Light Falls Vertical
Efthymia Zymvragaki
06.10 - 17:15 | 07.10 - 19:30
SYNOPSIS
I escaped from the island where I was born. Years later, I arrive on another island for an encounter with a man to expose the violence that he carries within. But when I venture to get closer to the desperate man, I realize that he also holds the key to my deepest fears. Now his story will never be separated from mine.
Premiere in the Balearic Islands. With the presence of the director.
Why must you see it?
The director accepts the challenge of filming the story of an abusive man while simultaneously creating a brave self-portrait. Both are openly exposed in a courageous film that leaves no one indifferent. Zymvragaki unravels her own origins, discovering uncomfortable traces in her past and rescuing that way in which women are accustomed to being treated, that indifference, that secondary role. As she questions herself, she gradually unmasks the main character, a being who dwells in a place where no horizon is in sight.
Andrea Guzmán
Efthymia Zymvragaki
Efthymia got her Master’s Degree in Artistic Productions and Research at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and trained as a photographer at the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya. From the University of Crete, Greece, she got a degree in Psychology.
She is an alumna of IDFAcademy 2020; Circle – Women’s Doc Accelerator 2020; Acció producció – Dones Visuals 2021; LIM Development Angels; and dok.incubator 2022.
She is attracted by social and gender issues and feels close to personal and sensitive approaches to complex and lesser known realities. She seeks to explore spaces of intimacy between and within people. She worked as a co-director of photography on the documentary Serás hombre by Isabel de Ocampo (2018) and was the DOP of the feature film Rocco tiene tu nombre by Angelo Orlando (2015). In 2015 she directed the documentary short Refrán. Light Falls Vertical is her first feature.
Year: 2022
Country: Spain, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands
Length: 85 min
Language: English, Spanish, Catalan, Greek
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Writer and Director: Efthymia Zymvragaki
Production: Gris Medio
Cinematography: Efthymia Zymvragaki
Editor: Tin Dirdamal
Sound Design: Tin Dirdamal, Alejandro Castillo, Bojan Palikuća
Music: George Xylouris
Sound: Anna Bofarull
