Student Shorts


Bumper Cars – by Efi Anagnostidou

Greece 2024, 10 min – Greek with English subtitles, German premiere

Anna, a twenty-five-year-old girl, enters the children’s world, the amusement park. After a short walk through the park’s toys, she ends up on the bumper cars race track. There, she comes face-to-face with her rival, an eight-year-old girl who obsessively wants to bump her car against hers..


POP – by Lina Kountoura

Greece 2024, 28 min – Greek with English subtitles, German premiere

Three friends get together after a long time and speak of their recent mishaps. Each of their stories ends in a problem and every problem can only be resolved with money, which they don’t have. Moving between reality and imagination, they decide to rob a café they suspect is a façade for money laundering.

 

 


Concrete Rodents – by Apostolis Ganatsios

Greece 2024, 12 min – Greek with English subtitles, International premiere

As the shadows of social injustices rise over modern Athens, the friendship of the three, Petros, Aris and George blossoms into a daring alliance. In an attempt at social and economic liberation, facing an establishment that dries up any form of hope for the future with insecurity and violence, they dance on the edge of moral irregularity and walk on the fine line between legality and illegality. Will the perceptions of their choices light their path or lead to their downfall?

 


 

The Chaos She Left Behind – Nikos Kolioukos

Greece 2023, 33 min – Greek with English subtitles, German Theatrical premiere

Anna feels like her life is slipping through her hands. A ticket to a music school in Paris might be her last chance to pursue her dream career in piano, unless her self-destructive alcoholic father stands in her way.

 

 


 

release date:

2023, 2024

directors:

Efi Anagnostidou, Lina Kountoura, Apostolis Ganatsios, Nikos Kolioukos

type:

short films

country:

Greece

duration:

83 min

language:

Greek with English subtitles