'Tilos Weddings' Trailer

Tilos Weddings (Oi Gamoi Tis Tilou)
Greece, 2022, 74 min, US Premiere

Director/writer: Panayotis Evangelidis
Producers: Panayotis Evangelidis, Romanna Lobach
Cinematographer: Panayotis Evangelidis
Editor: Alkis Papastathopoulos
Music: Deus Ex Machina

In the year 2008 the mayor of the island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea agreed to perform the first gay and lesbian civil marriages ever done in Greece. The film follows the story of these two civil marriages from material that was shot then ad hoc and also the gay Pride of the same year, press conferences and other demonstrations concerning the same.

Panayotis Evangelidis was born in Athens where he lives and works. He works in the cinema as a script writer and is the director of six documentary films. As a script writer he has worked, among others, with Panos Koutras, with whom he has co-written the films: True Life, Strella and Xenia.

*2022, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
*2022, Cyprus LGBTQIA+ Film Festival