Man at Sea

Alex, the captain of a Greek oil tanker, is still dealing with the death of his son four years ago.[3] While his ship the "Sea Voyager" is in the Mediterranean Sea, Captain Alex comes across a boat filled with adolescent refugees from Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan.[4] He takes pity on the refugees and allows them on his ship. He plans to drop the refugees off at a port, but local authorities refuse to take them, forcing the refugees to stay on the boat. Their residence angers the ship's owners, and gradually the "Sea Voyager" becomes a claustrophobic war zone between the refugees and the ship's owners.[5]

• Antonis Karistinos as Alex
• Theodora Tzimou as Katia
• Konstadinos Avarikiotis as Andreas
• Konstadinos Siradakis as Pantelis
• Stathis Papadopoulos as Yuri
• Thanasis Tatavlalis as Petros
• Nikos Tsourakis as Samir
• Stathis Apostolou as Johnny
• Chalil Ali Zada as Rafik
• Rahim Rahimi as Kamal

"Man at Sea" was featured in the Panorama section of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.[4]

It was observed, "If Man at Sea isn’t the director’s best work – although it certainly is his most ambitious – it’s because of his inability to orchestrate the internal rhythms of the conflict."[5] Movies Ltd. listed the diverse sociological issues that the movie deals with: "Illegal immigration, family loss, financial crisis, illegality" (Greek: Λαθρομετανάστευση, οικογενειακή απώλεια, οικονομική κρίση, παρανομία).[3] Boyd van Hoeij wrote, "Giannaris’s latest plays more like 'Around the World in 80 Plot Twists.'"[6]

• Man at Sea at IMDb