The End of Suffering (A Proposal)
Sofia is panicky, again. The universe decides to contact her. An otherwordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream while awake and fight for love.
- Greece
- 2020, 14 min
- Director: Jacqueline Lentzou
- Director of photography: Konstantinos Koukoulios
- Editor: Smaro Papaevaneglou
- Screenplay: Jacqueline Lentzou
- Cast: Sofia Kokkali
- Art Director: Eva Goulakou
- Producer: Fenia Cossovitsa
- Production: BLONDE S.A.
Jacqueline Lentzou
Jacqueline Lentzou is a writer/director from Greece. She has directed four shorts, which have been screened and won awards at numerous festivals, the most prestigious one being the Cine Leica Discovery Award at the Cannes festival’s Semaine de la Critique (2018) for Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018), which also screened at the Prague Short Film Festival. Jacqueline’s films revolve around unconventional family constructs, love (and the lack of it), loneliness, and belonging. Her cinematic language involves finding poetry in seemingly mundane premises and/or creating visual poetry through word and image association.