Scanorama

November 5 - 22

2026

Open My Festival
Glimpses of Europe | Short Film Competition

The First Image

25 min. | Drama | Pegi 13

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Athens, April of 1967. During the first days of the military dictatorship, Loukas is suffocating in his family's apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house's phone line gets mixed up with that of the Studio cinema…

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Olia Verriopoulou

Olia Verriopoulou

Olia Verriopoulou was born in 1992 in Athens, Greece, and lives and works in Athens and Paris, where she studied cinema (Paris VII-Diderot, École des Gobelins). In 2021, she directed her first short film, Sacralisons. For the past ten years, she has contributed to the development and organization of film festivals and lab programs.
Languages
Greek
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
LA PREMIÈRE IMAGE
Produced
2025: Greece

Film information

Director
Olia Verriopoulou
Producers
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Gaëlle Jones
Screenplay
Olia Verriopoulou
Cast
Konstantinos Vourloumis, Maia Mikeli

Screenings

Friday, 14 November

18:40

Forum Cinemas Vingis · 11

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