2017 · immigration · childhood · drama
Son of Sofia
Directed by Elina Psykou1h 51m2017
11-year-old Misha is coming from Russia to Athens during the 2004 Olympic Games to live with his mother. He does not know there is a father waiting for him.
Our read: Son of Sofia (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive immigration · childhood · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured immigration / childhood, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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