Big Short Films 2025 | Watch online 24.11 – 03.12.25

Available from November 24 to December 4

For the sixth year in a row, the Onassis Foundation brings big short films to our screens. This time, 15 awarded Greek short films from the 47th Drama International Short Film Festival and the 30th Athens International Film Festival “Opening Nights” premiere on the Onassis Channel on YouTube and onassis.org. From 24 November, we experience big feelings that can fit into a few minutes.

Fifteen award-winning Greek short films come to usher you into their big worlds, available to watch on your own screens. For the fifth consecutive year, the Onassis Foundation renews its collaboration with the Drama International Short Film Festival and the Athens International Film Festival “Opening Nights.” Topics of social relevance and human relationships dominate the program for yet another year. A family of four lives isolated in nature, treading between new life and loss (“Zange”). Adolescence goes hand in hand with hunting – or maybe not (“Gekas”)? Is there a right or wrong way to bid your childhood self farewell? A coming-of-age story built with austerity, through silences and gazes (“Νumb”). Marriage as a halcyon day amid an endless winter (“Halcyon Days”). Two women, mother and daughter, are caught in intense marathon on a treadmill (“Treadmill”). A personal and at the same time collective portrait of urban displacement and social rupture (“Pave Paradise”). A house with nerves, a coughing A/C, two girls in love; a personal guide on love and loss (“Spiti”). What happens when the decision to terminate a pregnancy no longer belongs to the parents but to the law (“Still Cypress Tree”)? The dream of a six-year-old Roma to become a world-class clarinetist (“Golden Fingers”). Kostis tries to become the son his father always wanted, building a self that doesn’t belong to him (“Roger”). “How can we forget if we want to? The little boy asked, the boy who had nothing to forget about in the world.” A letter never sent, written under the burning sun of summer solstice (“The Longest Day of the World”). A relationship that struggles with memory and the dystopian nature of a pandemic. A dark fairy tale written in the language of artificial intelligence (“The Eggregores’ Theory”). The story of a trap rapper who is obsessed with fame, wealth, and Michael Jordan. (“MJ”). Two boys and a pigeon seek to escape a burning urban summer (“Pigeons are Dying, when the City is on Fire”). For Fay and Sandra, their initial destination to the land of acceptance turns into their stranding on a highway in the middle of nowhere. A dashing and bold queer roadtrip (“Honeymoon”).

“Let's not lose our perspective and humanity in the complex world we live in.”

– National Competition Jury, Drama International Short Film Festival 2024