2023 | Cyprus | Short

Athalassa

  • English, Modern Greek (1453-) - 25 mins
  • Director | Argyro Nicolaou
  • Writer | Argyro Nicolaou
  • Producer | Marios Stylianou, John Evangelides, Anita Michaelides

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Cyprus, 1936. In the midst of a raging tuberculosis epidemic, a dedicated young doctor seeks inventive ways to save his patients’ lives and protect them from the disease’s social stigma. The film is adapted from a short autobiographical story by Takis Evangelides, a local doctor at Cyprus' only TB sanatorium when the island was still a British colony.

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