Casus Belli

German Premiere

Screenings: Monday, June 20, 19:00 and Tuesday, June 21, 21:00 (BITTER)

casus-belli

Country of Origin: Greece
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 11′
Category: Fiction

Director: Yorgos Zois
Screenplay: Yorgos Zois
Cinematographer: Yiannis Kanakis
Editor: Ioannis Chalkiadakis
Producer: Maria Drandaki

Synopsis: All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again..
Inhalt: Menschen verschiedenster Art stehen in verschiednen Schlangen an und warten. Die erste Person jeder Reihe wird zur letzten der nächsten Reihe. Auf diese Weise entsteht nach und nach eine gigantische Menschenschlange, bis am Ende der Schlange ein Dominoeffekt rückwärts ausgelöst wird…

Festivals: 67th International Venice Film Festival, Italy; 16th Athens International Film Festival, Greece; Gijon International Film Festival 2010; Amiens International Film Festival 2010; Trieste Film Festival 2011; Rotterdam International Film Festival 2011; Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2011; Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey, 2011; Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival, 2011; Shadowline Festival Culture Giovani, 2011; Brussels Short Film festival, 2011; Short Shorts Film Festival, 2011; Krakow Short Film Festival, 2011
Awards: 1st Prize of Fiction Film, Special Prize of Debut Film Director, Best Script, Best Production Value Film, Best Costumes, Best Set Design, 33rd International Drama Film Festival, Greece; Best Balkan Shorts, Sofia International Film Festival 2011; First Prize of the Official International Competition / Short Films, Gulf Film Festival, 2011

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