Plato’s Academy
Directed by
Filippos Tsitos
Screenplay
Alexis Kardaras, Filippos Tsitos
A Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family’s past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.
Stavros runs a small shop in Athens’ Akadimia Platonos district. Business isn’t going well – so most of the time, he hangs out in front of it with his three best friends. Stavros’ demented mother also regularly joins the group. Lacking anything better to do, the group spends all day reminiscing about the old days and badmouthing the insufferable foreigners. But Stavros, known as the loudest ranter, soon experiences his own personal worst-case scenario. The Albanian Marenglen claims to recognise his own mother in Stavros’ mother.
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Silver Leopard - Best Actor: Antonis Kafetzopoulos
Jury Award for Best Film
Best Actor: Antonis Kafetzopoulos
Orpheus Award - Best Feature Film
Directed by
Filippos Tsitos
Screenplay
Alexis Kardaras, Filippos Tsitos
Cast
Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastasias Kozdine, Titika Sarigouli, Giorgos Souxes, Kostas Koronaios, Panayotis Stamatakis, Maria Zorba
Producers
Konstantinos Moriatis, Thanassis Karathanos
Editor
Dimitrius Peponis
Cinematography
Polidefkis Kirlidis
Set Decoration
Spyros Laskaris
Sound
Vangelis Zelkas
Costume Design
Hristina Hatzaridou
Studios
ARTE (FR), ZDF/Arte, Pan Entertainment, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, Greek Film Centre, EPT, Graal, Eurimages Council of Europe, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Language
Greek
Production Countries
Greece, Germany