International documentary film festival
March 30 - April 6, 2025
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

Stray Bodies (Adespota Kormia)

Elina Psykou

Stray Bodies

Robin is pregnant but doesn't want to be a mother. Katerina and Gaia are single but want a child. Kiki suffers from an incurable disease and wants her life to end with dignity. The procedure they hope to get access to – abortion, IVF and euthanasia – is available and legal in neighbouring countries but not in theirs. Therefore, they resort to so-called “medical tourism”. Stray Bodies takes us on a road trip through Europe, where life and death lurk around every corner. By meeting doctors, opponents and advocates in simultaneously surreal and humoristic settings that often blends the limits between logic and absurdity, the film opens a reflection on bodily autonomy in a continent where Christian heritage and conservatism are obstacles to the freedom of choice.

Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria 2024, '109

DIRECTOR: Elina Psykou

CAMERA: Nikolas Karanikolas

MONTAGE: Nikos Vavouris

PRODUCERS: Antigoni Rota, Ivan Madeo, Marco Visalberghi, Veselka Kiryakova

PRODUCTION: Jungle Films, Contrast, DocLab, Red Carpet

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

CPH:DOX (2024)
Thessaloniki IDF (2024)

Elina Psykou

Elina Psykou

Born in Greece in 1977, Elina Psykou studied filmmaking and sociology in Athens. Her first feature as a screenwriter-director, The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas, premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2013 and participated in more than 40 international film festivals. During that same year, trade publication Variety singled her out as one of the “10 European Directors to Watch” and in 2014, she won the first-time director award from the Hellenic Film Academy. Her second feature, Son of Sofia, premiered in competition at the Tribeca FF in 2017 and won the Best International Narrative Feature Award. Son of Sofia also won 5 awards from the Hellenic Film Academy, including the best feature film, best director and best screenplay. Both her films were part of European Film Awards’ selection list in 2013 and 2017 accordingly. Currently, she is at the financing of her third feature, Patrimonial Fears and other Illusions (Berlinale co-production market, CineLink co-production market, Sarajevo FF), and at the development of her first drama-series, The Coroner’s Assistant (Berlinale Co-Pro Series 2024). Stray Bodies is her first documentary.

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