5th EVIA FILM PROJECT
23 JUNE → 27 JUNE 2026
12:30 - 14:00
How are folk songs connected to splatter films and modern horror movies? Are there common codes and direct references? What legacy have the “dead brother,” the “murderous mother,” and the other gripping, gory stories told by folk tradition bequeathed to the horror genre?
An introduction by Orestis Andreadakis, artistic director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

Orestis Andreadakis is the Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. He was a founding member of the Athens International Film Festival “Opening Nights” (1995) and the Athens Open Air Film Festival (2010), where he was a director from 2007 to 2016. He has worked as a film critic and a journalist in newspapers, magazines and television and he has designed, curated and presented several art exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Geneva. In 2017, he was the curator of the Greek Pavillion of the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2013, he was decorated as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France. Dark Plural, his debut poetry book, was awarded the Golden Prize for Best Illustration at the 2022 Greek Visual Communication Design Awards.