A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra

Film archive, 2026

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra

Mia mera sti zoi tis tzo: kefalaio Faidra

Director Jacqueline LENTZOU

2Festival entries

★Avg. rating

This film is astonishingly fresh - like watching Elephant for the first time. The meaning of the title lands only when this cute teen movie arrives at an unexpected place. If Jacqueline Lentzou’s debut film Moon, 66 Questions carried the subtitle ‘a film about flow, movement, and love (and lack of them),’ her new work comes with one that says, ‘a film about breath, touch, and loneliness (and lack of them).’ Maintaining her characteristic directing style, with warped images, offscreen sounds, and idiosyncratic composition and editing, the film makes us wonder what is going on inside her head when she suddenly gazes at the sky. Then, at a climax no one could have imagined, everything erupts. In a daring development lasting over 20 minutes, Lentzou announces herself an auteur. This is what a ‘camera of the heart, film of the heart’ looks like. This film announces the emergence of a director with a new sensibility, following in the footsteps of Athina Rachel Tsangari and Yorgos Lanthimos, two defining figures of contemporary Greek auteur cinema.

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Film details

Director: Jacqueline LENTZOU
Country/Region: Greece, Germany, France
Year: 2026
Length: 87min
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Director

Jacqueline LENTZOU

Jacqueline Lentzou is a Greek filmmaker (Athens, June 1989), graduated from the London Film School. Her idiosyncratic style includes intuitive camera work, word and image association, and trust in chance.

From Tokyo International Film Festival 2026, No. 39

Credits

Director: Jacqueline LENTZOU
Cast: Evita ANDRIOPOULOU, Eleni VERGETI, Anastasia GOULIAMOU, Ektoras LYGIZOS
Screenplay: Jacqueline LENTZOU
Cinematography: Grimm VANDEKERCKHOVE
Editing: Gabriel GONZALEZ, Jacqueline LENTZOU, Nikos VAVOURIS
Music: Colin STETSON
Sound: Dimitris KANELLOPOULOS
Production company: Avion Films, Atalante Productions S.A., Kelek Film, 4A4 Productions, ERT S.A., Haris & Co
World sales: Lucky Number

Festival appearances2

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A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter PhaedraTokyo International Film Festival 2026, No. 39Youth: TIFF Teens

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter PhaedraBusan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31Flash Forward

Festival history2

东京国际电影节, 2026Youth: TIFF Teens, Official selection 釜山国际电影节, 2026Flash Forward, Official selection

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