Amerika Square

Three stories set in Athens during the height of the Greek crisis — a far-right nationalist who logs immigrant arrivals in his building, a Syrian refugee trying to survive the city's bureaucratic maze, and an African immigrant caught between both worlds. Sakaridis refuses easy villains and easy heroes. The nationalist is pathetic before he is dangerous; the refugees are people before they are symbols. The film is set around a real square in Athens where the crisis — economic and humanitarian — was most visible, and it captures a city that had run out of patience for everyone including itself.