TRIGGER

HARIS GIOULATOS, GREECE
33′ 

If you were told there was an organization that could change your life forever, would you go through with the switch. And if so, would you pull the Trigger?

Director Biography

Haris Gioulatos was born in Athens in 1987. He majored on Film Studies at New York College and Greenwich University. He is a director, screenwriter and professor. He teaches direction and screenwriting at Ornerakis Applied Arts since 2016.

He takes part in creating television episodes, advertising spots and fashion videos. He has directed many short movies, some of which have been awarded in national and international festivals.

In 2011 he directs “Keep dreaming” (scholarship award), in 2013 “Butterfly” (awards, including 3rd audience choice at Actline) and in 2017 “The Method: Captured” (documentary award in Drama’s festival).

In 2020 he becomes screenwriter, director, and producer for his short movie “Off for some Beers!”, which has participated in many international festivals and received 7 awards. In 2025 he writes and directs his latest short film ”Trigger”.

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DELULU

MICHALIS ALEXAKIS, GREECE
14′

A running child, a farcical family mess, and a dose of absurdity.

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TOOTH & ROCK

KOSTIS ALEVIZOS, GREECE
19′ 19”

Margarita and her father, returning to Pylos, they will be confronted with the rapid tourist transformation of the place.
Margarita will become the cause for those old friends of his to mingle again and claim a spot, in the shade of the plane tree, taken over by tourists.

Director Biography

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HUN TUN

MAGDALENA HEJZLAROVA, CZECH REPUBLIC
14′ 58”

A young woman measures her strength against the king of chaos himself. The more she wants to win, the less she succeeds. Through a mythological story, the author looks back to the time when she discovered that there are things in life she will never control.

Director Biography

Magdalena Hejzlarová is a visual artist and stop-motion animation expert. She graduated from Prague’s Academy of Applied Arts and Design with her short HYPNAGOGIA (2017), premiered at Ji.hlava IDFF, depicting animated accounts of people describing their experiences of falling asleep. Magdalena worked at several art and animation studios in Prague & Rotterdam. She is a commissioned artist and animator and has collaborated on remarkable films like LA TRAVERSÉE directed by Florence Miailhe (Honourable Mention at Annecy 2021) or APART by Diana Cam Van Nguyen (BAFTA Student Film Award finalist). She assists artists with disabilities in a Prague-based art studio. Along with Hun Tun, Magdalena created a radio documentary and a podcast series for Czech Radio both concerning sleep and insomnia.

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YVES

CHARLOTTE ZWEERS/TOM DUPONT, BELGIUM
12′

Yves has spent twenty years behind the closed doors of prison.
Over time, his mind has become filled with Hollywood fiction. After serving more than two-thirds of his sentence, he is exceptionally allowed to leave the stress of his cell to visit his mother. During this temporary ‘exit’, where the harsh side of reality reveals itself multiple times, Yves is accompanied by a priest with whom he seems to share more than one might initially suspect…

Note: This story about human connection has been created and filmed within the walls of Oudenaarde prison. Both the story and the fake car for this fictional roadtrip were created by detainees, and during filming prisoners and other enthusiasts joined forces, coached and directed by Charlotte Zweers and Tom Dupont, as a part of Toms social-cultural research project.

Directors Biography

Charlotte Zweers (°1990)
is a writer and film director, living in Brussels (Belgium).
She first studied French and Spanish Literature before taking her first audiovisual steps in London.
She completed her studies in both screenwriting and directing at MetFilm School and RITCS School of Arts. She loves to experiment in the area of fiction, with shortfilms ‘Pero No De Agua’ and ‘OFFBEAT’ to her credit. She has worked as an assistant on different professional short and feature productions (‘Résumé d’un divorce’ by Peter Ghesquière, ‘REBEL’ by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, ‘H4Z4RD’ by Jonas Govaerts, ‘KRUMP’ by Cédric Bourgeois) and has directed a videoclip for open arts house Globe Aroma. She coached and directed a group of prisoners, together with Tom Dupont, over the course of several years, with one common goal: making cinema. Short film ‘Yves’ is the peculiar result of this intense and rich collaboration.

Tom Dupont (°1977)
is a Belgian writer and director in both theatre and film. He is known for his screenwriting for ‘Offline’, ‘Cargo’, ‘Albatros’, ‘Grond’ and ‘Holy Rosita’, and for his writing and directing work in many theatre plays. He recently directed his first short film called ‘Touch me’ and co-directed ‘Yves’, a roadmovie shot within the walls of a Belgian prison.

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LATERA

DIMITDRIS GLYFOS, GREECE
12′ 36”

A father, who killed his own child, deals with bereavement. The sea is their common place.

Director Biography

Dimitris Glyfos was born in Athens (Greece) in 1983. He studied Political Science and Law and works as a lawyer and book editor. He has published six poetry collections, writes articles in the press, plays music and writes scripts. LATERA is his first film.

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AMBIGU

MIEKE DANEELS, BELGIUM
14′ 38”

A mother of four: a daughter, two sons, and a child transitioning from male to female. With her camera, she searches for words to capture the intangible. A poetic film about love, change, and finding space for everyone’s truth.

Director Biography

Mieke Daneels (°1978, Belgium) is a Belgium based film director, photographer, actress and visual artist.
Her work is exuberant, colourful and intuitive.
Sexual, sensual, explicit.
Dreamlike, associative, visual.
Poetic.

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ANNA KEROVA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
29′ 10”

A woman confronts increasingly eccentric officials to process her documents. Little by little, she is consumed by the nonsensical bureaucratic system.

Director Biography

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