Yorgos Zois

was born in 1982 in Athens. He studied applied Math & Nuclear Physics in N.T.U.A. & film direction at Stavrakou Film School, Athens & at U.d.K, Berlin with scholarship. His debut short film Casus Belli premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival in 2010 and participated in the official competition of numerous international film festivals winning multiple first awards & distinctions. It also won the award of best short film from the Greek Film Academy 2011 and won six awards including best film, best director, best script in the Greek National Drama Short Film Festival. 

His second short film, Out of Frame, premiered at the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012 and won the EFA award for the Best European short film and several distinctions for its visual form and concept of narration in festivals all around the world. Interruption is his first feature film which made its world wide premiere in the 72th international Venice Film Festival.

Synopsis

A post modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.

On October 23^rd 2002, fifty armed Chechens took hostage eight hundred and fifty spectators in the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow. During the first minutes of the takeover, the audience, captivated by the ambivalence of the moment, think that this is all part of the play. In these crucial moments, fiction and reality, truth and lies, logic and absurdity blend. The film is the expansion of these first minutes of ambiguity.