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Original Film Title: Pig Milk
Director’s Name: Evi Minou
Writer’s Name: Evi Minou
Producer: Eleni Tsolakidou, Artemis Papamihali Zouvelou,
Country of Origin: Greece
Country of Filming: Greece
Language: Greek (Modern)
Runtime: 20 minutes 14 seconds
Film Description:
Pig Milk is an experimental short exploring queer trauma, identity, and cyclical violence through a reinterpretation of The Three Little Pigs. Set in a distorted urban reality, the film follows three genderless beings—named Fear, Paranoia, and Obsession—who live under the constant threat of the Wolf and their own “pain”. They begin to suffer and uncontrollably vomit milk until a witch tells them they will soon die to be reborn. The film is dedicated to the queer activist Zak Kostopoulos, who was murdered in public in 2018—a symbol of systemic violence against queer bodies.
Through multi-sensory discomfort, it aims to embody the internal divisions and existential loops of queer existence and trans bodies. The viewer is invited to react on the overwhelming olfactory triggers of their own memory.
This is a film about what it means to live as “other” in a hostile world—and how pain, even in silence, becomes political.