“It’s a fairytale about the false and deceptive perception of events and people we meet during our lifetime. We go through ordeals in order to understand a simple truth, that if we want to be loved we must care for each other. The main inspiration was the Greek myth of the goddess Circe, from whom Kirke, the lead heroine of the film, takes her name. According to the legend, she turned Odysseus’ traveling companions into swine, inviting Odysseus himself to stay with her and accept her love. As a filmmaker I had a great opportunity to use different kind of cinematic tools, it has originality, simplicity, in the same time has universal topics to speak about – love, freedom, greed, brutality, tenderness, jealousy…but these are not delivered in a complicated way, but opposite, with self-irony, simplicity, with a smile on face. We wanted to create a specific and unique world with its rules and orders.”
                                           – Aik Karapetian