The award-winning short films of the 25th AIFF Opening Nights, on your screens.

Available online from July 16 to 21 on Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel

Alienation and love during hunting season, a man living inside an empty departure lounge, a searing psychological heatwave on a Greek island beach, a taste of love in bars, in underground carparks, and on roofs, and a kind-hearted arm wrestler trapped inside the tight constraints of his village.

A collaboration with Opening Nights

From July 16 to 21, the Athens International Film Festival Opening Nights will be sharing major moments and award-winning films screened in 2019, its twenty-fifth anniversary year.

Yorgos Goussis “wrestles” with dreams, and with the realities of life in the Greek countryside with “The Arm Wrestler”, a short that toys with both documentary and fiction forms. Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis transports us to mountain wilds, and into the relationships that grow on a hunt for animals and humans with his award-winning film “All the Fires the Fire”. Fokion Xenos spins a refreshing tale in the midst of a heatwave on a Greek island in his award-winning animated short “Heatwave”. Alkis Papastathopoulos shows us what love tastes like when you’re “Hyped”. Konstantinos Prepis enters the abandoned Ellinikon airport to present the adventures of a homeless man heading to destinations unknown in “Ellinikon”.

Five films, five moments of note from the 25th Athens International Film Festival Opening Nights, and yet another chapter in the Festival’s ongoing interaction with the Onassis Foundation.