Moderation
Synopsis
Its main protagonists - a director and a screenwriter are in the early stages of developing a commercial feature film, but soon their own conflicting desires and the events simultaneously occurring around them, take them far beyond their initial intentions. Forced to radically reconfigure her project, the director becomes more and more drawn into conversations with the actors she has cast, which centre on the way cinema intersects with their own lives and gives expression to the realities they are confronted with.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 149 mins
- Director
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Anja Kirschner
- Producer
- Theo Prodromidis
- Editor
- Smaro Papaevangelou, Anja Kirschner
- Screenwriter
- Anja Kirschner with Maya Lubinsky, Anna De Filippi
- Director of Photography
- Dimitris Kasimatis GSC, Mostafa El Kashef
- Production Designer
- Kleio Boboti
- Sound
- Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Max Schneider, Giuseppe Di Lascio; Sound Design: Kostas Fylaktidis, Vasilis Zlatanos, Stefanos Konstantinidis
- Composer
- Dracula Lewis
- Principal cast
- Maya Lubinsky, Anna De Filippi, Michele Valley, Aida El Kashef, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Greece, Italy, UK, Egypt coproduction
Commissioned by Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative (GR), co-produced by Beirut (EG) and Nomas Foundation (IT) and supported by the Elephant Trust (UK) and the Greek Film Centre (GR)
Sales Company
Distribution and Sales requests
c/o LUXWaterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF
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