National Student Competition 2025
48th Drama International Short Film Festival
REGULATION 2025 – NATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION – DRAMA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
National Student Competition 2024
47th Drama International Short Film Festival
1. 040, Theodora Anastasiou
2. Concrete Rodents, Apostolis Gkanatsios
3. Plantasia, Angelos Gourzis
4. Earthbound, Vangelis Dikopoulos
5. No More Falling In Love, Phoebus Karagiannis
6. True Blue, Stratos Kouvelas
7. pop, Lina Kountoura
8. Imaginary Moscow, Panos Mazarakis
9. Stelianna, Yannis Bletas
10. Autumn Spoors, Vasilis Bosmis
11. Marching, Yiota Bouga
12. The River Runs Through the Village, Xenophon Nikolakopoulos
13. MRI, Melina Xypolitaki
14. Dead Zone, Ioannis Panayi
15. TSAIMAHALA, Evangelos Panagiotakopoulos
16. Acheron, Konstantina Papadopoulou
17. Alles Gut, Pavlos Paraskevopoulos
18. No Future Kids, Eleni Poulopoulou
19. Dracaena, Sofia Priovolou, Ioannis Panagiotidis
20. The Gardener’s Death, Christina Spiliopoulou
21. tear gas, Orestes Spyridakis
22. Clementine, George Stagakis
23. Driving Me Crazy, Meni Tsilianidou
24. A 10-minute Swim, Achilles Tsoutsis
25. The Last Nomad, Filippos Ferentinos
26. Dodeca – the womb, Daniele Charasanakis
The posters of the films of the national student competition 2024
Τhe Jury of the National Student Competition
Aris Katopodis
Stelios Zerefos
Vania Turner
Aris Katopodis (President)
Aris Katopodis was born in Athens. He studied Chemistry and Film at UCLA, subsequently earning an MBA. For over 15 years, he worked as a theatre director and producer in Los Angeles. He teaches at the American Public University System, and has been the Artistic and Festival Director of Los Angeles Greek Film Festival since 2014. Since 2011, he is also the LAGFF’s programming director. Aris is co-founder of the Global Greek Film Initiative (GGFI), which focuses on a large array of topics related to Greek Cinema (production, education, coordination, conferences), using as a springboard the close links that the festival has built over the years with film industry personalities in Los Angeles. LAGFF aims to showcase the work of Greek filmmakers and forge close links with film industry professionals and academics (UCLA, USC, LMU, Cal Arts) with screenings and by hosting student internships. In 2023, Aris Katopodis became a member of the European Film Academy.υ.
Stelios Zerefos
Stelios Zerefos has been a Professor of the School of Applied Arts and Sustainable Design at the Hellenic Open University since 2009. In 2023, he was elected Dean of the H.O.U.. He is the Director of two Postgraduate Programmes and Director of the Lighting Design Laboratory. Apart from the H.O.U., he was invited to teach in university courses in Greece and abroad. He is a member of national and international scientific organisations, an IALD educator member, as well as editor and reviewer in international scientific journals. He has publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and is also the author of four books. He is the scientific coordinator of several research and educational projects in the H.O.U. and has actively participated in the creation of six postgraduate programmes, one undergraduate programme, and two short programmes at the H.O.U.
Vania Turner
Vania Turner is a Greek-British documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Over the past decade, her work has explored themes of trauma, loss, survival, and conflict. As a video journalist, she covered humanitarian crises across the Middle East, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa, before deciding to shift her focus entirely to observational documentary work. She holds degrees in English Literature and Political Theory. TACK, which premiered at the 26th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, winning 5 awards, is her feature-length directorial debut and is currently on the festival circuit around the world.