Forty three Greek short animated films are selected to be screened in Greek Competition Section.
The Films
GREEK COMPETITION 1
Thursday 2, 2009 / 20:15-21:00
01. MYRMIGI, 1’ 20’’
Greece 2007
Direction: Myrmigi Design House
Script: Myrmigi Design House
Animation: Myrmigi Design House
Technique: Motion Graphics
Music: Ben Charest
Producer: Myrmigi Design House
Dialogue: No
A story about the fusion of three different worlds. An autobiographical video for the needs of our corporate ID.
02. TERRA 3’ 56’’
Greece 2008
Direction: Ivan Masteropoulos
Script: Filio Louvari
Technique:
Music: Francesco Bagni
Dialogue: Yes (Greeks)
Subtitles: Yes (English)
The work is based on a script written by Filio Louvari it has to do with the big fires that happened in Greece last summer. There has been an effort to depict what happened with the most simple video and painting techniques, thus letting emotions come out easily.
03. LENA PLATONOS: MOVING HOUSE, 3' 50''
Greece 2008
Direction: Zina Papadopoulou – Petros Papadopoulos
Script, Lyrics: Lena Platonos
Animator: Zina Papadopoulou – Petros Papadopoulos
Technique: 2D computer, stop frame, live action
Composer: Lena Platonos
Producer: Oval Image, Publications Odos Panos
Cast: Ansobel Coyte-King
Assistant Animator: Bas Van Halm
Dialogues: Yes (lyrics)
A girl is moving house, leaving her memories behind.
04. TWINS, 7’ 30’’
Greece 2008
Director: Andreas Antonopoulos
Script: Andreas Antonopoulos
Animation: Andreas Antonopoulos / Thanasis Manikas
Technique: 2D computer animation, Corel Painter, After Effects
Music: Stefanos Konstandinidis
Producer: Andreas Antonopoulos
Dialogue: No
Two unknown world planets are fighting for unknown reason…
05. MEMORY ROOMS AND THE PRECIOUS KEY
Greece 2008
Director: Konstantina Forou
Script: Konstantina Forou
Animation: Konstantina Forou
Technique: Collage, 2d computer animation, Director MX, Premiere
Music: Christos Parapagidis
Producer: Konstantina Forou
Dialogue: No
A child is born and we “follow” its borning up in a passage from the innocent years of childhood to those of the “adult” life.
06. FIRE, 1’ 
Greece 2008
Direction: Francesco Bagni
Script: Filio Louvari
Technique:
Editing: Francesco Bagni
Music: Francesco Bagni
Dialogue: Yes (Greeks)
Subtitles: Yes (English)
The work is based on a script written by Filio Louvari it has to do with the big fires that happened in Greece last summer. There has been an effort to depict what happened with the most simple video and painting techniques, thus letting emotions come out easily.
07. LILY, 5’
Greece 2008
Director: Kirineos Papadimatos
Script: Kirineos Papadimatos
Technique: Photos, 2D computer animation,
Dialogue: Υes
Lilly is not able to wake up from her nightmare. So what? Her little friend will be waiting for her to play, anyway.
08. SKRATS, 7’ 27’’
Greece 2008
Director: Agis Kelpekis
Script: Agis Kelpekis
Technique: 2D animation
Producer: Agis Kelpekis
Dialogues: No
Skrats (scratch) is a drawing on a 16mm film by engraving so the light can go through. It is a graffiti on the film itself. The drawings, projected one after the other, contradict each other and integrate creating an unpredictable picture.
The film started in 1971. in order to be used in a multi-projection environment, in concerts and performances.
09. EMPTY SPACE, 3’ 23’’
Greece 2008
Director: Despina Poulou
Script: Despina Poulou
Animation: Despina Poulou
Technique: 2D computer animation, hand drawing
Music: Tassos Stamou
Producer: Despina Poulou
Dialogue: No
The subject of castration fear, exploring the turmoil evoked to human nature by loss.
10. THE HOUSE, 5’ 30’’
Greece 2008
Director: Aggelos Spartalis
Script: Aggelos Spartalis
Animation: Aggelos Spartalis
Technique:
Music: Oblivion, Antonis Papaspyros
Producer: Wish you luck film production
Dialogue: No
I put into the house women and men. In pairs, thousands of pairs and I lock the door. I press the key and computing starts... I love you
11. HELL, 
Greece 2008
Director: Alexandros Korakis
Script: Alexandros Korakis
Animation: Alexandros Korakis
Technique:
Music: Alexandros Korakis
Producer: Dialogue: No
A coffin that represents the cage-reality we are living in and the hell it represents for some people while for others this hell does not constrain them and manage to escape from it.
12. NO TITLE, 2’ 20’’
Greece 2008
Direction: Panagiota Chaidogiannou
Script: Panagiota Chaidogiannou
Animation: Panagiota Chaidogiannou
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Panagiota Chaidogiannou
Producer: Panagiota Chaidogiannou
Dialogues: No
The starter of this little story is fascinated by the viee of a rose. When, after the wind blows, the rose reaches her hand, she gets the magical power to fly over the Galaxy.
13. NEMESSIS, 7’ 38’’
Greece 2009
Direction: George A. Baklessis
Script: George A. Baklessis
Animation: George A. Baklessis
Technique: 3d-animation compositing and post production
Music: George A. Baklessis
Producer: George A. Baklessis
Dialogue: No
A mysterious genetic experiment takes place in an unknown military island. When an accident occurs, genetically engineered creatures swarm the island and kill everything and everyone.
14. UNPLUGGED, 1’ 21’’
Greece 2008
Director: Helen Alexander
Script: Helen Alexander
Animation: Helen Alexander
Technique: Clay animation
Music:
Producer: Helen Alexander
Dialogue: No
A penguin at South Pole wants to play his electric guitar but he doesn’t know where
to connect the power plug. The solution comes from a seal that brings a solar panel.
The penguin connects his guitar to the panel and starts playing.
15. ALEXANDER THE GREAT IS LIVING?, 2' 
Greece 2008
Direction: Panagiotis Eleftherakis
Script: Panagiotis Eleftherakis
Animation: Panagiotis Eleftherakis
Technique: Clay Animation
Music:
Producer: Panagiotis Eleftherakis
Dialogues: No
The bust of Alexander the Great is starting to been animated...
16. COLOUR MARKER, 1'
Greece 2008
Director: Aristarchus Papadaniel
Script: Aristarchus Papadaniel
Animation: Aristarchus Papadaniel
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Dimitris Maramis
Vocals: Konstantinos Klironomos
Producer: Sylipsis Ltd
Dialogue: No
Lead-in video in the category “Illustration” for the Greek Graphic Design And Illustation Awards (EBGE) 2008, where the unusual charm that the color marker can exert to the future illustrators and visual artists is attributed. Starring the cartoon character Telis.
17. REBET HERO, 2’ 17”
Greece 2008
Director: Stelios Ignatiadis
Script: Stelios Ignatiadis
Animation: Stelios Ignatiadis
Technique: 3D computer animation, Cinema 4D, 3D Studio Max, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects
Music: Markos Vamvakaris, Stratos Pagioumtzis, Ioannis Chalkias, Sosos Michelidis
Producer: ACTUS anima
Dialogue: Greek
A comment on the genre of rhythm video games in “rebetiko” style.
18. EMPTY ROOM, 2' 
Greece 2008
Direction: Kostas Kolioulis
Script: Kostas Kolioulis
Animation: Kostas Kolioulis
Technique: 3D computer animation
Music: Apollo 440
Producer: Kostas Kolioulis
Dialogues: No
In a children's room when the person leaves, all the games live up.
19. ILLUSIONS, 2' 
Greece 2008
Direction: Kostas Kolioulis
Script: Kostas Kolioulis
Animation:Kostas Kolioulis
Technique: 3D computer animation
Music: Dark Tranquillity
Producer:Kostas Kolioulis
Dialogues: No
A litle mouse enters in the cooker of house and his curiosity leads leads to eat a mushroom.
GREEK COMPETITION 2
Friday 4.4.09 / 20:15-21:00
01. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, 1’ 20’’
Greece 2008
Direction: Myriam Levi
Script: Myriam Levi
Animation: Myriam Levis
Technique: Digital Cut Out
Music: Pantelidis George
Producer: Myrmigi Design House
Dialogue: (Narration)
A game of contrast. Reality vs dream, narration vs the spontaneity of the listener. Why should the world be like grown ups think it is? Maybe we forget as time goes by that all things have more than one interpretation and its best for every one to gaze with its own eyes.
02. STAY WITH ME IN DREAMS FOR EVER, 6’
Greece 2008
Direction: Aggeliki Vrettou
Script: Aggeliki Vrettou
Animation: Aggeliki Vrettou
Technique: Collage-2D animation
Music: Yannis Papaioannou
Producer: Aggeliki Vrettou
Dialogues: No
A dreamland in a mechanical reality...
03. EMBROIDERY: STORY OF AN ESCAPE, 3' 56"
Greece 2009
Director: Artemis Alcalay
Script: Artemis Alcalay
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Cornelius Diamantopoulos
Editing: Kostas Deliyiannis
Dialogues: No
This animation is inspired by the Greek embroidery and weaving tradition.
The little figures are transferred as they are to the digital world.
The love story of the protagonists leads to their escape from the embroidered background. The rest of the players follow them in the quest for freedom changing forever the rules of the chess board.
04. STEPS, 13’ 32’’
Greece 2008
Direction: Panayiotis Katsachnias – Costas Katrakis
Script: Panayiotis Katsachnias – Costas Katrakis
Animation: Costas Katrakis, Lefteris Kalpakioris, Tassos Zervas, Panayiotis Katsachnias
Technique: 3d-animation
Music: Yannis Kyris
Producer: Pictus
Dialogue: No
The film moves between two parallel narrations that are complementary to each other. It uses a deductive method to describe historical facts and images of a potential future. It tries to present an argument in this huge discussion.
05. MY DOLL PLAYS ALICE, 17’ 50’’
Greece 2007
Direction: Akrivi Symeonidi
Script: Akrivi Symeonidi
Animation: Akrivi Symeonidi
Technique: Collage -2D animation
Music: No
Producer: Akrivi Symeonidi
Dialogues: No
“My Doll Plays Alice” is the creative processing of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in wonderland” in a way that imagination and personal memories transform it into an autonomous and subconscious narration about an adolescence journey through distorted and often fearful versions of reality (as perceived by children).
06. A DROP IN THE OCEAN, 3’
Greece 2008
Direction: Dimitris Cheliotis – Theodoros Veneris
Script: Dimitris Cheliotis – Yiorgos Veneris
Animation: Yorgos Veneris
Sets: Panagioula Pouli
Editing: Ioulia Ziti
Technique: Frame by frame claymation
Music: Lambros Taklis
Producer: Stop Motion Artworks
Dialogues: No
The heroic effort of a basin drop to escape its destiny and unite with the big blue.
07. THE TIN SOLDIER, 4’ 44’’
Greece 2008
Director: Polykarpos Parioritsas
Script: Polykarpos Parioritsas
Animation: Polykarpos Parioritsas
Technique: 3D computer animation, Adobe Premiere
Music: Selection from Classic Music
Producer: Polykarpos Parioritsas
Dialogue: No
It is the story of a tin soldier and the love that holds for a beautiful ballerina. It is his odyssey to be back to her. One of the tails that has no happy end to none of the participants as luck and intensive feelings conclude what we call faith.
08. CONSTRUCTION OF CITIZENS, 9’ 06’’
GREECE 2008
Director: Michalis Moatsos
Script: Michalis Moatsos
Animation: Toula Hadjioannou
Technique: 2D Aanimation
Music: Marios Tsagaris
Sound Engineer: Giorgos Antoniadis
Producer: Michalis Moatsos
Dialogues: Katerina Dimaki
Production Company: Machineoff
Dialogues: Yes (Narration)
The “Construction of Citizens” is an effort to depict in an animated short the fundamental ideas behind E.A. Rauter’s homonymous manifest. Written shortly after the events of 1968 in Europe the “Construction of Citizens” assembles activist theoretical notions written without strict theoretical forms.
09. BROKEN FLOWER, 3’ 28’’
Greece 2007
Director: Kostas Katrakis
Script: Kostas Katrakis
Animation: Kostas Katrakis
Technique: 3D computer animation
Music: Yannis Kyris
Producer: Pictus
Dialogue: No
When life, for accidental reasons, leaves you alone and unprotected then the evil is not far from happening… Sometimes, the only salvation is the help of the others…
10. MOSQUITO, 49’’
Greece 2008
Director: George Melissaropoulos
Script: George Melissaropoulos
Animation: George Melissaropoulos
Technique: 2D flash animation
Music: Matt Messina (Free music by Atom films)
Producer: Animatic vision
Dialogue: No
A mosquito is looking for food, but finds himself in a very weird position….
11. HAIRBOUND, 3’ 52’’ 
Greece 2008
Director: Aris Tsamatos
Script: Aris Tsamatos
Animation: Aris Tsamatos
Technique: stop frame, cut out animation
Music: Aris Tsamatos
Producer: Aris Tsamatos
Dialogue: No
Beauty is a matter of one's personal view. It always was and it won't change, even now. After all, they don't care how we see them, we are their nutrition and the only relationship between us and them is via their digestive system. They have their own circle of acquaintances and a cool haircut is definitely appreciated among it.
GREEK COMPETITION 3
Saturday 4.4.2009 / 20:15-21:00
01. GREENPEACE, 1’ 47’’
Greece 2007
Direction: Myrmigi Design House
Script: Myrmigi Design House
Animation: Myrmigi Design House
Technique: 2D Animation & Digital Cut Out
Music: Paul Leonidou
Producer: Myrmigi Design House
Dialogue: No
An animated video presentation for the environmental organization Greenpeace which describes the activities of the organization through their values and beliefs. A big “thank you” to the people that support their doings and an optimistic glimpse of the future we all deserve.
02. ELECTIC POEM 1, 3’
Greece 2008
Direction: Aggeliki Vrettou
Script: Aggeliki Vrettou
Animation: Aggeliki Vrettou
Technique: Collage - 2D animation
Music: Yannis Papaioannou
Producer: Aggeliki Vrettou
Dialogues: No
A moving mechanical doll head and a mechanical bird "talk" to each other
03. FRANZ GOES TO HY-BRAZIL, 5’
Greece 2008
Direction: Yannis Dachis
Script: Yannis Dachis
Animation: Yannis Dachis
Technique: stop motion
Music: Lazaros Philis, Margianna Makantassi
Producer: Yannis Dachis
Dialogues: No
In a not quite remote future, where others decide when it's time for the lights to go on and for you to wake up; Franz kisses his wife goodbye and sets off to work, ignorant of the fact that his job station has changed
04. DINING WITH THE DEVIL, 2’
Greece 2008
Director: Konstantinos Skiftas
Script: Konstantinos Skiftas
Animation: Konstantinos Skiftas
Technique: 2D computer animation
Music: Konstantinos Skiftas
Producer: Konstantinos Skiftas
Dialogue: No
The story of a couple that keeps secrets from each other and no one is who they seam to be.
05. BROCULA, 4’ 29’’
Greece 2008
Director: Michel Seretis, Loukas Boussounis
Script: Michel Seretis, Loukas Boussounis
Animation: Michel Seretis, Loukas Boussounis
Technique:
Music: Halloween, Chopin, Oilers, Bach
Producer:
Dialogue: No
Despite the efforts of his father to raise him as a descent bloodthirsty vampire, our little Brocula prefers to eat vegetables. His father tries to change him in every possible way, but is he going to achieve that...?
06. HOMECOMING, 4' 42''
Greece 2007
Director: Socrates Galiatsatos
Script: Socrates Galiatsatos
Technique: 3D animation
Dialogue: English
3d animated digital short film inspired by the homonymous short story of Franz Kafka. The story follows the homecoming of a son back to his father’s farm, and focuses on his inability to connect to the environment and make an approaching step.
07. LENA PLATONOS: DATE, 3' 
Greece 2008
Direction: Zina Papadopoulou – Petros Papadopoulos
Script: Lena Platonos
Animator: Zina Papadopoulou – Petros Papadopoulos
Technique: 2D computer, stop frame, live action
Composer: Lena Platonos
Editor: Zina Papadopoulou – Petros Papadopoulos
Producer: Oval Image, Publications Odos Panos
Camera: Jason Janetzky
Cast: Ansobel Coyte-King
Dialogues: Yes (lyrics)
A date with a great love...
08. DIVA, 56’’ 
Greece 2007
Director: Thomas Vallianatos
Script: Thomas Vallianatos
Animation: Thomas Vallianatos
Technique: 3d animation
Music: Maria Callas
Dialogue: No
Diva is a little fish, which often comes out of the sea and signs opera.
09. THE BAND, 49’’ 
Greece 2007
Director: Thomas Vallianatos
Script: Thomas Vallianatos
Animation: Thomas Vallianatos
Technique: 2d animation
Dialogue: No
«The Band» is a music group who play punk music
10. STALIN COLA, 41’’
Greece 2007
Director: Thomas Vallianatos
Script: Thomas Vallianatos
Technique: 2,5d animation
Dialogue: No
An advertisement of famous refreshment «Stalin Cola».
11. THE LITTLE MOUSE WHO WANTED TO TOUCH A STAR, 30'
Greece 2007
Direction: Panagiotis Rappas - Angelos Rouvas
Script: Eugene Trivizas
Animation:
Technique: 3D computer animation
Music - Songs: Plato Andritsakis, Minos Matsas, Kostas Christides
Producers: Nassos Vakalis, Panagiotis Rappas, Kostas Spyropoulos
Voices: Christos Tzamargias, Kostas Triantafyllopoulos, George Andresakis, Matina Douskou, Dimitris Vergados
The film is based on Eugene Trivizas' book. A little mouse try to touch a star…
12. PARADISE LOST OR FOUND, 1' 50''
Greece 2008
Director: Artemis Alcalay
Script: Artemis Alcalay
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Cornelius Diamantopoulos
Editing: Antonis Makryiannis
Dialogues: No
Ιt all has to do with a little love story which takes place on a chess board..
After several attempts, doubts and fears, the game of coming together/coming apart
ends up in the couple's joining together in union. United and robust, the dare to come out of the confines of the game and to risk the journey to the unknown. Yet along with them, all the players are carried away, changing and forever upsetting all preordained rules. Love once again proves its revolutionary character, which may lead from self-awareness to social upheaval and political action.
13. INCONGRUOUS TENDENCY, 4' 27''
Greece 2006
Direction: Argiris Sandalis - Kostas Degaitas - Phryne Konti
Script: Argiris Sandalis - Kostas Degaitas - Phryne Konti
Animation: Argiris Sandalis - Kostas Degaitas
Technique: 3D computer animation/ 2d drawing animation /rotoscoping
Music: Christos Christofis
Producer: track 7 music
Dialogue: No
This character is a lonely man who is walking through his boring life without a reason. every stair he is stepping on is a challenge for him.
it is a journey in to his-self without a specific start and without end for sure.
14. DIDI'S SΟΝ, 6’ 19’’
Greece 2008
Director: Stavros Mitropoulos
Script: Stavros Mitropoulos
Animation: Stavros Mitropoulos
technique: 2D Animation
Music: Dirty Granny Tales
Producer: Stavros Mitropoulos
Dialogue: No
Didi is a puppet that dances to bring darkness to the souls of man. She is much to beautiful for that, the dead advices her to bleed herself.
15. MARIZA, 4’ 24’’
Greece 2008
Director: Contantine Krystallis
Script: Contantine Krystallis
Animation: Constantine Krystallis
Technique: 3D animation
Music: Mikes Theodorakis
Producer: Constantine Krystallis
Dialogues: No dialogues
When the old fisherman tries to convince his donkey to climb the steep winding road of their Greek island, he finds Mariza to be one suborn ass. But the old man knows that no one can resist Zorba's dance.
