About the Festival
Positively Different, Short Film Festival, 19 - 21 Μarch 2021, Athens
Gender, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, religion, able-bodiness – are determinants of our present and future, life prospects and obstructions. PDSFF2021 focuses on their intersections and follows stories of characters, individuals and communities that experience oppression due to identities they carry. Shedding light on life paths of “others” – often through realism and humor and other times through abstraction and experimentation – the festival aims to give space to co-creation, networking and shaping of collective claims. Our aspiration is to turn PDSFF into an institution for promoting intersecting identities and raising awareness on issues of discrimination and oppression experienced by individuals and groups that fall through the cracks of representation in contemporary polities.
Produced by: Inter Alia
Announcements
Submissions for 2021 are now open!
Positively Different Short Film Festival joins Zagoriwood
Up in the mountains of Epirus under a magical August full-moon, PDSFF held a screening of selected movies from the 2020 catalogue in the framework of Zagoriwood film festival and workshop. Along with local citizens and film students, in the main square of Kato Pedina, films about intersecting stories and shared struggles against oppression were screened. The discussions that followed with participants and teachers in the workshop were enlightening as to how to make the upcoming festival even better.
Big thanks to Zagoriwood organising team for the invitation and to the local community of Kato Pedina for the warm welcome. See you next year!
Positively Different Short Film Festival at CinePark
Pre-festival screening Photos
PDSFF was introduced to the audience with its first pre-festival event on Friday, 10th of January, almost a month prior to its official opening at the 13rd of February at Trianon. The attendees had the chance to discuss the festival’s core thematics and to participate in crafting the official 2020 festival selection by selecting amongst the semi-finalists.
Stay tuned!
Videos
Positively Different 2020 Aftermovie
Positively Different 2020 Trailer
Positively Different 2020 Teaser
Photos
Pre-festival screening: Exile Room - 10th of January 2020
Programme
February 13
Easy man (2018)
Ada (2019)
At Intersections (2019)
Green Right (2019)
Compartment 33 (2019) *
Asheng (2018)
Fourth Wall (2019)
Ficus (2018) *
Girlfriends | Amigas (2018)
I Am Mackenzie (2019) *
Down To The Wire | In Zona Cesarini (2018) *
Until The Morning (2019) *
Reonghee (2019)
February 14
What would you tell them? | ¿Qué les dirías?
Where my home is
A Romanian Movie
Identities
Stitch (2018)
Unbecoming (2019) *
The Beds Of Others (2018)
Soccer Boys (2018) *
Ladies Of Wakaliwood (2019)
In The Glass House (2019) *
Abot Kamay (Within Arm’s Reach) (2019) *
The Voice Over (2018) *
Aleksia (2018) *
71 Questions (2019)
Portraits Of My Mother (2019) *
Joc (2018) *
Zohal (2019)
Baby (2018)
Lebollo (2019)
From Above *
February 15
Purgatory
The White Swallows in the Community
Football for refugees
The myth of the wandering womb
1+1=1
Love, Lacuna
Double-check
Double-check/2
Broken Doll (2019)
Why Oh Why Can’t I Touch the Sky (2019) *
Just Like Our Lives (2019) *
The School Bus (2019) *
Cleats (2019) *
Manuel (2019) *
Sunday (2020)
Uonted! (2018) *
The Unusual Bath Of Mr. Otmar (2019)
Panic Attack!
Gold Leaf | Bladgoud (2018) *
Suicide Candidates (2019) *
Still Life (2019) *
Fireflies (2018) *
Brooklyn Park (2019)
*The producers of films marked with an asterisk (*) will be attending the festival.
Detailed Programme
Thursday 13th of February - Day 1
19:30-20:00 Opening & Welcome
20:00-21:30 Coming Together
Celebrating collective organising as a source of safety and power that make our struggles just a little bit easier to take on.
Directed by: Rosine Kaboré, Lisette Pires
Synopsis: Franck and Stephane share their misadventures with women.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: French
Directed by: Rafaela Uchoa
Synopsis: Brazil, 2030: Lia, a journalist and programmer, is called to action by the Ada group. Formed by female hackers, the organization fights to overthrow the Evangelist Dictatorship.
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Directed by: Fern Sim Mei
Synopsis: A film about feminism, and the intersections of identity.
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Language: English
Directed by: Valentina Cayetano Kelly, Paz Bustamante, Vanina Bustos
Synopsis: On the street, groups of women and allies await the Senate ruling on the legalization of abortion. Testimonies of women give a new sense to the need for abortion to be safe and legal.
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Country of Origin: Argentina
Country of Filming: Argentina, Cuba
Language: Spanish
Directed by: Ulla Fudge
Synopsis: Three men are in a train compartment, travelling to an unknown destination. There is George, an upper-middle class Englishman, Zaza, glamorous drag queen, and Jamal, an Arab man. With full of resentment and animosity the unforeseen circumstances bring them.
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Directed by: Mohamad Sadeq Esmaeili
Synopsis: 7 women living in a frontier village of south-eastern of Iran, work together to afford their livelihood; they decide to find a way to release their husbands who have been imprisoned for 18 years for drug dealing .
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: Islamic Republic of Iran
Country of Filming: Islamic Republic of Iran
Language: Persian
Directed by: Dimitris Gkotsis
Synopsis: “The 4th Wall” is the side of the society that remains invisible, but similar throughout the globe. The only significant difference is people’s characteristics. A world that is reproducing itself in order to produce, surviving rather instinctively.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: Greece
Country of Filming: Various
Language: Greek
21:30-22:00 Q&A Session
22:15-23:45 Personal Revolts
A tribute to the ones who go beyond and against their own limits, even when the outcome isn't guaranteed.
Directed by: Andrey Volkashin
Synopsis: Almir is a closeted gay man struggling with self-acceptance. Left high and dry by his married lover, Almir decides to spend New Year’s Eve with his dying friend Militsa. As the city celebrates, the two talk about their lives and loves, but does Almir dare to tell his closest friend his deepest secret?
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Country of Filming: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: Bosnian
Directed by: Camila Rodó Carvallo
Synopsis: After an unfortunate event at a party, two friends decide to take action.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Chile
Country of Filming: Chile
Language: Spanish
Directed by: Artemis Anastasiadou
Synopsis: Caught among toxic masculinity, a sequin dress and a teenage crush, a teen skater, growing up in rural Texas, will have sex for the first time in the back of their dad’s truck. “I am Mackenzie” is a short coming of age drama about adolescence and the feeling of not belonging; the feeling of being an alien to your home, your peers, your body, your gender. It is a story about rushing towards love, and making mistakes; a story about finding the courage to look honestly at yourself.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Directed by: Simona Cocozza
Synopsis: Sitting at the same table are a conservative, working-class father, a loving mother who is a little too devoted to her husband, a grown-up man who is still trapped in playing the role of the good son, and an unexpected guest of impeccable manners. Something that has always divided them, yet has been kept under wraps for decades, is about to emerge. Will they finish lunch and get to their dessert in one piece, or will this family’s harmony be irreparably damaged at the first meatball?
By playing with important national traditions like the passion for football and the regularity of Sunday lunch, “In Zona Cesarini” portrays, with ironic realism, four characters immersed in the type of everyday family life so common to all of us, made up of precarious balancing acts and tough but necessary confrontations,
Bon appetit, and have a good Sunday!
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: Italian
Directed by: Itay Akirav
Synopsis: Until recently considered the prodigy of Israeli poetry, she was surprised to be rejected after publishing a book on the experience of rape. Now in Berlin, Poet Hila Lahav is searching for the home she’s left in memories and words.
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: Hebrew
Directed by: Jegwang Yeon
Synopsis: Reonghee and I are undocumented aliens. Yesterday, Reonghee died while running away from the Immigrant Office Agents. The company we worked for is only concerned about covering up the mess. I’m going to find Reonghee, whose body is hidden somewhere by the company; I will give her the funeral that she deserves.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Korea
Country of Filming: Korea
Language: Korean
23:45-00:15 Q&A Session
Friday 14th of February - Day 2
17:30-18:30 Free screenings of amateur young filmmakers
Catalonia, Spain – 15’
Fundació Catalunya Voluntària
This film shares the story of four boys with similar characteristics. Moroccan, young and
migrated in dangerous ways to find a better future. What difficulties did they face? What
motivated them to put their lives at risk? And especially and more importantly, what is
their life like here? This documentary tries to explain the difference between who these
boys are, and how society perceives them.
Italy – 13’
PRISM
This film is about the oppression and discrimination that people received just because
of their skin color and language differences; It is about how these experiences didn’t let
them down. Instead they tried to make a change in the community where they live,
where they feel at home! Because home is not where you sleep but where you stand.
Romania – 10’
A.R.T Fusion
Τhe perspective of three women on gender and ethnicity.
Thessaloniki, Greece – 20’
Thessaloniki Pride
The stories of three young people, living in Thessaloniki, Greece and the intersection of
their identities.
18:30-19:15 Structured discussion between youth groups and professional filmmakers
19:30-21:10 Overcoming Barriers
Smiling from the other side of the fence.
Directed by: Siobhán Smith
Synopsis: Optimistic Harry attends an interview which will decide if he can carry on receiving benefits that enable to him to live a sustainable life. The tough, unforgiving interview forces him to retreat to his imagination, a softer world, full of wool and crochet.
Stitch is an animated short film which highlights the need for change in the way we treat the sick and disabled in the UK.
Trailer: positively-different.net
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: –
Language: English
Directed by: Navid Mashayekhi
Synopsis: We all try to be something, to become someone. “Unbecoming” chronicles the life of Logan, as he fights to “unbecome” everything he’s been until now, that wasn’t really him in the first place, as we follow his story from early childhood, to a traumatic adolescence, and beyond.
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: Canada
Country of Filming: Canada
Language: English
Directed by: Jonay García
Synopsis: Laura is a sexual assistant for people with functional diversity. Her boyfriend, Marco, is desperate to find work to change the situation. Perhaps the only thing all we need is a little affection to feel alive.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Language: Spanish
Directed by: Carlos Guilherme Vogel
Synopsis: In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a fascist government, Beescats Soccer Boys players, the first gay soccer team in Rio de Janeiro, prepare for a championship while discussing important issues regarding homosexuality in sport and homophobia in contemporary Brazilian society.
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Directed by: Linn Björklund
Synopsis: Ready, set, action! And we mean action, both figuratively and literally. In our documentary we follow three kick-ass women involved in Uganda’s most exciting action film studio – Wakaliwood. We will follow one lady in particular, who is doing her very first action film. This is a documentary about finding your path in life. It’s about refusing to adapt to the role that is given to you and to have the courage to do what you love.
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: Sweden
Country of Filming: Uganda
Language: English
Directed by: Anna Zhukovets
Synopsis: What does your inner world look like? What rooms do you flee to when the outside world is unbearable? How does this world smell? Does it smell like traces of human scent? How do you connect your inner world with the outer world? A documentary not only about those who ask themselves these questions every day. A film not only about autism spectrum disorder or Asperger’s syndrome, but about all of us. Every human being has autistic traits. Everyone has their inner world, their perception, their glass house.
Trailer: positively-different.net
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: German
Directed by: Mark Garcia
Synopsis: In a pursuit of having a better life, Jess Lacebal – a guy born without both hands, labors out his day-to-day living by doing different money making hustles in the streets of Manila.
Despite his disability, Jess compensates his struggles by having a positive outlook and being the joker of the bunch, making him quite a popular personality in his town.
As he touches on the sad face of reality, Jess reflects on things that he couldn’t do and questions fate why this condition happened to him.
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: Bahrain
Country of Filming: Philippines
Language: Tagalog
21:15-21:45 Q&A Session
22:00-23:40 Experiences of Oppression
When the structures of normativity and oppression overwhelm us, the happy end is at times nowhere to be seen.
[trigger warning | content warning: ab*se, r*pe, s*x]
Directed by: Claudia Cortés Espejo, Lora D’Addazio, Mathilde Remy
Synopsis: Bobby has a problem: he hears voices in his head… and they seem to narrate everything he does.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Animation
Country of Origin: Belgium
Country of Filming: –
Language: English
Directed by: Loris Di Pasquale
Synopsis: Aleksia is a turbulent teenager of Russian origin. She has grown up with her mother and her little brother in the suburbs of Marghera. After confessing to her friend Angela that she is pregnant, she is pushed to steal a tablet to get money for abortion. With the theft, things turn bad and Aleksia is arrested by the police.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language:Italian, Russian
Directed by: Justine Léaux
Synopsis: The interrogation of a lifetime.
Trailer: positively-different.net
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Directed by: Tavo Ruiz
Synopsis: This is a documentary about my mother and the moment that changed her life. Through her narration, my mother confesses to me what she remembers from the moment she was raped as a child. By painfully recalling this traumatic event, she reflects on the sexual abuse of children and the scars that these events leave in a person’s life.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Directed by: Andreea Valean
Synopsis: Dani, a 12 year old boy living in the outskirts of Bucharest, toils in the busy stop-light traffic selling cold water to support his family. He attempts to pay off all debts by betting all his money in a game organized by children with cardboard boxes on the streetcar tracks.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Romania
Country of Filming: Romania
Language: Romanian
Directed by: Nasrin Mohammadpour
Synopsis: As defined by UNICEF: child marriage is a truly global problem that exists across countries, cultures, religions and ethnicities.
Over 650 million people have married at an early age resulting in various harmful situations; including dangerous pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and so on.
The country of Afghanistan in south Asia has the highest rates of child marriages.
Trailer: positively-different.net
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Islamic Republic of Iran
Country of Filming: Islamic Republic of Iran
Language: Persian
Directed by: Thais Drassinower
Synopsis: An unnerving encounter with her estranged father at a night club while on a weekend back home in Lima is enough to remind Lía (19) that there are unhealed wounds. She will be forced to understand that the only person who can take care of her now is herself.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: –
Language: English, Spanish
Directed by: Palesa Mashao
Synopsis: A woman reminisce about her traumatic experience as a young girl.
Genre: Documentary
Country of Origin: South Africa
Country of Filming: South Africa
Language: SeSotho
Directed by: Nándor Lörincz, Bálint Nagy
Synopsis: Budapest, 7th district, general clearance. The one-cut film starts with a simple argument between two strangers for a parking spot. The fight brings a dramatic change in every character’s life.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Hungary
Country of Filming: Hungary
Language: Hungarian
23:40-00:00 Q&A Session
Saturday 15th of February - Day 3
16:30-18:00 Free screenings of amateur young filmmakers
Turkey, 14’
EPEKA
The stories of children refugees arriving to the city of Sinop. Turkey.
Bulgaria – 20’
Free Youth Centre – Vidin
This film shows the life of the people in the Roma community in Vidin, Bulgaria; it is about those roma people who have achieved personal success. Against negative stereotypes that exist in many countries, this film shows that not everyone is like the others.
Germany, 3’
Institute for Roma and Minorities
Sometimes the integration process can start from something as simple as playing football all together.
Greece – 10’
Inter Alia
A film about the struggles, intersections and societal pressures of the identity of a mother. Can you go on being anything else, when you become a mother?
UK, 8’
Sirius Training
This film depicts a story of a woman living in parallel worlds. She belongs to her past as much as she does to her present. Her memories in Syria continue to shadow her as she pursues a new life in the UK.
UK, 20’
Sirius Training
Love, Lacuna is a semi-autobiographical short film which follows the daily routines of women of colour and non-binary people of colour in the chaotic city of London. Through various streams of consciousness we see the innermost thoughts of those who are usually marginalised. The film – like the literary magazine, Lacuna – is an assertion of identity. Rather than ask for space, the Lacuna actors and writers show how space can be claimed. They show that their identities have always been here and are here to stay.
Hungary, 15’
Az emberség erejével Alapítvány
Double-check: to make certain of something is correct or safe usually by examining it again (Cambridge Dictionary).
In our first movie we introduce Gergő to you. He is a Hungarian disabled young person from Pécs, who definitely has a fruitful life. You can see him having a direct conversation with us and you can get an insight into the backstage part of his life. We show you how much extra effort he puts into maintaining his simple existence.If you consider it a general success story, you should probably double-check the Hungarian circumstances and opportunities provided for disabled people…
Double-check/2
Hungary
Az emberség erejével Alapítvány
A movie that aims to show us a single individual’s way into activism and community organizing. A journey that shows us not only the available choices of a disabled person in Hungary, but also the systematic oppression they face as a group. Discrimination is not a phenomenon coming from one way, it can appear on many grounds. From kindergarten to university and the world of hungarian civil organizations, it is an educational yet personal showing of the life of Zóra Molnár.
18:00-18:45 Structured discussion between youth groups and professional filmmakers
19:00-20:20 Films for All
Funny, sweet and romantic stories opening sensitive topics to adolescents and youth.
Directed by: Gaspar Aguirre, Román Sovrano
Synopsis: A young teenager is going through a hard phase because of their self-image and the external pressure of how they should be.
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Animation
Country of Origin: Argentina
Country of Filming: –
Language: Spanish
Directed by: Ava Shacklady
Synopsis: Cora the starfish wonders why she isn’t a star in the sky. See her crazy attempts to try and touch the sky… will she get up there?
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Animation
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: –
Language: English
Directed by: East Riding Children in Care Council
Synopsis: A short animation made by children and young people in care which explores their experience of education.
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Animation, Visual Arts
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: –
Language: English
Directed by: Ramazan Kılıç
Synopsis: Nebahat, a teacher in her 20s, has just been appointed to a rural village school in Anatolia. She realizes that her students are struggling to arrive at school, hitchhiking tractors, using whatever means they can find. She asks the Ministry of Education for a shuttle, but without a driver, the vehicle is useless. She decides to be the bus driver for her students, but there is one small problem!
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Turkey
Country of Filming: Turkey
Language: Turkish
Directed by: Abdullah Şahin
Synopsis: Ilyas and Ahmet are two close friends. Emir, a Syrian refugee completes the gang. Ilyas wants to make the tryouts for a local football team and saves money to buy new cleats. Emir shares his dream. After seeing his father pay off the debts of Emir’s family to the grocery store, Ilyas gives his new cleats as a gift to Emir in order to join to the tryouts.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Turkey
Country of Filming: Turkey
Language: Turkish
Directed by: Javier Robles Álvarez
Synopsis: Manuel lives far from his family, immersed in a routine from which he can´t escape.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Language: Spanish
Directed by: Arun Fulara
Synopsis: When the middle-aged Kamble makes his weekly visit to the neighbourhood barber shop, it’s not just for a shave. He can’t wait to be touched by Jaan, the new barber-boy he has a crush on. It’s the highlight of his otherwise dull existence as a married man leading a dual life in a society that abhors homosexuality.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: India
Country of Filming: India
Language: Hindi
Directed by: Daniele Bonarini
Synopsis: Arezzo, these days. There is turmoil in the “Casa del Sorriso”, a social cooperative for the disabled: the participants have been given the opportunity to independently choose the destination for their next trip. Titian, however, does not want to know about democratic votes: he wants to go at all costs to the amusement park “Cinecittà World” to visit the Old West! Will he make it? And what will he invent if he finds that the attraction is very different from how he imagined it?
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: Italian
Directed by: Niko Radas
Synopsis: Mister Otmar’s way of living is not aligned with the society he lives in. He’s been brought before court as being deemed as dangerous for the collective thinking and sentenced to a psychiatric treatment with the aim of returning him to socially acceptable frameworks. However, the prescribed therapy confronts with unexpected resistance.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Croatia
Country of Filming: Croatia
Language: Croatian
20:30-21:00 Q&A Session
21:10-22:50 Contemporary Dead Ends
Stories about the “here” and “now” of a contemporary society that has taken a peculiar turn.
[trigger warning | content warning: s*icide]
Directed by: Eileen O’Meara
Synopsis: You know the nagging thoughts that start with “did I leave the coffee on?” and turn in to “am I pregnant with a devil-baby?” This hand-drawn animation explores anxiety, obsession, and one woman’s slippery hold on reality.
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Animation
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: –
Language: English
Directed by: Vincent Tilanus
Synopsis: Owen, a twenty-something couch surfer, is forced to stay at his sister’s home for a few days. His growing deceptions begin to tarnish the image that he is presenting to others. Driven by a growing despair, Owen tries to do everything possible to keep up his appearance and conceal his truth at all costs.
Trailer: vimeo
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
Country of Filming: The Netherlands
Language: Dutch
Directed by: Hamza Atifi
Synopsis: In this unique futurescape, the marginalised and impoverished are targeted by government-sponsored suicide initiatives that encourage sacrifice for the greater good. Whether the true horror lies in the acceptance of such horror or the impact it has on those involved, this weave of dark humour and technical brilliance is an original insight into the thin border between utopia and dystopia.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Morocco
Country of Filming: Morocco
Language: Arabic
Directed by: Bruno Fraga Braz
Synopsis: An old woman spends her last days apart from the world, taking care of her sister. Steeped in silence, she dreams about music and everything she left behind. “Still life” is a film about the invisibility and solitude of the ones that the city has forgotten. Based on a true story.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Portugal
Country of Filming: Portugal
Language: (No Dialogue)
Directed by: Amelia Nanni
Synopsis: An afternoon, two children, two worlds meet.
Trailer: YouTube
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: Belgium
Country of Filming: Belgium
Language: French
Directed by: Nikola Duravcevic
Synopsis: Alone in New York, Somali rideshare driver Abdi begins his nightshift with the news of a tragedy back home. The faces in the backseat change as he wrestles, unable to connect, with whether the unthinkable can be true—until a vision provides the clarity he seeks. Poetic and lyrical, BROOKLYN PARK is a modern-day immigrant tale that explores alienation, grief, and transcendence.
Genre: Fiction
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
22:50-23:15 Q&A Session
23:15-00:00 Award Ceremony
00:00 Lost Bodies Live | Closing Event
Programme
We are working hard to create an exciting and diverse programme for this year's festival. Stay tuned!
Meet the Team
Organisers
Volunteers
Jury Committee
Maria Paradeisi
Maria Paradeisi is associate professor of History and Theory of Film, in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture, of Panteion University, Athens. She studied Law, Political Science and Cinema (Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Paris X and Paris VIII) and she obtained her Doctorate Degree in Political Sociology, in 1984 (the title of her dissertation is “The Representation of Women in Hollywood cinema). She worked for Greek radio, television and cinema from 1985 to 1989 and directed films for Greek television.
She is the author of the book Cinematic Narration and Delinquency in the Greek Cinema (1994-2004), Athens, Greece, 2006, Typothito Press, 2013. She published a large number of papers on Greek cinema and women’s cinema in Greek and foreign journals and books. Her most recent publication is the collective volume, Maria Paradeisi, Aphrodite Nikolaidou (eds), From the early to the Contemporary Greek Cinema. Questions of Methodology, Theory, History. Gutenberg 2017.
Jacqueline Lentzou
Jaqueline (Athens, 1989), graduate of London Film School (2013), is a screenwriter and director. Her work revolves around non-traditional family structures, dream construction, love and the lack of it.
Her shorts have competed and been awarded on an international scale (ALEPOU, Locarno 2016, HIWA, Berlin 2017, HECTOR MALO: THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR, Cannes 2018).
Retrospectives of her work have taken place in Vienna, Montreal, Naimen.
Jaqueline just finished shooting her first feature film ‘SELINI, 66 QUESTIONS’.
Alin Tasciyan
Alin Tasciyan was born in 1969 in Istanbul. She graduated from the University of Istanbul with a BA in journalism and public relations in 1991. She began working for the Milliyet Art Review and Milliyet daily newspaper the same year. During the 16-year period in this media group she has been a correspondent, film critic and the editor of the Art Review. Meanwhile she made various cinema programs for the cultural channel of the Turkish Radio and Television TRT 2 including the Magic of Cinema which screened almost 500 classic films for 10 years. She programmed and presented the Thematic Films Ribbon for the news channel 24 between 2009 – 2012. She worked as a critic and a columnist for the Star daily newspaper 2008 – 2014. She is currently a film critic for the channel of culture & art TRT2 and writing for the culture & art website sanatatak.com.
Tasciyan has been an advisor and programmer for many film festivals including Istanbul IFF and Antlaya IFF in Turkey. She is currently an advisor for Adana International Film Festival, Flying Broom Women’s Film Festival in Ankara and she is the head programmer for International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival. She has served in many national and international film festival juries. She is a member of the European Film Academy.
She had been the vice president and president of FIPRESCI, International Federation of Film Critics between 2009-2017. She is currently the Deputy Secretary of FIPRESCI.
Awards
Positively Different Short Film Festival Best Film Award
Positively Different Short Film Festival Audience Award
Positively Different Short Film Festival Best Greek Production
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Venue
TRIANON is not a building where a business struggles to survive.
TRIANON is countless individuals who are struggling to support entrepreneurship in art
Having hosted everybody who is passionate about art.
Having relentlessly supported young Greek filmmakers.
Having resisted the decline of downtown Athens.
Believing every moment that “PATISION Lives”.
More info at: TRIANON.GR
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