The film chosen to represent Greece at the Oscars was «Little England»From Pantelis Voulgaris.
The Greek tape, «Mikra anglia»In its original title, it was the great winner of the last edition of the Shanghai Festival, where she won the awards for best film, best director and best actress for Pinepoli Tsilika.
"Little England" was also the great winner of the Greek Film Academy Awards, getting up to six awards including the one for best film.
This new film from the veteran Pantelis Voulgaris tells the love story of two sisters with the same man within the provincial society of the Andros island of the 30s and 40s. The mother of the girls decides for financial reasons that her second daughter marries the lover of the eldest and is with a powerful and rich man, from there the house that she built with her hands Together with her husband who is traveling to distant countries, it becomes a very tense place of coexistence.
Greece It has to date five nominations for the Oscar for best foreign film and has not yet achieved the statuette. The last film to make it to the nominee quintet was "Canino" ("Kynodontas") by Giorgos Lanthimos in 2011.
More information - Films shortlisted by each country for the Oscar 2015