Anja Kirschner | 2016 | GR/IT/EG/UK | 149'

Anja Kirschner’s feature debut Moderation is a study of how a horror film comes about. The film, set in Egypt, Greece and Italy, revolves around a female horror director and a screenwriter whose latest collaboration is haunted by encounters with its ‘raw material’ and the escalation of conflicting desires. Faced with the disintegration of their project, the director becomes more and more drawn into conversations with the actors she has cast, which reflect on the way horror traverses the affective and material realities of their lives on and off screen.