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
WORKSHOP: LOW-BUDGET FILMMAKING AS METHOD
HOSTED BY: SMARAGDA NITSOPOULOU - 3 HOURS
Most workshops for independent filmmakers begin with the same assumption: that you’re working with less than you should have, and that your task is to compensate—to imitate the look and scale of films made under very different conditions.
This workshop begins from the opposite premise.
Instead of working around limitations, you’ll explore how to work from them—treating low-budget filmmaking as a deliberate method, and a space for creative decision-making rather than compromise.
WORKSHOP SESSION
Still from 400 cassettes by Thelyia Petraki
DISFF on the Road - SHORT FILM BLOCK I
VARIOUS DIRECTORS - 117 MIN
SHORT FILMS
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
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 Years Ahead, dir. Michael Gigintis, 2025, 50 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