Dodo: The new film by Panos Koutras had its pre-festival premiere at Onassis Stegi

Shortly before its Greek premiere, a special pre-festival screening will take place on Monday 31 October at the Stegi of the Onassis Foundation, co-producer of the film, in collaboration with Tulip Entertainment and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. It will be then presented in a special screening in the framework of the 63rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Monday 7 November, at the Olympion cinema theater.

A strange bird that had disappeared from the planet hundreds of years ago is making an out of the blue reappearance in Athens, at the luxurious residence of a family on the brink of financial disaster. The countdown to bankruptcy has begun and in the few hours leading to the marriage of the family’s daughter, the boundaries between sanity and madness will be tested and the situation will soon get out of hand.

This is the plot of Panos H. Koutras’ new film, following “The Attack of The Giant Moussaka,” “Real Life,” “Strella,” and “Xenia,” which had its official premiere in the Cannes Première section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

The director returns with a tender and heartfelt creation, as he crafts a dramedy of comic situations through his discreet gaze. Smaragda Karydi, in a rare dramatic moment, and Akis Sakellariou, who expresses the disillusionments of an entire generation, dominate and complement each other, together with the grit of Tzef Montana, the genuine passion of Natasa Exintaveloni, the commanding presence of Aggelos Papadimitriou, the naughty look of Tzortzis Papadopoulos, the melodic aura of Anna Tzortzikia, the comical force of Mariella Savvidou, the crest-fallen dignity of Marisha Triantafyllidou, the enigmatic demeanor of Nikos Gelia, and the ruggedness of Kris Radanov. All together, they form an explosive collective cast that offers memorable performances in a tender and funny story with well-sealed secrets and many twists in the plot.