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Over 4 days and 40 films by upcoming filmmakers from 21 countries, the Athens Shorts Film Festival 2024 aims to highlight the power of independent cinema through shorts with big stories to tell.
Blending fiction and documentary films of various genres and aesthetics, this year’s programme touches upon daily challenges, fears, and modern life issues. Through 7 carefully curated thematic strands, the Festival interweaves a tapestry of all these things that define, concern, or bewilder us.
Life-based experiences, personal narrations, notions and current issues unfold through the filmmakers’ perspectives inviting the audience to delve into the art of short filmmaking.
Take a look at the ASFF2024 7 thematic strands.
Thursday 12.12.2024
Dedicated to females, this programme focuses on experiences, fiction stories, thoughts and narrations of women from around the world. From the Philippines and Africa to Spain and the United States, ‘This is a girl’s world’ highlights female filmmakers and brings women’s stories to the foreground.
Shorts mixtape: the lovesick one
This shorts mixtape is all about love, romance and the end of them. First relationships, breakups, marriages, and all the between are presented through comedies and dramas. Stories that may make you laugh, cry or neither but you’ll definitely relate to.
Friday 13.12. 2024
Through a diverse range of stories, this programme examines the father figure. A look at the many faces of fatherhood and the complex dynamics between male parents and their children. Young or funny dads, absent or abusive dads, dads in grief. Stories about dads with issues or dad’s issues.
Dark stories, mind games, and unexplained events comprise the selection of the ‘shorts mixtape: the eerie one’. Get ready to be bewildered, amazed and lured in otherworldly places.
Saturday 14.12. 2024
Metropolitans and the different stories created in them through the eyes of their protagonists. This programme explores the urban landscape and what it means to find your place in a city that never stops moving. Chaotic streets, vibrant alleys, metro platforms, skylines, and the cities’ raw, unpolished beauty become the protagonists in this programme’s films.
Shorts mixtape: the absurd one |
Funny and bizarre stories blend in this shorts mixtape. When nothing makes sense, embracing the absurdity is sometimes the only solution.
Sunday 15.12.2024
Who said finding yourself is easy in a world that seems to flip upside down constantly? ‘My place in this world’ is a reflective and heartfelt programme that dives into the messy journey of self-discovery and acceptance at any given stage of life. Whether it’s the end of innocence and the struggle to redefine home, the bittersweet disconnection from the past self and the value of integration in a community, these films explore what it means to carve out your corner of the world, grow up and let go.
The 2nd ASFF ‘Beer n’ Greet’ will take place on the 15th of December at the Strange Brew taproom. Join us after the end of the screenings, for beers and talks.
Time: 21.00
Location: Strange Brew Taproom & Bottleshop, Falirou 86, Athina 117 41
The 5th Athens Short Film Festival was completed in the jam-packed Mikrokosmos Cinema hall, on a celebration night of independent cinema.
The 5th Athens Short Film Festival returned to the cinema halls on Friday, December 2 attracting over 250 viewers who had started gathering at Mikrokosmos Cinema from early evening.
After two years of physical absence, the Athenian Festival celebrated its much-anticipated comeback in its favourite dark cinema halls with a rich programme of 13 short films of all genres.
Divided into two parts with a break in the middle, this year’s screening programme brought creations of Greek and international artists onto the big screen, highlighting new talents from all over the globe. The end of the second screening block followed the winners’ announcement and a short award ceremony.
In the beloved foyer of Mikrokosmos Cinema, we had the chance to meet old cinephile friends, film industry professionals and talk with the audience members. Before as well as after the Festival, the cinema served as a meeting platform for the artists, the visitors and the HF Productions team.
We would like to thank especially, our media partners Nostos 100.6, Στο Κόκκινο 105.5 as well as the Mikrokosmos Cinema for the warm hospitality.
Winners of the 5th Athens Short Film Festival 2022:
August Sky, 16′, Director: Jasmin Tenucci, Brazil / Best Short Film
Important Things Don’t Matter, 26’, Director: Gabriel Tizón, Spain / Best Short Documentary
Santiago, 15’, Director: Andrey Koulev, Bulgary / Best Short Animated
How I Beat Glue and Bronze, 30’, Director: Vladimir Vulević, Serbia / Best Short Experimental
On Your Side, 2:38, Director: David Heatley, United States / Best Music Video
Boys, 13:15, Director: Luke Benward, United States / Best Short Drama
Cruise, 6′, Director: Sam Rudykoff, Canada / Best Short Comedy
Elevator Alone, 4′, Director: Anastasia Papadopoulou, Greece / Best Greek Production
Snorrie (Mustachio), 12’, Director: Victoria Warmerdam, The Netherlands / Best Directing
Nsenene, 7:32, Director: Michelle Coomber, United Kingdom / Best Cinematography
《Go lesson》 18:56, Director: Xue Li Ming, China / Best Writing
Vlada Goes to London, 22’, Director: Arti Savchenko, Israel / Best Editing
The 6th Athens Short Film Festival will take place again in 2023 and will return with an even richer screening programme. Looking forward to seeing you all again.