Positively Different Short Film Festival’s curatorial team brings this year’s audience 48 films separated into 9 sets. From Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 April, documentaries and fiction shorts from all corners of the world meet in (made accessible*) Astor Cinema. Leaving behind the solid ground of our bright or grim realities, we open our hearts and minds to what has yet to come.
Tickets: https://www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/cinema/pdsff25
Take a look at the festival‘s trailer, HERE.
Read the programme of the festival below, and, in detail, HERE.
Thursday 3 April
19:00 | (un)learning from the children (109′)
Disarming innocence, raw honesty, powerful imagination. Let the children guide us away from all the harmful ways we have learnt to exist in the world.
21:30 | set: relationship as shelter (90′)
In relations of love and support, one can find not only protection from hurt, but a space to thrive.
Friday 4 April
19:00 | dissident survivals (90′)
Unorthodox, unconventional, unapologetic. The heroes of these stories will find their own way to survive, against all that is deemed logical and normal.
21:30 | the banality of evil (90′)
Some of the most troubling experiences of violence are produced in the moments where we choose to be just functional cogs in the machine of systemic oppression.
Saturday 5 April
18:00 | panel discussion: the fight for home
More information to be announced soon.
21:00 | set: the fight for home (105′)
Struggles against the violence of gentrification, dispossession and uprooting. Claiming the right to land beyond the logic of ownership and appropriation.
After-party with a DJ set by Disco Roboto will follow at Astor’s gallery!
Sunday 6 April
18:00 | expendable bodies (105′)
Who are the ones that are considered disposable in a white capitalist heteronormative society?
20:00 | struggling with/in solitude (85′)
What happens when there is no one to stand by you and vow to move with you through the world?
An awards ceremony will follow, for four awards: best film, best Greek production, audience award and curatorial team award.
This year’s jury committee consists of the following members:
Maria Louka, journalist, documentarist and scriptwriter
Thanasis Neofotistos, director, scriptwriter and architect
Janis Westphal, director, writer and creative producer
Karla Crnčević, dramaturgist, film worker and researcher
Information:
Location: Astor Cinema, Stadiou 28 (entrance from Korai gallery)
Dates: 3 – 6 April 2025
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General admission: 6 euro/ set (4 euros for students, unemployed, disabled people with a personal assistant)
Day ticket: 10 euros (7 euros for students, unemployed, disabled people with a personal assistant)
Festival pass: 25 euros
*During all days of the festival, a lift and a wheelchair accessible chemical toilet will be available. On Klafthmonos square, there is underground parking with free space for cars belonging to disabled persons. If you are a wheelchair user, please write us an email at accessibiltypdsff@gmail.com for our information.
