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\nThe Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes<\/em>, the genre-bending Greek feature film debut of writer-director Thanasis Neofotistos, may be set in a time that is not specified. But the auteur and his creative team serve up visual references to the recent past. Eagle-eyed audiences will even notice a tribute to a certain group of extinct reptiles that, it turns out, inspired the filmmaker who will world premiere the movie as part of the\u00a0Screen Festival\u00a0of\u00a0SXSW London 2026\u00a0on Thursday, June 4. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes<\/em>, a cinematic allegory for exclusion and the desire for love and freedom,\u00a0which can also be viewed as a queer coming-of-age story, stars Giorgos Karydis as Petros, a boy forced by his strict grandmother, and the village mayor, to hide behind a mask because he has blue eyes. After all, that eye color is a source of fear and superstition for the locals of the remote mountain village where they live. <\/p>\n

\n\tCo-written by Neofotistos and Grigoris Skarakis, the film features cinematography by Djordje Arambasic, with editing courtesy of Panagiotis Angelopoulos. Gersh is handling U.S. sales.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the premiere, Neofotistos shared with THR<\/em> how he first got hooked on movies. \u201cMy biggest role model, my inspiration, is what I call \u2018good old-school cinema,\u2019 for example, Jurassic Park<\/em> by Steven Spielberg,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat was the first film I ever saw in the cinema, and I got fascinated with dinosaurs because of it. I felt that dinosaurs really existed in real life when I was less than 10 years old. This was my main inspiration to be a filmmaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe man behind The Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes<\/em> was also impressed by the craft behind the Spielberg dino blockbuster. \u201cHe used animatronics, he used materials that they handmade, handcrafted,\u201d the Greek creative gushed. \u201cIt was not VFX, or AI now. It felt so real. The story felt so unique, and I got into this universe. That\u2019s why I wanted to be a storyteller.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe craft aspects were also a key focus for Neofotistos and his team on The Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes<\/em>. \u201cI really love to create universes,\u201d he told THR<\/em>. \u201cSo, my goal here was to create something unique and very handcrafted. We didn\u2019t use any AI. We used minimal VFX. Everything was made in the shooting [process].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHis work is \u201calso very much inspired by some Greek filmmakers,\u201d including big names. \u201cFor example, the first film of [Theo] Angelopoulos, The Reconstruction<\/em>, which was made close to my hometown and gives a great representation of societies,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd Yorgos Lanthimos, a case of a Greek filmmaker who became huge \u2013 the magical realism that he uses is something that I\u2019m inspired by.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRemember how I mentioned those extinct reptiles? Look for them when you watch The Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes<\/em>! Shared Neofotistos: \u201cThere are some dinosaurs in Petros\u2019 room, because of my inspiration from Jurassic Park<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n

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