In mid September, we held our annual volunteers’ training, aiming primarily at creating the team that will see this year’s festival through. The curatorial team and the volunteers spent two days dedicated to knowledge sharing, team-building and creating a space where we could exchange views, experiences and thoughts regarding what brought us all together: the …

PDSFF24 | Love & Revolt, 7 – 10 March 2024, Athens (main event), special screenings in 10 cities around the world in 2024 PDSFF24 is a trans-local cinematographic space of creation and resistance. We collectively negate the existing order that disconnects and confines film-makers, communities and struggles. We claim a new space where we can …

Addressing youth from all around Europe is a rare privilege that we enjoyed during the screening in Loches co-organised with L’Europe en Berry Touraine. The selected shorts deal with intimate relationships of youth with peers, their families – physical or chosen ones – the climate crisis and the digital world. The audience, aged 16 to …

This year’s edition leaves us with a bittersweet feeling. Kicking off the festival run on the day of the general workers’ strike, in the midst of artists squatting theaters and occupying university space, served as a reality check. In Athens and other cities around Greece, actors protest and strike against a government decision that infringes …

On October 22 & 23, returning and new volunteers, along with the organisers of the Positively Different Short Film Festival, gathered at Inter Alia’s office for a two-day training. Silent discussion For the purposes of the first day of the training, which aimed to familiarise the participants with inclusion and privilege, the methodology of silent …

#PDSFF23VOLUNTEERCALL It’s this time of the year! As we’re collecting shorts from all around the globe, we’re also looking for our PDSFF23 film selection Volunteers’ team! What you will gain from joining our team: What we’re looking for: Complete the form below by September 25 & join the PDSFF23 team:https://interaliaproject.com/participation/pdsff23-volunteer-call/ “Positively Different Short Film Festival …

The curatorial team of #PDSFF22 and Inter Alia warmly thank all the people who made this event so unique – guests, creators, volunteers and of course, all of you who attended and filled the TRIANON room for three consecutive days. Over the course of the festival run, 35 shorts were screened competing for three cash …

Trianon cinema was filled with an audience eager to discuss with involved experts from diverse fields, coming together to analyse gender-based violence as a symptom of dominant masculinity and alternative ways to discuss the concept and reexamine its meaning.The panel involved Anna Kouroupou, director of Red Umbrella Athens, who shared her experience of trans activism …

The Masterclass on Film Critique with Yiannis Kantea-Papadopoulos was followed up with our final meeting on Saturday the 6th, where we met physically and virtually to talk about intersectionality. We had the chance to get an insight on the theory behind the festival’s rationale, discuss our experiences related to our multiple and conflicted identities, and …

Positively Different Short Film Festival 2022 calls out to all film enthusiasts for yet another exciting year to come: Will you help us narrow down the official festival selection for 2022? Complete the form linked & join the PDSFF22 festival team! Positively Different Short Film Festival seeks to explore intersecting discriminations; the festival team is …

Positively Different Short Film Festival, 11 – 13 March 2022, Athens Two years into a narrower life, filmmakers keep inspiring us with their resilience. They exemplify that power and imagination can’t be confined. PDSFF is a time of appreciation and celebration of this lot. We invite all filmmakers, documentarists, visual content creators, students and emerging …

Positively Different Short Film Festival collaborated with Cine Sholeio Pikermiou to hold a day devoted to cinema and social action. Through a curated selection of awarded and handpicked shorts from the official program of PDSFF20 & PDSFF21 touched upon a series of otherwise under-represented thematics and initiated a dialogue with the local community within the …

For the second time around, PDSFF prepared and showcased a hand-picked selection of this year’s award winners (Best Film Award, Audience Award and Best Greek Production) and Honorable Mentions. In the breathtaking scenery of Epirus and Zagorochoria, we were glad to collaborate again with ‘Zagoriwood’ and their exceptional team. Screenings, workshops and multi-awarded films brought …

Time and space in our cities is narrowing; a consequence of a lifestyle pattern imposed by few and experienced as an alienating reality by the rest. Positively Different Short Film Festival was created to enable people voice themselves against oppressive structures, enhance their agency and defend the public sphere.  Our route intersected with the struggle …

On the occasion of the international meeting on European values and the value of Europe that took place in Loche, France, organised by Europe en Berry Tourraine, PDSFF conveyed a message of equality, empathy and solidarity. An audience of great diversity, adolescents, youngsters and elderly people from 20 European countries, enjoyed a special screening from …