The Greek Film Festival in Berlin, taking place at Babylon on March 26-30th, 2025, announces the opening of applications for its next, 10th anniversary edition. Applications are open from October 14th, 2024 for all sections of the festival, and the submission deadline is December 16th, 2024. Films are eligible only if their production was completed after January 1st, 2023. Greek or Cypriot productions, co-productions or international films that have a Greek theme at their core or a Greek or Cypriot cast and crew will be accepted.
The anniversary edition of the festival will include the following programs:
Emerging Greeks Competitionsection for first or second feature films
Documentary Competition
Special Screenings
Short Films Competition
Spotlight
Regardless of the section for which they may apply, all filmmakers are kindly requested to fill in the FilmFreeway submission form.
“It’s been 10 years since our first festival in 2016. The festival has come a long way, changed, grown and is here, ready for some new challenges, blowing out its 10 candles.
On this first big anniversary, I would like to thank above all the people who comprise it,
our team and volunteers for their love, presence and hard work, and the founders of the festival, Asteris and Ina Kutulas.
A festival speaks through its people.
Happy Birthday!”, Sofia Stavrianidou, the festival director, noted.
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About the Festival
The Greek Film Festival in Berlin is Berlin’s Greek film festival founded as Hellas Filmbox Berlin in 2015. The festival offers German and international audiences a unique chance to watch the best of new Greek cinema (or related to Greece) on the big screen. We show 35 to 40 fiction films, documentaries, and shorts, most of which are German or International premieres.
The five-day event takes place every March at the historic Babylon venue in the heart of Berlin. With the attendance of filmmakers, producers, distinguished Jury members, film professionals, artists, and by organizing parallel events, discussions, exhibitions, and networking happenings, the festival has become one of the leading film events in the city. Special thanks go out to our amazing and growing festival audience. The German-Greek Cultural Association organizes the festival.
The German-Greek Cultural Association was founded by German and Greek initiators in Berlin in April 2015 with the aim of supporting and strengthening Greek-German relations through cultural projects like Hellas Filmbox Berlin (2016- 2019), The Greek Film Festival in Berlin (2020 – today), The Greek Film Festival Goes Frankfurt, The Greek Film Festival goes Köln (currently).
The initiators of the German-Greek Cultural Association were artists Asteris Kutulas and Ina Kutulas.
Currently, on the Association’s Board of Directors are Sofia Stavrianidou (Festival Director).
