Third Kind

DIRECTOR(S): Yorgos Zois   COUNTRIES: Greece, Croatia   YEAR: 2017   LANGUAGE(S): English, German, Norwegian, Pashto, Greek   SUBTITLES: English   RUNNING TIME: 32 min

SECTION: International Forum 2019

SCREENINGS

Sunday, 06.10., 9.30 pm, kinoeins

SYNOPSIS

Earth has been abandoned for a long time and humanity has found refuge in outer space. Three archaeologists return to Earth to investigate the origin of a mysterious five tone signal…

YORGOS ZOIS

Yorgos Zois is a Greek director based in Athens. He first studied applied Math & Nuclear Physics at the NTUA and proceeded to study film direction in UdK Berlin with a scholarship by Costa Gavras. His body of work has been acknowledged with over twenty-five awards and distinctions at numerous festivals worldwide: Cannes, Venice, Rotterdam, Telluride and Palm Springs among others. He was nominated as Best Director by the European Film Academy for his film Out of Frame in 2012. Zois was also recently a member of the Official Venice Jury Lion of the Future which awards the best debut film from all sections. His latest short called Third Kind premiered in the Critics Week in Cannes 2018 and now continues its festival journey all around the world.

FILMOGRAPHY

Casus Belli (2010), Out of Frame (2012), Interruption (2015), 8th Continent (2017), Third Kind (2018)

SCRIPT: Yorgos Zois, Konstantina Kotzamani   PRODUCERS: Antigoni Rota, Stelios Cotionis   CAMERA: Yannis Kanakis   EDITOR: Yannis Chalkiadakis   MUSIC: Yannis Veslemes   CAST: Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Effi Rabsilber, Nikos Hanakoulas, Miankhail Waris Awalgul

WORLD SALES: Laura Jumel, Salaud Morisset