Earth has been abandoned long time now and the human race has found refuge in outer space. Three archeologists return to Earth to investigate where a mysterious five tone signal is coming from…
Semaine de la Critique – Cannes 2019
Director – Yorgos Zois
Yorgos Zois was born in Athens in 1982. He studied applied Math & Nuclear Physics at the NTUA and film direction at Stavrakou Film School, Athens and UdK Berlin with scholarship by Costa Gavras. He also worked as an assistant to Theo Angelopoulos in the film Dust of Time. His debut short film Casus Belli premiered at the 67th Venice IFF in 2010, competing at over one hundred international film festivals: Rotterdam, Clermont Ferrand, Tokyo Short Shorts, Palm Springs, LA Short Fest, among others, and winning multiple over twenty five film awards and several distinctions. In Greece it won the 2011 best short film award from the Greek Film Academy and six awards at the Greek National Drama Short Film Festival including best film, best director and best script. It was the first Greek short film that secured distribution in Europe and was broadcasted by many TV stations all around the world (CNC, ARTE, NBC, SBS etc) His second short film, Out of Frame premiered at the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012 and won the EFA award for Best European short film and several other distinctions for its visual form and concept of narration in film festivals around the world. In 2012 Zois received a nomination for best European film director from the European Film Academy.