02/04/2014 - Pantelis Voulgaris’ period drama leads the HFA nominations with 13 gongs, The Enemy Within follows with 10 nominations, and Miss Violence gathers 8

The season’s local box-office hit topped the Hellenic Film Academy (HFA) members’ preferences, as revealed on Tuesday at the HFA’s press conference announcing the nominees for its fifth annual awards. Pantelis Voulgaris’ Little England [+see also:
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Based on the titular award-winning novel by Voulgaris’ wife, Ioanna Karystianni, the period drama recounts the way of life in the island of Andros, where the only way for a man to bring food to the table is to go out to sea and get it, while their wives and families wait for the sailors’ return for months on end. A tormented love triangle starts to develop, once the country and its seamen start being dragged into the chaotic tempest of World War II.

Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’ Toronto-screened social drama The Enemy Within [+see also:
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Heading into their fifth year, the Hellenic Film Academy Awards will be handed out on Monday 14 April, where films like Elina Psykou’s The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas [+see also:
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interview: Maria Douza
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