MAJONEZE

GIULIA GRANDINETTI, ITALY
22′

Elyria lives in a family ruled by her strict father in a remote mountain village in Albania. Trapped in this oppressive society it becomes harder and harder to hide her growing anger.
Then one day her desire to rebel takes over.

Director Biography

Giulia Grandinetti made her debut as director in 2020 with the independent feature film Alice and the Land that Wonders, and then dedicated herself to a trilogy of dystopian short films: Guinea Pig, Tria – del sentimento del tradire and Majonezë. She is currently preparing her next feature film titled Jaune et Bleu. She is creatively fascinated by the formula of dystopia, by taboos and by the dreamlike dimension. The starting point for each of her creations is work on the body.

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EROS

VIKTOR MILETIC, FRANCE
23′

A mother coaches her son in order to pass a major audition.

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LA PREMIERE IMAGE

OLIA VERRIOPOULOU, GREECE
24′ 52”

Athens, April of 1967.
During the first days of the military dictatorship, Loukas is suffocating in his family’s apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house’s phone line gets mixed up with that of the Studio cinema…

Director Biography

Born in Athens, Greece in 1992, Olia lives and works between and Athens and Paris, where she studied cinema (Paris VII-Diderot, École des Gobelins). In 2021, she directed her first short Sacralisons. La Première Image is her first fiction. She is currently in post-production of her feature documentary Stories of a lie.
For the past ten years she has participated in the programming and organization of film festivals and labs (Les Écrans Documentaires, Cinéma du réel, Champs-Élysées film festival, Institut Français, Greek Film Archive, Oxbelly Screenwriters Lab…).

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HOTEL ACROPOLE

SARAH LASRY, FRANCE
20′

Rivka is pregnant. She has a strange and painful wound in her back that won’t heal, ever since her partner died. The day before his ashes are scattered, Abel, an old friend, shows up unexpectedly at her hotel room. He needs to revive an old memory between them at the Hotel Acropole.

Director Biography

Sarah Lasry is a French writer and director. She graduated from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Her last short film, “Spell on You” (2021) was selected in numerous international festivals, such as Palm Springs International Shortfest, Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival, Bolton, Slash, FIFIB… “Hotel Acropole” had its world premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival in July. Sarah’s work explores themes of ritual, desire and pain through elevated genre. She is currently developing her first feature.

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HOME, A SPACE BETWEEN US

EFFI RABSILBER, GERMANY/GREECE
16′

In the big city’s solitude Magda meets the enigmatic homeless Theodora.
Walking together into the night, they reach the edge of town. As morning dawn approaches, something shifts between the two strangers.

Director Biography

Effi Rabsilber based in Athens, grew up in Leipzig and Berlin. Since graduating from the Theatre Academy of Munich she works as an actress for cinema and theatre in Germany and Greece. She took part in the directing classes of Athens FilmSchool.gr .” home, a space between us ” is her first film as a writer and director. The film had its world premiere at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2025.

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PIRATELAND

STAVROS PETROPOULOS, FRANCE/GREECE/NORWAY
28′ 03”

As the winter season begins in Creta, an overly touristic Greek island, a family of locals, owners of a small struggling bed & breakfast, get an unexpected visit from a Norwegian family of tourists looking for a tour into the piratic past of the area. The relationship between Manos, the Greek father and Tassos, his son, is being tested as they are struggling to meet the increasingly challenging demands of the tourists looking to live the authentic pirate experience.

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