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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
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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