To Agori Troi To Fagito Tou Pouliou
Boy Eating the Bird's Food
The film tells the story of 23-year-old Yorgos living in contemporary Athens. He has a beautiful singing voice but no job, no money and nothing to eat. To slightly stave off his hunger, he shares the seeds with his only attachment figure, a canary. Yorgos has to struggle against all odds, but mostly against his own foolish pride that prevents him from asking for help. Ektoras Lygizos lets the audience witness three days in the life of his protagonist – from alienation, hunger and psychosis to the universal story about unemployment – and shows an unadorned snapshot of a land in transition.
Director's Biography
EKTORAS LYGIZOS, born 1976 in Athens, studied Greek Literature and Film Directing. Until now he has primarily worked in theater, directing productions of plays by Samuel Beckett, Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov. His short film AGNA NIATA (Pure Youth, 2004) competed at Venice Film Festival in the Corto Cortissimo section. TO AGORI TROI TO FAGITO TOU POULIOU (Boy Eating the Bird's Food, 2012), his first feature film, won a Special Mention at Karlovy Vary Film Festival and the AQCC Award for Best Feature in the International Selection at Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma.
CROSSING EUROPE AWARDS
2013: CROSSING EUROPE Award - Best Fiction Film
Competition Fiction 2013
Ektoras Lygizos
Greece 2012
color
80 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Ektoras Lygizos
Cinematography Dimitris Kassimatis
Editing Gregory Rentis
Sound/Sounddesign Dimitris Kanellopoulos
With Yannis Papadopoulos, Lila Baklesi, Kleopatra Perraki, Vangelis Kommatas, Kharalambos Goyos
Production
Stefi Productions 24 Amyklon str 15231 Halandri Greece T +30 210 6386200 F +30 210 6108918 info@stefi.gr www.stefi.gr
