Athena Rachel Tsangari’s, Attenberg, is Greece’s official submission for the
2012 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
Last year, Attenberg earned
Ariane Labed the Best Actress Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, and the
Special Jury Prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.
In addition to Labed,
Attenberg stars Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the 2011 Best Foreign Language
Film Oscar nominee Dogtooth, on which Tsangari worked as an associate producer.
Attenberg chronicles the complex life of Marina (Labed) a young woman with
an unfulfilled sex life – she is not into men, not satisfied with women – and
her relationship with her dying father.
The title refers to the heroine’s
mangling of documentarian David Attenborough’s name.