IRIS BEST FILM AWARDS

Athens, summer of 2004: the end of our collective national innocence. The fairy tales, the costumes, the sets and the exalted 2004 pop culture moment perfectly fuse into one, in this striking, tender story of 11-year-old Misha. Iris Award for the Best Greek Film of 2018. — In August 2004, an 11-year-old boy from Russia arrives in Greece to live with his mother; they’ve been apart for a long time. He doesn't know that a new father is also waiting for him in Athens. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, the young boy, removed from his natural surroundings, dweller of an unknown country and a violently changing world, will be abruptly cast into the world of adults. The dark side of his beloved fairy tales will serve as his conduit. — Best International Film | Tribeca Film Festival | 2017 C.I.C.A.E. Award | Sarajevo Film Festival | 2017 Best Film | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2018

Under Antiparos’ burning sun, a lonely middle-aged doctor gets together with a group of wild youngsters and spends the most hedonistic summer of his life. But if he gets any closer, they will all burn. Makis Papadimitriou and Elli Tringou in the film of 6 Iris awards of the Hellenic Film Academy. — Kostis is a 42-year-old doctor that finds himself in a tiny island, that is a total bore by winter and a sex crazed cosmopolitan hotspot during summertime. Αll young Anna has to do is burst into Kostis’ clinic with her group of hard partying friends and the good doctor falls hard for her. Kostis will go out of his way to conquer her and impress them, but the more they tease him, the furthest he draws his lines. And too far might be closer than he thought. — Best Actor (Makis Papadimitriou) | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2017 Best Supporting Actress (Elli Tringou) | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2017 Best Screenplay | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2017 Best Director | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2017

The collective collapse of the Xenia hotels as a metaphor for the Greek dream has director Koutras making a road movie. He infuses it with melodrama, with clarity and tenderness, and looks straight at our inadequacies as individuals and as a society. — After their mother’s death, two brothers, 16 and 18 years old respectively, travel through Greece to locate their father, who abandoned them years ago. Their goal is to secure Greek citizenship; furthermore, the older of the two wants to participate in a song contest in Thessaloniki. Along the way, they encounter both foes and friends and are forced to grow up quickly; but they never give up on the right to dream of a better life. — Best Film | Chicago International Film Festival | 2014 Best Film | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2015 Best Fiction Film | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 2014