Hosted at the Palace Como in Melbourne, the two week festival will open with Greek box office smash What If… which stars the Adonis of the small screen, Christoforos Papakaliatis, in a love story set during the economic crisis.
Other highlights of the festival include veteran editor Yannis Sakaridis’ directing debut, Wild Duck — a guerrilla-style feature set during the 2009 Greek debt crisis; The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas, a debut feature by Elina Psykou which was played at Toronto International Film Festival and follows the story of a Greek TV anchorman played by Christos Stergioglou (Dogtooth); and Nicos Perakis’ Female Company, a movie which follows six sexually and emotionally deprived wives and how they take matters into their own hands.
