Artemis Anastasiadou

A release that features 7 shorts from Italy, Israel, Tunisia, New Zealand, the United States and France, exploring those furtive first steps that men take as they decide to act on their sexuality. The 7 short films are: The First Time [La prima volta] (2012); Kiss Me (2022); Nidhal [نضال] (2022); Sparrow (2016); I Am Mackenzie (2019); The Place Between Us [Il posto fra di noi] (2010); By the End of the Night [Que la nuit s'achève] (2018).

Caught among toxic masculinity, a sequin dress and a teenage crush, a teen skater, growing up in rural Texas, will have sex for the first time in the back of their dad’s truck.

In the midst of the political upheaval of the early 1990s in Soviet Union, an Estonian girl and a Russian boy reach across cultural lines to unite over a shared bottle of American soda.

After a violent event comes to an end, a mother struggles to keep on being a caregiver to her handi-capable son.

Αggeliki, a lonely and kind of quirky woman, who lost her dog “Happy” a long time ago, realizes she has to stop looking for him. During that special night, she discovers something magical that ordinary people are not able to see.

When Maria, a young pregnant woman is fired, she goes on a birth strike.

There comes a day when Yannis, a 12th-grader, is ready to tell Anna, a fellow student, how much he likes her. His plans will turn upside down when, that very day, he'll find the school under student occupation and Anna among the occupying protesters. A half-erased graffiti and a fussy tv-reporter will further complicate the story. "For" or "Against"?

Two siblings, one spell, wounded landscapes and an inevitable departure. "To Vancouver" is a short chronicle of a disappearing act in the times of the new Depression.