Short Film

Normal

The secret journey of two people that once had been in love. The pursuit of answers from a girl that teeters in between present, past and future. How does life unfold?

Volta

As the sun rises, all that is left from last night's fight with Ioanna is Angelos, alone in his house. One day in their life, each dealing with the situation in their own special way.

Sleeppers

Helen is going through a difficult period, and no one seems to understand her. She tries to continue her life as usual, without changing her routine. Her relationship with her daughter brings her comfort. Those around her try to help, but she refuses to listen. One encounter will force her to face her greatest fear. But how do you live when you lose the most important part of your life?

Still Here

An experimental short film that explores the psychological effects of excessive ambition. Inspired by the myth of Sisyphus, it focuses on a young hiker who attempts to reach the mountain peak.

To the Deepest Mountain Peak

A man and a woman meet at a karaoke bar. He stands awkwardly on stage. She rushes in to save him. Just as suddenly as she entered his life, she disappeared. Forever. Now he is left to cope with her loss while carrying on with his work - he runs a funeral home.

Leaving Was What She Did Best

On a remote beach, two people silently confront the distance between them. The man’s disappearance and an ambiguous message on his phone lead the woman into a liminal experience where loneliness and fear find neither words nor witnesses.

Rock

When a sensitive woman, Katerina, sees Elena, a child living in a neighboring apartment, with a bruise and outside her apartment, she begins to suspect that she is being abused. She feels a strong need to help Elena escape the abusive situation that Katerina believes she is in.

Hide and Seek

After their violent breakup, Alex tries to escape his ghost. She finds no refuge in her childhood home, or in a casual fling, but only in an underground pedestrian tunnel, through the eyes of a stranger.

Nasty

Sally, an immigrant youngster, dreams of leaving his small town to play football for Juventus. But to realize his dream, he must overcome the challenges in his life that threaten to hold him back.

Greenhouse

Nina knows why her grandfather hates her - it’s obviously because she’s a lesbian. Time to come clean. In the weirdest car ride of their lives, Nina and Stathis will have to finally talk to each other whether they like it or not.

Driving Me Crazy

A playful animated film, with a sketchy, caricature-like visual style, brimming with irresistible cinephile references and centered on a protagonist who is in a cast, both literally and metaphorically.

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A prison guard loses his job after a blunder of his leads to the demolition of the correctional facility where he works, allowing the inmates to escape. Suffering from multiple fractures and encased in plaster, he lands a job as a bank security guard. Unfortunately for him, it won’t be long before some old acquaintances come calling.

Cast-Outs

A colorful, funny and impetuously honest coming-of-age story about two diametrically opposed sisters and the decisions they have to make in the course of one night. The best student film of the year, talks about all kinds of human connection -the basic survival tool in a scary world.

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Sixteen-year-old Mati is naive, lovable and spontaneous, with a burning need to live the romantic dream of a cheap soap opera. Her older sister, Themi, forced into an early adulthood, must settle an overdue debt. Desperate to find money, each of them will start their own journey and they will be confronted with a traumatic past, a disturbing reality and above all the difficulty of supporting a family tooth and nail.

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Best Student Film | Hellenic Film Academy | 2023
Best Student Film Award | Drama Short Film Festival | 2022
Official Selection | Olympia Film Festival for Children and Young People | 2022
Official Selection | Greek Film Festival in Berlin | 2022

Hussies

Based on a true story, this short film stands as a heartfelt tribute to a piece of living musical history that will sweep you away. Special Mention in Drama Short Film Festival for the remarkable young Sarantis Karagiannis.

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In the Greek countryside of the 1960s, a six-year-old Roma boy struggles against school bullying, an abusive father, and a racist society. His dream of becoming a musician seems impossible. Yet he refuses to give up until he fulfills it, and grows up to become a world-renowned clarinet virtuoso.

Golden Fingers

Long before media criticism became a commonplace, Angelopoulos dismantled the television spectacle as a mechanism of power, employing sharp irony and rigorous formal control. His first film - already functioning as an early manifesto - foreshadows the legendary trajectory that would follow.

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A group of journalists asks passers-by to define the characteristics that, in their opinion, make up the “ideal man”. After interviewing various women, they select a candidate and give him the opportunity to spend a night with a film star. However, the man soon realizes that his image of the world of fame and admiration, and all that it promises, is far removed from reality.

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Best Short Film – Film Critics Association Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1968

Broadcast

A captivating documentary by Theo Angelopoulos, created on the occasion of Athens being named European Capital of Culture in 1985. It is a deeply personal gaze at the city where he was born and raised, and at the same time a meditation on its timeless historical significance, in both past and present.

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Athens in constant dialogue with its own history. A poetic wandering inspired by paintings, poems, and philosophical texts. The camera moves through the city, focusing on the relationship between its inhabitants and their history and monuments, while the Acropolis stands as a steady point of reference within a continuously changing urban landscape.

Athens, Return to the Acropolis

A brief yet deeply revealing conversation with the singular filmmaker as he unravels the tangled web of the tumultuous process of making Eraserhead - the film that changed independent American cinema forever.

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David Lynch evokes the shooting of his first film, in his Parisian studio. Initially a plastic artist, he made his first film -Eraserhead- in 1977. With a tight budget and 5 years of work, the film was eventually completed.

The First Image: David Lynch

“Crude, stupid, violent, absurd.” This is how David Lynch himself describes the short animation series that he designed and soundtracked himself, alone, from his computer. Like a priceless, raw diary of ideas from the subconscious of a great auteur.
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A series of five-minute line animations featuring an angry, violent Neanderthal and his family and neighbors.

DumbLand

An integral part of his totally unique cinematic gaze, David Lynch's short fragments are enchanting journeys into the surreal, enigmatic visual and narrative variations that challenge and stimulate perception and imagination.
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DYNAMIC compiles David Lynch’s experimental short films, blending digital video’s raw aesthetic with his signature surrealism. Each film offers a fragment of his unique, dreamlike universe, originally accessible only on his former exclusive website.

Dynamic: 01

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style.

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A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Silm, and his two friends capture a mysterous, well-dressed Frenchman.

The Cowboy and the Frenchman

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style.

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A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

The Alphabet

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style.

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A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.

The Amputee Version 2

The Amputee

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style.

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A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.

Six Men Getting Sick

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style.

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40 international directors make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.

Lumière

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style.

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A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.