"Mother Company": At the Athens Festival, the film with Greek children that sweeps the awards internationally

The film “Mother Company” focuses on the workshops with the Children’s Choir of the Varvoutio Municipal Conservatory of Ptolemaida, in the period 2023-2024.

Film at the first Steam Power Plant in the region
All the texts heard in the film are verbatim excerpts from the interviews. Filming took place inside the region’s first Steam Power Station, which was shut down after a fire in 2014.

Mother Company premiered at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival (a BAFTA qualifying festival) in the UK, where it won the Best Feature Film Award. Since then, it has screened at 20 international and domestic festivals, including the Tromsø International Film Festival in Norway and the PÖFF Shorts - Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia, where it has won 7 awards and accolades.

Combining documentary theater and choral music, the experimental documentary Mother Company (2025) follows a children’s choir inside an abandoned power plant in Northern Greece
Free admission to the film “Mother Company” in Piraeus
The Athens Epidaurus Festival presents the internationally acclaimed short documentary Mother Company by Alexandros Raptotasios and Konstantinos Thomaidis at Piraeus 260 on July 14 and 15.

The screenings will take place with free admission in the foyer of Hall H, before and after the performance Promised Land by Georgia Mavragani, which is presented on the same days in the same venue.

Children play successive generations of workers in a deindustrialized area

Combining documentary theater and choral music, the experimental documentary Mother Company (2025) follows a children’s choir inside an abandoned power plant in Northern Greece, with the children playing successive generations of workers in a deindustrialized area.

Filmed inside the region’s first Steam Power Plant, which ceased operations after a fire in 2014

A dance of young voices reflects on environmental destruction, public health and economic impoverishment, while a “Green Future” comes as a promise of some salvation.