only narratively, but procedurally too.
An independent cinematic production that managed, without the support of any institutional entity or funding, to be selected in 30 festivals all over the world and receive 18 awards, amongst them for: best movie, directing, screenplay, photography, editing, costume design et al.
Our intention is to make jazz compositions with the potentiality of multiple interpretation. With humor as the universal positive denominator, we strive for art to convert thought into energy and action.
