---
title: 'Animal (2023)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Sofia Exarchou'
released: '2023-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Cyprus'
  - 'Bulgaria'
  - 'Romania'
  - 'Greece'
  - 'Austria'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/animal-2023'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26342791/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Animal (2023)

2023 · Drama · Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Austria


## Synopsis

Animal is a 2023 drama film written and directed by Sofia Exarchou. Her second feature after Park (2016), the film stars Dimitra Vlagopoulou as Kalia, the head of a troupe of animateurs (entertainers) at an all-inclusive resort hotel on an unnamed Greek island. Animal premiered in the International Competition of the 76th Locarno Film Festival on 3 August 2023, where Vlagopoulou won the Pardo for Best Performance. It subsequently won the Golden Alexander at the 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival — the first Greek film to receive the top prize at Thessaloniki in thirty years — and was theatrically released in Greece on 8 February 2024 by Weird Wave.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Sofia Exarchou](https://cinepixo.com/people/sofia-exarchou)

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