2009 11 22 - Small Crime - Micro Eglima/Kleine Verbrechen

"A beautiful, remote location that practically becomes a character in itself. […] Athens-based helmer Christos Georgiou ("Under the Stars") humorously captures the mentality of a small island community.”
Variety.com

Genre Comedy
Year of Production 2008
Director Christos Georgiou
Principal Cast Aris Servetalis, Viki Papadopoulou, Rania Oikonomidou, Eleni Kokkidou
Length 85 minutes
International Festival Screenings Cannes 2008, San Francisco International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Awards TBA
Leonidas, a young police graduate, has been assigned to a small, sleepy island in the Aegean. Dreaming of solving serious crimes in the big city, all he does is fruitlessly chase traffic offenders and watch Angeliki’s morning show with the locals at the café – a daily ritual, as the beautiful tv host is the island’s most famous daughter. Leonidas’ life changes, when villager Zacharias is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. The police chief assumes that Zacharias was drunk and fell by accident, but Leonidas is convinced of a murder and starts investigating. That same night Angeliki arrives on the island... Screening Details
22 Nov, 7.30pm
The Cathay, Hall 5
Rating TBA
Christos Georgiou was born in 1966 in England as son of Cyprian parents and grew up in Cyprus. He studied at the Leeds Metropolitan University and at the National Filmschool Lodz, Poland. Filmography (selected): Jal Uthna (1992); I vaftisi / The batism (1994); Under the Stars (2001). Awards: Best First Feature, 25th Montreal Int. Film Festival; Best Foreign Feature, 35th Houston Worldfest; Best First Feature & Critics Prize; Visions of Europe – My life on Tape (2004).