Miss Violence

(2013)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 622 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2013

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: Greece

Director: Αλέξανδρος Αβρανάς

Cast: Θέμης Πάνου, Ρένη Πιττακή, Ελένη Ρουσσινού, Σίσσυ Τουμάση, Κώστας Ανταλόπουλος, Κωνσταντίνος Αθανασιάδης, Χλόη Μπολώτα, Μάρθα Μπουζιούρη, Ραφίκα Σαουίς, Kalliopi Zontanou

Plot

On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep insisting that it was an accident. What is the secret that young Angeliki took with her? Why does her family persist in trying to "forget" her and to move on with its life?

It's Aggeliki's eleventh birthday, and a well-organised party is held in her honour. All the ingredients of a usual birthday gathering are here: a scrumptious sugar-glazed cake, cheerful music, and the warm embrace of a doting grandfather. However, is any of this real, or is this an elaborate facade? Little by little, as a devastating act of despair unfolds before Aggeliki's shocked family, wolves and lambs alike gradually find themselves lured into an elaborate web of hideous secrets, deceptive appearances, and a frantic downward spiral of lies. In the end, as the sinners' blood-curdling evildoings kept behind closed doors unravel, one can't help but plunge into the depths of the human soul, and the unfathomable secrets within.