On Tuesday 18 November at 19:00 and on Wednesday 19 November at 21:00 we will screen in cinema Utopia the film The Daughter (Greece, Italy, colour, 2012, 87 min) directed by Thanos Anastopoulos. The film is in the original Greek version with English subtitles. Not suitable for children under 16 years.
Synopsis
A girl in her teens, an 8 yo boy and a father suddenly no longer there. When 14 yo Myrto learns her father has fled to avoid paying his debts, she kidnaps the son of his business partner whom she blames for bankrupting her father's joiner's workshop. Memories resurface as she wanders through the aisles of the workshop, where she hides her victim between stacks of spruce, oak and ebony. Were things really better in the old days? Myrto waits desperately for some sign that her father is alive, entertaining perfidious, sadistic fantasies about her young prisoner.
About the director
Thanos Anastopoulos was born in Athens. He studied Philosophy at the University of Ioannina (Greece) and made his post graduate studies at the University of Paris I and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has directed two short films, two documentaries and two theatre plays. In 2004 his first feature film Atlas - All the weight of the world premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2008 his second feature film Correction premiered at the Berlin Film Festival (Forum). The film was invited to over 60 film festivals (including New Directors New Films - New York, Buenos Aires - BAFICI, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo, Montreal, IndieLisboa, Vancouver, La Rochelle, Geneva...) and won numerous awards. It was selected as Greece's entry for the Foreign Language category Academy Awards, and was also nominated for the European Film Academy Awards.
