Greek author/director Alexis Alexiou has unveiled his third characteristic and his first since 2015’s award-winning “Wednesday 04.45.”
“Sea of Glass,” now full, is a rustic noir street film following two girls in an low season Greek seaside resort who unexpectedly come collectively to confront the previous, household stereotypes and the closed provincial group. The movie has already been acquired by Greek boutique distributor Bizarre Wave (“Teenage Intercourse and Loss of life at Camp Miasma,” “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, “It was Simply an Accident”) with a theatrical launch scheduled for Greece and Cyprus this fall.
Co-written by Afroditi Nikolaidou and Alexiou, the movie stars Evangelia Adreadaki (“Arcadia,” “Little England”) and Christiana Matelska Toka in her debut characteristic position, alongside Michalis Iatropoulos (“Low-cost Smokes,” “Digger”), Nikos Georgakis (“Truants”), Thanos Tokakis (“Tokakis or What’s My Title”) and Dimitris Tzoumakis (“Wednesday 04:45”). Simon Sarketzis (“Little England,” “Behind The Haystacks”) served as cinematographer.
“Sea of Glass” adopted 65-year-old Vangelio, who’s a prisoner in her own residence, caring for her bedridden husband. Trapped in her routine and lower off from her two sons, she makes do with leafing by means of her assortment of previous guidebooks. However the sudden loss of life of her husband encourages her to make a ‘reckless’ choice: to go on vacation. She books a room at a vacationer resort a number of kilometres exterior Chalkida, the capital of Evia. It’s March within the low season, and there are only a few folks round. On the fish tavern beneath the rental property, she meets 23-year-old Vicky, who runs the household enterprise and takes care of her tough alcoholic father, who spends his days ingesting together with his buddies. One night, when he activates his daughter, Vangelio steps in to guard her. Violence rears its ugly head within the small seaside city, and just like the waves of the stormy sea, the affect might be devastating.
“Sea of Glass.” Credit score: Simon Sarketzis
Impressed by movies together with “Thelma & Louise” and “The Postman At all times Rings Twice,” the movie grafts components from the agricultural gothic noir custom and street films onto the Greek countryside, and is described as a “compelling and poignant story focussing on two girls thrown into an sudden alliance.”
Stated Alexiou: “What connects them and poisons each their lives is home violence and oppression. However they’re additionally linked by a standard aim: the necessity to break away and discover themselves.”
Alexis’ first characteristic “Story 52” performed in competitors at Rotterdam and greater than 40 different festivals, together with Toronto and Sitges, the place it gained the most effective screenplay award. His second movie “Wednesday 04:45” screened in competitors at Tribeca and at quite a few festivals together with Karlovy Fluctuate and BFI London. The movie acquired 9 awards from the Hellenic Movie Academy, together with greatest movie and greatest Director. Each movies had been voted greatest Greek Movie of the yr by the Greek Movie Critics Affiliation. In 2022 Alexis directed “Iota Interval Omega,” a brief sci-fi docufiction completely shot on 8mm which was offered in competitors at Dok Leipzig.
“Sea of Glass” is a Greece-Bulgaria-Cyprus co-production, produced by Tugo Tugo Productions in Greece in co-production with Portokal (Bulgaria) and Bark Like a Cat Movies (Cyprus) and in collaboration with Felony Movie (Cyprus), Marni Movies (Greece), Jungle Movies (Greece) and Cinnerent (Serbia). It was made with the help of the Hellenic Movie & Audiovisual Middle, ERT, Eurimages, Inventive Europe, the Bulgarian Nationwide Movie Middle, Movie Middle Serbia, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Workplace in Greece and the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Tradition.
See the trailer to “Sea of Glass” beneath:
