31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
WAVES

STO LYKO

TO THE WOLF
by Aran Hughes, Christina Koutsospyrou
Country: Greece
Year: 2013
Duration: 74'


Four days in the life of two families of shepherds struggling to survive in a remote village in the Nafpaktia Mountains, a region in western Greece. The crisis has also affected this inhospitable land lashed by unrelenting winds and rains: old Paxnis had seen it coming and, having lost every hope, his wife and he are expecting the worse; Giorgios, instead, unable to sell his goats, finds himself buried in debts and seeks comfort in the bottom of a bottle. The ancestral beauty of nature watches indifferently as the catastrophe unfolds, and men end up turning their rage against the weak.

Biography

film director

Christina Koutsospyrou

Christina Koutsospyrou (Athens, Greece, 1980) is an artist and director; she studied at the London College of Communication, where she developed a passion for photography and cinema. She returned to her home country in 2010 to start working on To the Wolf, her first film project.

Aran Hughes

Aran Hughes (London, UK, 1983) attended London University of the Arts and directed two short films before starting to work on To the Wolf, his first feature, in 2010.

FILMOGRAFIA

Aran Hughes:
My Polska (coregia/codirector Joseph Fawcett, cm, 2009), Pride of Dover (cm, 2010).

Aran Hughes, Christina Koutsospyrou:
Sto Lyko (To the Wolf, doc., 2012).

Declaration

film director

“To the Wolf was not conceived as a response to the Greek crisis. Our initial intention was to present a study of everyday life in a remote Greek village. However, as filming began, the impact of the deepening financial problems was magnified by widespread media coverage and our focus began to shift. We started zooming in on the effect of this new political poverty on an already marginalised section of society, while still maintaining our intention to present an intimate portrait of rural life.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA, FOTOGRAFIA, MONTAGGIO, PRODUTTORI
Aran Hughes, Christina Koutsospyrou
SUONO
Nikos Konstantinou
INTERPRETI
Giorgos Katsaros, Ilias Katsaros, Spiridoula Katsarou, Adam Paxnis, Kiki Paxni, Vasiliki Spiropoulou
PRODUZIONE
Linel Films
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