Olympia
28/9/2015, 19:00, Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος
While three months pregnant, Olympia discovers she's been struck by cancer. Faced with the dilemma whose life to put first, hers or her baby's, she decides to save both. Filmmaker Stavros Psyllakis tells a story of everyday struggle, where life and death walk side-by-side. Audience Award at the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Olympia, already three months pregnant at 33 years old, finds out she's been struck by lung cancer. After much hesitation, she decides not to abort and a healthy baby is born. Four months later, without any signs of the cancer letting up, Psillakis and his crew are encouraged by her doctor to spend four days with her and her family, capturing whatever the situation will allow. Following "METAXA Listening to Time", the deeply sensitive documentary filmmaker returns with another film about cancer patients. Both are about the fear of death, not just the characters' but the filmmaker's as well. If the first film spoke indirectly to "...the Greeks who made oestrum of life out of the fear of death" (A.Embirikos), "Olympia" evades moralizations in favor of more fundamental human elements that only silence can express.
Olympia/Ολυμπία-Treeiler En-8 from NyxtesPremieras
Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Stavros Psillakis
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Stavros Psillakis
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Thekla Malamou
Μοντάζ / Editor
Yiannis Katsampoulas
Παραγωγή / Producers
Stavros Psillakis
Ελλάδα / Greece
2013
Εγχρωμο / Color
DCP
45'
Ελληνικά / Greek
