STUDENT FILM COMPETITION 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.
STUDENT FILM COMPETITION FINALISTS
GYMNASIUM (MIDDLE SCHOOL)
- 3rd Gymnasium of Kilkis: «Tomorrow might be late» (5′38″)
- Public Special Education Gymnasium of Thessaloniki: «Like another Odysseus» (10′)
- 7th Gymnasium of Heraklion: «The journey» (12′)
LYCEUM (HIGH SCHOOL)
- De La Salle College: «Black Saturday» (6′)
- Ionideios School Model Lyceum: «Who are you?» (7′30″)
- Lyceum of Alikarnassos: «A game of chess» (6′54″)
- 1st Lyceum of Sykies: «Homo Homini Lupus» (8′13″)
- 2nd Lyceum of New Philadelphia: «Water lily» (15′)
- Lyceum of Meleses Heraklion: «The colors they can’t see» (6′58″)
- 10th Lyceum of Thessaloniki: «The farmer and the gods of war» (8′)
- Fryganiotis School of Thessaloniki, Lyceum: «Alma Libre» (13′37″)
- 1st Lyceum of Sykies: «The choice I didn’t make» (2’44”)
Screenings:
9 May 2026
17:00 – 19:00
