Greek film officially picked by Cannes Film Festival for special screening

A Greek film directed by Panos Koutras (photo) will make its debut at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, after being selected by officials to be screened in the section Un Certain Regard.
"Xenia", Koutras' fourth full-feature film, is produced jointly

by 100% Synthetic Films SA and Wrong Men, with six additional Greek and French producers included, as well as three participating French organisations. The film will be distributed in Greece by Feelgood Entertainment.

The film describes the story of two brothers, 16 and 18, who go in search of their Greek father following their Albanian mother's death. In their quest, they travel from Crete to Thessaloniki and face relations between them, issues of youth, a dream the must make reality and a country that refuses to recognise them.

The film's inclusion in the international festival is "a happy moment in its long and difficult production, which, like the film's heroes, came face to face with a tough reality and the inherent difficulties of a co-production," the director said. "I hope that this amazing event, which gives us great joy, provides the beginning of the end of all of the film's difficulties," he added.

"Xenia" will be released to French theatres on June 18 by Pyramide Distribution.

source: ΑΜΝΑ