Isabella Margara

Isabella Margara is a Greek-born screenwriter and director, who is also a trained medical doctor.

She received the International Audience Award at Clermont-Ferrand 2023 for her second short film, Nothing Holier Than a Dolphin. Her debut film, 54 – The Blind Turtle and the Endless Sea (2020), was screened at major international festivals and acquired by CANAL+. She was selected for Sarajevo Talents in 2021 and the Les Arcs Talent Lab in 2023, a prestigious program that annually invites eight emerging European directors.

Isabella is currently developing her third short film, along with her debut feature film, Black Water, a post-apocalyptic western based on the acclaimed novel by M. Makropoulos (winner of the Greek National Literature Prize, 2020), which was recently published in France.

Black Water was presented at the Thessaloniki Film Festival Agora 2023 and won the Finos Film Award, honouring an outstanding Greek project.

Black Water

LIM | Less is More 2024

In a nearly deserted village ravaged by pollution from oil drilling, a father and his disabled son struggle to survive. An environmental catastrophe has struck the region : the water has turned black, animals and plants are poisoned. Only twelve inhabitants remain, living off scavenged goods from abandoned homes and rare bus trips to the city. But even there, the empty streets suggest an even greater tragedy. Under state pressure, the last survivors — whose faces resemble the saints painted on the local chapel walls — eventually either flee, lose their minds, or perish.

But the father and son possess a weapon strong enough to withstand the end of the world : their boundless love for each other.