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.
Writer and director Marios Piperides has been producing films in Cyprus for more than a decade, and his inside knowledge pays dividends in this narrative feature debut—a whip-smart comedy on legality, disputed nationality, and the frameworks that are erected to maintain a fragile peace. He demonstrates his compassion for locals on both sides of the divide, as he tenderly captures their struggle to find hope and make a living in a divided land. Such serious themes pair perfectly with Piperides’s sense of humor: As Yiannis’s efforts dip farther into absurdity, they offer a send-up of the forces that prolong a conflict that has been poorly understood and largely forgotten by the outside world.
克里斯蒂安(克拉斯·邦 Claes Bang 饰)和妻子离婚后,带着小女儿(Lilianne Mardon 饰)开始了全新的生活。克里斯蒂安在一间艺术馆里担任策展人的职位,最近,他正在筹划一项名为“方形”的装置展览,希望宣扬一种人人平等互助的积极向上的理念。 一场意外中,克里斯蒂安的手机被偷了,通过GPS定位,克里斯蒂安找到了偷手机的小偷所居住的公寓,深夜里,克里斯蒂安向该大楼的每一户居民家的门缝里塞进了一张指控书,哪知道这不经思考的举动,为他惹出了大麻烦。为了宣传展览,克里斯蒂安找来了传媒公关公司的代理人,哪知道这两个不靠谱的男人,很快就将这个展览搅成了一锅粥。祸不单行,克里斯蒂安和女记者安妮(伊丽莎白·莫斯 Elisabeth Moss 饰)之间的一段露水情缘让安妮对他展开了猛烈的攻势。