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Discover the award-winning films of the 3rd-4th Athens Short Film Festival’s 9 competition categories and learn more about all the inspiring filmmakers we featured this year.
Best Animation Winner
In Passing
A portrait of seventies Hong Kong as my parents remember it.
Esther Cheung
Best Cinematography Winner
Flora
A Victorian story about life, death and everything in between.
Javier Kühn
Best Directing Winner
Oshri
One morning Sima leaves the women’s shelter where she lives and makes a mysterious visit to a pre-school, where she gains entry under false pretences. There she attempts to deliver a birthday present to Oshri, her five year old son whom she gave up for foster care when he was a baby. But she is prevented from making meaningful contact with the child by the preschool teacher, the child’s foster parents, and ultimately by her own questions over what in fact is best for the child. A deeply touching and sensitive film that asks some serious questions about the suffering of mothers who have had to give away their children away.
Lihi Sabag
Best Documentary Winner
Evripidou 14
At 14 Evripidou Street in the centre of Athens, Mr. Costas and Mrs. Sofia open the doors to their Shelter, where homeless people have a chance to eat a cooked meal, take a shower, wash their clothes, and find themselves in a welcoming environment, significantly different from their daily reality.
Michael Demetrius
Best Drama Winner
Homesick
Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Murai braves danger and wanders through the no-go zone in order to spend time with Jun, his eight-year-old son.
Koya Kamura
Best Editing Winner
Last Days
Night after night, Majo dreams of her missing friends. Her struggle begins when the school authorities decide to remove these students memorial in order to make space for the graduation festivities. A chronicle of systematic oblivion.
Pablo Camargo
Best Experimental Winner
Our Land
Idris and Kojo are the two last survivors of a group African refugees, who have inhabited Swedish woods for almost 10 years and lived independently. When they encounter a young boy named Stellan a riskful friendship begins.
Jean-Luc Mwepu
Best Music Score Winner
Super Special
In the midst of her first period, a quiet resilient young girl must choose between a surprise for her beloved little brother or buying pads for herself.
Ashley Williams
Best Music Video Winner
No New Friends
A psychedelic adventure into a fantasy world with power trio Diplo, Sia and Labrinth aka LSD . Starring Sia's doppleganger, Maddie Ziegler as a friendly giant learning to make new friends.
Dano Cerny
Best Short Film Winner
Where Are We?
A young woman takes a road trip for four days with her boyfriend and his family. She spends the duration of the trip in the back seat of the car with her boyfriend’s mother, Mela. Conversation is slow, Mela isn’t naturally talkative. Neither is fluent in the same language. Hanna has known from the beginning, Mela doesn’t. Santi’s mother has Alzheimer’s.
Hanna Besirevic
Best Writing Winner
Curtains
Kirsten Vangsness (CBS, Criminal Minds actor and writer) makes her directorial debut in this animated short adapted from her own personal essay about a feral cat who stars on a network procedural drama, takes ballroom dance lessons, and has an encounter with a predatory tow truck driver. It explores the idea of vulnerability as a source of power and the emotional "curtains" we lay over our essential selves.
Kirsten Vangsness