Exotica, Erotica, Etc.

The film takes the sea as a place of longing. Its subject is cargo ships and their crews. The ships are huge container vessels. The crews stay at sea for months. In the ports there are women who wait for them. The film is about the tie between the two. It is put together as an essay. Thoughts are heard as voiceover. The images are documentary. The director worked on it for four years. She travelled on Greek merchant ships. She went to some twenty countries. One of the people at the centre of the film is Sandy. Sandy worked in the port cities of Chile. The film was shown at the Berlinale Forum in 2015 and took an award at Hot Docs in Toronto. The seventy three minute film is a French production Evangelia Kranioti finished in 2015.