A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (2026)

Μία μέρα στη ζωή της Τζο: Κεφάλαιο Φαίδρα

Jo is wild, melancholic, only 15 and today she misses the school bus, once again. Her mother insists she doesn’t have a car, even though it’s parked outside. Furious, Jo tries to damage the car. Her mother intervenes, and that is the last time they will meet in the physical world – at least in body form. Throughout the day, subtle signs and symbols from the dream world quietly surface around her, but she fails to recognize them, indeed Jo is unaware that she is living the last day of her life.

Date of release
2026-09-08
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jacqueline Lentzou

Casting

Interesting facts

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra is a 2026 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Jacqueline Lentzou. A co-production of Greece, Germany, and France, it stars Evita Andriopoulou, Eleni Vergeti, and Anastasia Gouliamou.

Production

Jacqueline Lentzou was a finalist in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (2022–2024) and received the Onassis Foundation New York Fellowship and Nipkow Fellowship in 2022.

In April 2023, the project was selected in Cine por Hacer at the sixth edition of Mercado del Cine Casi Hecho, a market dedicated to almost-finished films, which runs with the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in Las Palmas, Canary Islands in Spain.

In August 2024, the screenplay was selected for TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab 2024, where it won the ARRI Award for Cinematic Vision, before joining the Cannes Next Step – Volume II 2024 programme in September.

In 2025, it was also selected for Les Arcs Film Festival's Work in Progress section, receiving Special Mention in the 22D Music Award, and earlier this year participated in First Cut Lab 2026.

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