Lesvia

Since the 1970s, lesbians from around the world have been drawn to the island of Lesvos, birthplace of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. When they find paradise in a local village and carve out their own lesbian community, tensions simmer with the local residents. With both groups claiming ownership...

“A rose is a rose no matter how you call it”
Dimitris lives her life in Skala Skamnias, the conservative Greek fishing village where she was born. She nursed her dying parents and now lives alone, able, at last to enjoy her femininity by dancing in the street to old pop records, watched by her ca...

Sappho Singing. A woman's love and legacy across millennia in a timeless Lesbian landscape.
For the first time, the lyric poet Sappho is presented as a modern woman whose opinions about equality and art still matter 2,600 years after her death. This time round she turns up in her birthplace, the...

The film In search of Orpheus follows, in a poetic way, the traces of the mythical musician in Lesvos, Greece, where, as legend has it, his head and his lyre were washed up on the shores of the island.
As we wander around the area that is linked with the legend, we come across ordinary people and...

Making their own mark ... Sappho’s Granddaughters presents seven women of Lesvos: Aged but strong in spirit, grounded in the soil and history of the island, recalling life with humor and wisdom. Angeliki throws away the photos of those who have passed away, Myrsini sings a capella an Amanes song ...

"Salt and Bread" introduces us to the people of a neighborhood, an ouzo distillery and a shipyard. What they all have in common is their love for what they do. Every summer, the Yannakelos family makes frumenty and the whole neighborhood gathers to make the "chachles", as they used to do in Greek...