FEMINANCE
CINEMATIC FICTION PODCAST SERIES / 2021– / GREECE
FEMINANCE is a collection of cinematic audio fiction works created and produced by Nalia Ziku, based on original texts by Sofia Gourgouliani.
Exploring female identity, desire, memory, grief, and power, each work unfolds as an independent fictional universe in which sound becomes an essential part of the dramaturgy.
Through voice, original music, soundscapes, and experimental editing, FEMINANCE explores the possibilities of cinematic storytelling without images, creating intimate sonic worlds shaped by women's experiences.
CREDITS
Written by: Sofia Gourgouliani
Production, Performance & Original Music: Nalia Ziku
Language: Greek
WARFETTI
CINEMATIC FICTION PODCAST / 2025 / 24 MINUTES / GREECE
Warfetti is a cinematic fiction podcast created and produced by Nalia Ziku, written by Sofia Gourgouliani, exploring female memory, desire, loss, and the possibility of reclaiming one's own story.
Two women, one younger and one older, unfold a shared story through Carnival celebrations, love affairs, grief, and secret desires. In a small town, bodies remember, ache, celebrate, and rename the world from the beginning, in their own words.
Through original music, voices, soundscapes, and experimental sound editing, Warfetti creates a cinematic narrative without images, where sound itself shapes the dramatic world.
Special Mention:
66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Podcast Competition, 2025.
Related Stage Performance: Konstantia (2026)
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THE SOUVLAKI PROJECT
CINEMATIC FICTION PODCAST / 2024 / 26 MINUTES / GREECE
The Souvlaki Project explores the experience of place through tourism, seasonal labour, and desire.
On a small Greek island, two women working through the summer season and two American women in love weave a story around a souvlaki. Through their encounter, the familiar becomes a starting point for questioning what connects us to a place and what it means to belong.
Official Selection: 26th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Podcast Competition, 2024
Related Stage Performance: The Souvlaki Project (2024)
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MINES OF SYROS
SOUND ART / FICTION PODCAST / 2023 / 6 MINUTES / GREECE
Mines of Syros is a short audio fiction work exploring the relationship between memory, intimacy, and place.
Against the sounds of the Aegean, a woman recalls travelling to Syros with her parents as a teenager, while returning to the island years later with her romantic partner. Past and present intertwine through the memories and emotional landscapes of an island revisited.
Festival Presentation: 10th Eye's Walk Digital Festival, Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece
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DAD
CINEMATIC FICTION PODCAST / 2022 / 20 MINUTES / GREECE
Dad is a cinematic fiction podcast exploring grief, loss, and the complex relationship between a daughter and her father.
Over the course of a single night, a woman struggles to come to terms with her father's suicide. Grief becomes entangled with television fortune tellers, adult magazines, and Elvis Presley, creating an intimate narrative where humour, desire, and mourning coexist.
Special Mention: 63rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Podcast Competition, 2022
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IN MY HEAD
CINEMATIC FICTION PODCAST / 2021 / 20 MINUTES / GREECE
In My Head is an experimental fiction podcast exploring sexual abuse through the fragmented inner world of a woman.
Repetitive speech, disconnected words, sensory memories, and everyday sounds unfold as automatic thoughts, creating an intimate and unsettling sonic experience.
Rather than offering a linear account of abuse, the work places listeners inside a woman's stream of consciousness, challenging the question so often directed at survivors: “Why didn't she just leave?”
Official Selection: 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Podcast Competition, 2021