Director's Works
Alexander Stamatiadis (b. 1999) is an award winning Greek–German filmmaker, writer, and photographer based in Athens. His work spans films, music videos, and campaigns, drawing from autobiography to explore identity, memory, and the emotional weight of love and loss.
One warm summer day on a Greek island, two strangers cross paths in an alternate reality that blurs dream and desire.
'A Hot Day' started from a simple feeling - that strange, hazy state when the summer heat becomes so intense it begins to distort everything around you. The film follows a woman who begins to drift into a daydream, her thoughts wandering as the heat blurs her sense of what’s real. She imagines a connection with a man she’s never met, and somehow, he seems to share the same memories, as if they’ve both lived them before, but in another version of time. I wanted the film to feel familiar, like a day you might have lived or half-remembered. Time slows down, the air feels thick, and moments start to fold into each other. It’s not a story about what happens, but about what could have happened. We shot on 16mm in Mykonos, trying to capture the texture of that feeling: the warmth of the light, the stillness of the afternoon, the quiet hum of a moment that might fade if you look away.
The film was commissioned by Oven, a café–bakery that celebrates everyday rituals like breakfast, coffee, and simple pauses in the day. It made sense to build a story around that idea - of slowing down, noticing small details, and finding meaning in fleeting moments. At its core, the film is about love and chance, about how the most random encounters can feel destined, how coincidence shapes our world in ways we rarely understand. It’s an exploration of how chaos and meaning coexist, how we learn to accept uncertainty, and still, somehow, choose to hope.
