Tilos Weddings

Tilos Weddings

In the year 2008, the mayor of the island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea agreed to perform the first gay and lesbian civil marriages ever held in Greece. The film follows the story of these two civil marriages through visual material that was shot ad hoc, but also through footage from the Gay Pride of the same year, Press conferences and other demonstrations regarding the same topic.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Panayotis Evangelidis
Script: Panayotis Evangelidis
Cinematography: Panayotis Evangelidis
Editing: Alkis Papastathopoulos
Sound: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
Music: Stavros Χ
Producers: Panayotis Evangelidis
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2022
Duration: 74'
Distribution in Greece: Cinobo (Tasos Melemenidis, tasosm@cinobo.com)
Contact: Παναγιώτης Ευαγγελίδης, keinosuke01@yahoo.com

Docs in Progress 2021

Panayotis Evangelidis

Panayotis Evangelidis was born in Athens, Greece, where he lives and works. Among others, he is a film director, screenwriter, writer, literary translator, and traveler. He has published four novels, written in Greek, and he translates mainly from Japanese and Spanish. He occasionally lectures on Japanese art, poetry, and culture. He has written scripts for several contemporary Greek films, including True Life, Strella, and Xenia, in collaboration with their director Panos H. Koutras. He primarily makes human-centered observational documentaries: Portraits of different people, films that are usually set in rooms behind closed doors but unravel in dialogue with open-minded and open-hearted individuals.

Filmography

2008 Chip & Ovi (short)
2011 Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name (short)
2011 The Life and Death of Celso Junior 2011 Summer Romance
2011 Afternoon siesta
2013 They Glow in the Dark
2015 Pure Life
2019 Irving Park
2022 Tilos Wedding (doc)
2022 Sibylla
2023 A Portrait of the Collector as a Mature Man (short)
2024 Sylvia Robyn