After its premiere at Critics' Week, the parallel competition section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, Evi Kalogiropoulou's futuristic sci-fi short film “On the Throne of Xerxes”, with George Mazonakis in the lead role, commissioned and produced by Onassis Culture, received the important Canal + Award for short film. Canal+ awarded the prize, accompanied by a cash prize, to the film “On the Throne of Xerxes” for its approach to an ancient Greek story with parables that spring up in an extremely inventive way in an otherworldly landscape. The journalist and presenter of the show Cercle on Canal+, Alain Kruger, compared Evi Kalogiropoulou and her work with the great French director Claire Denis and the film “Beau travail” and urged the audience to definitely see the film. Evi Kalogiropoulou, a great admirer of Deni's work herself, received the award with great emotion and warmly thanked the Onassis Foundation for the assignment and support, and its partners, Afroditi Panagiotakou, Cultural Director of the Onassis Foundation, who had the artistic direction film, and George Mazonakis who stars. The film will be shown on the major French television network Canal+, which highlights the work of great filmmakers from around the world. The film, an enigmatic dystopia where the visual subjugates the emotional, against the backdrop of a shipyard in Perama, was presented in its first version (entitled “I Belong to Me”) at the Festival “You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens” (24.06-25.07.21) held by Roof in Pedion tou Areos, artistically curated by Aphrodite Panagiotakos. The shooting of the film took place at Hellenic Shipyards SA in Perama, in June 2021.