Watch the films of the 9th Chania International Film Festival!

FAMU For Children

The FAMU Prague FAMU Film School, the Czech Centre of Athens and the Chania Film Festival present a series of the best short films, shot by FAMU students over the last ten years entitled “FAMU for children”.

Pile Poil

In three days, Elodie takes an exam to get her diploma in beauty treatment. Krzysztof’s father, who is a butcher, would like his daughter to help him more in the shop. But right now Elodie has to solve the issue of the model she will use to pass the exam… and it should be woolly.

Third Age Citizen

Theocharis, an old and lonely man, resorts every night to the hospital to spend the night on the benches and chairs of the outpatient clinics. Every morning he returns to his home, where his only companion is his cat and his memories.

The Void

And while everything was going well in her life, suddenly something happened and it turns things upside down. The trauma changes her and leaves a void. Whatever he does to heal this wound is futile. Eventually nature gives the solution.

Turtle Bay

Youth has this beauty that you can admire without understanding it.

Postcards from Elliniko

Pieces of life in the former Athens Airport, Elliniko, just before it became the casino. A couple at night in their car, a grandmother cleaning green beans, two passing gravediggers and other people seemingly unattached. Among them is a little boy, whose plane sticks to a towering palm tree. She will do anything to get

Nat Birchall is one of the most important representatives of the British Jazz scene. Kostas Voultsidis is the initiator of Duende Jazz Bar in Larissa in 2009. The documentary traces their paths and focuses on the creation of the landmark album titled ‘Nat Birchall Quintet: Live In Larissa’, but also on the deep human relationship

Violetta

Too Late

The toxic relationship with her father forces Eddie Sejwick to find love far away from home. Eddie meets Andy Warhol and begins to lose touch with reality.

The Weavers

In 1963, the Swedish humanitarian organization IM founded in Vlasti, a mountain village in the prefecture of Kozani, a model weaving center. For twenty-five years this intercultural project will support the women of the community.

Present

Before it could heal the wounds of the decade-long economic tragedy, Greece was called upon to deal with the biggest health crisis in recent history. Against the backdrop of the broken public health system, the eminent protagonists of the pandemic management are entangled with the stories of its unsung heroes.

Chills

Rethymnon carries history. Venetian and Turkish decorations. A city with tradition. But there is another side of the city: the dark side. A journey to the darkest historical events, myths and legends of the city of Rethymno, on the island of Crete. Stories are real, others only imaginary. Others with elements of both. Stories, events

World Cup

In 1986, during the World Cup, Giannis, a conservative man with right-wing beliefs and his brother Antonis, with Communist principles, prepare to see the historic football match Between the Soviet Union and Belgium.

Let’s go for Beers!

Many times we wonder about what kind of person is the one who is in the next apartment. The deliveras comes to show it to us and lead us along with his beers to one of the jobs he usually undertakes.

Sky Sun, Tile Sun

After bombardments in the sun, the paved wall dissolves and everything around gets dark. People are helping each other to build a new sun for their city. Understanding and cooperation will bring the light back to their city.

The Unknown Athenians

Six years of observing the life of stray dogs in the center of Athens and the people who care for them.

The Journey of askavlos

Askaulus, the ancient Greek bagpipes, is revived in the hands of musicians who keep an ancient tradition alive. The instrument slowly but surely finds its way to the city, where contemporary musicians bring it to the contemporary music scene.

The History of the Popular Sanatorium of Asvestochori

The theatrical performance “Not a Single Breath Lost” becomes a narrator of the story of the popular hospital Sanatorium of Asvestochori, where thousands of tubercles were hospitalized and thousands died without anyone looking for them. People who were cured recount their experience.

The Trace of Time

The trace of time is a film about time, memory, nostalgia. A film about the charm of archaeology and excavation, through the post mortem portrait of the archaeologist Yannis Sakellarakis.

Pari

PSG are looking for their lost son in Athens. This quest will lead her on a journey through the dark alleys of the city but also in the depths of her own self.