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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.