Mykonos Biennale Apathia

Dramatic Nights

Official Film Selection

Bathers Poster

Bathers

dir. by Florian Goralsky, France
runtime: 7 min
A summer afternoon in the garden, a child is left to herself near the pool.
Burqa City Poster

Burqa City

dir. by Bracq Fabrice, France
runtime: 20 min
Souleymane and Leila just got married, for better or for worse. The better is that they love each other very much. The worse is that they live in an absurd and kafkaesque country.
Deadwater Poster

Deadwater

dir. by Hossein Rabiei Dastjerdi, Iran
runtime: 14 min
the marsh is story of water drops whose dreams about sea died (in their heart) two teenagers in love that .......

Desolation

dir. by Thomas Giannakis, Greece
runtime: 10 min
A director receive some strange visits from her actress, who is acting her roles instead of her usually behavior.

Go Back 3 Spaces

dir. by Stefano Schiavone, Italy
runtime: 5 min
With the typical coldness of board game rules and instructions, a Merchant tells the regret of a man isolated from the world. With the Man, only a family photo, replacing the affections, and a roll of film that spends his life rewinding, in an attempt to give it, and give to him, a meaning. Despite everything, this is also a love story.
Gone Poster

Gone

dir. by Joan Bentosela, France
runtime: 13 min
As usual, the whole family, Mum, Dad and the kids, is leaving home for the weekend. Everything works fine until Mum decides to wash the car.
Kopacabana Poster

Kopacabana

dir. by Marcos Bonisson & Khalil Charif, Brazil
runtime: 14 min
Film set in the neighborhood of Copacabana, elaborated through a collage of current and archive images (Super 8 and digital). An experimental work narrated by the significant speech of the poet Fausto Fawcett, and sonorized by the musician Arnaldo Brandão.
Life As A Hazara Refugee Poster

Life As A Hazara Refugee

dir. by Khadim Dai, Indonesia
runtime: 6 min

For an Asylum Seeker it takes over 15 months to get an interview at UNHCR in Jakarta. The first step in assessing refugee status.
After that, the relocation process, if it is successful, can take many years.

With the help of an Australian friends, my friends and I decided to start a learning centre to help continue the education of the children.
So far it’s been a great success and has 55 students with 30 more on a waiting list. This short film follows that process.

Little Maid's Doll

dir. by Dima Proykova, Bulgaria
runtime: 15 min
This is a story about a girl who wished she had a friend but she only had a doll. This is also a story about the girl’s doll, lwho wished she had a friend but only had a doll, who wished she was a girl.
Peeping Nicholas Poster

Peeping Nicholas

dir. by Emanuel Cossu, Italy
runtime: 11 min
Nicholas is a forger who witnesses the murder of a woman but because of the shock he lost the use of one eye and can not remember what he has seen.
Prison Poster

Prison

dir. by Ramazan Çardak, Turkey
runtime: 22 min
Hakan is a clean young man in his 20s. He works at a drug factory to take care of his injured mother when he was trying to protect himself at a young age. The director of the pharmaceutical factory is a dirty businessman selling banned chemicals. Hakan makes the delivery of the goods he sells, but Hakan knows nothing. One night, Hakan wakes up with police raids when he goes home with his package for delivery. The cops find the package first, then detain Hakan and take him to the police station. Hakan, who can't be justified on charges, is sentenced to imprisonment. In prison, the first person who gets raped and violent is the one who applies it. Is life going to give back what was taken from this monster that the system has created, or is it too late?
Rooftop Refugee Poster

Rooftop Refugee

dir. by Alexandra Brodski, United Kingdom
runtime: 14 min
Rooftop Refugee is a comedy that follows Martha as she attends her daughter Kylie's annual summer performance. The event is thrown into chaos by Mehdi, a young Syrian refugee boy who is threatening to jump from the school rooftop
Still Born Poster

Still Born

dir. by Leila Abdelrazaq, United States
runtime: 5 min
Using excerpts from my mother’s 2002 essay, “How To Be the Mother of a Stillborn Baby”, Still Born merges the comic form with animation in order to bring parallel realities and storylines into focus. The family’s personal tragedy is positioned within the wider context of life in the Palestinian diaspora to ask questions about loss, survival, collective memory and identity formation, of hope beyond hope, and the seemingly impossible challenge of letting go. What remains is a question: If one day, all our false nostalgias and imaginaries get up and walk away, is that a kind of liberation? What futures would we be free to imagine without the weight of all our ‘what ifs’ bearing down on our consciousness? This film was originally commissioned for the A.M. Qattan Foundation's 2018 Young Artist of the Year Award.
Sunshine Vice Poster

Sunshine Vice

dir. by Joseph Laguidice, United States
runtime: 16 min
On the backdrop of a pool party, Sunshine, a bombshell porn star, gets the first time honor of picking the talent to play opposite of her.

The Passport

dir. by Hanieh Bavali, Iran
runtime: 15 min
This story is about a young photographer who has been involved in his daily routine. He has to take photos of others who want to leave Iran. But he must stay...