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Umbilicus

His family scares him.
May 23, 2025 · 25m
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A family, consisting of the grandmother, the mother and her two children, a daughter and a son, seems to raise them in a different way compared to the rest of society. The teenage children, Orestes and Danae, still have the innocence of childhood, without knowing the outside world. In combination with the embrace of a religion, this Goddess of snakes and the control of the mother and grandmother over the children, we understand that the power of the family lies with the women. The family peace is disturbed when they catch Orestes masturbating. The mother and grandmother understand that childhood innocence has been lost and it is time for Orestes and Danae to enter the process of adulthood, as they know it. The roles change, Danae is “educated” differently by Orestes, who is treated more like a reproduction machine than as a human whole. Will Orestes withstand these changes? How dangerous is his family to him?

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CAST

Paris Alexandropoulos
Orestis
Semiramis Abatzoglou
Danae
Eleni Thymiopoulou
Leia/Mother
Maria Stamouli
Rhea/Grandmother
Directed by Eleni Paroni

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Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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