Project Detail

Moderation

Synopsis

Set in Egypt, Greece, Italy and the US, Anja Kirschner's piece reflects on the way psychological, historical and material realities are connected through the prism of the filmmaking progress itself.
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
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

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 LUX
Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF

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