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One sunny day in a park, two strangers share a bench. This meeting changes their lives forever.

Christos Gkotsis

Director

Gaze (2018) | Pledge (2014)
Christos Gkotsis

Writer

Gaze (2018) | Pledge (2014)
Christos Gkotsis

Producer

Gaze (2018) | Pledge (2014)

Project Title (Original Language):

Διάλειμμα
Project Type:

Short
Runtime:

11 minutes
Completion Date:

December 25, 2012
Country of Origin:

Greece
Country of Filming:

Greece
Shooting Format:

Digital
Aspect Ratio:

16:9
Film Color:

Color
First-time Filmmaker:

Yes
Student Project:

Yes

Short Film Corner (2013) - Cannes Film Festival

Director Biography - Christos Gkotsis

b. Aegina-Greece,
6 September '84
Filmmaker • Screenwriter • Playwright • Poet
He graduated with a degree in Naval Architecture. He was then accepted in a Drama School, but never attended. He studied at the Hellenic Cinema School Stavrakos, the New York College Film Studies Department, the Poreia Theatre Playwriting School, the Sinopoulos Foundation Poetry workshop and the MA Creative Writing program (from which he dropped out). He also took Photography classes at the Athens School of Fine Arts and the University of Athens.
His work features elements from the rural community and the small-town environment in which he grew up. His short films have been screened at various international film festivals (Drama International Short Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival, Short Film Corner-Festival de Cannes etc.). His short film "Pledge" won Best Film & Cinematography Awards in altcineAction-Balkan Film Festival. His screenplay "Lancelot" has been awarded by the Scriptwriters Guild of Greece & "Michael Cacoyannis" Foundation. He is the writer of ''Halcyon Days'' (Odos Panos, 2022) poetic synthesis and the screenwriter of Spiros Alidakis’ first feature film ''Cure''.
He lives in Aegina, running his open-air cinema and is currently writing his debut feature script "Magna Moralia".

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