National Competition

National
Competition

The grand event of Micro μ

The Competition is the heart of the Micro μ Festival. Fifteen Greek short films will be screened simultaneously in the nine cities of this year’s festival network, while audiences watch, vote and choose their favourite film.

Here, the audience is the final judge.

Once again, Micro μ creates a shared cinematic experience, connecting the participating venues live, while the audience’s vote determines the winners.

26 September 2026 | 18:00 Greek time
Athens • Thessaloniki • Rhodes • Veria • Rethymno • Ioannina • Copenhagen • Odense • Paris

Nothing and Everything

17’ - 2025

Director & Writer:Lia Tsalta | Cinematography: Giannis Kanakis | Sound: Nikos Exarchos, Stelios Koupetoris | Edit: Thodoris Armaos

Cast: Effi Rabsilber, Elpiniki Saripanidou

  • Two women face the final moments of their relationship, navigating the tender rituals of goodbye. As they reflect on their separation, they immerse themselves in a world of care, loss and the transience of existence.

Desert, She

17’

Director & Writer: Ioanna Digenaki | Cinematography: Galateia Lagoutari | Sound: Foteini Tryferopoulou, Tonia Papakonstantinou | Edit: Tonia Papakonstantinou

Cast: Klea Diamanti, Konstantinos Samaa, Melina Polyzoni

  • A dog is lost. Another day of heat plagues Athens. Klea and her roomies keep talking, walking, sweating (and smelling), in a city that is running out of water.

AVANTAZ

18’ - 2025

Director: Christos Tatsis | Writers: Christos Tatsis, Dimitris Papagiannopoulos Cinematography: Giorgos Koutsaliaris | Sound: Simos Lazaridis | Edit: Dimitris Polyzos

Cast: Thodoris Sochalis, Sofia Kalemkeridou, Alexandros Koch, Sofia Fotiadou, Katia Papaioannou, Giannis Konstantinidis, Stelios Raptis, Christos Ntaraktssis

  • After their boss disappears, wanted for murder, the staff of a fading nightclub take part in a documentary that forces them to confront the events of that fateful night.

Dad look at me

12’ - 2026

Director & Writer: Voula Stampelou | Cinematography: Thanos Lymperopoulos | Sound: Giorgis Sarantinos, Vaggelis Pandis | Edit: Manos Makrygiannakis

Cast: Nestoras Kargas, Stratis Chatzistamatiou, Eleni Dafni, Achilleas Kargas, Elena Karanikolopoulou, Nagia Karanikolopoulou

  • While his father is away abroad, Nestoras tries to learn how to ride a bicycle without training wheels. Beneath his stubborn persistence lies something much deeper. Will he make it?

ICARUS

20’ - 2025

Director & Writer: Christos Kardanas | Cinematography: Christos Karamanis | Sound: Vincent Arnardi | Edit:Giorgio Galli

Cast: Sakis Rouvas, Konstantinos Taramas

  • A freediving boy, desperate to connect with his grieving father, pushes himself to the limit underwater.

Trace

19’ - 2026

Director & Writer: Feyyaz Bayram | Cinematography: Nikolaos Chatzisavvidis | Sound: Theodore Koya| Edit: Nikolaos Chatzisavvidis

Cast: Asterios Zottis, Vedat Yeler, Omer Calbay, Summani Koçak

  • In the early 1990s, in a remote mountain village in North Kurdistan, Turkey, Etem and his nephew Memed hide a wounded guerrilla fighter. When they learn that a military operation will take place in the village at dawn, they leave him in an abandoned ruin outside the village. The next morning, driven by guilt, Etem risks his life to save him. But when they reach the city, the young guerrilla’s identity is revealed. The decision they made out of fear will leave an indelible trace on their lives.

Jasmine and rose

13’ - 2026

Director: Spyros Charalambous | Writer: Christina Georgiou | Cinematography: Sofronis Sofroniou | Sound: Evangelos Makris | Edit: Manos Mavrigiannakis, Chrysanthi Dimitriou

Cast: Mine Teber, Gianna Lefkati, Erdogan Kavaz, Reshat Korel

  • Turkish Cypriot Zehra visits her beloved Greek Cypriot neighbor Maroula in the free areas of Cyprus, 40 years after the invasion. She wants to thank Maroula’s son for saving their lives back then and discover where her own son is buried. Although her questions remain unanswered, the revelations surrounding their shared losses bring the two women even closer together.

Riza

11’ - 2026

Director & Writer: Giannis Maipas | Cinematography: Romnick Palo | Sound: Stratos Diamantis | Edit: Giannis Maipas

Cast: Thanos Koniaris

  • In an apartment, a man tends to a tree with quiet devotion. He waters it, he cleans it. The tree forgets, he remembers. An allegory about love turning into duty, care becoming a prison, and the quiet, delicate line between offering and losing oneself. The film tells the story of a man caring for his mother with dementia, a silent struggle between fading memory and enduring love.


Surfaces

16’ - 2025

Director & Writer: Melina Loukanidou | Cinematography: Michalis Gkatzogias | Sound: Nicole Asimosi | Edit: Smaro Papaevangelou

Cast: Afroditi Kapokaki, Dimitris Kapouranis, Christina Cheila-Fameli

  • A young couple, Eva and Aris, are enjoying their first summer swim at a beach Eva is revisitingafter a long time. After swimming underwater and filming each other, they return to the shore.The presence of a nearby couple, familiar to Eva, fills her with unease and leaves her unsettled.Aris notices the change in her mood and starts a game of truth or dare to find out who thesepeople are. As the game becomes more and more obsessive, their idyllic afternoon slowlybegins to fall apart. Will the two lovers raise enough dare to face the truth?

Chasing Summer

27’ - 2026

Director & Writer:Asteris Tziolas | Cinematography: Asteris Tziolas, Sotiris Tzatzakis | Sound: Giorgos Sarantinos | Edit: Asteris Tziolas

Cast: Mariatti Vlachou & Summer

  • This short film follows the wandering of a homeless blind man through the streets of Athens, his only companion is a glass bowl of goldfish. The only thing that feels like it belongs to him or at least that’s what he believes.

WINGCLIPPER

20’ - 2026

Director & Writer:  Ioanna Tsilili | Cinematography: Alkistis Terzi | Sound: Valia Tserou | Edit: Christiana Cheiranagnostaki

Cast: Adelaida Katside, Giannis Karampampas, Ioanna Tsilili, Kevin, Maria Kastani, Penny Lekakou, Ilias Sotiropoulos, Makis Tsililis

  • How far would you go to spread your wings? 

    In a future utopia, Stardust is engineered to be the perfect woman: young, flawless, smiley. With her husband Sunlight, their twins and their pet piglet Pinkie, they live in a hightech villa in Funcyland, a city for the chosen few. Here, women forced in perpetual bliss by a diamond belly implant and watched by an omnipresent screen. When her husband’s betrayals fracture her world, fantasies drive her to extreme (self)-destructive behaviors in search of her true self outside her golden cage.

Don’t Eat Me

24’ - 2026

Director & Writer:  Konstantinos Kalogridis | Cinematography: Nikos Psarras | Sound: Georgia Boura, Tasos Gkikas | Edit: Giorgos Ktistakis

Cast: Odysseas Petrakis, Giannis Charkoftakis, Spyros Maragkoudakis, Sotiris Belsis, Dimitris Kapetanakos

  • April 2008, 03:33 AM. Lesvos, a remote Greek island bordering Turkey. Sentries guard the dark entrance of an underground munitions depot. The minutes crawl by for the bored soldiers. Roidis tries to forget his breakup, while Yorgos looks forward to a date on his upcoming leave. Suddenly, a patrol arrives to disturb the silence. Taxiarchis, a superstitious private unnerved by stories of a soldier who took his own life, tries to convince them that the dead man's spirit roams the camp. Moschovitis, the squad’s self-appointed alpha, tries to laugh it off despite his own growing fear. Before the night ends, they will all be forced to face their own personal ghosts. 

Nostalgia

7’ - 2025

Director & Writer: Kyriakos Anastasiou | Cinematpgraphy: Stavros Gkountelidis | Sound: Konstantinos Lesgidis | Edit: Stavros Gkountelidis, Kyriakos Anastasiou

Cast: Christiana Kavvadia, Kostas Doulias, Foteini Drakoudi

  • Two sisters arrive at the cemetery on a hot summer afternoon, where their father often returns. Among crumbling graves and withered flowers, a story of fleeting tenderness and the relentless decay of memory quietly unfolds

One Sweet at a Time

7’ - 2026

Director & Writer: Giannis Fafoutakis, Alexandros Georgiou | Cinematography: Giannis Fafoutakis | Sound: Anna Stereopoulou | Edit: Alexandros Georgiou, Giannis Fafoutakis

Cast: Konstantinos Leonardos Bonsou Lovelans, Zandile Ngubane, Christos Koulouridis

  • J. is a young pastry chef of African descent. In "One Sweet at a Time," he opens the door to his personal story — the inspira on that led him to pastry-making, the challenges of star ng fresh in something he loves, and the way that, as he puts it, "one sweet at a me" brings him closer to his dream.

Heat Me

15’ - 2025

Director: Kelly Sarri | Writer: Mata Kourti | DOP: Eric Giovon | Sound: Enes Ahmet Kehagia | Edit: Giorgos Paterakis, Kelly Sarri

Cast: Niki Vakali, Maria Panourgia, Labrini Liva, Alexandra Minou, Joanna Kalafatis

  • During a severe summer heatwave, three genera ons of spirited women—a sprightly granddaughter, her fashionable mother, and a feisty grandmother—find themselves confined to their apartment without air-condi oning due to the granddaughter's injured leg. As the city buzzes with the uproar of a hygiene union strike, their home transforms into a funny ba leground of moun ng plas c. Water shortages add to their misadventures, teetering them between laughter and despair.