Antonis Tsonis’s internationally acclaimed debut film ‘Brando with a Glass Eye’ is all set to kick off a theatrical run in Melbourne with a screening scheduled for later this month.
The Greek Australian’s film will be shown at Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn on Wednesday 25 June at 8pm in a highly anticipated screening.
The picture has had a very fruitful festival run, including its world premiere in the Narrative Features competition at the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival (the first Greek-language film ever to be included in that category).
It has been screened at over 20 international festivals, including in Athens, Thessaloniki, Sofia, Ferrara, Berlin, and London, where it won Best Film at the New Renaissance Film Festival.
The picture is set in Athens and follows Luca (played by Yiannis Niarros), a struggling actor who commits a botched robbery and befriends the man he injured without revealing his guilt.
As he prepares for a life-changing audition in New York, Luca becomes a man caught between illusion and authenticity, performance and fate.
The film, produced by Tia Spanos Tsonis and Blake Northfield, and executive produced by Maria Drandaki, Wayne Blair and Panagiotis Fafoutis, explores themes of guilt, identity, and artistic obsession through a bold Russo-German handheld visual style and a score recorded live in Prague.
