EMERGING GREEKS COMPETITION

Gorgonà – by Evi Kalogiropoulou

Greece. A small, impoverished city-state is dominated by a gigantic refinery, which provides the town’s only resource: petrol. The men, all armed, hold absolute power. Nikos, their leader, is gravely ill and must arrange his succession. Shock spreads, when he includes his protégée, Maria, among the contenders. The fate of this young woman, who has been ignoring the most dramatic part of her family’s history, will change with the arrival of Eleni, a singer at the town’s bar.

Evi Kalogiropoulou

Evi Kalogiropoulou (1985) is a film director and visual artist. Her projects explore ideas associated with inclusion/exclusion, cross-culture identity, female figures in Ancient Greek mythology frames, and post-apocalyptic environments. Her previous shorts Motorway 65 and On Xerxes’ Throne both premiered in Cannes, while her later project Alexandria, an Onassis Foundation commission, was presented at the New Museum in New York. Her debut featureGorgonà has been awarded at Cinemart and Atelier Cinefondation in 2021 and had its world premiere at Venice Critics’ Week.