Loxy in Mpart 2024
Loxy
Dimitris Zachos and Thanasis Kafetzis
Documentary film screening and discussion
Day: Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Time: 21.00
Venue: Open Air Cinema “Barbis Vozalis”
Entrance fee: 2 €
Tickets presale starts on Monday 16 Sept and continues daily from 18.00-20.00 at Connectiva, Venizelou str. 133, Larissa
“Loxy”, the film by Dimitris Zachos and Thanasis Kafetzis that premiered at the 26th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, winning the love of the audience as well as the Alpha Bank Accessibility Award, is a documentary about the first professional actress with Down syndrome in Greece. It is the story of Loxandra Lucas, a young woman and actress, who is actually claiming equal access to her life and to her art.
But what does this mean? While the conversation about inclusion and disability as a predominantly political issue is increasingly gaining space in public discourse, “Loxy” captures the important moment in which theory is put into practice, exclusion is abolished, and Loxandra becomes the first disabled person to perform as an actress on the stage of the National Theatre of Greece. A story narrated without taboos and clichés, which neither idealizes (normality) nor idealizes (disability), but just gives its protagonist the space and time to exist wherever and however she wishes, as should always be the case in a truly inclusive society.
Credits
Script-Director: Dimitris Zahos, Thanasis Kafetzis
Editing: Chronis Theocharis
Music: Kolida Babo
Sound Design: Christos Gousios
Audio Mixing: Costas Varybopiotis, Christos Gousios
Color Correction: Phili Olsefski, Tripodi Studio
Production: Dimitris Zachos, Thanasis Kafetzis
Co-production: ERT
With the support of the Greek Film Center (GFC)