The love story of two men, Simo and Musa, who meet one night in a hidden, unidentified place. This is the central theme of the film. Musa producer Nikos Nikolopoulos. Weeks pass and love grows stronger, the desires of one are reflected in the desires of the other.

A few months later, fortunes turn when they live together at Simos’ house. As Musa tries to adjust to the unfamiliar situation, Simos struggles to control his possessiveness and constant fear of losing his beloved. And while the relationship, it would seem, is on the verge, an unexpected event will occur.

Musa film, which will be shown on Wednesday, October 12at 21:30 in the presence of the authors in the large hall Cinema Library of Greece, combines the methods of classical cinema with the methods of video art. This is an arthouse, LGBTQ, drama and detective thriller built on a thin political underlay.

This is a “man-made” film, shot from start to finish, from script writing to final editing, with absolute artistic freedom, without funding, but with the participation of sponsoring artists who participated in the creation of the film. film in several qualities each.

Video art work by American artist Gillian Meyer “How to hide from the cameras” was narratively integrated into the film MUSA with her kind permission.

Director’s Notes:

All love stories have elements of mystery and the dark side. Love comes with loss. The loss of a significant other, the loss of desire, the loss of oneself, to the end of all human drama: death. I wanted to tell this story the way we are used to remembering our personal love stories: not in a straight line, but in a spiral, where fragments of reality, memories and fantasies are collected and compressed into a short period of time. When we recount a real event, we add – often unconsciously – additional, fictional incidents, and because this happens over and over again, in the end we cannot distinguish the real part of the story from the fictional one. We come to the conclusion that the whole story is unshakably true, even though we want and must interpret it in a way that makes sense and enables us to deal with the terrible trauma of loss. So it is with all our personal histories, so it is with the history of mankind.

Participation in festivals:

• He participated in the Works in Progress competition section of the 61st Thessaloniki Film Festival (2020) where he won an award.
• The premiere took place at the 62nd Thessaloniki Film Festival (2021).
• Participated in the competition section of the 34th Panorama of European Cinema (2022).
• Participated in the competition section of the 7th Greek Film Festival in Berlin (2022).
• Participated in the 16th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (2022).

Production:
Cenote Productions

Main characters:
Stefanos Muagier, actor, dancer and performer
Thanasis Georgiou, director and actor

Actors took part in it:
Hieronymus Kaletsanos
Alexandros Mavropoulos
eleana stravodomou

Extraordinary participation:
Antigoni Koouloukakos, Efstatia Tsapareli, Sillas Tzoumerkas

Artistic credits:
Nikos Nikolopoulos: director, screenplay, director of photography, editing, color grading
Artemis Zervos: screenplay, production, set design

Original music and sound design: Miyaki (Dimitris Miyakis).
The OST for the film will be released on digital music platforms in October 2022.

Sound: Giannis Antipas, Dimitris Miyakis, Kostas Kontovas
Costumes: Georgia Pafili Make-up: Ioanna Simeonidi Hair: Julia Singrimi