THURSDAY 16/10 | 20:00
The Archive of Grigoris Antoniou
13’, 2024
Cyprus
Experimental
Synopsis
Martha, a museum archivist, has discovered a box of early 20th-century lantern slides from Cyprus. She is using Artificial Intelligence to help her catalogue and interpret the archival photographs. However, this leads to conflicting information and unexpected glitches.
Credits
Directed by: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Alexia Achilleos | Screenplay: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Alexia Achilleos | Cinematography: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Alexia Achilleos | Editing: Katerina Kountourioti | Sound Design: Marcus Papageorgiou | Cast: Marilena Zackheos (Martha’s voice) | Producers: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Alexia Achilleos. The production was supported financially by the Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden and the Cyprus University of Technology
Director's Bio
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is a visual artist and researcher. She earned an MA in Visual Arts from the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and a PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester (UK). Her short documentary Untitled 1 (twin portrait) (2007, 11’45’’) received the Best Documentary Award at the 5th Cyprus Short Film & Documentary Festival. Theopisti works primarily with photography and has shown her work internationally in exhibition spaces such as the Jeu de Paume (France), Smithsonian Institute (USA), Hasselblad Foundation (Sweden), Kunsthal Aarhus (Denmark), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland) and many more.
Alexia Achilleos is an artist and researcher, with a background in fine art, archaeology and cultural studies. Her work explores the power dynamics that shape artificial intelligence (AI), with reference to history, culture and geopolitics. Using postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist approaches, she examines the position of localities, such as Cyprus, in the global AI ecosystem. Alexia’s work has been presented at institutions such as Ars Electronica (AT), Civic Creative Base Tokyo (JP), Hasselblad Foundation (SE), Jeu de Paume (FR), NeMe (CY), and NeurIPS (US).
Filmography
2024 The Archive of Grigoris Antoniou
2007 Untitles 1 (twin portrait)
Quota
3’, 2024
The Netherlands
Animation
Synopsis
When every global citizen is required to have their CO2 emissions tracked, it makes little impact… that is, until they discover the consequences of reaching their designated QUOTA.
Credits
Directing, Screenplay, Art Direction, Music: Studio Job, Joris & Marieke | Sound Design: Bob Kommer Studios | Voices: Carice van Houten, Lucas Tepper, Jonathan Barnett | Producer: Studio Job, Joris & Marieke
Director's Bio
Job, Joris & Marieke is a Dutch Oscar-nominated animation studio, founded in 2007 by Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins and Marieke Blaauw. Their work is distinguished by the absurd concepts and distinctive designs. Job, Joris & Marieke are the writers, directors and designers of all their short films and music videos.
Selected Filmography
2024 Quota
2023 Democracy is Yours
2022 Nobody
2018 A Double Life
2018 Passing By
2016 Kop Op
2015 Otto
2014 A Single Life
2013 MUTE
2008 It’s not Funny, it’s Art!
2006 Moi
Awards
- Audience Award 12+, New York International Children's Film Festival, USA, 2025.
- Super Short Film Award, American Conservation Film Festival, USA, 2025.
- Jury Award for Best Animation, Aspen Shortfest, USA, 2025.
- Audience Award + Best Comedy for Adults Award, Animayo Festival, Spain, 2025.
- Young Jury Award, Rural Filmfest, Spain, 2025.
Trailer
Rhubarb Rhubarb
16’, 2025
United Kingdom
Fiction
Synopsis
In the legendary Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle, Jo and her elderly father produce the pink delicacy that made the region world-famous a century ago. Harvesting by candlelight like their ancestors before them, they could not prepare for the threat looming in the dark.
Credits
Directed by: Kate McMullen | Screenplay: Kate McMullen, Paul Wauters | Cinematography: Ahmet Hüsseyin | Editing: Kate McMullen | Production Design: Alex Nikolaidou | Art Direction: Alex Nikolaidou | Music: Sally McMullen | Sound Design: Mike Bovill | Cast: Joanna Scanlan, David Hargreaves | Producer: Rob Godbold | Production Company: Studio Bold | Co-producers: Dave Knox, Chris Hassell
Director's Bio
Kate McMullen grew up near Cambridge, on Pink Floyd’s Grantchester Meadows. Graduated from Oxford, she moved to Paris and later to Shanghai, where she started exploring film. Kate finds subject matter where no one else is looking, and weaves wit and colour into strong world views. In Little Berlin (2021), Christoph Waltz narrates the improbable true story of a German bull separated from his cows by the Iron Curtain in 1946. The film picked up an array of awards, including for Best Comedy, Best Documentary, several Audience awards and a BAFTA™ nomination.
Filmography
2025 Rhubarb Rhubarb
2021 Little Berlin
Awards
- Best Fiction, Marseille Festival of Music & Cinema, France, 2025.
Trailer
Through the Window
Okienko
11’, 2025
Poland
Documentary
Synopsis
They come to buy newspapers and cigarettes, boast, complain, or talk. A mother with a teething baby, a woman worried about her cat’s disease, an old man devoted to the Catholic radio… As many people pass by the kiosk window, so many small and big human stories unfold.
Credits
Directed by: Daniel Stopa | Screenplay: Daniel Stopa | Cinematography: Daniel Stopa | Editing: Robert Kołodziejczyk, Rolando Garduno, Jakub Rados | Sound Design: Zbigniew Malecki | Producers: Jerzy Kapuściński, Ewa Jastrzębska, Magdalena Tomanek | Production Company: Munk Studio - Polish Filmmakers Association | Co-producers: Kiosk Films
Director's Bio
Daniel Stopa is a director and producer. His short films have been presented and honoured at many international festivals, including DocuDays UA in Kyiv and BogoShorts in Bogota. He is currently working on other documentaries: Until the Wedding, The Fat One, The Warrior’s Path.
Filmography
2025 Through The Window / Okienko
2023 The Kiosk / Kiosk
2018 Skinny / Chudy
The Canon / El Canon
19’, 2024
Chile
Fiction
Synopsis
Jean, a Haitian migrant in Chile, is admired wherever he goes. His body represents all the classical values of the academy. However, in the anonymity of his existence, he is also a canon of marginality.
Credits
Directed by: Martín Seeger | Screenplay: Martín Seeger | Cinematography: Víctor Rojas | Editing: Juan Murillo | Art Direction: Gina Franzani | Cast: Camilus Berdouay | Producer: Rodrigo Muñoz | Production Company: NACROVIA
Director's Bio
Martín Seeger (1983, Santiago de Chile) is a director and screenwriter. He runs the production company NACROVIA. He is currently releasing the short film El Canon (Best Short Film, Tampere Film Festival 2025), producing his second fiction feature film La Mancha Roja and the documentary Ventanas.
Filmography
2025 The Canon / El Canon
2023 Ocean
2011 Piotr: A Bad Translation
2009 Love the T-shirt
2007 The Translations of Piotr Herroll
2006 People and Things
Awards
- Best Short Film Award, Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 2025.
- Audience Award Cinelatino Reencontres de Toulouse, France, 2025.
- Best Short Film CCAS Award Cinelatino Reencontres de Toulouse, France, 2025.
- Best Short Film Award, 20MINMAX, Germany, 2025.
- Best Human Rights Short Film Award, Festival Internacional de Rosario, Argentina, 2025.
- Best Short Film Award, Chilean Film Festival FICCH, Chile, 2025.
- Best Short Film Award, Festival Cortos en Grande, Chile, 2025.
Hush Now
4’, 2024
France
Animation
Synopsis
A bluntly intimate look at world leaders during some of their everyday moments, pondering what’s on their minds when the world mourns, what they think about when they are alone, in their moments of relaxation, or what they dream about during their power naps.
Credits
Directed by: Laen Sanches | Screenplay: Laen Sanches | Animation: Laen Sanches | Editing: Laen Sanches | Production Design: Laen Sanches | Music: Wiegenlied (Lullaby), Op.49, No.4 by Johannes Brahms (1868) | Sound Design: Nick Smith | Voice cast: Mariandoro | Producer: Laen Sanches
Director's Bio
Laen Sanches (1972) is a French filmmaker and multidisciplinary creative based in Amsterdam. He began his career as a VFX artist in Paris and at an Oscar-winning studio in Los Angeles. Today, his expertise extends to branding, art direction, and mixed-media motion graphics. Laen also leads workshops on AI applied to filmmaking, undertaking projects that leverage AI for positive impact, including experimenting with immersive technology.
Filmography
2022 PLSTC
2022 Way Too Long
2017 Moby Dick
2011 Zamarat
2010 Balada Catalana
2010 Miss Daisy Cutter
Awards
- Creative Activism Award, The Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA), Los Angeles, USA.
Trailer
No Mean City
14’, 2025
United Kingdom, USA
Documentary
Synopsis
Two workmen and an apprentice navigate Belfast at night, replacing old sodium street lights with LED. Beneath their glow, the city grapples with change, as progress marches on.
Credits
Directed by: Ross McClean | Screenplay: Ross McClean | Cinematography: Ronnie McQuillan | Editing: Ross McClean, Phil Harrison | Sound Design: Tamás Varga | Producers: Mike Paterson, Heidi Fleisher, Conal Clapper | Production Company: Elemental
Director's Bio
Ross McClean is a filmmaker from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied Creative Documentary in Canada, Hungary, Portugal, and Belgium, and graduated from the European Documentary Directing Master’s programme DocNomads. His films have screened at more than 50 local and international film festivals. Ross is currently in production on his first feature-length documentary supported by BFI Doc Society & Arte.
Filmography
2025 No Mean City
2023 Echo
2019 Hydebank
Echo of Time
13’, 2025
Cyprus
Fiction
Synopsis
Decades after the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, a man returns to his deserted childhood village. In the dust of an old municipal office, a rotary phone rings, connecting him to a distant voice that stirs memory, silence, and buried grief.
Credits
Directed by: Marios Kleanthous | Screenplay: Marios Kleanthous | Cinematography: Fivos Vas | Editing: Marios Kleanthous | Production Design: Marios Kleanthous | Art Direction: Marios Kleanthous & Yana Baluieva | Costume Design: Marios Kleanthous | Music: Marios Kleanthous | Sound Design: Marios Kleanthous | Cast: Konstantinos Alkiviadis, Yiolanda Christodoulou, Aliki Mounti | Producer: Marios Kleanthous | Production Company: Uplight Productions
Director's Bio
Marios Kleanthous was born in 1991 in Cyprus and is a film director, screenwriter, and producer. He studied Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology. His first short film, Session, tells the story of a psychologist who treats her patients using extreme methods. His second, Journey to Redemption, addresses racism and social discrimination, and was awarded at the Portugal Indie Film Festival. Echo of Time is his most recent short film.
Filmography
2025 Echo of Time
2024 Journey to Redemption
2023 Session
2022 Learn All You Can
2016 Silikou: The Oldest Village of Commandaria
Trailer
Skin on Skin
29’, 2025
Germany
Fiction
Synopsis
Two men displaced in the hell of the German meat industry. Something lies between them. Something makes them dream again.
Credits
Directed by: Simon Schneckenburger | Screenplay: Simon Schneckenburger, Marie Wagner | Cinematography: Nico Schrenk | Editing: Lukas Wengorz | Music: Christoph Erling, Marc Grünhäuser | Sound Design: Julian Berg | Production Design: Bartholomäus M. Kleppek | Costume Design: Marie Wagner, Christin-Marlen Freyler | Cast: Jonas Smulders, Jurij Drevenšek, Christian A. Koch | Producers: Leon Döhner | Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg | Co-producers: Marc Colditz, Gerd Scherrmann, SWR, Arte, 3sat
Director's Bio
Simon Schneckenburger was born in the Black Forest, southern Germany. He is a recipient of the German Newcomer Film Award and has participated in various teaching and jury activities. Simon graduated in Fiction Directing from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His first short film during his studies, Borzaya, was screened at festivals worldwide and was shortlisted for the Student Academy Awards. His graduation film, Skin on Skin, was nominated for the German Short Film Award (Lola) and received multiple awards at international festivals, including winning the Future Frames section at the Karlovy Vary IFF. He is currently developing his first feature film.
Filmography
2025 Skin on Skin
2023 Everybody Leaves in the End
2021 Borzaya
2020 I Think we’re Headed for the End of the World
Selected Awards
- Future Frames Winner, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2025.
- Programmer’s Award, Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2025.
- International Audience Award, Vienna Shorts, Austria, 2025.
- Grand Prix Award & International Audience Award, Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium, 2025.
- Audience Award, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Germany, 2025.
- Best Short Film Award, Landshut Short Film Festival, Germany, 2025
- Longlist, Student BAFTA Awards, 2025.