SCHEDULE
The Last Nomad | Filippos Ferentinos | Greece, 2024 • 24:08
Greek Sarakatsani community members, a former group of nomadic animal breeders, share personal experiences and discuss the concept of identity today. The balance between the intangible cultural heritage and the personal experience raises questions about the community’s survival and the possible cultural death. A tribute to collective memory through an experiential journey that sets out from the past, progresses into the present, and contemplates the future.
The Unspoken Dance | Konstantinos Zilos, Ioanna Spanou | Greece, 2025 • 18:52
In the mountain village of Lagada on the island of Amorgos, locals revive the Kapetanios ritual, bringing back long-lost memories. The film watches the ceremony without explaining, letting faces and sounds tell the story. A local couple narrates without leading—present but unseen, like memory itself. As the celebration peaks, time fades. In two brief moments, a hidden truth appears: a silent love, always there, rises—just like the ritual.
Music and imagery drift beyond tradition, creating a space where memory and imagination blur into reality.
Albgreko | Ilir Tsouko | Greece, 2024 • 27:00
Denisa, Dimitris, Stefania, and Orestis, children and grandchildren of Albanian immigrants from the 90s, were born and raised in Greece. They share their experience on camera. Not the experience of immigration itself, but rather their own stories, stories that are neither only Albanian nor only Greek, but Albanian and Greek / Greek and Albanian together. A new sense of belonging, pure and hopeful, emerges from this generation. At a time when identity wars are raging all over the world, including Europe and the Balkans, the director's camera illuminates these multiple identities not as burdens of history, but as compasses for a brighter future.
The Landscape of Human Essence | Jana Hunterová | Czech Republic, North Macedonia, United Kingdom, 2024 • 13:08
Set in a remote Macedonian mountain village with only seven inhabitants, The Landscape of Human Essence follows 80-year-old Ljubica as she lives in harmony with nature—gathering herbs, tending goats, and enduring solitude, wolves, and harsh conditions. Blending raw documentary with poetic animation, the film captures resilience, memory, and the enduring bond between people and the land they call home.
Prikosymphono | Elena Gazi, Dolan Bailey, Alejandra Diaz, Leonardo Dal Fabbro | Greece, 2024 • 4:56
Placed in Lefkada, an island in the Ionian Sea, a little girl finds a paper from 1955, that contains a list of objects that belonged to her great aunt and proceeds to ask her grandfather about it. He explains to her that this is the list of her dowry, an old Greek tradition, in which the bride's possessions were concede to the groom as a formal marriage agreement. Moved by this finding, he starts recalling memories of his childhood, witnessing his older sister Armenia, having an arranged marriage and leaving behind her family and the island for a better future.
Monument | Maksim Avdeev | Germany, 2024 • 14:45
In a reflection on family, identity, and the chasm of ideology, director Maksim Avdeev confronts the stark parallels and irreconcilable differences with their father. Bound by blood yet torn apart by divergent beliefs, their relationship exists only within the confines of archival footage. Forced into exile for their queerness, the director breaks the silence, dialing their father's number after 1.5 years. Monument emerges as a raw and intimate exploration of the fractures within a family, as Maksim tussles with the painful realization that their father's allegiance to Russian propaganda eclipses their bond as parent and child. Through this distant dialogue, Maksim embarks on a soul-searching journey to bridge the gap between them, navigating the complexities of love, acceptance, and the relentless pull of conflicting truths.
Ksenia | Renāte Saulīte | Latvia, 2023 • 20:10
The documentary KSENIA tells the story of a 21 years young woman over whose life story hangs the Sword of Damocles because of her past. Presently, a minimum five year prison sentence awaits her. Why does life throw her for these loops? How is it to live life in limbo, when you don't know when, or how heavily you'll need to pay for what you've done?
Avitaminosis | Kateryna Ruzhyna | Czech Republic, 2023 • 26:00
The unfavorable situation of the labor market during the pandemic pushes Kateryna to work in a fraudulent call center that sells vitamins that promise “magical” success to its consumers. While this helped to survive financially, months of isolation, irritated customers and a common frustration took her into a vitamin deficiency, so-called avitaminosis. The film is a journey into fragility and the search for healing and love in an increasingly suffocating world for young generations.
Suicide Thoughts | Georgios Poulopoulos | Greece, 2024 • 05:09
In the heart of Athens, at Vathis Square, passersby, idlers, falafel shop workers, people waiting for the municipal soup kitchen, and journalists react to a Palestinian man's suicide attempt.
Sonny | Rufio Stgeorge | United States, 2024 • 20:43
After the unexpected death of his estranged father Sonny, Rufio St.George spends a 16 hour journey to the Philippines reflecting on their troubled relationship.
At the Market | Kostas Fountas Aloupogiannis | Greece, 2025 • 12:16
The film follows three characters - people of the open air markets - within their working environment. An observational portrait capturing their personalities, their surroundings, and the ways in which they interact with them.
My Grandma Collected Matchboxes | Haris Malekos | Greece, 2025 • 11:53
“My grandma collected matchboxes” is a short documentary film about my grandmother’s matchbox collection. Using them as a jumping off point, she recounts various stories from the times she accompanied my grandfather on his voyages while he was working as a ship engineer.
Hotel Ghost | Maria Koukoutini | Greece, 2023 • 04:37
For the past 15 years, in a room on the 5th floor, the resident has remained the same. The hotel and its guests now make up his entire world.
A Whisper I Hear | Aleksa Bujisic | Montenegro, 2025 • 13:09
Slavka lives in a house beneath the hill. During winter, her mother Miluša stays with her. She takes care of her, cooks, dresses her, helps her. She deals with insomnia by keeping herself busy with housework and small daily tasks. She gives insomnia space to live. When she sits down, the silence bothers her. In the workshop where her husband used to work, besides the empty space and dust-covered machines, there are piles of coal and firewood. She goes down to collect them. Sometimes she starts the machine, just to hear the sound. She chops the wood into small pieces on it. At night, she lies down, but soon enough, another morning arrives, another day that never seems to end.
In Bethlehem beyond | Kallirroi Kostikoglou | Greece, 2024 • 20:25
In the documentary “IN BETHLEHEM BEYOND" by Kallirroi Kostikoglou, we meet two women whose hard work and experience gradually lead us to the reappropriation of an everyday but at the same time deliberately unseen topic. Death is constantly present. Soil, the last bastion between life and death, is passed entirely through the hands of Ms. Yota and Ms. Labrini. The daily contact with it, in a way that ultimately transcends the boundaries of both ritual and work, accompany us on our journey of getting to know this Other City that for more than a decade they build and destroy outside the boundaries of the urban fabric of Agrinio, a provincial city in the Balkan South. They dig, they drill the marble, they use jackhammers to soften the soil. They wake up the predominantly asleep. Their work, the last task for the dead that is now gone, a post uncomfortable yet extremely important because without them the dead will not be buried and their story will not end. A documentary about how the dead and the living coexist and how death breathes in us.
In Zhainab's Heaven | Ali Mehdi | Pakistan, 2023 • 25:00
The film follows the stories of a gravestone maker, a little grave washer and a man who lost his limb. These three characters embody three generations of Hazaras who have tamed death as part of their daily life and activities and have normalized a graveyard as a place where they mourn and celebrate, live and die.
Saturday 4/10 | Masterclass | Vania Turner
17:00 | Free Entrance
Participation in the masterclass will be strictly on a first-come, first-served basis at the venue.
Vania Turner Documentary Filmaking
In this masterclass, Vania Turner explores the making of her documentary TACK, examining how films confront systems of power and highlight the stories of survivors of gender-based violence.
Matka / Polka | Joanna Suchomska | Poland, 2022 • 14:45
MATKA / POLKA [MOTHER / POLE] is a meditation on what it means to be a woman in today’s Polish society. As a collection of stories – all verbatim – from waiting rooms, gynaecology chairs, abortion clinics, and bedrooms, the documentary bears witness to everyday acts of patriarchy and systemic violence. Adopting a poetic visual language, MATKA / POLKA breaks the taboo around the experiences, emotions and identity of Polish women who have faced the country's strict reproductive policy and social prejudices to make decisions about their own life and body.
*Caution: Includes potentially distressing material, such as violence or trauma.
Sons of the Night | Henrique Arruda | Brazil, 2022 • 15:50
Eight gay men between ages 50 and 70 share their memories, lives and nocturnal images, questioning where their bodies fit in the current world.
Lavender | Mateja Raickovic | Montenegro, 2025 • 17:40
“Lavander” is a personal documentary that follows director Mateja Raičković on a journey of healing and self-reclamation. Through intimate conversations, family encounters, and moments of reflection in nature, the film explores themes of vulnerability, trauma, connection, and inner strength. It is a quiet and emotional meditation on transformation and acceptance.
*Caution: Includes potentially distressing material, such as violence or trauma.
Stelianna | Yannis Bletas | Greece, 2024 • 14:20
Stelianna, a young girl with non-speaking autism, takes part in a theatrical performance by people with disabilities, putting together a show about her life.
Alles Gut | Pavlos Paraskevopoulos | Greece, 2024 • 25:00
Pavlos, travels to a quiet village in Northern Greece to visit his grandmother. He films her with a camera, while she prepares for him his favorite meals. Both grappling with loneliness in their own ways, they open up like they never had before. In the warmth of his grandmother’s embrace, Pavlos gets to feel a long-awaited sense of acceptance.
And we danced among the plains | Eleni Georgiou | Greece, 2024 • 06:43
A letter addressed to the person who represented all my summers. A farewell to our childhood summers. A reminder of our past lives.
Aside | Maria Pilati | Greece, 2024 • 28:43
George was an unruly and pampered child, due to a congenital disability. He spent the last two years of elementary school bedridden in the hospital. On returning back to his village he began attending church so he chose to become a monk. Allegorically, we follow the Holy Week rituals in the community and the priest's views on the Sacrifice and Resurrection.
My Green Garden | Eleni Tsekeri | Greece, 2025 • 15:55
Going off to an inner quest to Tinos island in the Cyclades, the filmmaker attempts to define herself and her position in the world. She keeps shifting between two gardens and two father figures, while trying to deal with a personal loss, a cimematic failure and the defeat of a social movement. What remains reads like a letter to the ever missing father.
Among the poplar trees | Kostas Kourmpoglou | Greece, 2024 • 11:00
By the shore of Lake Kerkini, nestled among the poplar trees, lies a small farm. There, a father and his son raise buffaloes. The camera lens roaming between their feet, quietly observing the daily life of both the men and the buffaloes. A wetland where the natural wealth is evident as loneliness.
Sowing | Varnavas Kastanaras | Greece, 2025 • 20:00
The short documentary "Sowing" [GR Title : Spora] explores the creative process behind the making of a printmaking artwork and an installation by artist Maria Lagou, who draws inspiration from nature, land, and its cultivation in the region of Larisa. The film follows the parallel journeys of agricultural labor and artistic creation, highlighting their shared roots in earth, time, and patience.
Thanasis | Lydia Kolivinou | Greece, 2024 • 20:00
The documentary aspires to work as a window into Thanasis' life that faces not only internal battles of schizophrenia, but also the external challenges posed by social prejudice.
Carols | Jenny Tsiropoulou | Greece, 2021 • 17:30
Nikos does not experience human contact, nor the joy of saving lives. Though trained in medicine, he became a forensic examiner. Cadavers whisper their stories while his fear of death grows heavier. It is a rainy New Year’s Eve. The morgue is full. Yet Nikos is hopeful. Will the children stop by to sing carols?
*Caution: Includes potentially distressing material, such as violence or trauma.
Volunteers | Charles Cabon | France, 2025 • 18:25
Out of 250,000 firefighters in France, 200,000 are volunteers. Among them is my brother.
Programme 12' express | Renata Kotti - Domprets | France, 2024 • 12:45
Insert the coin, select the program, press the button, and wait: Filmed over a period of two weeks, but structured around the chronology of a single night, the documentary forms a mosaic of characters who frequent a public laundromat in the suburbs of Paris.
The fundamental question of a truck driver | Angelos Gourgouletis | Greece, 2025 • 08:45
In August 2024, while traveling for a holiday, I met a truck driver on the ferry crossing from Patra to Ancona. What started as a casual conversation on the deck, quickly turned into a spontaneous journey. This documentary is a product of that unplanned meeting.
Twenty seven hours | Dianna Vasileiou | Greece, 2025 • 20:07
Adnan Rafique, originally from Pakistan, has lived in Greece for the past 15 years, working as a taxi driver in Athens. “twenty-seven hours” unfolds inside his taxi —always in motion— capturing the story of Adnan, seen by some as an outsider, who has made Athens his home and of the city itself, revealed through his eyes.
Re-creations | Polina Moshenska | Ukraine, 2023 • 15:05
This is the personal and intimate story of the friendship of three women and the struggle to live their everyday life while studying abroad in Scotland as a full-scale war takes place in their home country in Ukraine, where their families and close friends are. The film details the effort and obstacles they face, the everyday relationships in their new country and their pulsing connection to home, stronger, more dedicated and painful like never before. The film focuses on the search for beauty and necessary words whilst also exploring inner conflicts and the disintegration of memories.
Black rain in my eyes | Amir Athar Soheili, Amir Masoud Soheili | Syria, 2024 • 20:03
Hessan is a Syrian poet and the father of four blind daughters. He hides the war from his kids. He calls the sound of bullets and explosions a celebration and dancing. Hessan has been invited to attend a poetry forum, but taking the girls out and confronting them with the effects of war is a challenge.
3 days in Singal | Ali Arkady | Iraq, 2025 • 22:02
Ali Arkady, Iraqi journalist and photographer, undertook a perilous journey to Sinjar in 2014 after ISIS occupied the city. Embedding with Kurdish forces, he traveled through Syria, spent a night on Mount Sinjar, and entered the city amid fierce battles. Over three days, he documented combat, sacrifice, and resilience, portraying Kurdish fighters’ determination against ISIS while bearing witness to history.
Adas Falasteen | Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini, Samar Taher Lulu | Palestine, 2024 • 07:55
“Palestine Lentils" is a documentary film that tells the story of a Palestinian chef and his role in using his hobby as a shield against the famine caused by the war on Gaza, preserving the spirit of resilience and hope within his community.
Sunday 5/10 | Special Screening with QnA | Giorgos Moutafis
21:00 | Free Entrance
Participation in the special screening and the QnA will be strictly on a first-come, first-served basis at the venue.
Giorgos Moutafis “The Other Half”
For 15 years, G. Moutafis has been documenting the perilous journeys of migrants across the dark crossings of Europe’s borders. His camera ventures into inaccessible places, capturing the stories of people who push human endurance to its limits, shedding light on how “the Other Half” lives.
