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Onassis Foundation Scholars take us to the cinema. 6 short films the globe’s festivals to your screens.

Available online from July 9 to 15

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6 short films by 5 young Greek directors. In addition to being fellow Onassis Foundation Scholars, the selected directors have yet more in common: this week’s tribute will be presenting the short films that made their names; all have travelled to festivals in Greece and around the world, wherever their films have screened; and most are currently preparing their first features. Watch them all.

Awarded films by Onassis Foundation Scholars

Onassis Foundation Scholars make films and the cinematic journey continues. This week, Konstantinos Antonopoulos will be sending us his 2019 “Postcards from the End of the World” from an isolated island, before setting off on an impressive journey round the international festival circuit. Eirini Vianelli plunges us into the animated worlds of “Icebergs” – an existential black comedy selected for the qualifying round of the 2019 Oscars, and based on Efthimis Filippou’s book of short stories “Scenes” – and “The Leaf of Poplar”, inspired by the George Seferis poem of the same title. Araceli Lemos presents “Miguel Alvares Wears a Wig”, a comedy melodrama on the topic of borders that has screened at a series of festivals, from Drama in Greece all the way to Rio de Janeiro. Aristotelis Maragkos charges Christos Valavanidis with the role of a middle-aged man in modern-day Greece in his film short “Beatitudes”, that has been conquering festivals from Locarno to Athens. And Effie Pappa introduces us to an old lady who knows “magic” in her animated short “My Stuffed Granny”, which has garnered a total of twenty awards (at film festivals in Edinburgh, Tokyo, Palm Springs, New York, and elsewhere), as well as hundreds of major nominations.

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Available online from July 9 to 15

Konstantinos Antonopoulos
Postcards from the End of the World
Duration: 23 minutes

Eirini Vianelli
Icebergs
Duration: 9 minutes and 22 seconds

Eirini Vianelli
The Leaf of Poplar
Duration: 3 minutes and 48 seconds

Araceli Lemos
Miguel Alvarez Lleva Peluca (Miguel Alvares Wears a Wig)
Duration: 16 minutes

Aristotelis Maragkos
Beatitudes
Duration: 15 minutes and 53 seconds

Effie Pappa
My Stuffed Granny
Duration: 10 minutes and 11 seconds

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