Tattoo (2016)

"Tattoo" is a symbolic Greek short film, inspired by the *Prometheus myth. Marina decides to come out to her parents as a lesbian in the middle of a usual Sunday lunch. Her dad kicks her out. The question is what she is going to decide after this heartbreaking incident. "Tattoo" in the Samoan dialect means"the correct one". Traumatic experiences are like tattoos. Also, like a tattoo, traumas can symbolize different things. It's a story about human vulnerability. Also this film broaches patriarchy, homosexuality issues and tradition, family models. It's a film exclusively made by women. *Prometheus, in eternal punishment, is chained to a rock in the Caucasus, Kazbek Mountain or Mountain of Khvamli, where his liver is eaten daily by an eagle, only to be regenerated by night, due to his immortality. The eagle is a symbol of Zeus himself. Years later, the Greek hero Heracles (Hercules) slays the eagle and frees Prometheus from the eagle's torm