BLACK NIGHTS 2025 First Feature Competition
Stefanos Tsivopoulos • Director of Elena's Shift
"If silence is safety and finding your voice puts you at risk, what will you choose?"
by Ana Stanic
We spoke with the Greek filmmaker about his debut feature, is a story of reclaiming voice, agency and the right to belong
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We spoke with Greek filmmaker Stefanos Tsivopoulos about his debut feature Elena's Shift [+see also:
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film profile], selected in the First Feature Competition at the 29th Black Nights Film Festival. Between precarity and protest, the film is a story of reclaiming voice, agency, and the right to belong, in which a Romanian migrant and single mother in Athens is facing down injustice, economic fragility, and emotional exile.
