On Saturday, May 10th, the curtain fell ending the 11th Annual San Francisco Greek Film Festival! Congratulations to writer/director Maria Douza and her feature film A Place Called Home (alternative title “The Tree and The Swing”) for winning the award for the BEST FEATURE FILM!
This is the first feature film Maria Douza has written and directed. It is a social drama featuring the character of
Eleni, a professor of cardiology in London who has been estranged from her father Kyriakos ever since she left Greece 15 years earlier. After her British husband is posted to China indefinitely, Eleni decides to visit her homeland and make amends with her father. She brings her daughter Anna to Greece for the Easter holiday. But when she reaches home nothing she finds is as she expects. A Serbian woman is living with Kyriakos, looking after his big estate. Kyriakos has been harbouring a few secrets of his own…
We were honored to have Maria Douza present at the showing of her film on our festival’s opening night on Saturday, May 3rd. We wish Maria continued success in her future artistic endeavors.
— The team the San Francisco Greek Film Festival.