Smuggling Hendrix
Cyprus, Germany, Greece 2018 | 92 min. | Greek, English, Turkish | Hebrew & English subtitles
Yiannis doesn’t have much going for him, save for his adorable dog, Jimi, and his fast-approaching date to get out of Cyprus for good. But when Jimi wanders across the U.N. buffer zone and into the section of the island Turkey seized more than forty years ago, an unregulated state unrecognized by the rest of the world, Yiannis learns, bringing a dog back over the border is not as easy as walking straight home. He enlists a mismatched band of accomplices from every side of the Cyprus dispute to find a way to get Jimi back, while never leaving the land he calls home.
Production: Janine Teerling, Marios Piperides, Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Costas Lambropoulos
Script: Marios Piperides
Cinematography: Christian Huck
Editing: Stylianos Constantinou
Music: Kostantis Papakonstantinou
Sound: Johannes Doberenz
Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Fatih Al, Vicky Papadopoulou
Funds & Support: Ministry of Education and Culture (MOEC), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Greek Film Center, Greek Ministry of Culture, Fonds Eurimage , Europe Creative Media de l'Union Européenne
Festivals: Tribeca