“Colossi of Love” (Nikos Mistriotis) & ODYSSEUS AWARDS

20:30- Audience Prize 2010:
“Colossi of Love” by Nikos Mistriotis

Synopsis: The Colossi of Love is the story of the Greek characters known as “Kamaki”, men who were obsessed with courting female foreign tourists using special techniques during the 70’s and 80’s.

Even if «kamaki», this Greek way of flirting which literally means “harpoon”, was just about sex, in a society where sex with local women was culturally forbidden, it became the reason for almost 1.000 mixed marriages on the island of Rhodes while it revealed other issues: a competition between males, a desire to be unlike others and a feeling of superiority by seducing foreign women. Issues of a Greece at the point of change, in terms of both cultural and sexual taboos.

Director: Nikkos Mistriotis
Screenwriter: Maria P. Koufopoulou
Producer-Director of Photography: Yannis Kopsias
Sound Engineer: Alexander Sakellariou, Babis Yannakakis
Editor: Dimitris Maris
Sound Mixer: Nick Papadopoulos
Music: Minas Emmanouil, SMS
Coproduction: XYZ Productions, ARTE, ERT

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21:40- ODYSSEUS AWARDS