Lines (movie)

Lines
Lines poster
Directed by	Vassilis Mazomenos
Produced by	Vassilis Mazomenos
Screenplay by	Vassilis Mazomenos
Starring	Themis Panou, Tasos Nousias, Anna Kalaitzidou, Thodoros Katsafados
Music by	Alexandros Christaras, Mixalis Nivolianitis
Cinematography	George Papandrikopoulos
Edited by	Thanos Koutsandreas
Running time	88minutes
Country	Greece
Language	Greek

Lines (Greek: "Γραμμές") is a 2016 Greek feature film, directed by the Greek director, writer and producer Vassilis Mazomenos

The film refers to a modern-day Greek tragedy, focused on seven individuals suffering in the economic crisis that has devastated Greece . The source of the film comes from the numerous suicides that were prompted by the economic crash (2009-).

The world premiere of the film was made on 21 November 2016, at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in the main competition programme , Also was in main competition at the 37th Fantasporto International Film Festival. and official selection at the 9th Bengaluru International Film Festival in India, at 28th Ankara International Film Festival , at Paris Panorama of contemporary Greek cinema 2017, at 10th London Greek Film Festival 2017 , at 11th Los Angeles Greek International film festival 2017 .

Lines was nominated for the best film in 2016 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and in 37th Fantasporto International Film Festival. The film won the best concept award for Fiction Feature in London Greek Film Festival.

Giampietro Balia wrote in the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival catalogue: " A stifling symphony of defeat for human kind as a whole, "Lines" is a necessary film in times in which numbers and ideological yarns dominate the political agenda, much to the disadvantage of the millions of individuals ensnared in a system that has proven to be frail and unreliable." Also in the same festival's official page is written : "Director Vasilis Mazomenos offers a uncompromisingly bleak, ghastly and haunting view of modern Greece in "Lines". Seven chapters about seven broken individuals, about what it means to live in Greece in these hard times of financial restraint". Liina Laugesaar wrote in Cineuropa: "Lines does not focus on the political side of the crisis, but concentrates on the people who had to endure it. Everything extraneous is left out of the story. Mazomenos puts faces back on the numbers and creates a harrowing testament to the challenging years that have left scars on many."

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