DOCUMENTARY · CULTURE AND HISTORY
TEOS: The Call of Dionysus
In pursuit of art, solidarity and collective memory.

- Production
- Bir Nevi Medya
- Director
- Mert Ruscuklu
- Producer
- Mert Ruscuklu
- Year / Runtime
- 2025 / 11 minutes
About the film
TEOS: The Call of Dionysus traces the organisation founded in ancient Teos in the third century BCE and regarded as the world’s first artists’ guild. Centring on the solidarity created when artists acted collectively, the documentary explores art’s transformative power within social memory.
Produced through Bir Nevi Medya’s artistic journalism approach, the film brings Mert Ruscuklu’s historical research together with AI-assisted cinematic reconstructions. The artistic spirit and solidarity of antiquity are carried into the present through a contemporary visual language.
Contact us about this film ↗2025 festival journey
- Cine Paris Film Festival — Award winner
- AI International Film Festival — Award winner
- Seoul International AI Film Festival — Award winner
- Pisa Robot Film Festival — Official selection
- AI Film Awards Cannes 2025 — Nominee
- Foça Film Days — Official selection
Festival names and statuses are presented as shown on the film’s official poster.
