‘Hold Onto Me’ Director Myrsini Aristidou Kicks Off Historic Oscar Campaign for Sundance Audience Award Winner: ‘I Really Feel Like We’re Underdogs’

‘Hold Onto Me’ Director Myrsini Aristidou Kicks Off Historic Oscar Campaign for Sundance Audience Award Winner: ‘I Really Feel Like We’re Underdogs’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 13, 2026 11:36am PT ‘Hold Onto Me’ Director Myrsini Aristidou Kicks Off Historic Oscar Campaign for Sundance Audience Award Winner: ‘I Really Feel Like We’re Underdogs’ By Christopher Vourlias Plus Icon Christopher Vourlias Latest Thessaloniki Industry Awards: Georgian Road Movie ‘The Crossroad,’ North Macedonian Drama ‘They Bloom at Dawn’ Take Top Prizes 1 day ago Oliver Laxe on Overcoming His Fears, Making Films as an Act of ‘Prayer’ and Allowing His ‘Wounds’ to Drive Him to ‘Take the Leap’ 1 day ago EbonyLife Group, Logical African Partners Launch $50 Million Fund to Support African Cinema (EXCLUSIVE) 2 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments It’s been a whirlwind year for Cypriot filmmaker Myrsini Aristidou , whose 2026 started with a triumphant trip to Park City, where her debut feature, “Hold Onto Me,” won the audience prize in the World Cinema Dramatic competition at Sundance. Then, in September, the film made history when it was tapped to represent Cyprus in the international feature race at the Academy Awards — the first time the small island nation has submitted a film for what was formerly the foreign-language category.

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“It’s a great achievement, but it brings a lot of responsibility and a lot of work that comes with that,” she says. “I have no idea of what our chances are, to be honest.

I’ve never done this before. Cyprus is a very small country.

I really feel like we’re underdogs. We don’t have a lot of money to do the campaign.

We’re just doing the best we can.” “Hold Onto Me” follows free-spirited 11-year-old Iris, played by newcomer Maria Petrova, whose summer fun is interrupted by the arrival in town of her estranged father Aris, played by Christos Passalis (“Dogtooth”). A reluctant dad who’s only returned for his own father’s funeral, Aris rebuffs his daughter’s efforts to reconnect.

But her persistence gradually thaws his heart, offering the hope — if not the promise — of eventually rebuilding their fractured relationship. In a glowing Sundance review, Variety ’s Carlos Aguilar praised the “heartfelt drama,” noting that while the film “treads in familiar waters,” Aristidou’s “astute writing and assuredly bittersweet performance take the story into singular, surprising places.” “Hold Onto Me” is produced by Filmblades and One Six One Films, in co-production with Fredo Pictures and Graal Films.

Cercamon is handling world sales. Speaking to Variety in Thessaloniki, Aristidou explains how the film marked a homecoming after seven years in the U.S., where she studied film as an undergraduate at New York City’s Pratt Institute before getting her master’s degree at NYU.

“It was a big decision to leave the U.S. and…go back to my country and make a Greek-language film and shoot it where I grew up,” she says.

“It was important to me to capture the textures of everyday life [in Cyprus]: the worn-out backdrops,the slow movement

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