AMERIKA SQUARE

PLATEIA AMERIKIS

By Yannis SAKARIDIS

PATRA SPANOU FILM - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2016

A fast paced triptych revealing the opposing forces of humanitarian challenges due to the refugee flood in Athens today.

Festivals
& Awards

Busan - BIFF/APM 2016
Flash Forward
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GREECE, UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GREEK, ENGLISH, ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yannis SAKARIDIS
    • Synopsis
    • Athens 2016. Nakos, a banal racist, had enough of the thousands of refugees in his neighborhood. Tarek, a Syrian ex-Military doctor is looking for a deal to smuggle out of Greece with his daughter. Billy a tattoo artist falls in love with Tereza, an African singer who is also looking for an escape by the sea. The three stories merge when Nako’s malicious acts stop Tereza’s and Tarek’s smuggler Hassan. Their illegal trip is interrupted and they have to find another way out. While time is running out for everyone, Billy steps in to organize the escape.