A Summer of Nothing

Name: A Summer of Nothing
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-10-16
Duration: 77 min
Cast: Mady Lykeridou-Veletas, Gerasimos Damoulaki, Zambeta Tourlou, Alina Manolache

A quest for nothing inevitably leads to everything.

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Release Date

10/16/2026

Runtime

77 mins

Genres

Documentary

Overview

Filmmaker Alina Manolache arrives on an island in Greece with grand plans to film a documentary on Venus de Milo's repatriation, but the project does not materialise. Finding it impossible to accept the new situation, Alina decides to dissect her obsession for work and achievement, through an experiment of doing the exact opposite: nothing. But is there ever nothing? As she meets Mady, a local woman with a very busy family life, the study of nothing turns into a labyrinthine personal journey.

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Released

Original Language

English

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A filmmaker's plan to make a documentary crumbles, but her unplanned detour into deliberate idleness becomes an unexpectedly introspective meditation on work, purpose, and what it means to stop chasing. It's a gentle, meandering exploration that finds profundity in apparent stillness.