“Runaway Day” film by Dimitris Bavellas continues its course in international film festivals and “runs” towards the Edinburgh Festival. The film made its world debut in the competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival 2013, was screened at the International Vienna Festival (Viennale 2013) and at 3eme Festival de Cinema de Memoire Commune in the city of Nador, Morocco.

The “Runaway Day” is the only Greek film participating at the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will take place from 18 to 29 June.

The surreal comedy has fantasy elements of Bavellas and is placed in Wicked and Wild category and will be screened on Saturday, June 21 at 20:50 (Hall Cineworld 12) and Tuesday, June 24 at 22:10 (Hall Filmhouse 2).

Shot in black-and-white in the impoverished Athens, the film tells the story of one day in which numerous citizens of modern-day Athens starts running away from their homes without explanation, and this phenomenon takes on the dimensions of an epidemic.

In the film Chris Stergioglou, Makis Papadimitriou, Maria Skoula, Yvonne Maltezou and Errikos Litsis are starring.