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‘Xenia’
This award-winning film follows two young brothers in search of their birth father across the colorful landscape of Greece. Dany (Kostas Nikouli), 16, leaves Crete to find his 18-year-old brother, Odysseus (Nikos Gelia), who lives in Athens, and they journey to Thessaloniki, where they think their father is living. When the handsome Odysseus isn’t protecting his day-dreaming gay younger brother, he auditions for the television talent show Greek Star, where he pursues his fantasy of becoming a singing star. A comic and touching road trip of two brothers connecting and searching for their dreams.
Greek and Albanian with English subtitles. Strand Releasing (strandreleasing.com). —Troy Carrington