Greece’s official music video for its Eurovision 2025 entry, “Asteromata” by Klavdia, has been released and has Greek audiences around the world captivated by its powerful message.
The video is rich in imagery and symbolism that reflect themes of displacement, longing, and cultural heritage. The song’s title, “Asteromata,” translates to “Starry-Eyed,” a term used by Greek speakers from Smyrna that they used to describe women with radiant eyes, symbolizing beauty and nostalgia.
The singer’s own Pontian heritage plays heavy in the story with the presence of women in traditional Pontic attire. Klavdia, whose grandparents were Pontian refugees that fled to Russian provinces when the Turks began massacring Greeks in the region, honors the Pontic Greek heritage and acknowledges the historical experiences of the Pontic Greeks, including displacement and resilience.
Her own parents, as she has often described, also were displaced, leaving their homes in Russia and emigrating to Greece in the 1990s.
Other images also make the video a tear-jerker amongst audiences who have emigration and displacement in their family history.
Scenes featuring factories highlight where millions of immigrates went to work after being displaced from their ancestral homelands, while the black cloth on the tree, shaped like the map of Pontus and its burning at the video’s end, symbolizes the loss of homeland and the enduring pain of displacement.
