The 72th Venice International Film Festival takes place September 2 to 12, and Greece will be there with the latest film by Yorgos Zois, a film maker familiar to the city’s biennial Mostra. Zois gained international recognition in 2010 with his first short film, Casus Belli. In the following Biennale, in 2012, he participated with the short film Out of Frame, which was included in the Orizzonti section. 

Now he returns to the Lido Theatre with Interruption, a post modern adaptation of a Greek tragedy taking place at a central theatre in Athens. The plot is inspired by the 2002 Moscow Theatre hostage crisis, when the theatre was under siege by terrorists. In Zois’s film, seven young people carrying guns stand up from the audience and come on stage, introducing themselves as the Chorus of the tragedy, who invite the audience to also come on stage and take part. Gradually, reality and fiction blend and art is interrupted by life.