Festival Program - Day 2


While filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son. But when he is accused of fraud, Haroula sets out with her other, disabled son and a Greek-African taxi driver to bring him back home where he belongs. Even if this means discovering who her son really is.

DIR. SPIROS JACOVIDES - 2023 - 87 MIN

COMEDY/DRAMA

BLACK STONE

SCREENINGS


DISFF on the Road - SHORT FILM BLOCK I

Still from 400 cassettes by Thelyia Petraki

During the festival, we will present two curated blocks of short films from the program Drama International Short Film Festival on the Road, from the 2025 official selection. Block I will include:

  • 400 Cassettes, dir. Thelyia Petraki, 2024, 14 min

  • Or How to Disappear, dir. Giorgos Aggelopoulos, 2025, 23 min

  • Ludyas, dir. Akis Polyzos, 2025, 30 min

  • Requiem in Salt, dir. Sylvia Nicolaides & Nicolas Iordanou, 2024, 16 min

  • Noi, dir. Neritan Zinxhiria, 2025, 15 min

  • Avantaz, dir. Christos Tatsis, 2025, 19 min

VARIOUS DIRECTORS - 117 MIN

SHORT FILMS

SCREENINGS


Still from Dust to Dust by Dimitris Papathanasis

DISFF on the Road - SHORT FILM BLOCK II

During the festival, we will present two curated blocks of short films from the program Drama International Short Film Festival on the Road, from the 2025 official selection. Block II will include:

  • Dust to Dust, dir. Dimitris Papathanasis, 2025, 26 min

  • Magdalena Hausen: Frozen Time, dir. Yannis Karpouzis, 2025, 24 min

  • The Wolves Return, dir. Stelios Moraitidis, 2025, 20 min

  • 100 Ahead, dir. Michael Gigintis, 2025, 40 min

  • My Green Garden, dir. Eleni Tsekeri, 2025, 16 min

VARIOUS DIRECTORS - 126 MIN

SHORT FILMS

SCREENINGS


Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot housewives and Albanian turbo-folk girls – who perform acts as revolutionary as praising abortion and as charming as drawing childish pictures, these artists call for social justice by taking aim at conservatism, patriarchy, patriotism, racism and sexism.

DIR. FIL IEROPOULOS - 2024 - 92 MIN

DOCUMENTARY

AVANT-DRAG!

SCREENINGS