As residents of a small Greek island prepare for the influx of fellow European tourists seeking the best summer experience their modest earnings can buy, the “animatuers” at the local hotel resort dust off their shiny costumes and revive cheesy dance routines to keep the masses entertained. But the arrival of seasonal reinforcements prompts some soul-searching for the veteran dancer, Kalia, who’s been with the group for so long that she lost sight of how she got there in the first place.

Following her acclaimed feature debut, Park (2016), Sofia Exarchou turns her gaze on a fringe community of performers caught up in a cycle of exploitative seasonal entertainment and captures with heartbreaking precision the erosion of artists’ hopes and dreams. Lead actress Dimitra Vlagopoulou, who recently won the Best Actress Award for her performance at the Locarno Film Festival, brings incredible depth and nuance to her portrayal of the ever pleasant and ready-to-party Kalia, masking the profound sense of defeat she carries underneath.

Animal (2023).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 57 min
Size: 	3.68 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	4 309 kb/s
BPP: 	0.087
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https://nitro.download/view/F27BC1EDC57E10F/Animal_(2023).mkv

Language(s):Greek, English, German
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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