Wasted Youth is set during a hot summer day in Athens. A sixteen-year-old skater and his friends are amusing themselves in the big city. A middle-aged man struggles to take care of his family, through work that he hates and mounting stress. Their lives intersect in this contemporary portrait of the city of Athens. A society in crisis.
Opening film of the 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Nominated for the Tiger Award of IFFR