The annual three-day festival will screen international, local and student short films of up to 20 minutes. The selections includes two films from Cyprus and one film each from Macedonia, Croatia and Poland. The short films will compete for the audience choice award in each category. The festival also presents lectures and master classes.
PIFF is organised by photographer Nicolas Iordanou and director and producer Sylvia Nicolaides.
The list of films competing in each category follows:
International Short Films
A Thousand Kisses (USA)
Directed by Richard Goldgewicht
Retouch (Iran)
Directed by Kaveh Mazaheri
M1-KØ (United Arab Emirates)
Directed by Fahad Shaikh
48 – (Macedonia)
Directed by Vladimir Mitrevski
Ween (Netherlands)
Directed by Nils Vleugels
Seher (India)
Directed by Manas Shashidharan Jacob
The Ticket (Greece)
Directed by Haris Stathopoulos
State of Emergency Motherfucker (Belgium)
Directed by Sebastien Petretti
You’re Welcome (Switzerland, Germany)
Directed by Rebecca Panian
Relics (Greece, Cyprus)
Directed by Christos Panagos and Kostas Makrinos
Distintos (Spain)
Directed by Josevi Garcia Herrero
Essentials (Denmark, Palestine)
Directed by Jakob Mork
The Last Well (Croatia)
Directed by Filip Filkovic
Hum (Ireland)
Directed by Nathan Fagan
Family For Sale (Belgium)
Directed by Sebastien Petretti
Je Ne Veuz Pas Mourir (Italy)
Directed by Massimo Loi and Gianluca Mangiasciutti
Bacha Posh (Switzerland)
Directed by Katia Scarton-Kim
Nicole’s Cage (Germany)
Directed by Josef Brandl
Calamity (Belgium)
Directed by Maxime Feyers and Séverine De Streyker
Student Films
The Daughters (Cyprus)
Directed by Marinos Panagiotou
Hunters and Gatherers (Germany)
Directed by Andreas Ramm
Walls (Palestine)
Directed by Maik Schuster, Fatmir Dolci and Max Paschke
Intact (Switzerland)
Directed by Johannes Bachmann
Silver Holiday (India, China)
Directed by Deepti Rao
Pola (Poland)
Directed by Edyta Rembała
The After Life (Greece)
Directed by Christos Sagias
Iron Hands (China)
Directed by Johnson Cheng
Joy (Germany)
Directed by Abini Gold
Hunger Keeps Walking (Italy)
Directed by Giulia Canella
Knockdown (Ukraine)
Directed by Anton Skrypets