Light Falls Vertical
© Tomáš Brychta | Studio Divize
Efthymia Zymvragaki receives a proposal from a man who confesses to abuse in order to investigate the vision of the perpetrator of violence. With the courage to tell a story in the first person, the debut feature of this Greek director addresses the issue of violence that weighs so heavily in today's society with the intention of approaching it in a complex and intimate way.
Synopsis: A man named Ernesto, a resident of the Canary Islands, contacts filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki to propose making a film about his life. He explains to her that in gender violence there are always two sides: the victim and the aggressor. He confesses to being the aggressor. The Greek director then embarks on a journey, real and cinematic, in which she discovers the hidden corners, the lights and shadows of a character trapped in the cycle of violence, and in the process realizes that Ernesto is, in reality, half criminal and half victim, and that his story pushes her to confront her own family history, which she left in her native country two decades ago.
