PRIKOSYMPHONO

Drama

SYNOPSIS

Placed in Lefkada, an island in the Ionian Sea, a little girl finds a paper from 1955, that contains a list of objects that belonged to her great aunt and proceeds to ask her grandfather about it. He explains to her that this is the list of her dowry, an old Greek tradition, in which the bride’s possessions were concede to the groom as a formal marriage agreement. Moved by this finding, he starts recalling memories of his childhood, witnessing his older sister Armenia, having an arranged marriage and leaving behind her family and the island for a better future.

Film Participations Awards

NOMINATIONS:
2024, Nominated & Premiered for the 44TH VGIK annual International Student Film Festival, in Moscow, Russia. 2024, Selection for the program ‘Dialogue of Cultures’ in the competition of the XIX International Film Festival named after Vladimir Menshov «Won together», in Sochi, Russia.
2025, Official Selection at 5th edition of ANIMATEX, in Cairo, Egypt, in the Documentaries Category.
2025,Official Selection & Nomination for the 4th edition of SHORT ENCOUNTERS, International Film Festival in Preveza, Greece in the Documentaries Category.
2025, Official Selection for the 18th International Animated Film Festival Animator 2025, at Poznan, Poland.
2025, Official Selection & Nomination for the 4th International Aigio International Short Film Festival “Theodoros Angelopoulos” in the Animation Category.
2025, Official Selection & Nomination for Best Animated Short & Best Greek Production at the Santorini Film Festival, in Santorini, Greece.
2025, Official Selection at the 14th Aegean Film Festival in Patmos, Greece.

AWARDS:
2024, Award Winner for Best Animation International in the Super Short Length Category, Festival at the AltFF, the Alternative Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.
2025, Award with Special Mentions for Young Filmmakers- for authors aged 18 to 30 in the 22th LUKSUZ FILM FESTIVAL in Krsko, Slovenia. –        ‘The theme of objectivisation of women in patriarchal society conveyed in a gentle way – through the los and yearning.’
2025, Award Winner for Best Animated Short at the Santorini Film Festival 2025, in Santorini, Greece.
2025, Award Winner with a Special Mention at the KYMATA International Film Festival in the category of ‘Best Short Documentaries’ in Kefalonia, Greece. –        ‘For the inventive way it adapts the stop motion animation technique to the documentary genre, “leafing through” the evolution of Greek social norms through time.’

Cast & Team

• Cast: Puppets, Nikos Gazis, Amalia Pehlioglou
• Writers: Elena Gazi
• Production: Elena Gazi, Dolan Bailey, Alejandra Diaz, Leonardo Dal Fabbro
• Director of photography: Elena Gazi
• Editing: Dolan Bailey
• Sound: Jose R. Madrid Alonso, Dolan Bailey
• Sound Design & Mixing: Jose R. Madrid Alonso, Roman Gottwald