Sunday, October 8, 2006
Hellenic Student Association presents the Greek film:
Loukoumades me Meli (Honey and the Pig)

3pm, Angell Hall
435 S. State St.
Auditorium C

Loukoumades me meli (Honey and the Pig) directed by Olga Malea. In this surreal comedy, a child molester is hunted down by a former victim, a pretty hearse-driver and a pet piglet. A young man pursues his molester but events quickly get out of control. Pots of honey, a sweet-toothed piglet, a perverted uncle, a sexy hearse-driver, a wandering dietician and hundreds of villagers mingle in an outrageously original comedy. Olga Malea, Greece’s well-known filmmaker and a professional psychologist, tackles the issue of child sexual abuse through a surreal sense of humor and a Balkan landscape. (From the Thessaloniki Film Festival)

Olga Malea was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. She studied Law at Athens University (LL.M.) and Psychology (Ph.D.) at Yale. She is included in several of Variety’s shortlists on European Cinema: Ten European Directors to Watch (2000), Critics’ Choice: Europe Now (2001), Airlifting European Auteurs to Hollywood (2003), European Mavericks (2003). Her first three features, became instant box-office hits in Greece: The Cow’s Orgasm, The Mating Game and Risotto. Loukoumades me meli is her fourth feature.

Presented by the Hellenic Student Association as part of Hellenic Cultural Month.