Pink

Colour, 35 mm
Greece, 2006, 90 min
Section: Another View

Synopsis

“Pink is a film about someone’s thoughts,” says the director. We are all afraid of something when face-to-face with the realities of life. Vassilis Galis, who is raised only with his father and brother, is afraid of growing up. 11-year-old Snezana Tkachenko, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, is afraid of mutual understanding. Movie star Sakis is frightened by feelings, and Emily the Irish girl worries about starting from nothing. The greatest fear of Agne the teacher is life itself. And then there is the father, who is daunted by words, and the mother, who dreads returning. All of these people, whose fates intermingle at different stages of Vassilis’ life, leave their mark on him. Sometimes only superficially, sometimes in a profound way that is never to heal. In his letters to his mother, who abandoned the family and only left her son the dog, named Roz (Pink), Vassilis tries to express the anxiety, pain, feelings, and hope that accompany his childhood and maturation.

About the director

Alexandros Voulgaris (b. 1981, Athens) studied film direction, however instead of completing his studies he began working as an assistant. He also composed music for film, theatre, and clubs. His first short, The Right Moves (2000), was shown at the Independent Film and Video Festival in New York and at other festivals as well, and won an award from the Ministry of Culture at the film festival in Thessaloniki. The director’s feature debut Crying? (2003) was presented at the film festival in Toronto, the European Film Festival in Chicago, the Greek Film Week in Munich, and at the film festival in Thessaloniki. This was followed by an experimental film, The Toronto Secret (2005). Pink is the director’s second feature film, and in it he also plays the main role.