“Action-packed film where the death drive and the sex drive merge into one, pulsating whole.” — Cineuropa

Greece. In a remote, impoverished city-state dominated by a massive refinery—the town’s sole source of petrol—armed men hold absolute power. Their leader, Nikos, is gravely ill and must choose a successor. Shock spreads when he names his protégée, Maria, among the contenders. This young woman, who has long ignored the most dramatic parts of her family’s history, sees her fate begin to shift with the arrival of Eleni, a singer at the town’s bar.

In competition for this year’s Queer Lion, Gorgonà is a Mad Max-style dystopia where sex, power, and petrol are endlessly fetishized. This feature debut by director Evi Kalogiropoulou fits into a new wave of queer cinema that blends mythology and literary texts to create immersive world-building rich in aesthetic excess.

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