(2024, France, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Estonia, Finland, 99')
Sergei and Natalia, along with their daughters Katja and Alina, flee their homeland, desperately seeking a safe refuge where they can build a new future. When their asylum request in Sweden is denied, their dream shatters, and little Katja falls victim to resignation syndrome, a pathological condition affecting migrant children and adolescents, causing them to enter an unconscious sleep that can last for months or even years. This state of total isolation from the outside world is an extreme form of defense against unbearable psychological pain. But Katja cannot sleep forever…
Quiet Life marks the return of Alexandros Avranas to Venice after winning the Silver Lion in 2013 with Miss Violence, which also earned Themis Panou the Coppa Volpi for his role as the monstrous father protagonist. As one of the most interesting voices in Greek cinema, following Dark Crimes (2016) and Love Me Not (2017), Avranas returns to explore the adolescent world and the depths of human suffering.