FILMMAKERS MEET THE PUBLIC
Jacqueline Lentzou
FESTIVAL PICKS
Olympia Mytilinaiou, Cinematographer GSC
Special guest Cinematographer Olympia Mytilineou, who received the Silver Camera 300 Award for Best Cinematography at the Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers’ Film Festival, has been invited.
PHILOSOPHER MEET THE FILM
Pavlos Kontos
The Philosophers Meet Film section will host distinguished professor Pavlos Kontos, who will discuss the landmark film The Return by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev. The film, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2003, is widely regarded as one of the most important works of 21st-century cinema.
international Competition
The Festival’s Competition Section features five international feature-length fiction films, which explore pressing ethical and social issues, and were selected among over 600 submissions received through this year’s open call.
OUT OF COMPETITION
young Talent
The 2nd CINEphil_101 marks the launch of the new Young Talent section, aimed to showcase emerging filmmakers and promote new cinematic voices from Greece and abroad.
heraklion shorts
Aiming to highlight the vitality of the city’s film scene, the Heraklion Shorts section returns to the 2nd CINEphil_101, presenting short film productions by local creators.
young Cine-philosophers
The theme of the 2nd Student Short Film Competition “Young CINE-philosophers” (school year 2025-2026) was “The motives behind choices: autonomy and heteronomy,” inviting secondary education students to creatively express their thoughts and reflections on the motives that shape human choices, the place of the ideals of inner freedom and autonomy in today’s world, as well as the challenges involved in realizing them.
The “Young CINE-philosophers” Student Competition is organized by the Department of Philosophy of the University of Crete, in collaboration with the independent non-profit cultural action organization HE.art, the Greek Film Center, Audiovisual Media & Creation (EKKOMED), and the Panayiotis and Effie Michelis Foundation.
Further details about the selected films will be announced soon.
