Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF

18/06/2026

Submissions Open on June 30 for the 15th Athens International Digital Film Festival (AIDFF)
The Organizing Committee of the 15th Athens International Digital Film Festival (AIDFF) is pleased to announce the official opening of submissions for its 2026 edition, which will take place in Athens, Greece, from December 3 to December 9, 2026.
Filmmakers and artists from around the world are now invited to submit their films and projects through the FilmFreeway platform, which hosts the festival's official submission process.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary edition, AIDFF continues its commitment to supporting contemporary cinema and audiovisual creativity, providing an international platform for both established and emerging filmmakers from every corner of the world.
The festival is currently accepting submissions in the following categories:
• Fiction Feature Films and Short Films
• Documentary Films
• Animation
• Experimental Cinema
• Video Art
• Dance Films
• Music Videos
• Student Films
Over the years, AIDFF has established itself as an important international event dedicated to innovative cinematic expression, digital technologies, and artistic experimentation. Each year, the festival showcases works from dozens of countries, creating meaningful opportunities for cultural exchange and collaboration among filmmakers, industry professionals, artists, and audiences.
Alongside its competition program, the festival will present special tributes, international collaborations, educational activities, masterclasses, panel discussions, and parallel cultural events, which will be gradually announced in the coming months.
The festival will also continue to develop its parallel initiatives, including the International Panorama of Ecological and Scientific Films and the International Screenplay Festival, further strengthening the dialogue between cinema, technology, science, and education.
Athens will once again become a meeting point for the global film community, welcoming filmmakers, professionals, and cinema enthusiasts to a week dedicated to the art of filmmaking and the future of digital storytelling.
The Athens International Digital Film Festival is supported by the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece (EKKOMED).
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Submit your project via FilmFreeway:
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02/06/2026

Το 15ο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Ψηφιακού Κινηματογράφου Αθήνας / Athens International Digital Film Festival (AIDFF), που θα πραγματοποιηθεί από 03 έως 09 Δεκεμβρίου 2026, συνεχίζει δυναμικά την προετοιμασία του, διαμορφώνοντας ένα πολυσυλλεκτικό διεθνές πρόγραμμα αφιερωμένο στον σύγχρονο κινηματογράφο, τις νέες μορφές αφήγησης και την ψηφιακή δημιουργία.

Το 15ο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Ψηφιακού Κινηματογράφου Αθήνας / Athens International Digital Film Festival (AIDFF), θα πραγματοποιηθεί από 03 έως 09 Δεκεμβρίου 2026.

27/05/2026

The 15th Athens International Digital Film Festival (AIDFF), taking place from December 3–9, 2026, continues its dynamic preparation process, shaping a multidimensional international program dedicated to contemporary cinema, new forms of storytelling, and digital creation. Following the announcement of its landmark 15th edition, the festival has already attracted strong interest from filmmakers, artists, and collaborators from Greece and abroad, reaffirming its growing international presence and its ongoing contribution to the fields of cinema and digital arts. Official submissions for films and projects will open on June 20, 2026. This year’s edition will once again embrace all forms of audiovisual expression, including fiction, documentary, animation, video art, experimental cinema, dance films, digital and hybrid narratives, as well as works exploring artificial intelligence technologies https://www.koyinta.gr/en/kinimatografos/the-aidff-is-preparing-its-new-cinematic-journey-for-2026.html

21/05/2026

Σε συζήτηση στις Κάννες, η Κέιτ Μπλάνσετ μίλησε για την Παλαιστίνη, τους πολέμους και την ευθύνη της πολιτικής, λέγοντας ότι είναι θλιβερό να γίνονται τα φεστιβάλ οι μόνοι χώροι όπου επιτέπεται να μένουν ζωντανές αυτές οι συζητήσεις.

Σε συζήτηση στις Κάννες, η Κέιτ Μπλάνσετ μίλησε για την Παλαιστίνη, τους πολέμους και την ευθύνη της πολιτικής, λέγοντας ότι είναι θλιβερό να γίνονται τα φεστιβάλ ο....

18/05/2026

The Athens International Digital Film Festival (AIDFF) was founded in 2011 and, for more than twelve years, has been one of the most vibrant and creative artistic institutions in the city of Athens. With passion, dedication, and vision, it supports both contemporary Greek and international film production, highlighting digital cinema as an equal and pioneering field of artistic expression.

The Festival was established at a time when digital means of film production were still considered unconventional and digital films were not yet fully accepted by the cinematic establishment. Anticipating the technological and aesthetic transition that was about to reshape the art of cinema, the AIDFF was among the first to consciously include the term “Digital” in its title, assuming a pioneering role in the legitimization and promotion of digital film creation.

Responding to the gap between the rapidly evolving technological reality and the conservatism of traditional film institutions, the AIDFF offered a platform to thousands of emerging filmmakers from around the world — artists who, until then, often had to disguise their digital works as “traditional” in order to be screened. The Festival broke these barriers, providing a free and open space for the cinema of the new era.

The inclusion of the term “Digital” in the Festival’s identity was never a mere technical reference but rather an ideological and artistic statement. Today, although digital technology has become the dominant standard in film production, the term retains a profound meaning. It represents the ongoing evolution of art through technology, the constant search for new expressive tools, and the redefinition of the cinematic experience.
https://www.aidff.com/en/istoriko

16/05/2026

The Council of Europe has unveiled the results of its 2026 Call for Partnerships & Sponsorships under the Pilot Programme for Series Co-Productions, marking a notable expansion of its strategic focus. Building on recent policy developments, the initiative extends beyond co-production markets for the first time to include targeted support for professional training, and initiatives examining the societal and democratic impact of serial storytelling in Europe.

13/05/2026 - The 2026 edition of the Pilot Programme for Series Co-Productions broadens its scope, introducing support for training, animation and initiatives exploring the societal impact of European storytelling

16/05/2026

Leading international filmmakers Joachim Trier, Ruben Östlund, Yorgos Lanthimos and Francis Ford Coppola and actors Juliette Binoche, Sandra Huller and Stellan Skarsgård are among thousands to sign an open letter calling on the European Union to continue supporting cinema.

The open letter, titled ‘Cinema needs Europe, Europe needs cinema’ has so far collected over 4,500 signatures. It highlights the success of the EU’s Creative Europe Media programme, launched in 1991 to reinforce European cultural diversity and to help films travel beyond their national borders.

They are among 4.500 signatories of an open letter praising the impact of Creative Europe Media.

16/05/2026

🎥 In the middle of the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes, CEPI and Eurocinema brought together a group of European producers for a policy meeting with Members of the European Parliament.

Producers Isabelle Degeorges (Gaumont Télévision, France), Filip Bobinski (Dramedy Productions, Czech Republic), Louise Vesth (Zentropa, Denmark), Simon Arnal (Haut et Court, France) and Christoph Friedel (Pandora Film Verleih, Germany) engaged in a substantive exchange with MEPs Sabine Verheyen, Diana Riba i Giner, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Manuela Ripa and Sandro Ruotolo.

European storytelling is crucial for Europe and for our democracies - every MEP, CEPI and Eurocinema producers agreed to that.
The producers highlighted: being part of the MEDIA programme means being part of something bigger, 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻.

Independent producers are the true warrant of diverse, pertinent, and innovative European works, portraying our stories on our screens.
Conversations like this one are exactly what European cultural policy needs. All that we want is legislation that ensures a level playing field for the preservation of our culture.

Thank you to the MEPs for their attentiveness and genuine engagement.
As Louise put it: “𝙒𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜!”

13/05/2026

European distributors talk Cannes titles and the state of the market: “Audiences either love a film or hate it”

Screen International hosted a roundtable conversation with Stefan Bradea, Sara Frain, Johanna Mayer, Dorothee Pfistner and Andrea Romeo.