Pitching Lab – Announcement of selected projects DISFF48
Pitching Lab – Announcement of selected projects DISFF48
12th DISFF Pitching Lab
The Pitching Lab team and the Drama International Short Film Festival, are pleased to announce the projects selected to participate in the 12th DISFF Pitching Lab, which takes place in the purview of the Short Film Hub.
This year’s participation exceeded all precedents with a total of 161 project submissions; a record number of proposals, which bears testament to the heightened interest of filmmakers and reflects the dynamics that the DISFF Pitching Lab has developed over the years. Amongst numerous promising projects from filmmakers with distinctive cinematic voices, the following ten were selected, standing out not only for their artistic quality but also for their thematic and stylistic diversity:
List of selected films
DISFF Pitching Lab is an intensive pitching workshop designed for directors, screenwriters and producers who wish to develop and promote their short film projects in the Greek and international market. Beloved filmmakers such as Manolis Mavris, Thelyia Petraki and Aris Kaplanidis have previously participated in the DISFF Pitching Lab with projects that have subsequently shaped into successful films.
This year’s selection reflects our intention to showcase different cinematic genres – from social dramas to dark comedies and hybrid documentaries – as well as to reinforce narratives that dare to explore complex and ever topical issues: identity, loss, coming of age, intergenerational relationships, the sway of individuals over the course of history, love and violence, through new narrative and aesthetic approaches.
The works selected reflect our commitment to support filmmakers who attempt to reinvent the way we tell stories, opening up the cinematic discourse to new voices, forms and perspectives. It is an invitation to converse with the past, with what lies beyond, with ourselves and with human relationships that seem more fluid than ever before.
A cinema that dares to dive deeper, to take risks and search beyond the obvious, where memory meets the urgency of real life, seeking, through the power of art and imagination, meaning around faith, consciousness, memory and mortality.
