July 17th-22nd, Syros, Greece. Six days of immersive film events embedded in diverse locations around the island Syros, from abandoned fields to beaches, a drive-in cinema to old shipyards. SIFF screens across genre, time-period, and media. This year’s festival program reflects the question: IS IT REAL?

2018 Artists in Focus: Jürgen Reble and Thomas Köner, Miguel Gomes, Johan Grimonprez. Performances by: Gaëlle Rouard, Mike Cooper, Nadah El Shazly, Σtella, Vicky Bisbiki. For more information, please visit www.syrosfilmfestival.org

MôTif Film Festival was created by dedicated artists, scientists, anthropologists, and filmmakers who understand what an event like this can and should offer its participants. Films from everywhere and of all genres are welcome. MôTif strives to turn our festival into a platform and outlet for voices fighting to be heard.

The Slow Short Film Festival celebrates work engaging with a stylistic tendency grown conspicuous in the past three decades of world art cinema. Very broadly this style consists of long takes, long shots, a focus on non-professional actors, and an emphasis on everyday activities deemed surplus to mainstream storytelling. Leading figures include Béla Tarr, Tsai Ming-Liang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Abbas Kiarostami, Lav Diaz, Pedro Costa and Ben Rivers.