20/06/2025 - We present details of six projects that were pitched at the fourth edition of the Greek event, which is running from 17-21 June

Holy Human Angel by Angeliki Aristomenopoulou

The fourth edition of the Evia Film Project has hosted the presentation of six projects, which had previously been showcased by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and TIDF Agora. Their teams are currently looking for new partnerships in order to continue their production journey. Here we take a closer look at each of them.

Friends, Birthdays, Murder, etc. - Dimitris Tsakaleas, Lida Vartzioti (Greece)
Presented at the 2023 Crossroads Co-production Forum and produced by Ioanna Bolomyti, of Atalante Productions, the film is currently seeking sales agents, co-producers, financiers and festival programmers. The movie marks the feature debut by the directorial duo, who have previously garnered acclaim for their award-winning short films, including Sad Girl Weekend, Happy Ending and Good Girls Club: A Virginity Odyssey.

In the film, alienated best friends Nefeli and Olga reunite for a birthday weekend on a remote Greek island. Nearby, a mysterious woman watches, obsessed with their bond and terrified of its unravelling. As her fixation turns violent, the sun-kissed retreat descends into something dark and irreversible. Tsakaleas described it as “Frances Ha meets I Know What You Did Last Summer”.

Holy Human Angel - Angeliki Aristomenopoulou (Greece/Iceland)
Presented at the 2023 Thessaloniki Pitching Forum, the project is a coming-of-age documentary directed by Aristomenopoulou (Wandering Soul, A Family Affair, Citizen Europe [+see also:
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Filmed over three years, the documentary follows 20-year-old Constantina, a trans artist from the conservative Greek island of Chios. Using an online avatar to explore her queer identity, she finds strength through her art and the progressive support of her family. “Certain sections of our societies are regressing to more conservative views regarding gender. In this sense, this story has become even more urgent throughout the years it has spent in development,” producer Averof noted.

How Many Nights? How Many Days? by Alaa Dajani

How Many Nights? How Many Days? - Alaa Dajani (Egypt/Germany)
Also presented at the 2023 Thessaloniki Pitching Forum, the pic is an animated archival creative documentary written and helmed by Dajani, with Kesmat Elsayed attached as co-writer. The team is currently seeking a co-producer, funding and an animation studio. A co-production between Egypt and Germany, the project is led by SEE Media Production, with support from SEERA Films.

Blending archival material and animation, the film tells the story of Younis Abdallah, a young peasant from Al-Himamiya in Upper Egypt, who volunteers for the Egyptian Labour Corps during World War I in order to protect his mentor from forced conscription. Elsayed commented: “It’s important to bring this kind of overlooked perspective to light because we haven’t really seen World War I portrayed through this lens. Having access to such a remarkable archive also adds so much depth to the story.”

The Crossroad/As God Wills - Mari Gulbiani (Georgia)
This Georgian fictional drama, first presented at the Crossroads Co-Production Forum in 2020, is penned and directed by Mari Gulbiani and is being staged by Kate Kalandarishvili for Midifilm. Gulbiani’s previous documentary feature, Before Father Gets Back [+see also:
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The project is currently seeking co-producers, financing and sales representation. The story follows Seda, a young Muslim woman who, shortly after her wedding, learns that her husband, Leechi, has disappeared. Accompanied by her mother-in-law, Leila, she sets out on an emotionally charged journey, only to discover that Leechi has travelled to Syria to join ISIS and the Holy War. The key element of the feature is the “approach favouring the human side of the war and what leads people to it […], with the power of women’s voices way too often dismissed in these cases,” the director stated.

We Kiss in Dark Nightclubs and I Explain by Daphné Hérétakis

We Kiss in Dark Nightclubs and I Explain - Daphné Hérétakis (Greece/France)
The project is a coming-of-age fiction feature, first presented at the Crossroads Co-production Forum in 2017. Co-written and directed by Hérétakis, the film is being produced by Hérétakis for Allonsanfàn Films and co-produced by Jasmina Sijercic, of Bocalupo Films. It is currently seeking sales, funding and festivals. Hérétakis’s short documentaries have screened at Cannes, Festival dei Popoli, IFFR and Visions du Réel, among others.

During the 2008 Athens riots, Alpha meets Zana, and they share a month of rebellion and friendship, until Zana disappears. In 2025, while making a film about that time, Alpha receives a message that may be from Zana, leading her on a journey through a city where past and present blur. The director feels particularly close to this story: “I was 20 when this happened, and even now, at almost 40, it still haunts me. They say we're coming out of the crisis, but it's still with us. Exploring the present of the city and its people’s struggles feels so relevant.”

Women Walk Home by Stephanie Andreou

Women Walk Home - Stephanie Andreou (Cyprus/France)
Presented at the 2024 Thessaloniki Pitching Forum, the project is being produced by Adrián Gutiérrez for Saia Films, and co-produced by Rémi Grellety and Sara Skrodzka for Warboys Films. It is currently seeking funding and co-producers, and is directed by Andreou, a filmmaker based in Cyprus and Los Angeles.

Set during the 1974 coup and Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which split the island and displaced 200,000 people, the film follows Women Walk Home, a grassroots movement launched in 1975 by Cypriot women demanding reunification and the right of return. Backed by international supporters, 30,000 women marched, organising five more marches over the next 15 years. Andreou spoke about the importance of her personal connection with the story: “What stands out the most to me in the archive, which I also found by meeting the women who are still alive, is their ability to describe the deep, embodied sense of home: the smells, the land their ancestors farmed, the trees my great-grandparents planted. That connection gives me strength.”