A genius cinematic allegory.
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.
Casus Belli premiered in the official competition at the 67th Venice IFF in 2010 and has won over fifteen awards worldwide. It has been screened at more than 100 festivals and selected in the official competition of some of the most important including Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand, Tokyo Shorts, Palm Springs, LA Short, and Melbourne.
It won Hellenic Film Academy's Best Short Film in 2011 and six further awards at the Drama International Short Film Festival including for Best Film, Script, and Director. It was the first Greek short film to secure distribution across cinema theaters in France and has been broadcast by many European channels including Canal+, ARTE, RTP, and NBC, as well as by cable TV stations in US and Australia.