BUFFER ZONE //
Savvas Stavrou
16' | 2023 | Cyprus, UK | Fiction | Musical Drama
// Deux jeunes soldats, séparés par le front, tombent amoureux et trouvent dans la musique une échappatoire à cet environnement oppressant.
// Two young soldiers across enemy lines fall in love and find escape from their oppressive environments through music.
Société de production | Production company : Soña Films
Producteur | Producer : Sophie Reynolds
Address | Adresse : 7A Downhills Park Road, London N17 6PE – UK
E-mail | Contact : sophie@sona-films.com
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Co-production | Co-production company : Seahorse Films
Address | Adresse : Vissis 1 Germasogia 4043 Limassol – Cyprus
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Associate Producers : Thomas Hawkins, Peter Stephanou
Scénario & Réalisation | Director & Screenwriter : Savvas Stavrou
Acteurs | Cast : Andreas Marcou & Adnan Mustafa
Image | Director of Photography : Anna MacDonald
Son | Sound engineer : Joakim Sundström
Montage image | Editor : Mdhamiri Á Nkemi
Musique originale | Original soundtrack : Angus MacRae
Clermont-Ferrand ISFF | 2023
BFI Flare | 2023
Short Shorts & Asia | 2023
Festival du Court en Plein Air de Grenoble | 2023
Drama ISFF | Best Male Performance + Best Queer Short | 2023
Helsinki IFF | 2023
Athens IFF | 2023
Cyprus ISFF | Best Actor + Best Director | 2023
Queer Filmfest Weiterstadt | 2023
Pink Screens Brussels | 2023
Pöff Shorts | 2023
Athens International Children FF | 2023
Indie Shorts Awards Cannes | 2023
Slovak Queer FF | 2023
MedFilm Festival | 2023
Festival Chéries Chéris | 2023
Seoul Pride FF | 2023
Tolerance Festival | 2023
Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival | 2024
San Francisco Greek FF | Honorable Mention | 2024
Landshut SFF | 2024
Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam | 2024
Positively Different SFF | 2024
Greek FF Berlin | Best Short Film Award | 2024
Regard Saguenay | 2024
Setting Sun FF | 2024
Seattle IFF | 2024
Prato FF | 2024
Ennesimo FF | 2024
Queer Movie Night | 2024
Alexandria SFF | 2024
FIRE Barcelona | 2024
New Directors New Film Portugal | 2024
Los Angeles Greek FF | 2024
Taos Pride Film Fest – On the fringe | 2024
Santiago Del Estero | 2024
Nuits Méditerranéennes | 2024
Via Verin FF | 2024
Queer Lisboa | 2024
Ningbo SFF | 2024
Queer Wave Cyprus | 2024
Heart of gold | 2024
Everybody’s Perfect | 2024
Filmfest Sundsvall | 2024
Bolton FF | 2024
Perlen Hannover Queer FF | 2024
Queer FF Bremen | 2024
Brisbane IFF | 2024
Linz FF | 2024
Athens Short FF | 2024
// Savvas Stavrou est un scénariste et réalisateur chypriote installé à Londres et ancien participant du Sundance Lab, de la Berlinale Talents, de BFI Netword @ LFF et de la Zurich Academy. Ses courts métrages Song to the Siren, Dorothea, Interlude et A Jar of Nuts ont été diffusés dans des festivals internationaux, dont le dernier a gagné le prix du meilleur court-métrage au festival international de Tirana. Il développe actuellement son premier long-métrage, The Ones Left Behind qui fut parmi les 8 projets sélectionnés au Sundance Mediterranean Screenwriters Lab en 2018.
// Savvas Stavrou is a Cypriot-born writer/director based in London and an alumni of the Sundance Lab, Berlinale Talents, BFI Network @ LFF and Zurich Academy. His short films SONG TO THE SIREN, DOROTHEA, INTERLUDE and A JAR OF NUTS have screened internationally at festivals, with the latter having won at the Oscar-qualifying Tirana Film Festival for Best Short. He is currently developing his first feature THE ONES LEFT BEHIND, which was one of 8 projects selected to participate at the Sundance Mediterranean Screenwriters Lab in 2018.
- Buffer Zone (2023)
- The Most Beautiful Boy (2020)
- Let Go (2020)
- A Jar of Nuts (2019)
- Dorothea (2014)
- Song to the Siren (2010)
