LESVIA

A paradise for women

(:the herstory of eressos)

Since the 1970s, lesbians from around the world have been drawn to the island of Lesvos, the birthplace of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. They find paradise in a local village and establish their own lesbian queer community. As more women visited the island in the summer in the mid-1980s to express their ‘lesbian’ identity in absolute freedom, tensions with the locals ran high.

Filmmaker Tzeli Hadjidimitriou - a lesbian born and raised there herself - is in the middle of it all, recounting more than 40 years of love, community, conflict and what it means to feel accepted.

A documentary filled with great archival footage and photos.