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From July 9, 2020

In the second week of July, Onassis Foundation Scholars will take us to the cinema with their international awarded short films. 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.