IMMF 2018

The 8th International Short Film Festival Micro μ, was completed on Sunday, October 14th, 2018. Τhe festival included two days of simultaneous short film screenings at eleven cities.

On Saturday, October 13th, 2018, people from eleven cinema halls, in Athens, Thessaloniki, Rhodes, Chania, Heraklion, Xanthi, Patra, Tripolis, Paris, Alexandria and Copenhagen voted for their favourite film, after watching the fifteen short films created by Greek artists.

The following day, the festival wishing to honor the foreign countries of its network, presented short films from France, Spain, Egypt and Denmark. The program of the second day also included a special tribute entitled “Micro μ goes green” which included seven short films by Greek and foreign filmmakers. This section was implemented under the Operational Program "Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning" and was co-funded by the European Union (European Social Fund) and by national resources.

This year besides the main audience award for the Festival’s “Favourite Film”, individual prizes were also awarded.During the festival’s award ceremony, the presenter Katerina Moutsatsou, from the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation Hall, presented live the results of each city’s "Favorite Film”, as voted by its audience, as well as the "Official Favourite Film” of the Festival. After the count of votes, the films were ranked as follows:

Favorite film for the IMMF 2018 was George Aggelopoulos'“Goldfish”. The film deals with the story of young Stratis, who is different from other boys his age, and this is of great concern to his father. The audience, with its vote, showed how this particular social issue, that of a sexual orientation, is an important matter of our time.

2nd Favorite Film: "The Ticket" by Haris Stathopoulos

3rd favorite Film: "The Backpack" by Michalis Mathioudakis

4th Favorite Film: "Little is the World" by Lefteris Giannakoudakis

5th Favorite Film: "The Eye" by Stergios Dinopoulos

The prizes awarded to the first two directors were of total value of 2,500€, kindly sponsored by the companies RGBStudios, BLK and VIDEOPRESS, and were related to postproduction services or rental equipment.

The individual Awards of the Organizing Committee were as follows:

● Best director: Manolis Mavris for the film "Maneki Neko"

● Best Screenplay: Giorgos Angelopoulos for the film "Goldfish"

● Best Performance by an actor in a leading role: Makis Papadimitriou for "Heimlich"

● Best performance by an actress in a leading role: Lena Kitsopoulou for "Fake News"

THE TICKET

SYNOPSIS

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.

SHAPES OF MINE

SYNOPSIS

In the near future where people can change their bodies into anything they want, a woman tries to persuade her husband to eat a fish that she has lovingly prepared for dinner.

THE EYE

SYNOPSIS

A young photography teacher returns to her grandmother's native island in Greece to volunteer at a refugee camp only to discover her own family's refugee past.

MAYBE IT’S ME

SYNOPSIS

I remember everything. The summers, the house, the sea, the sound of the cicadas. My fears. In Maybe it’s me an animator tries to recreate his childhood memories.

NEWSTRIA

SYNOPSIS

Newstria is a utopian land. A large cruise ship sails off looking for it... The film is set in the 30’s, when the cruise ship ‘Chimera’ sails off in search of Newstria. Businessmen, bourgeois, artists, musicians, sailors, workers, chefs and the captain with his daughter are all traveling on board in search of a better tomorrow. Gradually though, things start going wrong. Someone spots a water ingress at the cargo hold. Sheet metals are breaking at the engine room. The ship begins to tilt. The captain calmly watches from the bridge deck. Nobody is alarmed as they all believe that when they reach Newstria they will be saved. Except the ship never reaches Newstria. It sinks… leaving only one survivor behind.

MANEKI NEKO

SYNOPSIS

The unexpected encounter of two strangers and their agreement while waiting for a cab to share the cost of the ride, becomes the motive for the anatomy of a relationship. From the moment they enter the taxi, the driver reveals that they are actually familiar and have a common past, leading the couple to the landscapes of memory. The film tells a love affair that moves between the real and the fantastic, the dream and the true experience. At its core the film is a comment on the notion of desire.

THE BACKPACK

SYNOPSIS

Lost In Translation inside an Orthodox Church. Mary has just stolen a bunch of clothes. The city lures her into seeking refuge inside an Orthodox church. Priest Alekos, at the sight of the unexpected visitor, sees an enormous opportunity to escape his own routine. A reciprocal, irregular and absurd confession for the standards of the Orthodox Church, shall take place.

TAMA

SYNOPSIS

One piece of holy pie, one dead body.

FAKE NEWS

SYNOPSIS

A YouTuber and her partner are planning to direct the raping of a girl by two black guys. Their goal is to get more subscribers on their YouTube channel. However, on the day of the shooting things don’t go as planned.

YAWTH

SYNOPSIS

THE GOLDFISH

SYNOPSIS

A young boy thinks his new goldfish is gay, much to the horror of his conservative father.

HEIMLICH

SYNOPSIS

Heimlich is homely. Paris lives in an unhomely home. Serena wants a home, in a place you wouldn’t exactly call Paris. They drink. They talk. They merge. In water, beer and memory. A frog leaps. Strange. Stranger. Unhomely. Unheimlich. Stranger than home.

PET

SYNOPSIS

A parliamentarian finds himself disgusted with the society, and detests his own self.

CRUISER

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SMALL WORLD

SYNOPSIS

Irini and Maria, a quarrel, two black dresses, Manos, two lightsabers, an artist with a grate self-estem and a world that is too small to afford to lose your friends.