KALA AZAR
by Janis Rafa
synopsis
Kala azar describes of a place that cannot sustain animal life any longer. In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species. A film about existence, on the boundaries between living and dead, human and non-human.
| original title: | Kala azar |
| country: | Netherlands, Greece |
| sales agent: | Heretic Outreach |
| year: | 2020 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Janis Rafa |
| film run: | 85' |
| screenplay: | Janis Rafa |
| cast: | Pinelopi Tsilika, Dimitris Lalos, Michele Valley, Tasos Rafailidis |
| cinematography by: | Thodoros Mihopoulos |
| film editing: | Patrick Minks |
| art director: | Elena Vardava |
| costumes designer: | Vassilios Barbarigos |
| producer: | Digna Sinke |
| co-producer: | Giorgos Karnavas, Konstantinos Kontovrakis |
| production: | SNG Film (Studio Nieuwe Gronden), Heretic - Creative Producers |
| backing: | The Greek Film Centre (GR), ERT (GR), Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (NL), Abraham Tuschinski Fonds, Abraham Tuschinski Fonds (NL) |
| distributor: | Periscoop Film |
