Rising Greek filmmaker Evi Kalogiropoulou brings her long-awaited feature debut, “Gorgonà,” to the Venice Film Festival this week, where the movie — a genre-defying female-empowerment story set in a dystopian, male-dominated future — has its world premiere in Critics’ Week.

The film, which was awarded at the Rotterdam Film Festival’s CineMart and the Cannes Cinefondation’s Atelier while in development, follows on the heels of the director’s buzzy short films “Motorway 65,” which played in competition in Cannes in 2021, and “On Xerxes’ Throne,” a Cannes Critics’ Week prizewinner one year later.

Written by Kalogiropoulou and Louise Groult, it’s produced by Amanda Livanou for Greece’s Neda Film, in co-production with Bertrand Gore and Nathalie Mesuret at Blue Monday Productions, Alexand

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