Umbilicus (2025) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 23, 2025

Original Title:
Umbilicus

Genres:
Drama | Horror | Thriller

Production Companies:
Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Production Countries:
Greece

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 25

His family scares him.

A family, consisting of the grandmother, the mother and her two children, a daughter and a son, seems to raise them in a different way compared to the rest of society. The teenage children, Orestes and Danae, still have the innocence of childhood, without knowing the outside world. In combination with the embrace of a religion, this Goddess of snakes and the control of the mother and grandmother over the children, we understand that the power of the family lies with the women. The family peace is disturbed when they catch Orestes masturbating. The mother and grandmother understand that childhood innocence has been lost and it is time for Orestes and Danae to enter the process of adulthood, as they know it. The roles change, Danae is “educated” differently by Orestes, who is treated more like a reproduction machine than as a human whole. Will Orestes withstand these changes? How dangerous is his family to him?

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Art Direction:
Georgia Violitzi

Assistant Director of Photography:
Naya Vaiou
Panagiotis Georgiou

Assistant Electrician:
Dimitris Grammatikos

Costume Design:
Stella Deliantoni

Digital Imaging Technician:
Panagiotis Georgiou

Director:
Eleni Paroni

Director of Photography:
Tasos Matsarokas

Editor:
Evangelia Poulizou

Electrician:
Yannis Georgopoulos

Executive Producer:
Christos Papamichalis

First Assistant Director:
Ioanna Palentza

Gaffer:
Yannis Georgopoulos

Location Manager:
Dimitris Podas

Music:
Iordanis Hatzistylis

Producer:
Artemis Papamichali - Zouvelou

Producer's Assistant:
Nikolas Dorvas
Kelly Dardioti

Production Design:
Georgia Violitzi

Screenplay:
Nikolina Pangalou

Script Supervisor:
Silva Tsoumana

Sound:
Sarantia Masatli
Angeliki Santi

Sound Designer:
Iordanis Hatzistylis

Story:
Eleni Paroni

Title Designer:
Konstantinos Defkalion Polytopoulos

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