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Discover the award-winning films of the 7th Athens Short Film Festival’s 9 competition categories and learn more about all the inspiring filmmakers we featured this year.
Best Short Film Winner
Lemon Tree
At a Halloween carnival, a young father steals a magician’s rabbit to impress his ten year old son. The thrill of the petty theft quickly dissolves into reality when the young boy is tasked with getting himself, his father, and his new pet home safe.
Rachel Walden
Best Short Film (Special Mention)
White Ant
Ashish, a middle-aged businessman, is called back to his now abandoned childhood home, where he is confronted with a colony of termites eating the house from the inside out. While trying to make arrangements over the days, he realises how disconnected he is from his old self, watching helplessly from the side-lines as the house caretaker and a termite exterminator deal with the infestation. White Ant poetically explores the drastic shift in values of a country as it modernises, the universal experience of watching the world change around us and the cultural and emotional disconnect a man experiences when being reminded of his past life.
Shalini Adnani
Best Short Documentary Winner
Panties
PANTIES is a provocative short film about a woman’s relationship with this essential piece of clothing.
Marissa Emmanuelle Velez
Best Short Drama Winner
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die
Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and a love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls. But a promise of hope may also lead to tragedy and sad love songs.
Sam Manacsa
Best Short Comedy Winner
Women Visiting a City
Three retired women travel on a bus on their way to Europe. They have just been widowed and want to start living. They have been listening to people talking about the wonders of tourism all their lives and are dying to experience it firsthand.
Enrique Buleo
Best Animated Short Winner
Love Bubbles
Floating on a pink cloud as a couple is easy. It is much more difficult to cope with everyday life and the future together – an amusing relationship drama.
Marcel Hobi
Best Greek Production Winner
Days of a Lilac Summer
An angry teen goes on a summer vacation with her absent father. In the Greek, peaceful countryside, she explores her desire for male attention with two older boys, ignoring her need of a father figure.
Ariadni Angeliki Thyfronitou Litou
Best Student Film Winner
Ebounda
Ebounda, 12 and fatherless orphan, gets raped by a stranger while coming back from her school, ten kilometers away from her village, Bossas. Despite her mother’s efforts, she falls into a deep silence. But, one night, she gets carried away by the traditional dance.
Perrin Sombo
Best Short Experimental Winner
To My Love
Facade renovation locks young woman inside her apartment. During a reconstruction of her home and herself she writes a letter to her loved one.
Aino Kontinen
Best Music Video Winner
Solitaire
In the depths of an urban landscape, a woman in her forties embarks on a solitary journey through the city streets. As she walks alone, a mysterious man materializes before her, his intentions unclear. The film delicately navigates the tense encounter without explicitly revealing the outcome, instead focusing on the woman’s resilience and inner transformation. Perched atop a wonder wheel, she finds solace amidst the city’s chaos, gazing upon the majestic skyline as night gives way to a breathtaking sunrise, igniting a newfound strength within her. This experimental avant-garde film invites viewers to contemplate the resilience of the human spirit and the power of personal triumph in the face of adversity.
Nicolas Costes