Εμετοφεστιβαλ;
Past highlights of the Short Film Festival of Drama
List compiled by drs. Efthimia Dilpizoglou
1,2 Million Children are bought and sold across international borders each year. Script, Direction, Animation, Design: Effie Pappa
‘Yellow Moon’ by Zvonimir Jurić
Duck Crossing by Koldo Almandoz
Esterhazy by Izabela Plucinska
Poste Restante by Marcel Łoziński
“Tile M for Murder (excerpt)” by Magnus Holmgren
Sinner by Meni Philip
Peter’s Room by Nicolas Kolovos
Reverse by Georgis Grigorakis
Château Belvedere by Patryk Dawid Chlastawa
Casus Belli by Yorgos Zois
The Last Page by Director/Writer: Kevin Acevedo
Cats keep falling on my head by Δήμητρα Νικολοπούλου
Diploma by Yaelle Kayam
Kavi by Gregg Helvey
Βγήκαμε Από Τα Ρούχα Μας / 1st Naked Bike Ride Greece
by Elli Zerbini
Without Glasses by Konstantinos Antonopoulos
Liminal by Stephen Keep Mills
Roentgen by Michael Venus
Hot Dog by Bill Plympton
Lullaby by Yianna Amerikanou
A Love Story by Bujar Alimani
Monsters and Rabbits by Nicky Lianos
making of:
Wings and Oars by Vladimir Leschiov
The House by Angelos Spartalis
on self seduction by Nick Katikaridis
Wrinkles and Dreams by the “Fysalida” Dance Group
and of course Mesecina by Σοφία Εξάρχου
Note: I assembled this list to counter claims – such as those by Alexander Voulgaris- that the movies screened at the Short Film Festival of Drama are nothing but backass backwards conservative uncreative graduation shorts by students who are feeling the hot breath of their film school teachers breathing down their necks and are hence given to self-censorship, the result being what Alexander Voulgaris had referred to (before he locked up his Facebook account to hide his comments) as an εμετοφεστιβαλ (literally, “a puke-inducing festival”) with lackluster and uninteresting movies. This list is only a sample of the wide array of films being screened at the festival. many of my personal favourite shorts aren’t online or are no longer online. To my great frustration I couldn’t even find a trailer for some of the shorts I really wanted to include in my list, shorts which have clearly disappeared into obscurity. Maybe if self-declared cinephiles had spent more time getting the shorts more exposure rather than bashing the festivals screening them, maybe these short movies wouldn’t have disappeared without leaving as much as a trailer behind.