Festival Edition 2025 - Santorini Film Festival

SANTORINI FILM FESTIVAL 2025

This year’s theme, ‘We’re Not Really Strangers’, is centered on human relationships and our connection to one another.

The programme’s 17 short and feature films put the notions of solidarity, empathy, and compassion at the epicenter. Through different stories, each film tackles a different aspect of relationships and human connection and all combined, they weave a tapestry.

With the world facing turmoil and environmental phenomena that have shaken everyday life, with Santorini being no exception, the time to reevaluate our priorities and values is now.

Therefore, we chose this theme to be the main message of the Santorini Film Festival 2025, with the title of this year’s programme, ‘We’re Not Really Strangers’, serving both as a statement and a kind reminder to everyone.

Sections

My late summer

My Late Summer' is a story about a young woman who arrives on an isolated island to settle a family inheritance issue. In the midst of newly stirred emotions, through a series of unexpected events, Maja will finally confront questions from her past. The search for inheritance becomes a quest for her own identity, as well as forgiveness.

A summer's tale

With summery rural landscapes as the backdrop, this strand's four short films explore complex family ties, shifting local communities, fleeting romances, and unexpected self-reinventions. As daily life unfolds at a gentle pace in campsites, beaches, small villages and farms, our characters find themselves in quirky situations that leave them struggling with themselves and others.

The parent trap

This programme brings together a range of stories centered on the complicated relationship between parents and children. These six short films reveal the notion of reunion and rediscovery, patriarchal oppression and conflict. Though each story gives birth to different feelings, the message is the same: family shapes our identity.

Brief Encounter

'Brief Encounter' is all about fleeting moments and chance encounters that, though seemingly meaningless, leave a mark on us. From unexpected acquaintances at gas stations and art galleries to flirtations in awkward situations and random nights at neighborhood bars, these films reveal how brief encounters can have a lasting impact.