Konstantinos Fragkoulis, director and screenwriter, organizer of artistic events in Samos, decided to create the association "Samotherium", inspired by a dream with the now extinct species and ancestor of the giraffe that actually lived in Samos returning to the island shouting through the sea.

What did this dream mean?

The Samos Cinema Festival Summer of 2025
would be the first time for an award for Best Short Film

OUR GOAL
The Aims Of The Association Are:
The promotion of art in all its forms on the island of Samos with members of artists who inhabit or simply love the island of Samos and desire its qualitative development through the Arts.

The Samotherion, inspired by the international name and ancestor of the giraffe that is now "resting" calmly in the Paleontological museum of Mytylinians, returns again to the island of Samos allegorically like the beast of Art to remind that all regardless of our preferences and race we are equal when we unite as a group or to listen to music, or to see cinema and there is no room for any other division in people anymore in the days after a pandemic and an earthquake on the island of Samos.

The activities of Samotherios will be seminars, trips, hospitalities, film screenings, festivals, concert events, to share the traditional cultures but also the new ones around food, wine, local products.