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.

a short stop-motion animation documentary

by

Cinematographer/ Lighting /

Costume Designer Elena Gazi

Animator/  Construction Designer/

Lighting

Leonardo Dal Fabbro

Animator/ Editor/Puppet Designer

Dolan Bailey

Production & Prop Designer

Alejandra Diaz

Sound by Jose Ramon Madrid Alonso

&  Dolan Bailey

Voices

Nickos Gazis (Narrator)

Amalia Pehlioglou (Granddaughter)

*the movie is based on  Gazi’s family archival PRIKOSYMPHONO of her great-aunt from 1955.