Christopher Vourlias Blue Monday Productions has boarded “Cora,” the feature directorial debut of visual artist and filmmaker Evi Kalogiropoulou, which was awarded at the Rotterdam Film Festival’s CineMart and the Cannes Cinefondation’s Atelier earlier this year.“Cora” is the story of two working-class women fighting for freedom and their own identity against a dystopian patriarchal society.
It follows the director’s short film, “Motorway 65,” which played in competition in Cannes last year.Speaking to Variety at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Kalogiropoulou said she drew inspiration for her feature debut during an artistic residency in the working-class town of Elefsina, where local women shared stories about the struggles they faced,.
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