Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

International Shorts

Memoir of a Veering Storm

Greece
2022 — 14' / Color

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Synopsis

What happens to roe deer during their reproductive period? What does a young female body feel during and after an abortion? Can a cyclone break out only in our unconscious?
It is a morning in September. A storm is about to break. Α mother drives a girl to school in the morning and picks up a woman at the end of the school day. Anna, a fifteen-year-old girl sneaks out of school, and with the help of her boyfriend, they visit a hospital. There, she has to face an event that will jolt her into adulthood.

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Director Biography

Sofia Georgovassili is an awarded actress and filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. She is an Artworks fellow, 2020. Her lead part in Mavro Livadi by Vardis Marinakis, won her the best actress award at Seville European FF and Variety named her performance ‘remarkable as a first time thesp”. She is the supporting actress in Christos Nikou ‘Apples’ the Greek nomination for Oscars 2021. The movie opened Orizzonti section at Venice IFF 2020.

Director

Sofia Georgovassili

Producer

Sofia Georgovassili

Stelios Cotionis

Cinematographer

Tudor Panduru

Editor

Giorgos Zafeiris

Sound

Persefoni Miliou

Contact

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