"Vouta is a pigeon breed that flies all the way up to the clouds, then dives at 230 km/h and slows down just before hitting the ground. Christos is a teenager who lives in a disadvantaged neighborhood of Athens. He has to find a way to avoid conflict with his father who just got home from prison, just like the pigeons he loves avoid collision. "
● Dimitris Zahos
● 18'
● Greece
"A coming-of-age story about two sisters leading their lives in different directions, who are summoned to a night’s call of decision making. In a frantic attempt to truffle out money, they come up against visions of both a traumatic past and a disturbing reality, while realizing how difficult it is for a family to make ends meet. "
● Despina Mavridou
● 29'
● Greece
The Festival is collaborating with the Hellenic Film Academy for a special screening of Greek short films aimed at a teenage audience, featuring emerging, award-winning filmmakers. A discussion will follow, addressing the films and the important themes they explore.
Likes, followers emojis... A mirror into the digital lives of teenagers, its dictates and its price.
● 88'
Kenza, 15, and her little brother Madhi, 13, regularly humiliate one another on social media. On the bus, Kenza puts her naive and romantic little brother to the test: to profess his love for Jada, the girl that Madhi loves, even though she does not know him.
● Adrien Moyse Dullin
● 15’
● France
An experimental short about our love-hate relationship with Instagram and our photo-editing mania.
● Céline Ufenast
● 4’
● UK
Is it okay to bend the rules to help the one you love? Helmer uploads cool videos all the time and gets many followers. But not everything is as it seems. Nora, his girlfriend, is hiding something. Inspired by the play A Doll`s house, we get to see a new take on Henrik Ibsen`s drama as the characters are played by twelve years olds and written to cast light over some of the issues kids struggle with today.
● Ola Martin Fjeld
● 14’
● Norway
A behind-the-scenes look behind the selfies brings the viewer in the rooms of four 15-year-old girls. Through powerful, observational scenes and intimate conversations, the film raises questions about the normalization of presenting oneself as an object.
● Rosie Morris
● 18’
● UK
This bystander story is told through the perspective of a 15-year old girl, Raquelle, who witnesses her classmate Noah being bullied. When doing the right thing transforms Raquelle from bystander to victim, she finds herself trapped in the same emotional quicksand of her peers.
● Ryan Cannon
● 9’
● USA