CAST
DIANA KLEIMENOVA
Diana was born in a russian circus family. Her father was gay and her mother's artistic talent fascinated him to the point of wishing to have a child with her.
She did her first steps in modelling and moved to Berlin in 2014 taking on different roles as a bartender at kitkatclub - a fetish club.
LETO VAN LONG
Leto's career began in the mid 90's when he smuggled his way through bouncers and selectors into the parties as one of the original berlin club kids.
He is a member of the fun factory called ''party city berlin'' and has been working as a selector for many clubs the past 15 years.
MITZUCKER RAE SAMSON
Mitzucker was born in Hiroshima. She discovered Berlin and relocated there during the late nineties. She is an artist, dj, singer, producer and a musician together with her music partner.
Inspired by Hiroshima, Japanese anime and essentially the sense of sound. Their musician name is M+1 and their music is featured as soundtracks for the film Ex. This is her first time debut as an actress.
MAXIME CHENU
Maxime co-writed the script of his scene as his strongest skill in the theater was improvisation. The character is describing a personal spiritual experience based on a real story taken from his life.
TRASHERA
Trashera is an event with a big space for artistic development and a communications agency for the queer community.
Geovane Pedro de Bortoli with Bráulio Bandeira and a big group of friends took over berlin since 2015.
The trashera crew is doing a debut at EX.
JORGE BENAVIDES
Jorge is an artist - therapist and sex worker. By exploring theatre, dance, performance, films, porn, reiki, massages, tantra, tarot, psychomagic - among other disciplines, he has found his vocation.
His art has a sexual and therapeutic direction, his therapies an artistic and sexual contemplation, and he is presenting the sex work as a therapeutic and artistic intention.
KALLIOPI TZERMANI
Kalliopi was born in Thessaloniki and studied acting in Athens and NYC.
Her credits include multiple theatre works, films, TV series and commercials.
THOM HADFIELD
Thom is a queer experimental Poet and performance artist from the uk living and working in Berlin.
EX will be his debut appearance in a movie.
DAVID JONG-SUNG MYUNG
David was born in Seoul, South Korea and now is based in Berlin.
After graduating as a music therapist, he started classical vocal studies. The last years he is working as a music therapist, signer and actor while his current project is focusing in the connection of humans with music. In this project he is inspired from a combination of psyche, Dionysus and Apollo focusing on tragedy and drama. David is emphasizing in the development theory of Sigmund Freud - element crucial to the movie.
BRAULIO BANDEIRA
Bráulio is a transdisciplinary artist and creature of the night based in Berlin. From the visual arts of theatre and dance he settled in Berlin under the alias Deepneue.
This word, his alter-ego, stands for a multicultural understanding of the new deep, the emotional music that he produces inspired by the minimalistic techno and the hypnotic sound of the drums. Nowadays, besides the passion for music that drives him, he runs with his chosen family of "Berliners" a creative collective named TrashEra focused on empowering marginalized minorities through the works of a communication agency, the sounds of music label and party events that celebrate differences.
CREW
DIRECTOR
George Markakis was born in Crete, Greece and studied cinematography in Athens and New York - the last 8 years he is based in Berlin.
“India Blues open the circle of my experience in Berlin. EX closes the cycle. Both are deeply and delicately psychological; both depict my world in Berlin.” - GM
In 2013, George Markakis directed “India Blues.” A remarkably edgy, bold and passionate love story between two young men and the complex love relationship that evolves in front of the camera in real time.
It has been internationally acclaimed as a landmark narrative depicting the 8 core emotions that run through a relationship – lust, pain, happiness, jealousy, attraction, peacefulness, love and anger.
The film hit, Cork film festival, Athens International Film Festival, Huston Film Festival, the Tokyo Uplink opening, and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. It has been distributed in the USA, Germany, France, Japan, Greece, UK, Ireland, and Israel.
5 years later, George’s pen has re-sparked with a new film treatment that contains the fabric for an insightful, provocative and retrospective narrative into the decadence, and consequent rabbit hole of a club night .
Inspired by the film, Victoria, by Sebastian Schipper as well as the films of Tarkovsky, EX reveals a night of reckless abandon propagating the main character Diana to enter a kaleidoscope world where he encounters characters who probe the essence of his deconstructed world and childhood. “The film is not just about Berlin and the cool kids. It has something more to say about the city, about Berlin. The dark side. It’s the whole world of the party. Faking reality and illusion. It’s a game between different realities.” GM
“We have reached those days when we can endure neither our vices nor their remedies.” - GM
PRODUCER
I HAVE MY ART LTD is an Berlin-based production company created by George Markakis, focusing on director-driven films and international coproduction’s, dedicated to working with talented filmmakers and bringing creative people together.
Holding strong ties with the international film world,I HAVE MY ART ensures an international perspective for its projects from development to completion.
Operates as the international festivals and sales arm of the company. It is the first agent of its kind made by the region for the region and aims at becoming the region’s key partner for solid strategies in festivals, sales and alternative distribution models.
I HAVE MY ART LTD main activity concentrates on the circulation of its films through festivals, increasing by extension their exposure to other distribution circuits, such as theatrical distribution, TV sales and VoD.
Cornelsen films, set up in 2009 in Berlin, is producing high quality features and native 3D content.
Cornelsen films has produced Germany’s first real 3D action teaser ‘‘Killing bee 3D’’ and the first German street dance film ‘‘Berlin dance battle 3D’’ shot in native 3D.
The filmographie of cornelsen films includes: ", "EX" by George Markakis" (shooting), "Kia and cosmos" (2018) a featurefilm by sudipto roy (completed), "Teenage Werwolf" (2018) (postproduction) a feature film by Julian Richberg, "The last Berliner" (2018) 95 min. A thriller by Gregor Erler (completed). "16 women/ 16 zan, (2017) 85 min. by Bahar Ebrahim, a documentary of 16 women from 20-80 from Tehran/ Iran, “children ́s show” (2015) 90 min. by Roderic Cabrido, “37” (2014-17) 95 min. By Chris Brügge, “India blues” (2013) 93 min. by George Markakis, “simplify your soul” (2012), 95 min. Directed by Markus Boestfleisch. ‘‘Berlin dance battle-3D’’ (2011) 101 min. by Robert Franke, streedance-feature, “Berlin street dance championship” – coverage (2010), 80 min. By R.Franke, “killing bee 3d” (2009), trailer, 10 min. Directed by academy award winning director Raymond Boy. Christopher Cornelsen worked for Tucano film as well, therefor he produced “the race” 95 min,(2009), directed by andré nebe.
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Mor Shauli, a Berlin based visual artist from Tel Aviv.
Through his dual point of view as a Berlin comer and as a nightlife person, his work observe the boundaries of being present, the effort of documentation to stay Indifferent with the reality or taking active part in it and capturing new layers.
SCRIPT WRITER
Marie Fleuret studied theatre and languages.
She is working on different projects as a script writer and currently focusing at EX.
ART DIRECTOR - STYLIST
Avi Ben Nisan is an art director - stylist from Tel Aviv with studies in fashion and design in New York and a background with editorials and commercials internationally.
EX is his first feature film.
SOUNDTRACK
Mitzucker is an artist, dj, singer, songwriter and a musician together with her music partner. Inspired by Hiroshima, Japanese anime and essentially the sense of sound. Their musician name is M+1 and their music is featured as a soundtrack for the film EX. This is her first time debut as an actress.
EDITING
Tolis Apostolidis was born and raised in Athens, Greece, one of his childhood games was cutting and splicing hand drawn film strips with a super8mm film splicer. Since then he studied video, photography and digital media in Bradford and film editing in Sheffield and has edited three feature films, six documentary series, many short films and more commercials than he cares to count. When he is not editing he can be found in a rehearsal studio or on stage performing with his bands.
FILM FACTS
Genre: Drama - Comedy
Category: Feature Length Film | Duration: 85 minutes
Language: English, German, French, Russian
Producer: Chris Cornelsen | George Markakis
Director: George Markakis
Story by: George Markakis & Marie Fleuret
Film Editor: Tolis Apostolidis
Photographer: Mor Shauli
Art Director: Avi Ben Nissan
Communications - Administration: Eva Mikelatou
Sound Engineer: Savvas Kontou
Soundtrack Music: M+1
Shooting Format: 2.35
Aspect Ratio: 2.35
Frame Rate: 24
