Holy Boom Trailer

Directed by Maria Lafi

2018/99 min
In Greek with English subtitles

Cast: Nena Menti (Thalia), Luli Bitri (Adia), Spyros Balesteros (Ige), Samuel Akinola (Manou), Anastasia Rafaela Konidi (Lena), Meletis Georgiadis (Lena’s father

The lives of four strangers living in a multicultural neighborhood of Athens are upended when, on Palm Sunday, a mailbox is blasted by local teenagers, and vital documents are destroyed. The consequences of the loss are devastating as the four try to piece their lives back together again. Generational and ethnic differences add to the tensions in this thoroughly engrossing drama, nominated for two Hellenic Film Academy Awards.

When Holy Boom was last presented at the New York Greek Film Expo the screening sold out.

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Hellenic Film Society USA is dedicated to promoting Greek cinema throughout the US by sharing the richness of Greek films with a wider American audience and to preserving the film heritage of Greece. We present feature films, documentaries, and film shorts made by Greek and Greek-American filmmakers, and also those that promote the cultures of Greece and Cyprus. We also host interviews with filmmakers and panel discussions about different aspects of Greek cinema.