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  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Joyce A. Nashawati
  • France, Greece 2015
  • 88 minutes
  • French, Greek
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

During a scorching Greek summer Ashraf (Ziad Bakri), a solitary immigrant who is looking after a villa while its owners are away, finds himself in a bureaucratic purgatory as he tries to retrieve his residence permit, while the crushing heat threatens to send him over the edge into paranoia and madness.
“I wanted a mystery film that takes place in full daylight by the Mediterranean Sea,” explains filmmaker Joyce A. Nashawati. Nashawati weaves into her dystopian vision many of the most incendiary themes facing Europe right now - immigration, racism, climate change and economic disparity.
Feature Debut


  • Director Joyce A. Nashawati
  • Production Fenia Cossovitsa, Philippe Akoka, Alain Peyrollaz, Vincent Brançon, Lionel Guedj, Dominique Marzotto
  • Script Joyce A. Nashawati
  • Cinematography Yorgos Arvanitis
  • Editing Sebastien Prangère
  • Music Cedric ‘Pilooski’ Marszewski, Pierrot Casanova
  • Festivals Toronto, Dubai, Thessaloniki
  • Actors Ziad Bakri, Yannis Stankoglou, Mimi Denissi
  • Source Reel Suspects, Paris

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