International Competition 2023

46th Drama International Short Film Festival

This year too, the team of the International Competition Program, led by Head Programmer, Yorgos Zois, brings you films from as many as thirteen countries from around the world, a selection of shorts that stood out at international festivals, as well as captivating world premieres. It is a cluster of films that dare to experiment and playfully fuse different filmic styles and tones, delivering a wealth of narrative forms blending reality with fiction, personal stories with collective memories. These films are made on the alluring components of a poignant arthouse cinema, which gives them their distinct identity: as such, we believe they must be supported and screened to audiences, like a form of resistance that bolsters thinking and reaches the depth of our emotions.

Yorgos Zois

The Open House, Julieta Lasarte
Aqueronte, Manuel Muñoz Rivas
The Way Winter Comes, Zichen Wang
The Blind, Michiel Robberecht
Super, Nikolas Kouloglou
Same Old, Lloyd Lee Choi
Hold On For Dear Life, Simone Fiorentino
Unorthodox, Konstantinos Antonopoulos
Apostles of Cinema, Darragh Amelia, Gertrude Malizana, Jesse Gerard Moango, Cece Mlay
Light Of Light, Neritan Zinxhiria
Offline, Daniel Fure Schwarz, Mauritz Brekke Solberg
Teacups, Alec Green, Finbar Watson
Ready, Eirini Vianelli
Ulises, Félix Brixel
Midnight Skin, Manolis Mavris
Les chenilles, Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany
The Silence Of The Banana Trees, Eneos Çarka
The River and the Labyrinth, Ian Capillé
Bed Days, Tatiana Ramos
The Age Of Innocence, Maximilian Bungarten

The posters of the films of the International Competition Program 2023

The Jury of the International competition program

Eva Stefani

Philip Ilson

Marie-Pauline Mollaret

Eva Stefani (President)

Eva Stefani is a film director. She is also professor of Film at the department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, director of the Postgraduate Programme of Cultural Studies, and Director of the department’s Audiovisual Workshop. She has directed more than 36 films within the area of ethnographic and experimental cinema. She has also worked for the TV, producing and directing a documentary series, and participating as director in other documentary series. Her work has been screened to great acclaim at several international festivals, such as Cinema du Reel, IDFA, Docs Lisboa, True/False etc. Since 2004 her films have participated in international art exhibitions, most importantly in Documenta14 and the Venice Biennale. Prestigious festivals, such as the Oberhausen and Europe autour de l’ Europe have organised tributes to her work. She studied at the Political Department of the School of Law and pursued postgraduate studies in Film Theory at the University of New York, at Paris’s Ateliers VARAN, and at Britain’s National Film & TV School. Her PhD thesis was titled “Representations of Greeks in ethnographic cinema between 1960 and 1980” (Panteion University, 1997). Her most distinctive films are: Athens, The Box, Letters from Albatross, Acropolis, Bathers, Roommates, What time is it? Days and Nights of Demetra K.

Philip Ilson

Philip Ilson is the co-director of the London Short Film Festival, which he co-founded in 2004. He was also the short film programmer for the BFI London Film Festival between 2006 and 2022, and has worked as a freelance programmer, including at the East End Film Festival (London), Cork Film Festival (Ireland), and the Branchage Festival (Jersey), Latitude music festival, and at Curzon Soho Cinema.

Marie-Pauline Mollaret

Marie-Pauline Mollaret is the head of short film selection committee for La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. She also works as a film critic for different French magazines, and as a programmer for the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and the PIAFF – Paris International Animation Film Festival.

International Competition 2023

The posters of the films of the International Competition Program 2023

The Jury of the International competition program

Eva Stefani

Philip Ilson

Marie-Pauline Mollaret

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