The First Image

The First Image

2025 · 25 min

Athens, April of 1967. During the first days of the military dictatorship, Loukas is suffocating in his family's apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house's phone line gets mixed up with that of the Studio cinema...

Directed by Olia Verriopoulou · Written by Olia Verriopoulou

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Konstantinos Vourloumis Loukas
Maia Mikeli Valentini

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