Greek filmmaker Yorgos Zois, who’s set to bow his sophomore characteristic, “Arcadia,” within the aggressive Encounters strand of the Berlin Movie Pageant Feb. 18, is creating his first TV collection.

“Play” follows a lone cinephile who joins a mysterious group of strangers that reenact scenes from films in actual life. The eight-part mystery-drama collection tells the story of extraordinary people who regularly lose themselves within the hazy realm between actuality and fiction.

Zois says the present, which is produced by Athens-based Foss Prods. and repped internationally by Beta Cinema, is his private try and “bridge the hole between cinema and collection.”

“I actually like exploring new territories,” he tells Selection, noting that he first conceived of “Play” as a characteristic movie. Ultimately, nonetheless, the director determined that an episodic collection would enable him to “experiment” whereas pushing towards the boundaries of a brand new type.

Zois’ newest characteristic, “Arcadia,” is an analogous, genre-bending try and push — and blur — boundaries. The movie tells the story of a superb neurologist, Katerina, performed by Greek standout Angeliki Papoulia (“Dogtooth,” “The Lobster”), and her husband, Yannis (Vangelis Mourikis), a once-respected physician, who’re known as to determine the sufferer of a tragic automotive accident at an low season seaside resort. As soon as there, Katerina is pressured to confront her worst suspicions whereas making mysterious, nightly excursions to the titular seaside tavern.

Co-writing the script with Greek filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani (“Electrical Swan”), Zois says he was first impressed by a break-up that prompted a “seismic shift” in his life.

“I used to be carrying my ex-lover round. I used to be ingesting my morning espresso along with her. I used to be speaking along with her. I used to be sleeping along with her, with out being along with her,” he tells Selection. This “limbo sensation,” he says, manifested in a method that just about felt like a bodily presence by his aspect.

“When you will have a loss, however this loss haunts you and follows you — this can be a common factor that we are able to all hook up with,” he continues. “We now have all been haunted by folks, useless or alive, in our lives. They maintain following us, and we’ve them with us with each step we take.”

“Arcadia” inhabits a realm the place the “bodily and metaphysical” meet, in line with the director. Set towards a brooding, mountainous panorama, the film evokes the in-between world of historical delusion referenced within the title.

“Arcadia, from historical mythology, is that this utopian place that capabilities as a relentless reminder of the transitory, ephemeral [nature] of life,” says Zois. “However it’s additionally a spot in nature that’s in concord with spirits and the dwelling.” In his modern reimagining, it’s a becoming location for a story of affection, loss, acceptance and letting go.

Having reduce his enamel as an assistant for the revered Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos on his “Mud of Time,” Zois is amongst a promising era of rising Greek filmmakers which have stepped out of the lengthy shadow forged by the so-called Bizarre Wave to nurture their very own distinctive, idiosyncratic voices.

Zois’ debut, “Interruption” — a high-concept thriller thriller set nearly totally inside a theater — premiered on the Venice Movie Pageant in 2015, whereas his brief movies have screened at Venice, Cannes, Telluride, Rotterdam and greater than 200 different festivals.

Together with “Play,” Zois is presently creating a number of different tasks, together with a characteristic model of his sci-fi brief “Third Form,” which performed at Cannes’ Critics Week and Telluride and was publicly heralded by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins.

Requested which of these movies he’s most certainly to deal with subsequent, the director tells Selection: “I feel I’ll select the one which haunts me extra.”