Suntan

Kostis, fourty years old, arrives for Christmas as the only doctor on the small island of Antiparos in Greece. In winter it is an empty and lonely place, but when it starts getting sunny, hordes of tourists arrive on the nudist beaches. Kostis meets Anna, 19, and her pals. Sun, alcohol, free sex, Kostis is introduced to a world that is unknown to him and his attraction to Anna is haunting. Their story becomes like a tragicomedy where love, sexual tension and despair are madly mixed together. Greek filmmaker Argyris Papadimitropoulos manages to make obvious the terrible axiom that some tan while others burn their wings, and also depict the portrait of an island that lost its soul to tourism.

Flagey, Brussels Film Festival