Pink

Alexandros Voulgaris
Greece
2006

Pink is a film about someone’s thoughts.

90", 35mm
Color, Greek with English subtitles

about the film

Vassilis Galis (played by Voulgaris) is afraid of growing up. Snezana Tkatchenko is afraid of understanding. Sakis the Movie Star is afraid of feeling. Emily the Irish girl is afraid of starting again from zero. Lauren the Wife is afraid of admitting. Agne the Teacher is afraid of living. Father is afraid of speaking. Mother is afraid of coming back. At the centre of the film, twentysomething Vassilis is confronted with the emotions associated with becoming a man, while the other characters orbit around him in a haze of their own anxieties. Surreal and often raw, the film captures the fears of a generation of disaffected youth and their search for meaning. A highly personal work whose structure and rhythm feels much like a cinematic poem, Pink is nonetheless imbued with a universality that will resonate with anyone feeling the anxieties of these times.

about the director

Born in 1981, Alexander Voulgaris studied filmmaking at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos. He directed the short film The Right Moves in 2000. In 2003 he made his feature film debut with Crying?, which was shown acclaimed at film festivals worldwide. Voulgaris is heralded as one of the most exciting new Greek film directors. Pink is his second feature film.

awards

2007 Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival

screenings

February 19 Tuesday, 7:30 PM AFM Budak Caddebostan

February 20 Wednesday, 3:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2

February 29 Friday, 1:00 PM AFM CEPA Ankara 2

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