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Best of The Fests

MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAGNITIKA PEDIA

• Director: Yorgos Goussis
• GREECE / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 78’ / Greek; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Yorgos Goussis, Elena Topalidou, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos
• Director of Photography: Yorgos Koutsaliaris
• Editing: Dimitris Polyzos
• Music: Lefteris Volanis
• Cast: Elena Topalidou, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos, Nikos Spanidis, Dimitris Smaelis, Dimitris Bouzos, Froso Tzanetatou
• Producer: Yorgos Goussis, Marinos Sklavounakis, Giorgos Karnavas
• Production Co.: miniFILMS, Naked Eye Productions, Heretic
• World Sales: Heretic

2022 Hellenic Film Awards Best Film, Best Actress (Elena Topalidou), Best Screenplay, Best Score, Best First Director
2021 Thessaloniki Best Film–Film Forward, FIPRESCI Prize, Greek Film Critics Award, Greek Film Center Award, Greek Film Award, Location Award

Selected as the Greek entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscars, Magnetic Fields is a bittersweet, minimalist, romantic, improvised road movie. Comic-book artist Yorgos Goussis in his debut feature follows a man and a woman as they are attracted to and repelled by each other, just as magnets do. Shot on MiniDV tapes (like the Dogme 95 films) which can be affected by magnetic fields, the film starts with Elena, who, while travelling alone, decides to change course on a whim and finds herself on a ferry to an island. Antonis is on that same ferry, on his way to the island cemetery where he hopes to bury an ossuary box. They meet, enjoy each other’s company, and search for a good place to bury the box. Yorgos Goussis is on the jury of the festival’s national short film competition.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.