La Première Image
Greece, 25', 2025
age recommendation: 10+
original language: Greek
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.
Olia Verriopoulou
Born in Athens, Greece in 1992, she lives and works between Athens and Paris, where she studied cinema (Paris VII-Diderot, École des Gobelins). In 2021, she directed her first short Sacralisons. The first image is her first fiction. She is currently in post-production of her feature documentary Stories of a lie. For the past ten years she has participated in the programming and organization of film festivals and labs (Les Écrans Documentaires, Cinéma du réel, Champs-Élysées film festival, Institut Français, Greek Film Archive, Oxbelly Screenwriters Lab).
Cast & Crew
- direction: Olia Verriopoulou
- screenplay: Olia Verriopoulou
- cinematography: Pierre Warolin
- editing: Myrto Karra
- music: Dury Dava
- sound: Christos Sakellariou, Stelios Koupetoris
- cast: Konstantinos Vourloumis, Maia Mikeli, Christos Plainis, Evi Saoulidou
- producers: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Elias Katsoufis, Olia Verriopoulou, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Gaëlle Jones
- production company: Haos Film, Faliro House Productions, Perspective Films
Filmography
- Sacralisons (2021)
English 
Greek