Director: Joan Zhonga
Screenplay: Petros Koskinas
Cinematography: Joan Zhonga
Editor: Sotiris Kappos
Music: Vanias Apergis
Production: MAGIKON, Maku Productions
Year: 2016
Country: Greece
Length: 14′
Awards: Best in Show Award & Critics Award (Open World Animation Festival) // Best Animation for Children Award (Animocje Animated Film Festival)
Synopsis: Survival, clash, and symbiosis go side by side; all accompanied by bursts of joy and pain as a result of man’s internal need to find and exaggerate differences when similarities are obviously greater.
Giannis Ziogkas is an animation director specializing in stop motion animation with puppets and plasticine. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana and has more than 37 years of experience in animation. During his career he has directed 13 animation films that have been screened and awarded in many international film festivals such as the ones in Annecy, Hiroshima, Giffoni, and Fantoche. In 2006, he collaborated with the master of children’s books, Eugenios Trivizas, on the film The Two Waves, produced by ERT. His latest film Ethnophobia has been screened in 150 festivals so far and presented with 26 awards.
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