Script Supervisor
A Kostis, médico solitario, le toca ejercer en una isla griega. Cuando llega el verano, los turistas y las noches locas, no cejará en sus cada vez más espeluznantes intentos de enchufarse a la pandilla de veinteañeros que acompaña a Anna, joven que le obsesiona, y que le da una de cal y otra de arena.
Script Supervisor
Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)
Assistant Director
Sotiris is a police investigator in Athens who lives by a strict moral code. An honest man, he carries himself as though held down by the weight of the world. Dora is a cleaning lady, struggling to get by any way she can. Dealt a rough hand in life, she has developed a rich layer of cynicism and mistrust that informs her every action. When a man Sotiris believes is innocent is arrested for a brutal crime, his attempt to uncover the truth results in a grave mistake. Finding himself on the other side of the law for the first time, he places his fate in Dora, the only witness to his malfeasance and the only person who can help him, for better or for worse.
Script
Tras salir de prisión, Yiorgos regresa a Atenas con la intención de rehacer su vida, sin imaginar que en su camino se encontrará con Strella, una prostituta transexual y cantante de cabaret, mezcla de María Callas y Cher. El buen corazón de Strella gana el amor del protagonista, sin saber que el destino revelará un nexo desconocido entre ambos. Los bajos fondos de Atenas enmarcan esta transgresora historia de amor con reminiscencias mitológicas de la antigua Grecia.
Eight-year-old Lulu gathers snails in the park where she goes every day with her mother. Her obsession with the snails leads her to develop a special relationship with a strange foreigner who haunts the park–with unexpected results.
