Title: To Agoraki (The Boy)

Screenwriter: Konstantinos Menelaou

Genre: Black-and-White Social Drama / Experimental

Location: Rural Greece (educational institutions and surrounding environments)

Tone: Minimalist, haunting, emotionally complex, existential

Duration: Feature-length, approximately 90–100 minutes

Visual Style: Super-8 film with pronounced grain, black-and-white cinematography, static camera, 30 long takes, light and shadow used as structural narrative elements; cold, desolate, psychologically charged spaces

Sound Design: Silence and ambient sounds (wind, creaking wood, steady rain) are as important as dialogue; real confessions from bullying victims integrated into the soundscape; presence of a dog as a symbol of unconditional love and innocence

Influences: John Cassavetes, Bela Tarr, minimalist cinema, documentary-realism

Status: Development

To Agoraki is a black-and-white social drama inspired by the real story of Vangelis Giakoumakis, a young student who was subjected to relentless and violent bullying. Rather than simply recounting events, the film explores the existential dimensions of isolation, silence, and acceptance. Through Vangelis’s story, it examines mechanisms of exclusion, the oppression of difference, and the psychological toll of sustained abuse—physical, verbal, and emotional. A minimalist and poetic work, it blends real testimonies from bullying victims into its soundscape, capturing both the weight of lived experience and the delicate interiority of the characters. The film’s austere visual and auditory world invites reflection, empathy, and moral vigilance, emphasizing human kindness, solidarity, and the responsibility to truly see and hear the Other.