Promoter
EGEAC, Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural
Synopsis
The Strongest Lightning Strikes Not From Dark Skies
Nate Lavey • 2025 • USA • 16’ • DCP
World Premiere
Eligible for Short Film Award
Synopsis
As the Olympian gods struggle to make sense of the end of their empire, a rebellion rises from the valley below. The film stars only poets who recite a script in dactylic hexameter—the metre of Greek epic—and examines how the forces of power often fail to recognise the frailty of their rule. Meanwhile, the oppressed realise they need not wait for the perfect storm to strike. The romantic title of the film, borrowed from Karl Marx’s unfinished play Oulanem, suggests that revolution and love both have the power to create sudden and magnificent disequilibrium.
The Anything
To Otidipote
Giorgos Athanasiou • 2025 • Greece • 92’ • DCP
World Premiere
Synopsis
Two music enthusiasts reunite after some years to record an improvised album in a secluded house in the Greek mountains. As they immerse in music and conversation, they confront themselves, creativity and a dark mystery lurking in the forest. “We’ve always been trying to do something with music. What if you’re just trying to do anything, like capture the essence of anythingness?”, reflects one of the protagonists. Could two friends confident with one another looking for a song in nature be an act of searching for the meaning of life?
