Drama International Short Film Festival

Drama International Short Film Festival is Greece’s leading short film festival, and the annual meeting place for filmmakers and industry professionals. Based in the picturesque city of Drama the festival is the leading Greek and South-Eastern European gateway to the world’s most prestigious short film awards, and nominated filmmakers qualify for the European Film Awards (EFA). Over 2,000 films are submitted each year, and the curatorial group lead by creative director Yannis Sakaridis selects around 50-60 films to screen in competition during the festival. Short film juries of international film and media professionals select the award-winning films, with awards given at the Awards Ceremony.

Τhe International Student competition is a brand new initiative and one of the most promising programmes of the Festival in Drama. Film Schools from around the world and Greece will participate. It’s an ambitious step/ project aiming to underline the outwardness of the Festival in Drama and goes hand in hand with the outwardness characterising Greek cinema over the last ten years. The new festival aims to be a forum for young promising filmmakers – the future of cinema, to show their work and hopefully it will give rise to new film trends. Last but not least, this new department will offer the Short Film Festival in Drama a further enhance its status as asset in its fair claim for a place as one of the leading Short Film Festivals in Europe. It will take place along with the National, and the International competitions of the 43rd Drama Short Film Festival from 20th to 26th September 2020.