Disturbing and deeply pessimistic, A Short Film about Killing has inspired anguished debate wherever it has shown. This absolutely uncompromising attack on capital punishment "follows the movements of three apparently unconnected characters: an unemployed adolescent, a taxi-driver, and a young lawyer whose paths mysteriously cross as they become protagonists in an intense drama of life and death. The film is organized around two different crimes: first, the killing by the youth, and second, the killer's execution carried out by prison authorities with equal attention to detail, leaving the young lawyer to consider his own complicity in a death sanctioned by the penal code. Intricate detailing of the flow of events leading to these two irrevocable acts adds a human dimension, rendering the characters as vulnerable to a crime as to its punishment" (Dimitri Eipides).