Volta

Stella Kyriakopoulos : 2014
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A struggling single mother and her five-year-old daughter start out from central Athens and head to the suburbs. Nina thinks she's going on a walk. The film follows their journey as they travel by foot, bus and train across the city. An ominous yet bittersweet take on the financial meltdown tormenting the country's working classes, via the story of a heartbreakingly tender walk through Athens, all the way to a very unexpected destination in the city's wealthy northern suburbs. Stella Kyriakopoulos's narrative short is her thesis film for the NYU Graduate Film programme. It won a Special Mention when it premiered at the Greek International Film Festival in Drama 2014, and had its US premiere in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2015.