Mother Company

Blending verbatim performance and choral music, the experimental documentary Mother Company (2025) follows a children’s choir inside an abandoned power plant in northern Greece, where the young performers embody successive generations of workers from a region marked by deindustrialisation. A Chorus of young voices reflects on environmental degradation, public health, and economic deprivation, as the promise of a "green future" emerges as a fragile prospect of redemption.

The film emerged out of extensive fieldwork, including a series of interviews with twenty-six residents of Kozani, Ptolemaida, and Agios Dimitrios, alongside workshops conducted with the Children’s Choir of the Varvouteion Municipal Conservatoire of Ptolemaida between 2023 and 2024. All text spoken in the film is extracted verbatim from these interviews. Filming took place inside the region's first lignite-fired power station, which halted production after a fire accident in 2014.

Mother Company premiered at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK (BAFTA-qualifying), where it received the Best Artists’ Film Award. Since then, it has been screened at twenty national and international festivals, including the Tromsø International Film Festival in Norway and PÖFF Shorts – Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia (Academy Award-qualifying), earning seven awards and honourable mentions to date.