INSIDE, Vasilis Katsoupis debut, starring Willem Dafoe broke into its World Premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival this February.

The film is set to be released in the US in March 2023 by Focus Features, while Universal Pictures International will release the film in the rest of the world.

“Inside” is a hi concept psychological suspense drama following the struggles of an art thief who in his attempt to steal valuable pieces of art becomes trapped in a luxury, high-tech penthouse when his heist does not go as planned.

Producers are Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis for Heretic (Greece); Marcos Kantis for Schiwago (Germany); Dries Phlypo for A Private View (Belgium).

Executive producers are VasilisKatsoupis, Charles Breitkreuz, Jim Stark and Stephen Kelliher. Co-producers are Bastie Griese, Jens Wolf, Neshe Demir of MMC Movies and associate producers are Dan Wechsler Jamal Zeinal-Zade and Andreas Roald of Bord Carde films/Sovereign Films.

Backers include Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Greek Film Center, Screen Flanders, Eurimages, ERT, EKOME, the German Federal Film Fund, the Belgium Tax Shelter, MFG Medien und Filmgesellschaft Baden- Wurttemberg; and Creative Europe/MEDIA.