GREEK SHORT STORIES - IN COMPETITION IV

The Synthetic Age
DURATION: 8’  DIRECTOR: Dimitris Armenakis

In a city where people consume cartoons, a dog reconciles with its old friends, and together, they try to escape from humans.

Mitch
DURATION: 26’ DIRECTOR: Gevi Dimitrakopoulou

Mitch, a 13-year-old tomboy, unexpectedly gains magical powers after receiving a traditional slap—a harsh rite of passage marking her first period—and transforms the very act meant to shame her into a powerful personal response.

You Know the Drill
DURATION: 21’ DIRECTOR: Manos Papadakis

Is there an unbeatable phrase for flirting? Is there a racket that never loses a match? In a world of losers can anybody be a winner? A (national) coming of age sports comedy for the defeats that make us who we are.

The Day we Became Heroes
DURATION: 15’ DIRECTOR: Selini Papageorgiou

On a sunny summer afternoon, three nine-year-old children find a villager unconscious in the forest. The village has warned them to stay away from him, but now they must decide whether to leave him behind or help him.

Fall Christmas
DURATION: 20’ DIRECTOR: Kostas Bakouris

Petros, a five-year-old boy, roams the corridors of a hospital on his roller skates, crafting imaginary worlds to cope with loneliness and a harsh reality. A musical that blends realism and fantasy through the eyes of a child.

La Première Image
DURATION: 25’ DIRECTOR: Olia Verriopoulou

Athens, April of 1967. During the first days of the military dictatorship, little Loukas is suffocating in his family’s apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house’s phone line gets mixed up with that of Studio cinema…