''Xenia'' ( gr, Ξενία lit. xenia) is a 2014

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directed by

Panos H. Koutras Panos H. Koutras ( el, Πάνος Χ. Κούτρας; born in Athens) is a Greek film director, film producer and screenwriter, who made his debut with the feature film '' The Attack of the Giant Moussaka'' (1999), an independent science-fiction ...

. It was selected to compete in the

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section at the

2014 Cannes Film Festival The 67th Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2014. New Zealand film director Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the main competition section. The Palme d'Or was awarded to the Turkish film '' Winter Sleep'' directed by Nuri Bi ...

, and in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. It was the Greek entry for the

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award at the

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but it was not nominated.

Plot

The film is about two brothers, Dany, 15, who is gay, and Odysseas (Ody), 18. Their mother, an

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n singer, has recently died. Facing the threat of deportation, the brothers go on a road trip from

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looking for their Greek father, and with him the possibility of gaining

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. They are obsessed with the songs of the Italian singer

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, and Ody, who has a good voice, plans to sing one of her songs in a talent contest.Holden Stephen (11 October 2015
''Xenia: a fraternal bond and a quest''
in ''The New York Times''. Retrieved 30 June 2017

Cast

* Kostas Nikouli as Dany * Nikos Gelia as Odysseas * Yannis Stankoglou as Lefteris * Marissa Triandafyllidou as Vivi * Aggelos Papadimitriou as Tassos * Romanna Lobats as Maria-Sonia *

as herself * Ioulios Tziatas as Moustafa

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