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25km
Director Eliane Pauline Roumie - Country: Greece
25km is an artistic project inspired by the Greek city of Eleusis and the ancient history of the ''Eleusinian Mysteries''. The ''Eleusinian Mysteries'' was the highest religious celebration in Ancient Greece, celebrated in the Sacred City of Eleusis once a year, in honor of goddesses Demeter and Persephone. A significant ritual of the Mysteri...
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After death
Director محمود خليل أحمد(جقماقي - Country: Syria
After death movie The story of a man who works in the profession of blacksmithing But his whole life changed after the 2014 Dash attack on his city, Kobani To roam the streets and alleys of his city and pick up the remnants of weapons and missiles and turn them into models and artistic structures in an attempt to create hope and spread a spir...
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Arkadia
Director Andra Ion - Country: Spain
Current farming methods are not sustainable and indirectly contribute to the increasing number of wildfires. Also, it is difficult for young Europeans to start a farming operation. These reasons pushed Victor to raise his flock in the same way his ancestors did: by living a nomad life. This type of farming has many benefits: it is free, susta...
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Attic Vases part one | PRECIOUS EARTH
Director Spiros Pantazis - Country: Greece
It's difficult to imagine anything more common and humble than soil. And yet, this modest material was turned into veritable gold by the ancient potters of Attica, demonstrating that even the most inconsequential things can become precious if they are utilized to advantage. The short film 'Attic Vases - Precious Earth' shares the history and ...
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Breathe
Director zac norrington - Country: USA
In 1983, Julie Ridge became the first person to swim two consecutive laps around the Island of Manhattan (earning her a guest appearance on the David Letterman Show). Now living in Manhattan and working as a clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience, she dives into her memories of struggling with bipolar. BREATHE explores her re...
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Bubble
Director Mahmood Arib - Country: Iran
Narrative of migration from home to nowhere
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Dust Never Settled
Director Blue Kalamian - Country: USA
After the Artsakh War in 2020, American-Armenian filmmaker Blue Kalamian traveled to Armenia and Artsakh to see firsthand how the war affected the country and its people. "Dust Never Settled" highlights the voices of those who otherwise would not be able to share their stories. The film explores the experiences of soldiers, medical volunteers...
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Earth gods
Director - Country: Portugal
From earth, water, hands and fire, sculptures are born that link matter to the spiritual. A journey across the landscape, the people and the processes that shape the gods of South India.
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Elefsis
Director Takis George Bardakos - Country: Greece
A collection of still shots, of the inhabitants of the port of Eleusis. People have reach their destination in front of the Sea of Eleusis scenary, against the horizon lines, resembling a kind of purification process. Time stops here and it is becoming of abstract meaning: There is no "past", no "future", just "eternal present".
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Extra time / 102
Director MARINA STYLIANOS STAMATI - Country: Greece
Anthropological record of a totemic old age man living in the limbic gap of materials and symbolic rituals concerning a transitory post-secular potential departure.
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Faces of Climate Resilience
Director Shawn Sebastian - Country: India
Faces of Climate Resilience is a short documentary series that captures the voices of people in some of India's most climate-vulnerable regions. The project strives to make climate change more tangible through the lived experiences of people. The focus is on how individuals and communities are adapting to the climate crisis by embracing natur...
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Geosonic #1 Atlantic
Director Andrés Mahía - Country: Spain
The ocean isn’t just the habitat of fish, cetacean, seaweed and other living creatures. It is the way of living of many villages and cities, a trade route, a space for leisure, a source of wealth and also of tragedy. The ocean is a lifestyle, an identity. The Atlantic many times determines us as Galicians, but it also has its own identity, an...
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Hantush - a fairytale
Director Alexia Tsouni - Country: Greece
When Israeli bulldozers arrived at her Bedouin village to demolish her home, 14-year-old Palestine refugee girl Salha called on her flying lamb Hantush to take her somewhere far away...
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Hi Papa
Director Zsuzsi Konrád - Country: Hungary
Zsuzsi Konrád, daughter of the famous writer, György Konrád made a documentary about their relationship one year before he died. Her goal is to tear down the unapproachable idol and simply be next to each other as father and daughter. Their clumsy attempt to make connection is imbued with love.
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Hive No. 10
Director Anna Anat Gofman Banai - Country: Israel
The wish of her son to raise bees forces the director to deal with her own fragile memories from her childhood.
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I saw a city
Director Stelios Efstathopoulos - Country: Greece
I saw a city, which unexpectedly lost its sounds. Only the hum of the air remained. A city that exists on the fringes of our gaze. We move past it like the wind. While wandering around the city, I stumble across short every day stories, starring anonymous passers-by. This wandering reveals a new reality which leads us down a whole different p...
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Imbros
Director Murat YÜKSEL, Onur TEKİN, Zehra GÜZEL - Country: Turkey
IMBPO∑ (Imbros), is a short documentary that aims to share the stories of the people living on the island today known as Gökçeada. The film takes a close look at the Greeks of Turkey, to identify both the cruelty of the state that has traumatized society, and a strong sense of belonging that goes beyond all types of identity. IMBPO ∑, is also...
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Jade Rain
Director Volkan Durmuş - Country: Turkey
Serah is an African woman who came to Turkey from Uganda to work. After trying many jobs, she decide to work as a natır(Turkish bath worker). She has against her being a foreigner, a single mother, and a black woman in a culture so different from her own. Will she be able to purify her soul which has been polluted by society's prejudices?
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Life Long Day
Director Saber Ansari - Country: Greece
With his particular painting and filmic form Saper Ansari invites us to guess the subject of his story. This film was created within the european project Speak Up Media For Inclusion funded by ERasmus plus. Karpos the greek partner of the projector designed and implemented audiovisual workshops for young refugees. In the end of the workshops ...
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Like a king
Director Evangelia Koumantsioti - Country: Greece
The subject of the documentary is social as it concerns the observation of the world of the marginalized who wander the streets.
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Love letter to Glasgow
Director Myria Christophini - Country: United Kingdom
An experimental animated short that makes an artistic commentary on the perception of some Glaswegians on romantic love.
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Marika… why be afraid
Director Matthaios Frantzeskakis - Country: Greece
On the fifth day of the Battle of Crete, Saturday 24 of May 1941, three Germans pass by the village of Kakopetros in the Municipality of Platanias, Chania, and approach the home of Antonis Loufardakis, located next to a creek below the central street. Without any reason at all, they enter their home and kill with automatic weapons five women ...
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MONOLOGUE
Director Selim Yıldız - Country: Turkey
It is aimed to portray the years left behind by Mom Heyam Encü, who lost her 16-year-old son in 2011 when Turkish warplanes killed 34 civilians in Robozik. People ask me what I’ll do with these sheep. In the end, honor remained only with some place names. With some numbers, with some dates. Ernest Hemingway
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Monsters look like us
Director Mattia Mura - Country: Italy
One of the darkest aspects of contemporary society: the abuse of power. Starting from the creation of a theatrical show on the theme inspired by a series of Italian news events, the documentary focuses on the possibility of using the theater as a tool for building awareness and critical sense. The reflection crosses the role of media informat...
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Multumesc (Mission Hope for Ukraine)
Director Claudio Cescutti - Country: Italy
In Romania, on the border with Moldova, humanitarian aid was sent from Udine from different areas of Italy following the request for help from the Sisters of Providence engaged in the reception of refugees fleeing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Chisinau (Moldova) and in Iasi (Romania) in the collection of basic necessities, to be taken to ...
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Nomads
Director Giannis Floulis - Country: Greece
In the Greek countryside, groups of pastoral nomads with their herds move from the plains in the winter to the mountains in the summer since the Middle Ages. But not only humans are nomads… The last Egyptian vultures of Greece are fighting for their own survival. Starting their journey from Africa and travelling 5,000km every spring...
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Pepedrilo
Director Victor Cartas - Country: Mexico
Pepedrilo and his peculiar connection with nature are embodied by the care and protection of a crocodile sanctuary, whose stability is put in danger day by day by the threat of men
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Posidonies
Director Antis Iakovou, Evie Demetriou - Country: Cyprus
“Posidonies” is a dace film conceived by dance maker Evie Demetriou and underwater lover Antis Iakovou. Posidonies is borrowed from the Greek translation of the word Posidonia (plural). Through a poetic lense and inspired by the notion that pocedonia oceanica is the lung of the mediterannean sea, the film uncovers two parallel stories in whic...
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Prison is Cool
Director Elya Randrianaivo - Country: USA
A white supremacist looks back on his time in prison, seeking to make amends.
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Raja Bro
Director Sridhar Rangayan - Country: India
RAJA BHAU is a sensitive heart-warming story of an Indian transman’s acceptance, by himself and his family. Merlin, born as a girl, felt right from his childhood that he was trapped in the wrong gender. But it took a lot of courage and determination for Merlin to transition to become a transman. With unflinching support from his mother who ha...
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ROOMS WITH A VIEW
Director Nickolas Papadimitriou, Nikoleta Paraschi - Country: Greece
In the film Rooms with a view, we observe a building in the heart of Athens transforming from a space traditionally occupied by goldsmiths into a luxurious boutique hotel. During our stay we come to experience three different levels of coexistence.
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Sex Relish (a solo orgasm)
Director Ananda Safo - Country: France
In this endless pandemic area, where our sexuality has sometimes had to evolve, has been tested, women from different backgrounds offer their intimate testimonies, addressing their desires and pleasures in solitude.
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Stupid, Naive & Lucky
Director Giulio Tonincelli - Country: Italy
Giulio at the end of April 2013 visits the Turkish-Syrian border to document the work of an Italian NGO. In the field hospital of Kilis (Turkey) meets Zaher, a Syrian teacher who offers Giulio to join him and two rebels on a 24- hour trip to Aleppo. The film, edited and finished 7 years after it was shot, introduces a layer of retrospection t...
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Thaleia, missing the "e"
Director Thodoris Ioannidis - Country: Greece
The diploma film Thalia with iota presents the life of Takis Moschopoulidis. Takis immerses us in his world which is consisted of alcohol and wooden constructions similar to those of modeling craftsmen. With his hands covered with glue and his mouth busy smoking constantly cigarettes, he shows absolute devotion to his artistic creations. He n...
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The Ancient Olive Tree
Director Matthaios Frantzeskakis - Country: Greece
The village of Vouves in Chania, Crete is the home of the oldest olive tree in the world. With an estimated age of 3000-5000 years, the olive tree of Vouves has been declared a Natural Monument. This tree speaks to the human soul.
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The Asia Minor Catastrophe
Director George Chatzivasileiou - Country: Greece
Animated short documentary about "The Asia Minor Catastrophe" in 1922. It presents in 10 min the big picture of the complicated, compact, and cosmopolitan history of Smyrna around 1922. The most tragic story of recent Greek history. The film was funded by the Municipality of Kalamaria that received a lot of refugees after the Minor Asia Destr...
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The Elders
Director Núria Ubach Vilà, Marta Codesido Martinez, Ulrika Andersson, Dubi Cano Reyes - Country: Spain
The daily walk of three old women from Cabrianes is altered by the sudden death of one of them. Meanwhile, the celebration that reward the oldest person in town is approaching.
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The Embroideresses
Director Bo Fredrik Sjökvist - Country: Sweden
Two dancers try to approach previous generations of Swedish women by trying to understand their craft, embroidery. To translate embroidery into dance. What exactly is a cross stitch and can you really walk with a thread? The film follows the two dancers when they dry to develop an embroidery dance performance. Their process is interspersed wi...
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The Entangled Forest
Director Nick Jordan - Country: United Kingdom
The Entangled Forest is a film which explores the multifaceted interrelationships between trees and fungi within forest ecologies. Featuring the voice of ecologist Suzanne Simard, and her ground-breaking research into tree and fungal communities, the documentary reflects on how the ‘biological neural network’ of forest ecosystems creates a he...
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The Flow
Director Yulia Pikhotska - Country: Ukraine
Anxiety is felt around, everyone is waiting for war. Soon the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine begins, so the author returns home. Here the war is an echo of the main battles. And it turns life into a flow that can stop at any moment, and the fear from childhood becomes a reality. But the flow will continue.
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The Golden Girls of Etrim
Director Eren Aybars ARPACIK - Country: Turkey
Women living in Etrim Village of Bodrum have been weaving carpets for generations. Grandma Gülsüm, 87, is connected to life with the carpet that she has woven. While her 65-year-old daughter Ummuhan carries the burden of the house but she gets rid of all her troubles when she takes over the carpet bench. Ummuhan's Daughter Belgin, took care o...
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The Grand Tour - A film In-Debt(ed)
Director Fotios Begklis - Country: Greece
Grand Tour is inspired on the writings of 18th century European travellers to Greece. Through accounts of these travellers, we can evaluate from a post-colonial perspective the developments that occurred in Greek society as a product of the Greek revolution in 1821. These developments led to successive accumulation of debt, defaults, and grow...
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The inventor
Director Anastasios Stamnas, Magdalene Alexandri, Fotios Pangalos - Country: Greece
The film "The Inventor" refers to the life of George Paraponiaris, a carrier from Kalamata, as described by his daughters Alexandra and Tasia.
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The Last Ride
Director Jesse Elliott Erwitt Smolan, Reign Shivanti La France - Country: USA
Along with my Girlfriend, I Produced, edited, and directed a documentary on a unique gothic young woman who closely resembles Beetlejuice’s, Winona Ryder. And who drives a hearse as her vehicle of choice. Through a chance encounter at a local Walmart, I approached this individual and learned about her perspective on life and death. With her c...
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The Sign of Doom
Director Enggar Asfinsani - Country: Indonesia
The pandemic has changed many things. Including Alfia, she is a teacher who learns a lot from the phenomena she sees. For Alfia, garbage is no longer appropriate to be disposed of in its place.
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Vale - the last match
Director Stefano Zoja, Teresa Sala - Country: Italy
Vale is on the verge of the last match of her career as a professional boxer. Since she was a child she has always been very pugnacious, up to when she had to fight for the right to assisted suicide for her life long partner Fabiano, who became blind and quadruplegic after an accident. Now, as she fights on the ring, her words tell us the unp...
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Where the Dreams are Waiting
Director Uli Bez - Country: Germany
From a young age, Eleni Tsakmaki's life challenged her with great hardships. The dream of a self-determined life was denied to her. At the age of 5 she witnessed cruel NaziGerman occupation. At the age of 17 she is forced into an arranged marriage. At 23, she and her husband come to Germany as so called "guest worker" and have to leave their ...
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