2018 Program | Athens Short Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION

2018

Death of Albine ‘Death of Albine’ is a collaborative film project between award-winning film director Mike Sharpe and British Installation Artist Rebecca Louise Law, inspired by elements of the French novel ‘The Sinful Priest’, by Emile Zola.	The Soil The Soil - A family has left everything to return to the mountains, to find peace. The father explains to his children how their life was. But have they actually lived it?	Celebrate Eileen! Celebrate Eileen! - Trapped in the wrong body, Eileen wants to finally start living her life as a girl tomorrow. But today her best friend Ella throws a good-bye party for Eileen's old self Leon. The party turns into desaster when no one shows up. The two friends decide to confront the guests who didn't show and dive into an absurd odyssey thru town that changes everything.	Give Me Your Hand Give Me Your Hand - A young girl who has to deal with the upcoming loss of her mother, goes through her mother's sinking body.	The Ticket The Ticket - We follow the course of a ticket for Public Transportation as it passes from hand to hand. Each person that holds the ticket carries his own story and a social problem as well. A social recording of the Greek crisis.
Notes From Dunblane Notes From Dublane - Following the Sandy Hook Massacre, a priest from Dunblane, Scotland reaches out to Father Bob offering support 16 years after a school shooting in his own town. The men bond over personal trauma and responsibilities ... In the aftermath the UK reformed its gun laws; the US responded with inaction.	Shalim Goodbye Shalim Goodbye - In order not to win it to his son who considers him a solitary scurvy, an old man from the Romagna country assumes a Moroccan Shalim as worker.	City of My Heart Cityu of My Heart - A personal glimpse into Madrid, an experimental urban cityscape, an ode to life through a dance.	Level4 Level 4 - Two first-time criminals find themselves out of luck when their getaway vehicle is clamped up in a multi-storey car park.	Clayton's Last Breath Clayton's Last Breath - Clayton is keeping himself alive with a machine, so that his baby, can grow up and take care of itself. One day, Clayton is forced to leave his vital machine.
hashtagwill #will - 15 year old William doesn’t feel much support from his friends when he tries to fight against harassments and bullying around him. Like many video bloggers, he suffers from hatred, but he also has the battle against his own demons to deal with. One weekend he gets permission to use the school auditorium alone to record a video but strange events start to occur. Someone is also threatening him...	Kids of Chaos Kids of Chaos - Girl athletes from the Down Syndrome Association of Greece, recreate through movement a sort of a Big Bang, dispersing into space they eventually come together to form a planetary system. Their perpetual motion/dance gives birth to IOTAPHI, the band.

NOMINATIONS

2018

Best Short Film

Celebrate Eileen!

Shalim Goodbye

Ginger

🏆The Ticket

The Oak Tree

Best Short Documentary

🏆Notes From Dunblane - Lessons from a school shooting

Abandoned Land

John Hemmer and the Showgirls

The Soil

The Road to Nickelsville

Best Short Drama

The Son, The Father ...

🏆 hashtagwill

Monomanias: Philicide

Best Short Comedy

🏆 Level 4

Holiday Hostage

Wishful Thinking

Best Short Experimental

The Wire

🏆 APEX

Best Foreign Short

🏆Shalim Goodbye

Celebrate Eileen!

Best Animated Short

🏆 Clayton's Last Breath

The Sky Underwater

Give Me Your Hand

Best Music Video

🏆 Kids of Chaos

Sheila's Boy

Best Directing

Monomanias: Philicide

Level 4

🏆 Celebrate Eileen!

Best Cinematography

🏆 REMISSION

hashtagwill

Best Music Score

🏆 Death of Albine

Wishful Thinking

Celebrate Eileen!

Best Editing

🏆 City of my heart

Level 4

Best Writing

CASUAL

🏆Dry Land

Death of Albine

‘Death of Albine’ is a collaborative film project between award-winning film director Mike Sharpe and British Installation Artist Rebecca Louise Law, inspired by elements of the French novel ‘The Sinful Priest’, by Emile Zola.

The Soil

The Soil - A family has left everything to return to the mountains, to find peace. The father explains to his children how their life was. But have they actually lived it?

Celebrate Eileen!

Give Me Your Hand

Give Me Your Hand - A young girl who has to deal with the upcoming loss of her mother, goes through her mother's sinking body.

The Ticket

The Ticket - We follow the course of a ticket for Public Transportation as it passes from hand to hand. Each person that holds the ticket carries his own story and a social problem as well. A social recording of the Greek crisis.

Notes From Dunblane

Shalim Goodbye

Shalim Goodbye - In order not to win it to his son who considers him a solitary scurvy, an old man from the Romagna country assumes a Moroccan Shalim as worker.

City of My Heart

Cityu of My Heart - A personal glimpse into Madrid, an experimental urban cityscape, an ode to life through a dance.

Level4

Level 4 - Two first-time criminals find themselves out of luck when their getaway vehicle is clamped up in a multi-storey car park.

Clayton's Last Breath

Clayton's Last Breath - Clayton is keeping himself alive with a machine, so that his baby, can grow up and take care of itself. One day, Clayton is forced to leave his vital machine.

hashtagwill

Kids of Chaos

Kids of Chaos - Girl athletes from the Down Syndrome Association of Greece, recreate through movement a sort of a Big Bang, dispersing into space they eventually come together to form a planetary system. Their perpetual motion/dance gives birth to IOTAPHI, the band.

NOMINATIONS

2018