The third feature from Alexis Alexiou (Tale 52, Wednesday 04:45), Sea of Glass follows two women in an off-season Greek seaside resort who unexpectedly come together to confront the past, family stereotypes and the closed provincial community.
The film stars Evangelia Adreadaki, Christiana Matelska Toka, Michalis Iatropoulos, Nikos Georgakis, Thanos Tokakis and Dimitris Tzoumakis.
Sea of Glass receives its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on August 16th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Vangelio (65) is a prisoner in her own home, caring for her bedridden husband. Trapped in her routine and cut off from her two sons, she makes do with leafing through her collection of old guidebooks. The sudden death of her husband encourages her to make a ‘reckless’ decision: to go on holiday. She books a room at a tourist resort a few kilometres outside Chalkida, the capital of Evia. It’s March in the off-season, and there are very few people around. At the fish tavern below the rental property, she meets 23-year-old Vicky, who runs the family business and looks after her difficult alcoholic father, who spends his days drinking with his buddies. One evening, when he turns on his daughter, Vangelio steps in to protect her. Violence rears its ugly head in the small seaside town, and like the waves of the stormy sea, the impact will be devastating.
