Fofo or Would you still love me

   This film is in two parts because it serves two purposes. It gives voice to Fofo, a woman of another age, from a secluded part of the world. It allows her to briefly become the focal point of an international audience and communicate her unique story with people that she would never have the chance to do so otherwise.
    But the film also gives voice to the boy that I once was, providing a safe haven for an important question to be answered without ever actually being verbally addressed. 'Would you still love me?' may sound more like the question that a child would ask, rather than someone comfortable with his sexuality and living as an openly gay person, as I came to be. Being unable to come out to a woman I consider a second mother could be seen as cowardly or overdramatic for anyone accustomed to the progressive evolution of Western societies. However, the generation gap is huge. Greek society's attitudes towards homosexuality have always been influenced by traditional values and religious conservatism. Even recently introduced political protections for Greece's LGBTQ community have been met with backlash from those resistant to an already unpopular government's mandates. In fact, cases of violence, discrimination, and hate speech against LGBTQ Greeks have increased. So, this childlike question is the most I can muster - the only question I need answered.
    Ultimately, "Fofo or would you still love me?" is the product of personal experiences, a film made to work as a small personal catharsis. However, during the last decade, Greece's financial crisis has overshadowed some of the country's deep-rooted social pathogens. Thus, I hope that Fofo's answer can raise even the slightest bit of awareness about the emotional struggle of being a gay man in a country where people reject the social norms of the rest of Western society - an answer which gives hope.