Special Screenings | Contemporary Greek Animation
IZONE. Ground Floor

08.09 | 14:00-15:30

From the first Greek animation to date, we have come a long way. Especially in the past few years, the Greek animation sector is experiencing an unprecedented growth. During the last decade, a new dynamic generation of artists has produced films which were screened and awarded internationally recognized prizes for the emergence of new aesthetic paths, but also for their often sharp themes.

The sectors that have played the most crucial role during said growth are the country’s higher education and art education communities, the pioneering artists of previous generations, but also many artists from within the Greek Diaspora.

The program that we present, seeks to capture a segment of the contemporary animation in Greece.

In the new era of ASIFA HELLAS, our goal is for Greek animation to increasingly become the center of attention of the audience and the forefront of artistic development internationally.

  • Apodemy
    Katerina Athanasopoulou

    Greece | 2012 | 05:03

    The film uses the term Apodemy (Migration) referring to immigration, confinement and stagnation of a force that leads to motion, creation and to migration as a salvation but not as an escape. This film took the Lumen 2013 award, one of the highest international distinctions in the world of digital arts.

  • My Mother’s Coat
    Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits

    Greece | 2010 | 06:06

    My Mother talks to me about post-dictatorship Athens, her struggle to adapt to the Greek mentality, her memories of motherhood, and her longing to go back to her small town in Italy.

  • The Village
    Stelios Polychronakis

    Greece | 2010 | 14:24

    A doctor mysteriously discovers that he is required urgently at the village. He arrives there after a long and difficult journey, only to find that the village is deserted.

  • The Leaf of the Poplar
    Irini Vianelli

    Greece | 2015 | 03:48

    A leaf surrenders to the wind; a man yields to the waves, while Greek soundness quivers in the air. A short animation inspired by the poem with the same title by Giorgos Seferis.

  • Alosis
    Georgios Cherouvim

    Greece | 2014 | 02:47

    Alosis is a comment on the relationship between man and his environment. We observe him living everyday mundane moments, ignoring the consequences his daily routine may have. Isolated from nature and confined in a digitized world, he celebrates his dominance and transcends into a hyperreality, challenging his own existence.

  • Safe Place
    Angelos Roditakis

    Greece | 2014 | 01:54

    A little child is playing with his toys in his room, when his dad arrives clearly intoxicated. The child, knowing full well what would follow, is trying to hide in the closet in a hopeless attempt to avoid abuse. His dad inevitably finds him.

  • Mirror Stage
    Spyros Siakas

    Greece | 2005 | 09:09

    The Story of a Puppet-Marionette who wanted to be an Puppet-Animation in order to dance without wire and without the help of the Marionettist.

  • The Guillable kiss of Mr Patokos
    Alexandros Apostolakis

    Greece | 2015 | 05:11

    Α tall thin creature falls in love with a white balloon that starts off as a part of itself; this brings the character into an existential loop.

  • The Rains of Castamere: An Animated Choreography of Departures
    Aristarchos Papadaniel

    Greece | 2015-2016 | 03:06

    Inspired by HBO TV series Game of Thrones (created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss) and the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin), director-animator Aristarchos Papadaniel created (in rotoscope) a short animated film, which acts as an "animated choreography of departures" based on the series’ song The Rains of Castamere composed by Ramin Djawadi.

  • The Holy Chicken of Life and Music
    Nomint

    Greece | 2010 | 03:37

    The short film “Holy Chicken of Life and Music” tells the story of the Holy Chicken, a magnificent beast, worshiped and exploited, in a tale of love and regret, art and science, Life and Music.

  • Mariza
    Constantine Krystallis

    Greece | 2008 | 04:25

    When the old fisherman tries to convince his donkey to climb the steep and winding road of their Greek island he finds Mariza to be one stubborn ass. However the old man knows that no‐one can resist Zorba’s dance. Mariza is a short animated film created by Constantine Krystallis as a final project for the Master of Animation degree undertaken at the University of Technology Sydney in 2008.

  • A Portrait
    Aristotelis Maragkos

    Greece | 2014 | 02:00

    Using a moving line, the director looks into the life and death of his grandfather.

  • My Stuffed Granny
    Effie Pappa

    Greece | 2014 | 09:34

    Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more?