Greece International Film Festival (5)

Festival start: 29 March 2025      Festival end: 30 March 2025

The 5th Greece International Film Festival is coming with screenings of the best films. The GIFF is a screening festival that will take place in a live audience in Athens.

We are a team of filmmakers, producers and distributors and we have been professionally involved in cinema and theater for over 25 years.
The Best Short, Mid-Length and Feature Film of the Festival will win the Greek Trophy's and will be awarded to the directors at the closing ceremony.

The ultimate goal of the GIFFestival is to make it accessible to everyone.

Greece International Film Festival provides Trophys, Honorable Mentions and Laurels to the best projects of the participants.

Films
Music Videos - Dance Videos
Screenplays - Theatrical Plays

Laurel

The tradition of awarding a laurel wreath to the winner began in the Pythias at Delphi in Greece in, the 6th century BC.

They were organized in honor of the god Apollo, who usually appeared with a laurel wreath in memory of the nymph Daphne who transformed herself into a plant to escape his amorous moods. The plant was named "Daphne".

The International Film Festival of Greece opens its doors to the audience for the fifth time to present domestic and international films, videos and screenplays .

The last events of the festival took place on 28th of September in the center of Athens with screenings at the historic Cinema "Iris" (Cinema Sector), and hosted short and feature films from around the world. The festival screened fiction films, documentaries and animations by Greek and foreign directors with free entrance. A significant number of films had their world, European and Greek premieres in Greece.

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The Greece International Film Festival aspires to function as a channel of communication between artists, directors, screenwriters and producers of the international and domestic film industry.

A special place in the activities of the GIFF is held by the Competition Department of Greek and International Short, Mid-Length, Feature Films, Music Video, Dance Video, Screenplays, Theatrical Plays, which supports new works of art to find their way and get to know their audience.

Το Διεθνές Κινηματογραφικό Φεστιβάλ της Ελλάδος θα ανοίξει για 5 φορά τις πόρτες του στο κοινό και θα παρουσιάσει ταινίες της εγχώριας και παγκόσμιας παραγωγής. Οι τελευταίες εκδηλώσεις του φεστιβάλ έλαβαν χώρα την 28η και 29η Σεπτεμβρίου στον Κινηματογραφικό Τομέα στην "ΙΡΙΔΑ", και φιλοξένησε μικρού, μεσαίου και μεγάλου μήκους ταινίες απ’ όλο τον κόσμο. Στο φεστιβάλ προβλήθηκαν ταινίες μυθοπλασίας, ντοκιμαντέρ και animation Ελλήνων και ξένων σκηνοθετών με δωρεάν είσοδο. Σημαντικός αριθμός των ταινιών έκαναν την παγκόσμια, την ευρωπαϊκή και την ελληνική πρεμιέρα τους στη χώρα μας. Επίσης, στο φεστιβάλ συμμετείχαν Music Video, Dance Video, Κινηματογραφικά Σενάρια και Θεατρικά Κείμενα.

Το Greece International Film Festival φιλοδοξεί να λειτουργήσει ως δίαυλος επικοινωνίας μεταξύ των καλλιτεχνών, των σκηνοθετών, των σεναριογράφων και των παραγωγών της διεθνούς και εγχώριας κινηματογραφικής βιομηχανίας.

Μια ξεχωριστή θέση στις δράσεις του Greece International Film Festival καταλαμβάνει το Διαγωνιστικό Τμήμα Ελληνικών και Διεθνών Ταινιών Μικρού, Μεσαίου και Μεγάλου Μήκους, Κινηματογραφικών Σεναρίων και Θεατρικών Κειμένων, το οποίο υποστηρίζει τα νέα καλλιτεχνήματα ώστε να βρουν τον δρόμο τους και να συναντήσουν το κοινό τους.

Best Short Film (Trophy)
Best Mid-Length (Trophy)
Best Feature Film (Trophy)
Audience Award (Trophy)

Best Documentary
Best Animation
Best Music Video
Best Dance Video
Best No Dialogue

Best Director Short
Best Director Feature
Best Director (Student)
Best First-time Filmaker

Best DOP
Best Cinematography
Best Soundtrack
Best Original Score
Best Production
Best Art Production

Best Actor (Short)
Best Actor (Feature)
Best Actress (Short)
Best Actress (Feature)
Best Supporting Actor (Short)
Best Supporting Actor (Feature)
Best Supporting Actress (Short)
Best Supporting Actress (Feature)

Best Short Screenplay
Best Feature Screenplay
Best Theatrical Play

1. YOU OWN ALL THE RIGHTS TO THE FILM.

2. No fee waiver. All entry fees are non-refundable.

3. GIFF can use parts of your film for promotional purpose only.

4. Organizers reserve rights change, cancel or re-schedule the dates, venue, awards & categories without consent.

5. You cannot withdraw your submission after the official selection announcement.

6. The festival does not pay screening fees.

7. When your film-video selected, you are obliged to send subtitles with your film-video. If your film-video is in English, you should send us Greek subtitles. If your film-video is in the Greek language, you should send us English subtitles. If your movie-video is in a foreign language, you should send us an srt file containing both English and Greek subtitles.

8. The trophies are given only to the directors who attend the Award Ceremony.

9. By registering you accept all the above rules.

We accept movies of all genes and from any language.

Short Films up to 30 minutes.

Mid-Length Films 30-60.

Feature Films more than 60 minutes.

Production Year: No limit.

We accept scripts & theatrical palys in English, Italian, French and Greek.

Photos: Creative and movie-themed shots.

Note: If we do not receive the necessary files of the participants by 2 March 2025, their participation will be automatically cancelled.