Fonissa
The Plot
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
1h 36m
Drama
30 Nov 2023
Greece
Greek
Director & Producers
Top Billed Cast
Karyofyllia KarabetiHadoula 'Frangoyannou'
Maria ProtopappaDelcharo (Hadoula's mother)
Elena TopalidouAmersa
Penelope TsilikaDelhcaro (Hadoula's daughter)
Georgianna DalaraHadoula (young)
Christos StergioglouPriest Nicholas
Stathis StamoulakatosKambanachmakis
Dimitris ImellosDadis
Christina MaxouriRinio
Olga DamaniPriest's wife
Ersi MalikenzouLyringos' mother-in-law
Antonis TsiotsiopoulosRinio's husband


Dionysis Samiotis
Eva Nathena
Katerina Bei
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Nikos Gatsos
Dimitris Papadimitriou
Kostas Varympopiotis