UFFS Universal Film Festival Samothraki

Organizers

Art director of UFFS Kleopatra Emmanouil Kyriakopoulou grew up in Alexandroupolis of Greece. She is a theater and cinema director, an actress, a screenwriter and a playwright. She studied at the Higher Drama School of Art "Praxi 7". She is also a graduate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in the Department of Critical, Historical and Philosophical Approach of Theater and she is studying at the Department of Kapodistrian University: Cinema- History, Practices and Basic Principles of Directing. She has attended many seminars for theater and cinema too. She has won the Best Actress award for her performance in PHROSSO, 2 Best Picture Awards and 1 Best Director Award for the same film which she also wrote and co-directed. As a director he has staged 3 performances in the theater and has directed 3 short films at cinema. As a writer and screenwriter she has written twenty plays, screenplays and adaptations and has published a theatrical play named "I Recognize You… Dionysios Solomos (published by HRODOTOS Publications) about the life and work of our national poet, which was staged in Athens in 2017 qnd 2018. As an actress, she has played in more than 35 plays and movies. She has founded the theatrical workshop BORRAS and F.K.M.B Productions (non-profit production company). She teaches acting in theater and cinema in the workshop "VORRAS".
Kleopatra Emmanouil Kyriakopoulou
Visual space designer Alexandra Barbagianni was born and raised in Alexandroupolis of Greece. She comes from a family of artists and from a young age, she discovered her inclination towards artistic creation and decoration. She has worked for many years in the field of country decoration and decoration and maintains an e-shop for the manufacture and sale of jewelry, decorations, and constructions. Finally, she deals with the decoration part at weddings and baptisms. At UFFS she is responsible for the creation and construction of the souvenirs and awards of the festival, as well as for the design of the decoration of the space and many activities that will take place during it.
Alexandra Barbagianni
Organizing assistant Eleni Valaka was born in Alexandroupolis, in 2003. She is a first-year student at the University of Western Macedonia, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering. From a very young age she has been involved in theater and writing. She has taken part in school and extracurricular performances. Eleni has attended photography classes as well as acting seminars in theater and cinema. In 2018, she won the First Prize for Short Story in the 10th Panhellenic School Competition. Since then she continues writing short stories, poems, screenplays and much more, while evolving more and more in the field of theater and cinema.
Eleni Valaka
Judge Organizing assistant Smaro Kyriakopoulou has been teaching English since 1982. She has taught in many tuition centers in Alexandroupolis and later opened her own tutoring center with her husband. Her many years of involvement with children continues up to this day. She has also dealt with Painting and the visual arts in general (constructions, handicrafts). She has attended theater and theatrical play seminars for children. Finally, she has participated in theatrical performances as an amateur. At the UFFS festival she will be responsible for small interactive, theatrical sketches for children in Greek and English.
Smaro Kyriakopoulou
Judge Thanasis Chliaras was born in 1963 in Athens, Greece and grew up in Serres and Athens. He is a play and screenwriter, a stage and film director and an actor. He studied at the Theater Lab, Washington DC and the Theater of Changes, Athens, He is also an Archaeology graduate of Venice University, Italy and has a PhD in Archaeology at Princeton University, NJ, USA. He has also participated in modern , revised and ancient theater seminars and in film making seminars , in the USA and in Greece. He has won the Comedy of the Year Award for the comedy performance in theater `Marriage actually`, for best playwrite, directing, group acting and music in 2019, and best Music Analog also in 2019, for the performance `Eleni Stathatou, the Collector, the Woman, the Wife, the Athlete` As a director he has staged 10 performances in theater, has directed two short films in cinema. As a writer he has written 13 plays , 2 short film scripts and 1 television series comedy. As an actor he has played in more than 20 theater and cinema productions in Greece and 2 in the USA. He has founded the Man`s Theater non profit production company and the Man`s Theater Lab in Nafplion, Greece and teaches ancient greek theater techniques of analysis, reading, acting and staging.
Thanasis Chliaras
Video and Audio technician Andi Dima is a video and audio technician. He studied at the Department of Sound Technology and Musical Instruments in Cephalonia. He has worked for many years as a sound engineer and in recent years has been working for Podimatas S.A. He has also been involved in creating sound landscapes and projection themes for many years. At UFFS he will be the video and audio technician and will present one of his projects.
Andi Dima

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UFFS (Universal Film Festival Samothraki) is a global short film festival that has made its debut the summer of 2022 in the Greek island of Samothraki, an island in the north-east of Greece near the borders with Turkey. Our three-day festival will be annual and will take place each August bringing together creators and cinema lovers from all over the world. The third year selected films will be screened in August 2024 in Samothraki, Greece and will also be published on our social media (website, Facebook page, Instagram, FilmFreeway page). Our festival will also be advertised on T.V, radio and the press.

Samothraki is a natural heaven and a popular international destination for people of all ages and this is the reason why our aim is to cover all tastes and choices through a wide range of movie categories. Samothraki is also a wonderful place, rich in archeological sites, history, natural beauties, traditional tasty food, alternative nightlife and also picturesque landscapes.

Our mission and goal is to promote culture and discover and give talented young directors and film makers from all over the world the opportunity to present their work to a wider audience. We will select films created by all genders, various cultures and traditions dealing with matters that meet our past, present or future. Science fiction films will also be welcomed since imagination is the window to our souls.

Our judges are people that have dedicated their lives to art. In addition, the festival will host parallel activities before the screenings of films such as painting and photography exhibitions, speeches by local and relevant associations related to the festival themes, exhibition stands with handicrafts, jewelry and local products, theatrical performances, music concerts, etc. Finally, during the event, actors, directors, and other experts will be invited to talk about the field of the 7th art.

Our festival is supported by Unesco Peiraios and islands and by the municipality of Samothraki.

From now on, Prague actors and filmmakers festival is becoming a sibling FESTIVAL! Which means that the #shortfilm that get the "Samothraki Award" from the general content category is automatically screened on the Prague actors and filmmakers festival in Prague!
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UffS Prizes and awards

Samothraki award (Best short film of general content)
Best Documentary award
Best Animation Film award
Penthesilea Award (best film by a female director)
Saos Award (Best Wildlife Film)
Border Award (Best Film about Borders and Immigrants)
Best Director (honor price)
Best Actor (honor price)
Best Actress (honor price)
Best Scenario (honor price)
Audience award (honor price)

More specifically, the first six prizes will be accompanied, in addition to the papyrus with the name of the film that has won and with a statuette depicting the Nike of Samothraki.

UFFS 2023 Award Winners

SAMOTHRAKI AWARD (General Content)
LE BANC by Fotis Kelepouris - Greece
PENTHESILEA AWARD (films by female directors)
Sock’s Manifesto by Angeliki Pardalidou - Greece 4:00
SAOS AWARD (wild life films)
A Carousel in the Rain by Jaro Jääskeläinen - Finland
DOCUMENTARY AWARD (documentary films)
Hug 65+ by Xenia Tsilochristou - Greece
BORDER AWARD (border films)
Dajla: cinema and oblivion by Arturo Dueñas Herrero - Spain
ANIMATION AWARD (animation films)
The 7th Night by AhLoong - Malaysia
BEST SCENARIO AWARD
Inside the ark or all the things that are getting lost
by Noemi Vasileiadou - Greece
BEST ACTRESS AWARD
PORFYRI LEMONIA by Dimitris Andjus - Greece
Maria Halepli - Konstantina Matwali Koutoulaki
BEST ACTOR AWARD
Second Closed of the Reflex by Francisco Santos
BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
Brearth by Julio Del Alamo
AUDIENCE AWARD
Serpent in the West by Yessika Hurdago Martinez
HONORABLE MENTION (animation Award)
Strange Town (Poli Xeni) by Eftychia Maria Kondyli - Greece
HONORABLE MENTION (Border AWARD)
In Limbo by Tutku efe - Germany
HONORABLE MENTION (general content AWARD)
Going Home by Aineias Babulis

Award winners UFFS 2022
Samothraki Award (general content) - The Promenade by Nico Falcone Georgiadis
Documentary Award - Rebetiko Underground by Apostolos and Georgios Polymeris
Animation Award - The Boy and the Mountain by Santiago Aguilera Gabriel
Penthesilia Award (films by female director) - I am Hydra by Thale Blix Fastvold
Saos Award (films about animals and environment) - North :A love letter by Ellen Hemphill
Borders Award (films about borders and immigrants) - Evros by Kyriakos Anastasiou
Best Actress - Kill them all and don't come back alone (Emma Ros) by Enrique Novials
Best actor - Janko (Primoz Bezjak) by Aleksander Kogoj Jr
Best director - Spiritus Dei by Africa Munoz Lopez
Best scenario - Flik Flok by Angeliki Pardalidou
Audience Award - 80's Craze by Domniki Kastanaki
Best Actress Honorable Mention - Cell by Nasim Kiani
Audience Award Honorable Mention - The others by Nayada Sagri

UffS RuleS

All films must be acompanied by English subtitles. Otherwise even selected they will not be screened during the festival event.
Short films must be less than 30 minutes.
Films must have been completed within the past three years.
Multiple entries from the same submitter are accepted. A separate submission and a separate entry fee must accompany each entry.
The festival authorities will have the right to retain copies of each film and the material sent as part of our festival library and can be screened in for education, promotion, awareness and commercial purposes.
The films sent to UFFS can be shown on the Greek and International T.V.,local network, Internet etc. for promotion and publicity.
Films that are submitted must be the competitor’s original work and shall not infringe any copyrights or any other rights of any third parties. Contestants agree that they have obtained all required copyright permissions regarding music, sound & images etc. presented in their film.
UFFS organizers reserve the rights to change, cancel or re-schedule the dates, place, awards & categories.
Premiere status is not required and all films are qualified to submit.
Entry fees are not refundable.

Overall Rating

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Filmografo Filmografo

An excellent experience. Congratulations to the festival.

August 2023

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Response from festival:

Thank you!!!
Calliopi Villy Kotoula

We are so honored that our short film PORFYRI LEMONIA was particopated as an official selection to your prestigius film festival!!

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August 2023

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Response from festival:

The honor is ours!
Fotis Kelepouris

A great festival on an amazing island!! Thank you for the SAMOTHRAKI AWARD (General Content) you gave to my film - Le Banc -. We had a great communication and I hope that we will meet in person next time.

August 2023

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Response from festival:

Thank you! We are looking forward too!!!
Noemi Vasileiadou

UFFS Universal Film Festival Samothraki gives the opportunity for upcoming filmmakers to represent their films and share their experiences. Great place, great people, highly recommended!

August 2023

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Response from festival:

Thank you so much!!!
Hui Tan

It is my great honor to receive your announcement!
I deeply appreciate UFFS Universal Film Festival Samothraki to provide this opportunity for filmmakers to represent their films and share their experiences!
Tan, Hui

December 2022

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Response from festival:

The honor is all ours! Thank you!!!

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Dates & Deadlines

September 1, 2023
Opening Date
November 30, 2023
Earlybird Deadline
February 28, 2024
Regular Deadline
March 31, 2024
Late Deadline
May 15, 2024
Extended Deadline
July 1, 2024
Notification Date
August 2 – 4, 2024
Event Date

Categories & Fees

Short films (general content)
Short films up to 45minutes of general content
- Earlybird Deadline
- Standard: €9
- Student: €8
- Gold Members: €7
- Regular Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €10
- Gold Members: €10
- Late Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
- Extended Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
Documentaries (all kinds)
Documentaries up to 45 minutes with a general content
- Earlybird Deadline
- Standard: €9
- Student: €8
- Gold Members: €7
- Regular Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €10
- Gold Members: €10
- Late Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
- Extended Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
Animation films (all kinds)
Animation films up to 45 minutes
- Earlybird Deadline
- Standard: €9
- Student: €8
- Gold Members: €7
- Regular Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €10
- Gold Members: €9
- Late Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
- Extended Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
Short Films (by female directors)
Short films by only female directors up to 45 minutes
- Earlybird Deadline
- Standard: €9
- Student: €8
- Gold Members: €7
- Regular Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €10
- Gold Members: €10
- Late Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
- Extended Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
wildlife (animals and environment)
Short films about animals and environment up to 45 minutes
- Earlybird Deadline
- Standard: €9
- Student: €8
- Gold Members: €7
- Regular Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €10
- Gold Members: €9
- Late Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
- Extended Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
Border films films (about borders and immigrants)
Short films about borders and immigrants up to 45 minytes
- Earlybird Deadline
- Standard: €9
- Student: €8
- Gold Members: €7
- Regular Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €10
- Gold Members: €10
- Late Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10
- Extended Deadline
- Standard: €12
- Student: €12
- Gold Members: €10

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Organizers

Art director of UFFS Kleopatra Emmanouil Kyriakopoulou grew up in Alexandroupolis of Greece. She is a theater and cinema director, an actress, a screenwriter and a playwright. She studied at the Higher Drama School of Art "Praxi 7". She is also a graduate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in the Department of Critical, Historical and Philosophical Approach of Theater and she is studying at the Department of Kapodistrian University: Cinema- History, Practices and Basic Principles of Directing. She has attended many seminars for theater and cinema too. She has won the Best Actress award for her performance in PHROSSO, 2 Best Picture Awards and 1 Best Director Award for the same film which she also wrote and co-directed. As a director he has staged 3 performances in the theater and has directed 3 short films at cinema. As a writer and screenwriter she has written twenty plays, screenplays and adaptations and has published a theatrical play named "I Recognize You… Dionysios Solomos (published by HRODOTOS Publications) about the life and work of our national poet, which was staged in Athens in 2017 qnd 2018. As an actress, she has played in more than 35 plays and movies. She has founded the theatrical workshop BORRAS and F.K.M.B Productions (non-profit production company). She teaches acting in theater and cinema in the workshop "VORRAS".
Kleopatra Emmanouil Kyriakopoulou
Visual space designer Alexandra Barbagianni was born and raised in Alexandroupolis of Greece. She comes from a family of artists and from a young age, she discovered her inclination towards artistic creation and decoration. She has worked for many years in the field of country decoration and decoration and maintains an e-shop for the manufacture and sale of jewelry, decorations, and constructions. Finally, she deals with the decoration part at weddings and baptisms. At UFFS she is responsible for the creation and construction of the souvenirs and awards of the festival, as well as for the design of the decoration of the space and many activities that will take place during it.
Alexandra Barbagianni
Organizing assistant Eleni Valaka was born in Alexandroupolis, in 2003. She is a first-year student at the University of Western Macedonia, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering. From a very young age she has been involved in theater and writing. She has taken part in school and extracurricular performances. Eleni has attended photography classes as well as acting seminars in theater and cinema. In 2018, she won the First Prize for Short Story in the 10th Panhellenic School Competition. Since then she continues writing short stories, poems, screenplays and much more, while evolving more and more in the field of theater and cinema.
Eleni Valaka
Judge Organizing assistant Smaro Kyriakopoulou has been teaching English since 1982. She has taught in many tuition centers in Alexandroupolis and later opened her own tutoring center with her husband. Her many years of involvement with children continues up to this day. She has also dealt with Painting and the visual arts in general (constructions, handicrafts). She has attended theater and theatrical play seminars for children. Finally, she has participated in theatrical performances as an amateur. At the UFFS festival she will be responsible for small interactive, theatrical sketches for children in Greek and English.
Smaro Kyriakopoulou
Judge Thanasis Chliaras was born in 1963 in Athens, Greece and grew up in Serres and Athens. He is a play and screenwriter, a stage and film director and an actor. He studied at the Theater Lab, Washington DC and the Theater of Changes, Athens, He is also an Archaeology graduate of Venice University, Italy and has a PhD in Archaeology at Princeton University, NJ, USA. He has also participated in modern , revised and ancient theater seminars and in film making seminars , in the USA and in Greece. He has won the Comedy of the Year Award for the comedy performance in theater `Marriage actually`, for best playwrite, directing, group acting and music in 2019, and best Music Analog also in 2019, for the performance `Eleni Stathatou, the Collector, the Woman, the Wife, the Athlete` As a director he has staged 10 performances in theater, has directed two short films in cinema. As a writer he has written 13 plays , 2 short film scripts and 1 television series comedy. As an actor he has played in more than 20 theater and cinema productions in Greece and 2 in the USA. He has founded the Man`s Theater non profit production company and the Man`s Theater Lab in Nafplion, Greece and teaches ancient greek theater techniques of analysis, reading, acting and staging.
Thanasis Chliaras
Video and Audio technician Andi Dima is a video and audio technician. He studied at the Department of Sound Technology and Musical Instruments in Cephalonia. He has worked for many years as a sound engineer and in recent years has been working for Podimatas S.A. He has also been involved in creating sound landscapes and projection themes for many years. At UFFS he will be the video and audio technician and will present one of his projects.
Andi Dima

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Filmografo Filmografo

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Calliopi Villy Kotoula

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Fotis Kelepouris

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Noemi Vasileiadou

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Hui Tan

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