National Student Competition 2023
46th Drama International Short Film Festival
National Student Competition 2022
45th Drama International Short Film Festival
20 short films made by 10 male and 10 female directors are going to compete in this programme.
The Head programmer of the National Student Programme is Panagiotis Iosifelis, screenwriter, Associate Professor of Screenwriting at the Department of Cinema, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Coordinator and Professor Advisor at the Postgraduate course DGR 61 in the program “Creative Writing” of the University of Athens and of P.D.M., and Scientific Officer and Professor of the Institutional Postgraduate Program “Creative Writing” of P.D.M. and AUTh in the Screenplay course.
Jury of the National & International Student programme:
Αrgyris Papadimitropoulos, Film director
Themis Bazaka, Actress
Lena Divani, Writer
01 «Αstoria», Gabriel Athansiou
02 «Τrixes», Ioanna Digenaki
03 «Love you more than Peanut Butter», Αriadni-Αggeliki Thyfronitou- Litou
04 «Bicycle», Stathis Kaloudis
05 «Crossroad», John Conini
06 «Like a king», Evangelia Koumantsioti
07 «Drama during the Pandemic», Yorgos Konstantinou
08 «A wish beyond death», Anna-Maria Leventi
09 «Τhe contract», Stelios Leris
10 «Sun and Shadow», Μelina Loukanidou
11 «Hussies», Despina Mavridou
12 «August Nights», Alkisti Michalopoulou
13 «REVOLLUSION», Christos Bosmos
14 «The beginning», Yorgos Nikolopoulos
15 «Looking for Joy», Anna Oikonomou
16 «All that remains», Semeli Safou
17 «Salted Lake», Alexandros Antonios Scholz
18 «The canvas», Κostas Spanoudakis
19 «Do nothing», Μaria Fouraki
20 « Sammer», Stelios Christophorou
The posters of the National Student Competition 2022
Τhe National Student Jury
Argyris Papadimitropoulos
Themis Bazaca
Lena Divani
Argyris Papadimitropoulos (President)
His first two short films, “Pendulum” (2003) and “Tender” (2004), were screened and awarded in numerous festivals. His first feature, “Bank Bang” (2009), became a major commercial and critical hit in Greece and won the First Time Director Award from the Hellenic Film Academy. His next film, “Wasted Youth” (2011), opened the 40th Rotterdam International Film Festival and has since travelled to many festivals around the world (Toronto, Karlovy Vary, etc.). “Suntan” (2016), which also premiered in Rotterdam Film Festival and SXSW, received a number of awards internationally (such as the Best Film Award in Edinburgh Film Festival) and was nominated for the Lux Prize of the European Parliament. “Monday” (2020) would have premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, in a Covid-free world, but was eventually screened in the Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically in the US by IFC and was purchased by Paramount for international sales. He has directed more than 300 commercials and social campaigns. With his company, Oxymoron Films, he has produced important films of the New Greek Cinema.
Themis Bazaca
She was born in Thessaloniki. Graduated from the National Theatre of Northern Greece’s Drama School, and attended 4 years at the Actor’s Studio (New York). She has worked in cinema, theatre and television.
Awarded performances:
Best Supporting Actress at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for the film “Rembetiko” by Costas Ferris.
Best Actress at the Thessaloniki and Valencia Film Festivals, and Special Mention at the Venice Film Festival for the film “Stone Years”, by Pantelis Voulgaris.
Best Supporting Actress at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for the film “Akrovates tou Kipou”, by Christos Dimas.
Best Actress for the series “San Adelfes” by Nikos Koutelidakis, at the Television Awards.
Best Actress for the play “Augustos” directed by Constantine Markoulakis, at the Athinorama Awards.
She was also bestowed the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters medal by the French government for her performance in Bernard-Marie Koltès’s “Quay West”, directed by Ludovic Lagarde. She has a daughter.
Lena Divani
Lena Divani has just resigned as professor from the Law School of the University of Athens, where she taught Foreign Policy History. She has published five historical studies and several articles on modern Greece and its relationship with the Great Powers and its Balkan neighbors, on minorities and nationalism in Southeast Europe. At the same time, she has published as an author twelve novels and short story collections, which have been translated into many languages, and have been adapted in TV shows, a volume with all her theatrical plays, and four children’s books. She has also authored the script of the documentary series “The Borders of Greece” that she presented on Cosmote History channel. She adapted her book “Couples who Went Down in Greek History” (Patakis, 2019) in a series of nine episodes that were also aired on Cosmote History channel in 2020. In 2020, her book “The Bitter Cup: Kapodistrias, Roxandra and Greece” has also been published by Patakis Publishers. She has been founding member of the Greek National Commission for Human Rights, and she served as vice president of the National Book Centre of Greece, and the Greek Collecting Society for Literary Works. In her leisure time, she likes walking around.
Panagiotis Iosifelis
Head programmer in the National Student Competition of the 46th Drama International Short Film Festival. Artistic director of the festival, Film director. national-stu@dramafilmfestival.gr
