Athina Rachel Tsangari

Bold, innovative, ambitious, impossible to classify. Athina Tsangari’s prize-winning film (Venice Best Actress Award for Ariane Labed) takes Greek cinema another step further, with this peculiar coming-of-age allegory for awakening sexuality, friendship and loss. — A young girl grows up with her architect father in a small seaside town. The human race repels her. She observes it tenuously, through the lyrics of Suicide, Sir David Attenborough’s documentaries about mammals and the sex ed lessons taught by her only friend. A stranger arrives in town and challenges her to a duel on foosball, while her father prepares his ritualistic departure from the 20th century. — Special Jury Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2010 Lina Mangiacapre Award | Venice Film Festival | 2010 Best Actress (Ariane Labed) | Venice Film Festival | 2010

In her most ambitious film to date, Athina Rachel Tsangari invites us into a universe of euphoric, surreal imagery, threatened by the visible hand of capitalism. The end of an era, shot on 16mm film, comes to life through an international cast, capturing a social utopia that might one day return. — Over the course of seven hallucinogenic days, a nameless village, set in an undefined time and place, vanishes. In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on the Western, Walter Thirsk, a bourgeois-turned-farmer, and Master Kent, a local landowner, are childhood friends preparing to face an invasion from the outside world: the wound of modernity. — Official Selection - International Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2024 Official Selection | Chicago International Film Festival | 2024