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45th Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF) has announced international lineup for 2022 festival, which is scheduled to take place in Athens, Greece from September 5-11.

Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF), one of the world’s oldest short film festivals, is Greece’s leading short film festival. DISFF is the annual meeting place for filmmakers and industry professionals. Based in Drama, Greece, the festival runs a six-day schedule in September and its main venues are Municipal Conservatory and Olympia Cinema.

Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF) is the leading Greek and South-Eastern European gateway to the world’s most prestigious short film awards, and nominated filmmakers qualify for the European Film Awards.

The President of this year’s International Competition Jury Committee will be the multi-awarded Vassilis Kekatos, the first Greek director to win the Golden Phoenix for short films in the 72nd Cannes Festival, with his fourth short film The distance between us and the sky.

Drama International Short Film Festival 2022 lineup

International Competition lineup

A lineup of 15 short films has been selected to go on screen in the International Competition section of the 2022 Drama International Short Film Festival, or the 45th DISFF.

• “Techno, Mama” (Lithuania), Directed by Saulius Baradinskas
• “Foster” (Netherlands), Directed by Jordi Wijnalda
• “August 13th” (Bulgaria), Directed by Ventsislav Lyubenov Sariev
• “Memoir of a Veering Storm” (Greece), Directed by Sophia Gerovassili
• “Bon Voyage” (China), Directed by Jiawen Li
• “The Salamander Child” (Belgium), Directed by Théo Degen
• “Threatened Love” (Spain), Directed by Héctor Herce
• “Ston throno tou Xerxi” (“On Xerxes’ Throne”) (Greece), Directed by Evi Kalogiropoulou
• “The Calf” (Iran), Directed by Mostafa Vaziri
• “Terra Incognita” (France), Directed by Adrian Dexter, Pernille Kjær
• “Under the Lake” (Greece), Directed by Thanassis Troumboukis
• “The Saboteur” (Finland), Directed by Anssi Kasitonni
• “Cherries” (Lithuania), Directed by Vytautas Katkus
• “Plurabelle” (Argentina), Directed by Sacha Amaral
• “Murmurs of the Jungle” (India), Directed by Sohil Vaidya

The International Competition section of the 45th Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF) is juried by the Vassilis Kekatos (Jury President / Film Director), Basim Magdy (Experimental Artist, Filmmaker) and Claire Diao ( Film Distributor, Critic).

Out of Competition lineup

A lineup of two short films has been selected to go on screen in the Out of Competition program section of the 2022 Drama International Short Film Festival, or the 45th DISFF.

• “Air Hostess-737”, Thanassis Neophotistos (Greece)
• “Tea and Time”, Salah El Amri (Switzerland)

International Student Competition lineup

A lineup of 14 student short films has been selected to go on screen in the International Student Competition section of the 2022 Drama International Short Film Festival, or the 45th DISFF.

• “On the Εdge” (Austria), Directed by Matteo Sanders
• “Before Pandemic and War, There Were Βed Βugs and Love!” (India, Czech Republic), Directed by Nuruzzaman Khan
• “Matapacos” (Germany), Directed by Karla Riebartsch -Lion Durst
• “All that Remains” (Greece), Directed by Semeli Saphou
• “I Should Feed my Cat” (Belgium), Directed by Abram Cedra
• “An Extra Day in Prague” (Czech Republic), Directed by Jacob Ramsay
• “Darker” (Belgium), Directed by Frank Van Den Bogaart
• “The Dependent Variables” (Italy), Directed by Lorenzo Tardella
• “Laika & Nemo” (Germany), Directed by Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow
• “Lonely Fans” (Switzerland), Directed by David Oesch
• “Corrupted” (Chile), Directed by Juan Cifuentes Mera
• “Any Place” (Mexico), Directed by Minerva Rivera Bolaños
• “Love you More than Peanut Butter” (Greece), Directed by Ariadni-Angeliki Thiphronitou-Litou
• “After a Room” (Netherlands), Directed by Naomi Pacifique

The International Student Competition section of the 45th Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF) is juried by Argiris Papadimitropoulos (Jury President / Film Director), Themis Bazaka (Actress) and Lena Divani (Writer).

International Animation Competition lineup

A lineup of 20 animated short films has been selected to go on screen in the International Animation Competition section of the 2022 Drama International Short Film Festival, or the 45th DISFF.

• “Spirit of the forest” (India), Directed by Nandini Rao, Nipura Rao, Kalp Sanghvi
• “Brother nature” (United Kingdom), Directed by Sophie Bird
• “Hi! How are you?”, Directed by Gaia Grandin-Mendzylewski
• “Idodo” (Switzerland), Directed by Ursula Ulmi
• “Farm well” (Netherlands), Directed by Pepijn Robben-Lucas De Man
• “Mouse house” (Slovenia), Directed by Timor Leder
• “The perfect fit” (Lithuania), Directed by Meinardas Valkevicius
• “Autosaurus rex” (Switzerland), Directed by Marcel Barelli
• “Gut feelings” (USA), Vanesa S. Valliere, John Gregorio
• “Miriam” (Romania), Directed by Radu Nicolae
• “The incredible Mrs. Lien Mourlen” (Greece), Directed by Eleni Ksoupa
• “Meal on the plate” (USA), Directed by Chenglin Xie
• “Hysteresis” (Germany), Directed by Robert Seidel
• “Little smasher” (France), Directed by Gilles Cuvelier
• “Bardo” (Ireland), Directed by Aisling Conroy
• “In between” (Greece), Directed by Effie Pappa
• “The garbage man” (Portugal), Directed by Laura Goncales
• “The pink jacket” (Portugal), Directed by Monika Santos
• “My father’s damn camera!” (Slovenia), Directed by Milos Tomic
• “A night at the cemetery” (Greece), Directed by Stelios Polychronakis

The International Animation Competition section of the 45th Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF) is juried by Sperer Sebastien (Member of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival), Maria Anestopoulou (Head Programmer of the Platforma Video and the Animasyros Festival) and Panayiotis Kyriakoulakos (Assistant Professor in Computer Animation (University of the Aegean) and audiovisual and interactive projects producer).

Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF) collaborates with ΕΚΟΜΕ (National Centre of Audiovisual Media & Communication), ΕRT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation), ΕΚΚ (Greek Film Center), Onassis Stegi, Cyclops, RAYCAP, Finos Film, COSMOTE TV and many other bodies, “under the undivided support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Administrative Region, the Greek Parliament, the Municipality of Drama, and, of course the ongoing collaboration with the Greek cinema community”.

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