Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B. Papadakis. Fotografia / Photography: Arsinoi
Pilou. Montaggio / Editing: Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B. Papadakis, Vagelis Katsaros. Musica / Music:
John Tournas. Suono / Sound: Arielle Esther. Scenografia / Set Designer: Loukia Limperi Oraiopoulou.
Costumi / Costume Designer: Marianthi Christodoulou. Interpreti / Cast: Hara Kyriazi, Pamela Oikonomaki,
Sofia Linospori, Vaso Gkougkara, Lefteris Tsatsis, Sozos Christou. Produzione / Produced by: Pame Ligo
Collective. Coproduzione / Co-produced by: Pucci Productions. In collaborazione con / In collaboration with:
Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center.
Set in the Greek mountain village of Tirna, Bearcave follows Argyro, a badass farmer, and her best friend
Anneta, the village “it” girl and local manicurist. Once Anneta admits that she’s pregnant and planning to
leave town with her lame cop boyfriend, Argyro challenges Anneta to embark on an adventure to find the
mystical bear cave. Before Argyro has a chance to confess her own love, Anneta leaves for her new life in
the big city. Argyro is left broken. Meanwhile, in her new home with her clingy mother-in-law, Anneta quickly
realizes her destiny lies elsewhere.
Bearcave premiered at the 2025 Giornate degli Autori, in Venice.
Stergios Dinopoulos
Stergios Dinopoulos (1995) born in Akron, Ohio, grew up in Athens and studied Art, Film, & Visual Studies at
Harvard, where his thesis film won the prestigious Hoopes prize. He works as a director, screenwriter, and
film editor. Bearcave is his debut feature.
2022 Bluebird cm / sf 2023 Arkoudotrypa cm / sf diretto con / directed with Krysianna B. Papadakis 2025
Arkoudotrypa (Bearcave) diretto con / directed with Krysianna B. Papadakis; Premi / Awards: Giornate degli
Autori Venezia – Europa Cinemas Label
Krysianna B. Papadakis
Krysianna B. Papadakis born in Athens in 1995, is a Greek-New Zealander writer-director. Her work explores
queer identity, rural transformation, and Balkan folklore with poetic and political intensity, drawing on her
background in philosophy and politics studies at Harvard, and media theory at Oxford. Bearcave is her debut
feature.
2023 Arkoudotrypa cm / sf diretto con / directed with Stergios Dinopoulos 2025 Arkoudotrypa (Bearcave)
diretto con / directed with Stergios Dinopoulos; Premi / Awards: Giornate degli Autori Venezia – Europa
Cinemas Label
Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B. Papadakis
Stergios Dinopoulos (1995) born in Akron, Ohio, grew up in Athens and studied Art, Film, & Visual Studies at
Harvard, where his thesis film won the prestigious Hoopes prize. He works as a director, screenwriter, and
film editor. In 2022 he directed the short Bluebird.
Krysianna B. Papadakis born in Athens in 1995, is a Greek-New Zealander writer-director. Her work explores
queer identity, rural transformation, and Balkan folklore with poetic and political intensity, drawing on her
background in philosophy and politics studies at Harvard, and media theory at Oxford. Together they made
the short film Arkoudotrypa in 2023, which, in its new 2025 version, Bearcave, is their debut feature film.
