Debt

Οφειλή

“Every person we meet in our life is a journey and we often feel from the beginning whether we will travel first class, or without luggage and with empty pockets, with this person.”
Alekos Zoukas is a very dear man, a reveler and at the same time a deeply thinking and thoughtful person. A man you can hardly forget once you meet him. In the film, the director's trips with Alekos Zoukas and his friends in Pyrsogianni interchange with Alekos' confessions about his experience with cancer. An encomium to friendship by an angel who is sinful.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Stavros Psillakis
Script: Stavros Psillakis
Cinematography: Kostas Palmas, Stavros Psillakis
Editing: Spiros Kokkas
Music: Vangelis Fampas
Production: Massive Productions
Producers: Vangelis Fampas
Co-production: 2|35
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2021
Duration: 77'
Distribution in Greece: Cinobo (Tasos Melemenidis, tasosm@cinobo.com)
Contact: Cinobo (Tasos Melemenidis, tasosm@cinobo.com)
Awards/Distinctions: 1st Award for Documentary (Audience Prize) - 9th Chania Film Festival (2021), Director Award - 15rd Hellenic Documentary Film Festival of Chalkida (2021), Best European Documentary - Stanley Film Awards (2022), Best Feature Documentary - Stockholm Gold Awards International Film Festival (2022)

Stavros Psillakis

Stavros Psillakis was born in Chania, Crete, in 1954. He is a director and producer of anthropological documentaries that usually focus on borderline situations of human existence. He first studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and then Film Directing at the Hantzikou Film School (Athens). He received a scholarship from the French state to study Anthropological Documentary Filmmaking at the VARAN School in Paris. He was honored with many awards, such as the 1st Documentary Film Award of the Hellenic Film Academy in 2010 for the documentary There Was No Other Way. He is a founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy and the Hellenic Documentary Association, and he has worked on films by Lakis Papastathis, Dimos Theou, and Stavros Tornes. His rich filmography counting more than 40 films, includes the documentaries The Man Who Disturbed the Universe, METAXA listening to Time, Olympia, Short Gypsy Stories, The Light Inside, as well as the trilogy FOR NO REASONS meetings with Yorgos Maniatis, Debt, and FAREWELL The Memory of the Land.

Filmography

2000 The Man Who Disturbed the Universe
2009 There Was No Other Way
2011 120 Milonogianni, Chania (TV) 2012 METAXA Listening to Time
2013 Dilemma (TV)
2014 Short Gypsy Stories
2015 Olympia (short)
2015 The Light Inside
2019 FOR NO REASONS Meetings with Yorgos Maniatis
2020 My Photograph (short)
2021 Debt
2022 FAREWELL The Memory of the Land