Voulolimna

Documentary, Experimental

SYNOPSIS

The short film “Voulolimna” is a contemporary collective portrait of two lakes in Crete (Kourna and Agia) that includes all living and nonliving things, real and imagined: lakes, animals, plants, fairies, tourists, even plastic bicycles.

According to the myth, in the area where Lake Kourna is today there once lived a Cretan girl who was famous for her beauty. One day, as she was going to the fields with her father, who was also the village’s priest, they stopped to rest at a spring. She untied her blonde hair and then he approached her amorously. In terror she cried out: “Voula and Voulolimna, I haunt the lake!” and the spring overflowed, the village flooded and turned into a lake. The myth of the flood symbolizes justice, purification and the generative power of nature.

Cast & Team

• Cast: Irene Ragusini, Michalis Dretakis, Eleni Papadaki, Nikos Samaritakis, Despina Stavroulaki, Richard Valentine Aristidis Gibson, Danae Filippa, Antonis Champas, Hassan
• Assistant Director: George Gounezos
• Writers & Production: Olga Evangelidou, Nefeli Papaioannou, Irene Ragusini
• Director of photography & Editing: Nefeli Papaioannou
• Sound: Dimitris Barnias, Nefeli Papaioannou, Chris Loupis
• Music: Rafail Troulakis