Wide Management has acquired world sales rights to Christina Ioakeimidi’s “Medium,” a story of first love set against the stifling heat of an Athenian summer that world premieres Aug. 14 in competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Based on a novel by Giorgos Sibardis, the film follows 16-year-old Eleftheria (Aggeliki Beveratou), who escapes the suffocating reality of the Greek countryside to visit her pregnant sister (Katerina Zisoudi) in Athens. It is August, during a terrible heat wave, when most Athenians abandon the city, and Eleftheria feels likewise abandoned: still grieving the loss of her mother, while her sister is preoccupied by her pregnancy and her father has just started a new family back in the village.
Suddenly, Eleftheria meets a mysterious neighbor, Angelos (Nikolakis Zeginoglou), a 26-year-old medical student who invites her into his fascinating grown-up world. A stranger in a strange land, she roams the scorching city streets on his bike,...
Based on a novel by Giorgos Sibardis, the film follows 16-year-old Eleftheria (Aggeliki Beveratou), who escapes the suffocating reality of the Greek countryside to visit her pregnant sister (Katerina Zisoudi) in Athens. It is August, during a terrible heat wave, when most Athenians abandon the city, and Eleftheria feels likewise abandoned: still grieving the loss of her mother, while her sister is preoccupied by her pregnancy and her father has just started a new family back in the village.
Suddenly, Eleftheria meets a mysterious neighbor, Angelos (Nikolakis Zeginoglou), a 26-year-old medical student who invites her into his fascinating grown-up world. A stranger in a strange land, she roams the scorching city streets on his bike,...
- 8/3/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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