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Micro μ Festival is back

The International Micro μ Festival faithful to its autumn appointment with its audience, returns to the cinemas for the fourteenth year. From September 25st to 27th, the Micro μ will take its films on a journey to Athens, Veria, Rethymno, Rhodes, Copenhagen, and Paris.

The main event of IMμF 2025, its “live” Greek competition section will be screened on Saturday, September 25th simultaneously in the cities of this year’s network. After watching the 15 short films by Greek creators, the audience will vote for their favorite.

On the remaining days, viewers will have the opportunity to enjoy and choose their favorite Student Greek film in the now-established student section of Micro μ.Meanwhile, in the International section of the festival, will be able to watch selected international films from around the world.

IMF 2025 : The Films

GIVE ME 5 MINUTES


FILM DURATION 16’ 37’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2025
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTOR Marthilia Svarna
CINEMATOGRAPHY Stratos Kourlis
MUSIC - SOUND DESIGNNikolas Kazazis
EDITING Leampis Charalampidis
CAST Eleana Stravodimou, Antonis Giannakos, Lydia Giannakopoulou Tsami, Zano Danias
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

Penelope is trying to get somewhere truly important, while at the same time dealing with her anxiety, the persistent calls of her mother-in-law, and the fact that her time is running out.


CONCRETE RODENTS

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FILM DURATION12’40’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2024
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTOR Apostolis Ganatsios
CINEMATOGRAPHY Manos Daskalakis
SOUNDNikol Asimosi, Dionysis Antypas
EDITINGManos Makrygiannakis, Apostolis Ganatsios
CAST Dimitris Kapouranis, Giorgos Katsis, Dimitris Gkotsis, Vasilis Anastasios, Stelios Vasilas
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

In an attempt for social and economic liberation, against an establishment that with insecurity and violence drains every form of hope for tomorrow, a group of friends dance on the edge of moral transgression and walk the fine line between legality and illegality. Will the echoes of their choices light their path?


SUPEREGO


FILM DURATION12’51’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2024
DIRECTORNikos Deligeorgidis
SCREENPLAYNikos Deligeorgidis, Maria Maglara
CINEMATOGRAPHY Nikos Sempos
SOUNDPavlos Charbalis
EDITINGAsteris Tziolas
CAST Stella Kosmopoulou, Andreas Natsios
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

Hero is tormented by the presence of a mysterious middle-aged man, on the borderline between "reality" and nightmare.


FATBARDHA


FILM DURATION24’00’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2024
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTOR Kitty Kentezi
CINEMATOGRAPHYPavlos Mavrikidis
SOUNDChristo Brito
EDITINGAfroditi Tavri
CAST Kleopatra Talo, Nikos Talo
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

An elderly couple next door faces the ultimate challenge: old age and death.


MY GREEN GARDEN


FILM DURATION16’00’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2025
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTOREleni Tsekeri
CINEMATOGRAPHYEleni Tsekeri
MUSIC - SOUNDNikos Tsolis
EDITINGKaterina Zaga, Eleni Tsekeri
CASTThodoris Markouizos, Iro Bezou
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

Going off to an inner quest to Tinos island in the Cyclades, the filmmaker attempts to define herself and her position in the world.

She keeps shifting between two gardens and two father figures, while trying to deal with a personal loss, the defeat of a social movement and a cimematic failure. What remains reads like a letter to the ever missing father.



LEURESTHES


FILM DURATION24’34’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2025
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTORIoanna Roumelioti
CINEMATOGRAPHYNikos Pylarinos
SOUND DESIGNChristos Christodoulou
EDITINGIoanna Roumelioti
CASTDinos Papageorgiou, Dimitris Xanthopoulos, Evi Saulidou
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

When his mother commits suicide, Dinos returns to the village where he grew up. Faced with the Orthodox tradition that refuses her burial, –like a modern Antigone– he defies social conventions by choosing a personal farewell ritual.


MY NAME IS SEMELE


FILM DURATION13'36’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2025
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTORAris Georgiou
CINEMATOGRAPHYAris Georgiou
SOUNDAris Pavlidis - Aris Georgiou
EDITINGAris Georgiou
CAST Mantalena Papadatou
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

At the first major step of her career, a young painter faces loss.


GIRLS AND SHEEP


FILM DURATION16’00’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2025
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTORFlora Ilia
CINEMATOGRAPHYVasilis Panagopoulos
SOUNDDionysis Antypas
EDITINGGiorgos Kordas - Pantouvakis
CASTFai Kotsiliti - Anastasia Slaukidou - Giorgos Iosifidis - Nikolas Agapiou - Theodoros Potsios
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

After three days of torturous insomnia, Miriam and Bilia finally manage to fall asleep in a peaceful pasture.


5 JANUARY


FILM DURATION17’38’'
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2025
DIRECTORGiannis Papazachariou
SCREENPLAYGiannis Papazachariou, Nikos Galanakis
CINEMATOGRAPHYNikos Katsivalis
SOUNDNikos Arapis
EDITINGGiannis Papazachariou
CAST Nikos Mylonopoulos, Giannis Tsortekis, Giorgos Zafeiropoulos, Anny Evangelou, Dimitra Stavropoulou
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

Returning home after a walk, Nikos, a thirty-year-old troubled son, finds his mentally ill father unconscious and surrounded by medication. The discovery of a charged note torments him between redemption and morality. In a single shot, the film captures Nikos’ personal crisis and the climax of long-standing passions.


LATERA


FILM DURATION12’36’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2025
DIRECTORDimitris Glyfos
SCREENPLAY Dimitris Glyfos, Marianna Rapti
CINEMATOGRAPHYDimitris Glyfos
MUSIC - SOUND DESIGNGiorgos Melesanakis
EDITINGDimitris Glyfos
CASTNikos Chtouros
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

A father who killed his own child faces mourning. The sea is their common place.



MINUS TWO HUNDRED


FILM DURATION14' 10’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2024
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTORNikolas Passaris
CINEMATOGRAPHYEvan Maragoudakis
SOUND DESIGNIlias Kampanis
SOUNDTheofilos Botonakis
CASTIoanna Kolliopoulou, Vasilis Magouliotis, Kostis Katsaros
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

Vasilis and Ioanna return home after a ski trip, where they failed to rekindle their broken relationship. Their journey is abruptly interrupted as they try to resolve the explosive tension between them. A fierce argument erupts and, when they decide to break up, Ioanna and Vasilis find themselves trapped together in the cold when their car breaks down. As their situation worsens, a stranger appears in the night offering them a safe way home. Yet, they refuse his help, knowing it would mean the end of their relationship.


XENI


FILM DURATION17’20’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2025
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTORErin Bousounis, Thaleia Stamatelou
CINEMATOGRAPHYRamon Malapetsas
EDITINGErin Bousounis
SOUNDAntonis Samaras
MUSICGiorgos Bousounis
ART DIRECTIONMaria Karathanou
SETS & COSTUMESAnna Sapka
CASTThaleia Stamatelou, Iosif Polyzoeidīs, Dafni Kiourktsoglou, Dimitris Bitos
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

In In rural Greece, Xeni is having an affair with an older married man. With his help she's able to get an interview at an upscale clothing store in Athens. Before the interview, however, she is inexplicably moved to do something that could sabotage her own ambitions.


WHY?


FILM DURATION7'17’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2024
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTORNikos Pavlineris
CINEMATOGRAPHYThanos Lymperopoulos
SOUNDPavlos Charbalis
EDITINGManos Makrygiannakis
CASTVasilis Chatzigeorgiou, Felis Topi
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

Spyros returns to Athens after his summer vacation only to realize that Elpida has disappeared. Will anyone answer his question: why?


THE APARTMENT COMPLEX SYNDROME


FILM DURATION16'26’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2025
DIRECTORManos Makrygiannakis
SCREENPLAYManos Makrygiannakis, Stefanos K. Artavanis
CINEMATOGRAPHYGiorgos Papastergis
SOUNDPavlos Charbalis, Giorgis Sarantinos
EDITINGEvi Loi
CASTGiannis Korres, Kalliroi Myriagkou, Stathis Kokkoris, Filothei Koliopoulou, Orestis Seferoglou
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

A young leaflet distributor offers to help a colleague. Inside an apartment building, he unwillingly does the same for a middle-aged tenant, and soon finds himself fighting for much more than just a day’s wage.


PANTAXENOS


FILM DURATION8’30’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION2024
SCREENPLAY - DIRECTOREftychia Iosifidou
CINEMATOGRAPHYEftychia Iosifidou
PRODUCTIONGiannis Korres, MYOPIC
CASTPanos Kranidiotis
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SHORT SYNOPSIS

The loneliness a man feels living in an impersonal metropolis, where people are indifferent to each other, often drives him to refugee camps, where stronger bonds between people have formed.


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IMMF 2025 : THE PRELIMINARY PHASE



Alexis Chatzigiannis: Director. He was born and raised in Kallithea. He studied Computer Engineering at the University of West Attica.He furthered his studies with an MSc degree at the University of the Aegean, in the department of Culture and Documentary Film Production. In recent years, he has been working in film and television production in the directing department, both in documentaries and fiction.His films have been screened and awarded at Greek and international festivals. His latest film "To Read Them Poems" received the title of Favorite Film at Micro μ in 2022 and was distinguished in dozens of festivals in Greece and abroad. He is currently preparing his next film in co-production with EKKOMED and Microfilm.



Ioanna Kryona : Director. Ioanna studied Film Studies and History of Arts at the FreieUniversitätin Berlin. 2015 she completed her first short film, POSTHEIMAT, which premiered at the Drama Intl. Short Film Festival.Her third short VATHIKOFTO (2021) was received funding by the Public Broadcaster ERT S.A. and by the Greek Film Centre. The film had its national premiere at the Drama Intl. Short Film Festival and its international one at the Gijon Intl. Film Festival. Her feature film project BASALT (in development) received treatment funding by the Greek Film Centre and participated at the MFI SCRIPT 2 FILM WORKSHOPS 2020/2021.Ioanna has work experience as a programmer and served for three years as a Head of Programming at Berlin’s Greek Film Festival Hellas Filmbox and as an Artistic Director (2018). 2017 she curated the international competition program of the Duhok International Film Festival taking place in the region of Iraqi Kurdistan. Since 2016 she works as a script advisor and reader having provided consultancy and reviews on a variety of international feature film projects for both private companies and public funding institutions such as the Greek Film Centre. She has worked for film and series projects in the field of coordination, as well as in distribution as a PR agent. 2019/2020 she got selected to participate at the German Film Academy’s DFFB training for film professionals NEXT WAVE, where she developed CINEsymposium, a training platform for festival curators, launched at Marché du Film 2020, Cannes Next. In September 2022 she participated with her first series project at the Directing Drama Series workshops by the Munich Film & TV Academy HFF. In June 2023 she was a fellow of the Oxbelly Episodic Program, a lab for series writing,initiated and founded by Faliro House Productions. 2025 she is completing her forth short film, PLANET BALCONY, that received funding by the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center - Creative Greece.



Ioanna Petinaraki :Producer. Ioanna has graduated from the Film Studies Department of the AUTHThessalonikiand she is working as a producer. She is a Talents Sarajevo & IDFA academy alumna. In 2017she started her own production company under the name "Moving Rooster Productions”. In2018 the feature documentary "Back to the top", which she produced with the support of the Greek Film Centre, had its world premiere at 20thThessaloniki Documentary Festival, where it won the Fischer Audience Award and the ERT Award. She has also received a grant as an artist supporting her work, from the NGO “Art-Works", supported by the SNF (Stavros Niarchos Foundation). Her films have participated and received awards in festivals such as Holly Shorts, Clermont Ferrand,POFF Shorts, Sarajevo Film Festival, Palm Springs Short Fest and Drama International Short Film Festival.



Michael Demetrius:Director. Born in 1989, Michael Demetrius holds a Master’s degree in Theatrical Studies, specializing in Acting and Directing, Magister Artium with honors from the Open University of Cyprus (2019). He graduated with a B.A. in Film Studies from the University of Greenwich, UK, also with honors, having first a Certificate in Film & Television Studies from New York College, Athens Campus. In 2020 Michael acted as assistant professor to Ana SanzMagallon at the Mediterranean Film Institute (MFI) for script and project development. Michael’s filmography is focusing on intrafamily relationships through socio-economic crisis by interconnecting and linking views, fears and hopes of the human soul. He is dedicated to the development and production of films, documentaries, and television series with a strong artistic gaze, addressing audiences worldwide. Michael directed the 16-episodes documentary series, «ΧωρίςΕρώτηση»/ “Without Question” (2016-2017), first shown on ERT2 (National Broadcaster). The personality and the history of each invitee is revealed nonstop – without a question – by using the technique of one-take. His films have won awards at many international Film Festivals.



Simos Kiparissopoulos:Actor and Founder of the Micro μ Festival. He was born in Thessaloniki in March 1975. After attending the School of Technological Applications of the educational institute of Piraeus, he dealt with art. In 2005 he graduated from the Drama School of G. Theodossiades in Athens and he began practicing as an actor in theater, television and cinema. At the same time, since 2007, he has been working on the production and organization of artistic events and plays in Athens. Since 2011 he has been the manager of KATOPRON SA, through which he created the Micro μ short film festival, which is held for the last nine years in Greece and abroad. He is a member of the Hellenic Actors' Association and quite active in the field despite his continuοus involvement in the festival.