Miss Violence

Miss Violence (2013) is a Greek drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Alexandros Avranas. The film took the Silver Lion for Best Direction at the Venice Film Festival.

On the morning of her eleventh birthday, Angeliki steps off the balcony. She is smiling. The police open an inquiry; social services push the family for answers. The family has one: it was an accident. Nothing more. What the film slowly reveals behind that closed door is the kind of thing a household can normalize over years — and what it costs the people trapped inside.

Avranas keeps the camera composed and near-clinical throughout, never showing the worst directly. That restraint is what makes it so hard to watch: the violence lives in the silences, in authority exercised with complete calm, in small domestic details that stop reading as ordinary. Not easy viewing — and entirely deliberate about it. Stream Miss Violence (2013) online on iFILM.