Synopsis
This is the first Cannes selection for the director who has been described as the Greek Almodovar. Fifteen years after the crazy romp that was The Attack of the Giant Mousaka, Panos Koutras has made Xenia, a coming of age film that tells the story of two brothers as they journey across Greece in search of the father they have never known.
After the death of their mother, Dany, 16, leaves Crete to join his older brother, Odysseas, who lives in Athens. Born from an Albanian mother and a Greek father they never met, the two brothers, strangers in their own country, decide to go to Thessaloniki to look for their father and force him to officially recognize them. At the same time in Thessaloniki, is held the selection for the cult show, “Greek Star.” Dany dreams that his brother Odysseas, a gifted singer, could become the new star of the contest, in a country that refuses to accept them.
Cast: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Aggelos Papadimitriou, Romanna Lobach, Marissa Triandafyllidou, Yannis Stankoglou and Patty Bravo as herself
