{"id":511968,"date":"2026-06-26T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/511968\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:15:11","slug":"alexis-alexiou-completes-third-feature-sea-of-glass-unveils-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/511968\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Alexiou Completes Third Feature Sea of Glass, Unveils Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGreek writer\/director Alexis Alexiou<\/a> has unveiled his third feature and his first since 2015\u2019s award-winning \u201cWednesday 04.45.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSea of Glass,\u201d now complete, is a country noir road movie following 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 has already been acquired by Greek boutique distributor Weird Wave (\u201cTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,\u201d \u201cI See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, \u201cIt was Just an Accident\u201d) with a theatrical release scheduled for Greece and Cyprus this fall.<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-written by Afroditi Nikolaidou and Alexiou, the film stars Evangelia Adreadaki (\u201cArcadia,\u201d \u201cLittle England\u201d) and Christiana Matelska Toka in her debut feature role, alongside Michalis Iatropoulos (\u201cCheap Smokes,\u201d \u201cDigger\u201d), Nikos Georgakis (\u201cTruants\u201d), Thanos Tokakis (\u201cTokakis or What\u2019s My Name\u201d) and Dimitris Tzoumakis (\u201cWednesday 04:45\u201d). Simon Sarketzis (\u201cLittle England,\u201d \u201cBehind The Haystacks\u201d) served as cinematographer. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSea of Glass\u201d follows 65-year-old Vangelio, who 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. But the sudden death of her husband encourages her to make a \u2018reckless\u2019 decision: to go on holiday. She books a room at a tourist resort a few kilometres outside Chalkida, the capital of Evia. It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u201cSea of Glass.\u201d Credit: Simon Sarketzis<\/p>\n

\n\tInspired by films including \u201cThelma & Louise\u201d and \u201cThe Postman Always Rings Twice,\u201d the film grafts elements from the rural gothic noir tradition and road movies onto the Greek countryside, and is described as a \u201ccompelling and poignant story focussing on two women thrown into an unexpected alliance.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSaid Alexiou: \u201cWhat connects them and poisons both their lives is domestic violence and oppression. But they are also linked by a common goal: the need to break free and find themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexis\u2019 first feature \u201cTale 52\u201d played in competition at Rotterdam and more than 40 other festivals, including Toronto and Sitges, where it won the best screenplay award. His second film \u201cWednesday 04:45\u201d screened in competition at Tribeca and at numerous festivals including Karlovy Vary and BFI London. The film received nine awards from the Hellenic Film Academy, including best film and best Director. Both films were voted best Greek Film of the year by the Greek Film Critics Association. In 2022 Alexis directed \u201cIota Period Omega,\u201d a short sci-fi docufiction entirely shot on 8mm which was presented in competition at Dok Leipzig.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSea of Glass\u201d is a Greece-Bulgaria-Cyprus co-production, produced by Tugo Tugo Productions in Greece in co-production with Portokal (Bulgaria) and Bark Like a Cat Films (Cyprus) and in collaboration with Felony Film (Cyprus), Marni Films (Greece), Jungle Films (Greece) and Cinnerent (Serbia). It was made with the support of the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center, ERT, Eurimages, Creative Europe, the Bulgarian National Film Center, Film Center Serbia, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Office in Greece and the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n

\n\tSee the trailer to \u201cSea of Glass\u201d below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greek writer\/director Alexis Alexiou has unveiled his third feature and his first since 2015\u2019s award-winning \u201cWednesday 04.45.\u201d \u201cSea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[234863,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-511968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alexis-alexiou","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}